RE: Admitting You're a Sinner
January 17, 2018 at 11:57 pm
(This post was last modified: January 17, 2018 at 11:57 pm by Whateverist.)
(January 17, 2018 at 11:38 pm)Khemikal Wrote: Personally I adhere to the faith, except for that part about how I just told everyone I don;t adhere to a core and foundational doctrine of the catholic church..original sin.
I'm not positing that I know more about your faith than you do, trollerina...I'm suggesting that the catholic church, and their official doctrine...does...argue with them until you;re blue in the face...convinced the whole time your arguing with me. Their opinion on the heretical theological musings of women is world renowned.
My impression is that there is an institutional tolerance bordering on commitment to encouraging a wide range of belief levels, ranging between the literal with an emphasis on rule following on up to someone like Mother Teresa who recognized she no longer believed in God at all. The pope she corresponded with about it touted her struggle to continue in her convictions even without belief laudable.
Then there was that person at the Vatican interviewed by Bill Mayer for Religulous who was very openly accepting of this even as he conceded the difficulties for the literally minded.
