Here's my opinion about this, and I'll be blunt.
CL has an avatar of a cute girl with big jugs, and speaks like Pollyanna. Several of the other posters in this thread have been especially kind to CL, and I think that it has a lot more to do with who they think she/he is than with the actual ideas. I guarantee if she had MY portrait as her Avatar, you all would have taken great relish in tearing her/him a new one. Shame on you guys for that.
Now, I have nothing against CL, and I'm happy to have religious people posting and making arguments. This helps me refine my position, and is of great value. However, this pick-and-choose relationship she has with her religion shows to me she's smart enough to realize that as a unified collection of philosophical ideas, it is completely incoherent. The next step for her, I would hope, is to ask whether ANYTHING, other than a general sense of goodwill toward humanity, is coherent about the Catholic institution.
And if there's nothing there but vague optimism and goodwill toward others, I'd ask her this-- why not shed the mythology and just keep the values, in their purest, most human form-- her own desire to be a good person?
CL has an avatar of a cute girl with big jugs, and speaks like Pollyanna. Several of the other posters in this thread have been especially kind to CL, and I think that it has a lot more to do with who they think she/he is than with the actual ideas. I guarantee if she had MY portrait as her Avatar, you all would have taken great relish in tearing her/him a new one. Shame on you guys for that.
Now, I have nothing against CL, and I'm happy to have religious people posting and making arguments. This helps me refine my position, and is of great value. However, this pick-and-choose relationship she has with her religion shows to me she's smart enough to realize that as a unified collection of philosophical ideas, it is completely incoherent. The next step for her, I would hope, is to ask whether ANYTHING, other than a general sense of goodwill toward humanity, is coherent about the Catholic institution.
And if there's nothing there but vague optimism and goodwill toward others, I'd ask her this-- why not shed the mythology and just keep the values, in their purest, most human form-- her own desire to be a good person?
