Religion Thread: ...and suddenly, everyone's a theology scholar

[Kepler]

Re: Religion Thread: ...and suddenly, everyone's a theology scholar

Meanwhile, people continue to Miss The Point.

[The Rube]

Re: Religion Thread: ...and suddenly, everyone's a theology scholar

Because they’re dumb. I’m sorry, they just are. Maybe dumb isn’t the right word but it’s the only one that comes to me right now.

They need a "higher power" to dictate their decisions, and IMO, it's because they don't want to speak for themselves.

[FadeToBlack&Gold]

Re: Religion Thread: ...and suddenly, everyone's a theology scholar

Meanwhile, people continue to Miss The Point.

Ahh, good ol' Connecticut. Get out of Fairfield and New Haven Counties, and it's basically the South with generic Eastern accents. Western MA, too, except throw heroin into the mix.

[state of hockey]

Because they’re dumb. I’m sorry, they just are. Maybe dumb isn’t the right word but it’s the only one that comes to me right now.

They don't see their church as the money-sucking machine it is. It is ruled by God. The government however, is a completely man-made contraption that transparently takes money from their paycheck.

On top of that, there are people that they can vote for shouting all the dribble they hear each Sunday.

[burd]

Re: Religion Thread: ...and suddenly, everyone's a theology scholar

They're involvement in their churches are entirely voluntarily activities, but they see government as compulsory. Also, and this might be a stretch, but the Roman gov't killed Jesus at the bequest of the Pharisees, so many of them see the government as an agent of evil.

People have a lot more influence on what their state, local, and federal governments do than they have on church doctrine defined 17 centuries ago. And calling their passive acceptance of the faith-based social norms they marinated in while growing up "voluntary activities" is, well, amusing.

[Kepler]

Re: Religion Thread: ...and suddenly, everyone's a theology scholar

Ahh, good ol' Connecticut. Get out of Fairfield and New Haven Counties, and it's basically the South with generic Eastern accents. Western MA, too, except throw heroin into the mix.

30 miles outside of every city...

[MissThundercat]

Good news: I did find an LGBT support group here, they have a center, and I will be hanging out there twice a week.

I also know not all Christians are jerks. Thinking of a woman who loves to hold my hand and give me tight hugs. Another woman gave me a code to Skirt Sports. Another woman gave me a makeup tutorial..

[Kepler]

Re: Religion Thread: ...and suddenly, everyone's a theology scholar

Tony Perkins: just as classy as you would expect.

[Kepler]

Re: Religion Thread: ...and suddenly, everyone's a theology scholar

More from the panderers of everybody's favorite moral code.

And even better.

[MissThundercat]

Went to an LGBT support center tonight and hung out for a couple hours. Met some Episcopalians, and they are the exact opposite of what Kepler profiled there.

[joecct]

Re: Religion Thread: ...and suddenly, everyone's a theology scholar

An interesting article on the death penalty and Catholic teaching. Towards the end, the author comes out against a private citizen usurping the state's right of capital punishment. In one sense I can agree, but in the case whether its him or me and death is the final outcome, I would rather it be him, rather than me.

Anyway the article. The document "trail" is at the end.

http://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2017/11/20504/

[Kepler]

Re: Religion Thread: ...and suddenly, everyone's a theology scholar

in the case whether its him or me and death is the final outcome, I would rather it be him, rather than me.

The Sermon of the Mounted Weaponry?

[MissThundercat]

If I felt like attending church again, I'll probably go with the Episcopalians. Liberal and very accepting.

[joecct]

Re: Religion Thread: ...and suddenly, everyone's a theology scholar

Crucify him!!

http://dailycaller.com/2017/11/25/co...ffidavit-says/

[The Sicatoka]

Re: Religion Thread: ...and suddenly, everyone's a theology scholar

An interesting article on the death penalty and Catholic teaching. Towards the end, the author comes out against a private citizen usurping the state's right of capital punishment. In one sense I can agree, but in the case whether its him or me and death is the final outcome, I would rather it be him, rather than me.

Anyway the article. The document "trail" is at the end.

http://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2017/11/20504/

Seems you need to refresh your reading of The Catechism 2263-2267, specifically 2264.