RE: What IS good, and how do we determine it?
June 16, 2015 at 3:04 am
(This post was last modified: June 16, 2015 at 3:10 am by The Grand Nudger.)
(June 16, 2015 at 3:02 am)Catholic_Lady Wrote:Catholic teaching -is- cherry picking...lol. I'm okay even if I don't believe in their teachings, and so are you. The teachings of christ are no improvement upon the OT, in my opinion. Certainly no moral improvement. The entire moral enterprise is turned into a complete farce in the NT. At least in the OT...people got what was coming to them. The NT god forgives the rapist but condemns the atheist, the NT god is not concerned with your moral actions, only your loyalty. The NT god, and this is truly disturbing.....asks you to accept that another be punished for your own misdeeds, and that somehow this will excorcize your culpability in them.(June 16, 2015 at 2:30 am)Rhythm Wrote: Catholicism allows you to cherry pick, you are being called to account for why you have chosen a particular set of stories over another as literal truth relative to allegory. Some other things in the OT matter...like sin and generational curses. Don't you think? This "god" fella is from the OT, he matters.
A catholic should not cherry pick catholic teaching. So as long as you still believe in Catholic teaching, you are ok. Whether or not you literally believe Moses spoke to a burning bush, or Eve was tempted by a snake, or Jonah was inside a whale for 3 days, is not important, so long as you adhere to Catholic teaching which is made up of the teachings of Christ, many of which contradict the OT. I have already explained why I don't consider this "cherry picking" but I can see I have not done a good enough job of explaining myself.
Theres no point in being moral at all, if loyalty is more effective, more efficient, and will suffice. The whole thing becomes a show for the dolts.
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