Comments on: Altering Religion

By: f-in_cheney

f-in_cheney — Sat, 23 Apr 2005 06:43:19 +0000

Hoping Bene’s reign is short is not the same as wishing someone ill. It’s to be thought of more as a political appointment like a Chief Justice of the Supreme Court whom you don’t agree with, rather than a personal thing about hoping someone suffers. Nobody hoping for a more relaxed Pope is going to do anything real to harm the man in the white robes and funny hat. You’re willfully twisting that.
I’m surprised at your idea of letting gays in because they’re sinners like everyone else. That’s a really thought-provoking take on it. You finally said something that I think is original and intelligent, Mlah, good going! (Who’d you hear it from?)
Do you really think nothing good came out of the Second Vatican Council (Vatican II), as you say in MB’s comments? Or are you confused about what that was? You think all Jews should still be blamed for Jesus’s death? Was it wrong to start performing the liturgy in local languages instead of f*cking Latin?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Vatican_Council

Incidentally, do you have a problem with contraception or divorce? Do wine and wafer literally turn into flesh and blood? Talk about a reality check!
I personally don’t care much whether the Catholic Church changes with the times. I don’t base my life on what they say. If they want to keep shrinking in the industrialized world, that’s okey-dokey with me. Celibacy is inhuman and directly caused all the pederasty, IMHO. It doesn’t make someone superior to someone else. Can’t women have as much insight into human nature as men?
That’s krazy thing to say “Islam is not a religion of peace”. Like Christians, it’s a tiny percentage who find rationalizations for violence in their holy books, not the mass of moderate millions. (Your neato pictures of Crusaders illustrate that point quite well. As does your helpful reminder: “Or an ass kicking.” As I understand it, that was not quite Jesus’s point.)

By: Steve Adams

Steve Adams — Fri, 22 Apr 2005 16:49:33 +0000

That’s the problem; all Christianity is to liberals is photo op to appease the little people who still believe in a high deity. Whether they believe or not is not the issue, I’m sure some of them do. However, it’s all fun and games to them until the the church takes a stance on an issue and the liberal can’t agree.

By: mlah

mlah — Fri, 22 Apr 2005 01:48:17 +0000

any post that ends in

take that, gus!

is almost guaranteed to make me laugh.

By: yup

yup — Fri, 22 Apr 2005 01:25:10 +0000

Well, I met several nuns I had a lot of respect for, at least when I was a kid. Don’t see too many of them around, these days. Nice ladies, except when I was in trouble…..

Agree that the (mostly) American Catholic community are fostering all this liberal ‘Rome needs to change!’ BS. They’re the ones like JfK (remember him from last year) who think that stopping for mass while you’re out skiing is a good thing for a photo op. They want the Catholic Church to be more like the Methodists, or the Episcopaleans, or Rotary International.

Ya know, it wasn’t for nothing that John Paul II’s reign made the Catholic Church grow to over 1 Billion members, mostly in the less developed countries where the conservatism of the faith was the thing that got the new members.

The Liberals drape themselves in the “progressive” mantle as often as they have opportunity, including in matters religious.

Anyone notice, after all the Schiavo natterings in this country about how our actions cannot be guided by religious principles or moral beliefs and so forth, that a nearly identical case has been decided by the high court of Italy? The court said that a brain dead woman must be kept alive despite her husband’s wishes because that is an action that touches on theology, which is extrajudicial, therefore the courts have no right to impose a decision. In the heart of Liberal Europe! Take that, Gus!