RE: Are certain horrific aspects of catholicism distinctive to that sect specificaly.
July 31, 2013 at 9:48 am
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(July 30, 2013 at 2:13 pm)oukoida Wrote:(July 30, 2013 at 1:43 pm)The Germans are coming Wrote: Is the social concept of unquestionable catholic authority also existant in Italy?
Well, in Italy, the church may be very obtrusive but is not unquestionable at all,since fortunately we had a very strong communist party to put its authority in discussion.
And then again, I think Italy is the country with the highest rate of "I believe in god but not in the church". No one knows how many times I've heard this thing...
May I ask: Are you from the South or from the North?
(July 30, 2013 at 5:13 pm)pineapplebunnybounce Wrote: No, I've seen buddhists do it. By buddhists I mean the one practiced with monks and chanting, I know there's a hippie version going on, that's not the one I mean. In buddhists teachings, you either pay for the bad things you do in this lifetime, or in the next, so this sort of thinking is common. I know of 2 horrible deaths that buddhists told me happened because those 2 were bad people.
I have heard of that, a friend of mine who went to Laos told me that homosexuals and transsexuals were discriminated on the ground that their sexuality is the punishment resulting of a wicked previous life.
