(August 30, 2017 at 3:31 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote:(August 29, 2017 at 4:19 am)ignoramus Wrote: In keeping with this philosophy, Cath, you don't get to label yourself, we do! Yes, we, the mob!
And we all say you're a pleasant, well meaning, somewhat naïve, not extremely sceptical, hot babe, new age woo loving first world café Christian.
Being a cafeteria Catholic means picking and choosing which Catholic doctrines to adhere to rather than believing in all of it. I don't see how I fall into this category, unless you can point out which particular doctrine(s) I reject?
I hate this dodge. Humans of all religions act like they are "following"their label correctly while others of the same label are not. There is no "doctrine" in any religion, there are merely people who point to the parts of their writings they like and point to their own interpretations.
Funny how you figured out not to rape or own humans without the interpretations of 500 years ago. Funny how you figured out how to be kind without the Koran or Buddha or the Vedas. Our species western modern values of pluralism are not rooted in any of antiquity's mythology.
You use your religion to say, "I am a good person", well so what, people of all the world's religions do this. They point to their motifs of kindness and charity while ignoring that others of the same label use it for justifications for power and authoritarianism and xenophobia.
Pretty inefficient for an all powerful god to allow all those different religions each with sub sects and tons of versions of the same writings. It doesn't seem to me there is an all powerful god of any label doing anything for humans. It seems to me humans make them up and then hand those superstitions down to the next generation.
