Hostage to fear

[Spacetime]

Look at the fucking new guy!

I really hope you dig it here, because I fucking dig having you here.

I can dig it. 

...and thank you!  I'm not doing anything special other than pointing out facts about the political & social climate of Christianity.

But... regardless... Thank you.

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Of course, my 9th grade biology teacher also happened to teach catechism - but his unit on evolutionary biology was flat out awesome, remember it to this day (though some of it would obviously no longer be accurate), lol.  I don't need personal testimony to know that the doctrinal position of the catholic church and the practical operation of the catholic machine are different beasts.  That's a bit of the problem, in my estimation....perhaps -why- we get catholics here excusing the machine, for their love of a fantasy -of the the machine-.  The church they so confidently know, as catholics, as the true faith.......and the church they actually -belong to- aren't the same entity.  

-Of course- they get the peedo preists and the slaver nuns, predatory apologists and shill science.  The machine positively encourages it, but the smooth operation of that machine -requires- that they offer an entirely different product to their user base.  So we get the mainline catholics, all good intention and fuzzy thoughts......because thats what -they- were told, and that's what -they- took from what they were told.  Then, the hardliners.  Real dicks that say horrible shit.  Its double think like "Authoritatively, infallibly, you must hold this to be true, while practically...it's up to you...could be wrong, otherwise known as -allegory-" that seeds the ground for these people.  This from the same organization that calls individual conscience "individual disobediance".  Of course these fuckers are going to have a fractured thought process.  They're being screwed with by those whom (and what) they hold in the highest authority and trust.  

But which of the two, the mainliner or the hardliner.... is truer to the machine that catholicism is, rather than the machine they might all -wish it to be-?

Your metaphor of machine and faith is excellent.

You're hitting your stride awfully quick, btw...must have been bottling this up for a long time.  How did that go?

Not well in most cases. We're talking 4-6 hours of reading each night. Me laying in bed for another 2 debating myself with the new information I'd learned from both sides that day. Getting 4 hours of sleep. Waking up... doing it all over again... somehow squeezing time for a loving family, school, and a full-time career in there. (this for years) It's been good and bad. But it is what it is.

....ever let it slip?

My son was in trouble in Sunday school for telling his teacher that hell didn't exist then discussed the rationality behind that later that day with me before I put him to bed. Looking back?.... yeah. lololololol!