RE: Catholics Aren't Christians?
January 6, 2015 at 3:18 pm
(This post was last modified: January 6, 2015 at 3:19 pm by Regina.)
Oh no need to apologise, sorry my last post might have come across a little condescending and that wasn't my intention at all. Lord knows tone is one of the hardest things to get on the internet.
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But yes I'd actually agree with you, there's very little "choice" involved and being baptised as a baby means nothing for how legitimate a Catholic you are, that's why we have the confirmation ceremony later one as an affirmation of Catholicism. Even then though it still happens during childhood so really too early for someone to know they really believe in it.
I was actually already questioning my religion as a child, I just didn't know or say anything out of a subconscious sense that questioning was the wrong thing to do. I'd look at certain things in the Bible like "Really? This didn't happen" haha
But yes I'd actually agree with you, there's very little "choice" involved and being baptised as a baby means nothing for how legitimate a Catholic you are, that's why we have the confirmation ceremony later one as an affirmation of Catholicism. Even then though it still happens during childhood so really too early for someone to know they really believe in it.
I was actually already questioning my religion as a child, I just didn't know or say anything out of a subconscious sense that questioning was the wrong thing to do. I'd look at certain things in the Bible like "Really? This didn't happen" haha
"Adulthood is like looking both ways before you cross the road, and then getting hit by an airplane" - sarcasm_only
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"Ironically like the nativist far-Right, which despises multiculturalism, but benefits from its ideas of difference to scapegoat the other and to promote its own white identity politics; these postmodernists, leftists, feminists and liberals also use multiculturalism, to side with the oppressor, by demanding respect and tolerance for oppression characterised as 'difference', no matter how intolerable." - Maryam Namazie
