(July 30, 2014 at 7:36 pm)lwlodarczyk Wrote:(July 30, 2014 at 7:33 pm)John S Wrote: Whether individual Catholics follow those laws or not, is up to them to decide.
Aha! Is this a conscious choice? And if so, can you reply to the follow up question?
I live in a Catholic country. And well…we(should I say we? or they? since I am an atheist) pretty much do all kinds of s**t that I can assure you are forbidden by the church and when we get out on the streets we pretend we didn't do anything wrong.
We tell that to our friends, our family and ourselves, yet when we get back home we start doing them once again.
Then people go to confession tell half of the truth(the good half if you know what I mean) and when we pay penitence they say into their hearts that this is for all the bad that they told the priest along with the stuff they didn't told him.