I'm interested in your opinion about a Catholic position that filters out stuff the Church claims followers shall stand for. In Poland there is the church law that stretches over the regular Roman Catholic doctrine and I just want to bring forth an example.
It says: You can't live in the same house with a partner (both never married before), unless you are indeed married. Or, rather, it says you can't have sex, but they don't say sex out loud.
Let's say there is a member of that church that does not share this particular belief / consciously does not follow this rule. Is it more likely for this person to just not follow the rule, thinking he is still entitled to be a part of the community?
Or rather one should switch to a more generic Roman Catholic church? Or even to "bare" Christianity? For consequence sake?
And as a follow up - what is the reasoning behind ability to make an exception and not realizing that's a normative claim from outside of religion? Like, "if I know how to filter the Old Testament's bad ethical rules, I cannot be certain of the rest of them, and/or it is I who know something about Ethics, not the Old Testament". What stops people of faith from realizing this? How do they explain this to themselves?
It says: You can't live in the same house with a partner (both never married before), unless you are indeed married. Or, rather, it says you can't have sex, but they don't say sex out loud.
Let's say there is a member of that church that does not share this particular belief / consciously does not follow this rule. Is it more likely for this person to just not follow the rule, thinking he is still entitled to be a part of the community?
Or rather one should switch to a more generic Roman Catholic church? Or even to "bare" Christianity? For consequence sake?
And as a follow up - what is the reasoning behind ability to make an exception and not realizing that's a normative claim from outside of religion? Like, "if I know how to filter the Old Testament's bad ethical rules, I cannot be certain of the rest of them, and/or it is I who know something about Ethics, not the Old Testament". What stops people of faith from realizing this? How do they explain this to themselves?
