(November 18, 2015 at 6:12 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote:(November 18, 2015 at 5:43 pm)AFTT47 Wrote: Well yeah, exactly. But dogmatic religion isn't like that. If a religion is dogmatic, it is right or it is wrong. There is no room for change. If you are open to change, you must admit the foundation of your religion is not infallible. If that's the case, why the dogma? Why not embrace something more flexible like Secular Humanism which acknowledges the changing, advancing state of knowledge and enlightenment?
That is very true about dogmatic teachings not changing.
"Death Penalty = moral" was never a dogmatic Catholic teaching, but a practice of the time... though an awful and embarrassing one. But you are correct. Church dogmas don't change, and neither will they ever. A couple examples of these are the belief that Jesus is God, and the belief that Mary got pregnant with Jesus through the Holy Spirit. We believe them to be absolute truths, and truths don't change.
Well, that's a problem, CL. What is "absolute truth" has a pretty high bar. One plus one equals two is hard to exclude from that but Mary got pregnant with Jesus through the Holy Spirit is a far stretch to say the least. What do you have to justify that claim? How is that claim any different from the Muslim claims you find so abhorrent?
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
Albert Einstein
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