(June 16, 2015 at 3:32 am)Catholic_Lady Wrote: I am claiming the Old Testament is inaccurate and incomplete because I am a Christian, and Christ taught some things differently than how the OT says it. That's the simplest way I can put it for ya. I "pick" my morality in the sense that I chose to be a Christian Catholic. I believe the morality in that religion is correct. I did not make it up on my own.
You were raised with it in mind. You were raised to believe that chattel slavery was wrong. You were raised to think that killing someone for being gay is wrong. You were raised to think that offering up one's daughter for the purposes of a gang rape is despicable. That was the morality you were raised with, and that is why you choose to see those passages as allegory -- for what, though, I don't know. (What would be the real meaning of the story about Lot offering up his daughter to be gamgraped? Me, I read that as your god saying it is better for an innocent girl to be raped than for him to empower his angels to defeat the entire crowd of perverts.)
(June 16, 2015 at 3:32 am)Catholic_Lady Wrote: I am sorry if you feel I am being vague, but I don't know how to better explain myself to you. I have tried explaining as best I can and I can't think of any instance of me being vague. Your comment though, does shows how little you understand about Catholicism. You say that I put my faith on a book when Catholicism actually *teaches* that the bible is not the end all be all of the faith. It actually *teaches* us not to rely solely on the bible or to put our faith solely on the bible.
Um, you might want to ask around about that -- or maybe not:
Quote:The Constitution on Divine Revelation (Dei Verbum), states, "Therefore, since everything asserted by the inspired authors or sacred writers must be held to be asserted by the Holy Spirit, it follows that the books of Scripture must be acknowledged as teaching solidly, faithfully, and without error that truth which God wanted put into the sacred writings for the sake of our salvation" (11).
http://www.catholic.com/quickquestions/i...-salvation
