(December 13, 2015 at 9:15 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote:(December 13, 2015 at 8:43 pm)CapnAwesome Wrote: Catholics are so funny. Catholics today would vehemently argue with Catholics pre-Vatican two who had such a different and I would argue, more biblical view of God.
There are still a small group of people who don't agree with the new approach brought on by Vatican II. They are SSPX and identify as "traditional Catholics." I have never met any though, and that's probably a good thing. I don't think they would like me very much. They're probably the type of Catholics who can't stand Pope Francis.
Yeah, but that's the ironic thing, Vatican II is new. My parents are older than it is. Yet it rejects more than a thousand years of Church tradition that Catholics died and killed over for generations. I don't know how anyone can take a group like the Catholics (or Mormons) seriously when they believe the unerring word of god is actually totally malleable when it is politically inconvenient or threatens declining Church numbers. I've always suspected the upper members in the Church are a bunch of Atheists, it seems like they don't even believe their own teachings half the time.