(July 10, 2017 at 1:25 pm)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote:(July 10, 2017 at 1:10 pm)Succubus Wrote: [Cough]
Most chtistians don't know what they believe, or why they are supposed believe it.
Pretty sure that the Catholic church doesn't consider parishioners who don't believe every jot and tittle of Catholic dogma to be Catholics. Could be wrong on that, though.
Pretty sure it would take one of those infallible papal decrees to change that, and as far as I am aware, that's not happened since the Council of Trent.
Apparently, not all Catholics are up on their catechism. Big surprise.
I was brought up Catholic for most of my childhood. I vividly remember that the church we attended was very clear on those who had never received their "First Communion" were no allowed to take communion during mass. It was a ritual we had to go through. If you didn't go through it, you had to let everyone pass you as they waited to receive their communion wafers.
Again - glad I'm no longer involved in any religious bull shit, but the only thing this taught me was that you had to partake in some special made up church ritual and if you didn't, then you weren't special enough to receive the blood and body of christ every sunday.
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