(December 19, 2015 at 12:46 pm)Jehanne Wrote:(December 19, 2015 at 11:01 am)Catholic_Lady Wrote: I think it's funny that people are trying to tell me that it's against my religion to believe that ET life is possible lol.
I am an ex-Catholic. I was sacramentally baptized and confirmed; my wife and I were sacramentally married, in a Basilica; we have five children, all baptized. As a practicing Catholic, I went to Confession regularly. I have been forced to, over the years, to come to the conclusion (initially, a somewhat sad one), that Catholicism, in particular, and Christianity, in general, are man-made religions devoid of any supernatural revelation whatsoever. And, yes, the Church did, once upon a time, believe in a "sky dome":
Quote:208 Can. 6. If anyone says that the sky, and the sun, and the moon and the stars, and the waters above the heavens are certain living and material * powers, let him be anathema.
Quote:1818 3. If anyone shall have said that it is possible that to the dogmas declared by the Church a meaning must sometimes be attributed according to the progress of science, different from that which the Church has understood and understands: let him be anathema [cf. n.1800]. (First Vatican Council)
http://patristica.net/denzinger/
I know it did. But it hasn't for quite a while. I'm talking in the present.
"Of course, everyone will claim they respect someone who tries to speak the truth, but in reality, this is a rare quality. Most respect those who speak truths they agree with, and their respect for the speaking only extends as far as their realm of personal agreement. It is less common, almost to the point of becoming a saintly virtue, that someone truly respects and loves the truth seeker, even when their conclusions differ wildly."
-walsh
-walsh
