RE: Life after death?
July 4, 2014 at 4:52 pm
(This post was last modified: July 4, 2014 at 4:53 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(July 4, 2014 at 1:13 am)whateverist Wrote: I think many clergymen loose the literal beliefs but stay in the community and to feel like the shepherd. I'm probably making too much of this.Just as a reference to experience - in no way indicative of anything beyond my experience. They do seem to. The catholicism of a priest at a catholic school, was, to me, very different than the catholicism of your average parishioner. Most of the priests I knew growing up were rational people with brilliant metaphoric or allegorical readings of scripture. Guys who didn't mind saying "it doesn't matter whether or not it happened - do you agree with the message?"
But maybe I got lucky. I hear alot of "old church" stories on this board, so clearly that's still around, still big.
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