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RE: A new member. A Catholic school teacher.
February 21, 2014 at 2:48 pm
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(February 21, 2014 at 2:27 pm)Mr. Moncrieff Wrote: Even though my faith has waned, my love for my colleagues remains the same and it feels very difficult to consider that they may see my motivations as a sleight.
Not so odd. The way religious belief traps us is much easier to see from the outside. This is where love and empathy are truly tested, IMO, and many religious people fail because their religious faith demands it. They will turn away from you and blame you for it, and it's an attitude that they cannot imagine actually having.
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RE: A new member. A Catholic school teacher.
February 21, 2014 at 3:15 pm
I am determined to live my life as fully as I possibly can and in the honesty of personal development - whatever manifestation that may be.
I consider myself an agnostic weak atheist in that I believe nothing is truly knowable in terms of that of the supernatural. However I consider the supernatural to be intrinsically irreconcilable with our lives currently and find the dogmatic principles of organised religion to be distinctly...flawed.
I can't agree with the treatment of gays, the oppression of women, the inclination towards fear and guilt, the absurdity of hypocrisy and contradiction and the reliance upon a book written by fallible men in a time of latent neurosis and patriarchal dedication to racist and theological genocide.
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RE: A new member. A Catholic school teacher.
February 21, 2014 at 3:48 pm
For the record, What subject do you teach?
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RE: A new member. A Catholic school teacher.
February 21, 2014 at 3:50 pm
If it's any consolation, you're not alone as someone trapped in religious circumstances that doesn't believe.
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RE: A new member. A Catholic school teacher.
February 21, 2014 at 3:55 pm
Welcome, then. And indulge yourself.
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RE: A new member. A Catholic school teacher.
February 21, 2014 at 5:10 pm
As a Roman Catholic Primary School, we are directly funded and inspected by the Catholic Church in order that we uphold the values of the Church and live our lives, both personal and professional in a way that does not directly conflict with the stated doctrine of the Catechism.
We have prayers, worships, RE sessions, reflections...etc
We are actually a greater source of spiritualism than the local church if truth be told...
You can see my chagrin at the demands that are thusly put upon me as a teacher who now holds very, very, VERY few of those contract statements to be sacrosanct.