RE: What IS good, and how do we determine it?
June 16, 2015 at 12:06 pm
(This post was last modified: June 16, 2015 at 12:09 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Quote:Catholics are free to read the OT allegorically, or literally. If Randy believes it is literal, he is not going against Catholic faith.Catholics are free to do whatever they please. Though they might run afoul of dogma by exercizing that particular freedom. You must read some of the OT as literal, rather than allegorical, or there is no christ. Honestly though, it's a non-issue for morality.
No one claimed that he was going against the catholic faith, but he is going down a different road than you are, eh? I asked -you- not whether Randy was a catholic (we know that he is) but whether or not you think that Randy's rear facing moralizing is the manner in which we determine what -is- good? Do we look at the actions and desires of god and say "this is what is good, there must be a reason that this is good", no matter what those actions are?
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