RE: "The Lord has redeemed all of us, all of us..." should we be grateful?
July 20, 2015 at 8:57 pm
I disagree with a lot of you here that C_L is being disingenuous about how she relates to people here, at least in her attitude. She's been consistent. Also, seeing her FB page, she at the very least has a consistent online persona.
However, I agree wholeheartedly with people who are pointing out your rose colored glasses when it comes to your religion and it's views and effect on social issues.
My biggest issue with you, C_L, is your refusal to acknowledge what Catholicism is responsible for. You say the Church doesn't propagate sexual repression and shame and yet that is the most ubiquitous fact about Catholic childhood that people relate once they escape. It's as common as a communion wafer.
I think, intellectually, you know that teaching contraception would reduce teen pregnancies more than teaching abstinence only, but you won't admit that either.
One look at a Pew study about attitudes towards homosexuality shows a majority of Christians have negative attitudes towards gays. But you've never met one? Not in your church? Bullshit. That's like me saying I've never met an angry atheist.
You are very nice, and I like you a lot. You are by far the best theist we've had on here in a long time. I just think you are hung up on portraying the perfect Catholic rather than being a human. I think people pick up on that and that is why you are seeing these reactions.
However, I agree wholeheartedly with people who are pointing out your rose colored glasses when it comes to your religion and it's views and effect on social issues.
My biggest issue with you, C_L, is your refusal to acknowledge what Catholicism is responsible for. You say the Church doesn't propagate sexual repression and shame and yet that is the most ubiquitous fact about Catholic childhood that people relate once they escape. It's as common as a communion wafer.
I think, intellectually, you know that teaching contraception would reduce teen pregnancies more than teaching abstinence only, but you won't admit that either.
One look at a Pew study about attitudes towards homosexuality shows a majority of Christians have negative attitudes towards gays. But you've never met one? Not in your church? Bullshit. That's like me saying I've never met an angry atheist.
You are very nice, and I like you a lot. You are by far the best theist we've had on here in a long time. I just think you are hung up on portraying the perfect Catholic rather than being a human. I think people pick up on that and that is why you are seeing these reactions.
"There remain four irreducible objections to religious faith: that it wholly misrepresents the origins of man and the cosmos, that because of this original error it manages to combine the maximum servility with the maximum of solipsism, that it is both the result and the cause of dangerous sexual repression, and that it is ultimately grounded on wish-thinking." ~Christopher Hitchens, god is not Great
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