(June 20, 2015 at 3:22 am)Catholic_Lady Wrote: I think telling kids about the Catholic teaching of Hell hardly qualifies as "torture".
we were taking about threatening with torture. You can't talk about hell without threatening with torture, its virtually impossible . 'a place you go to if you reject god' is already a threat. It's a place for sinners to stuffer forever. There's no way to go about it without invoking fear.
Quote:I know I keep saying this, but I think it is important to do so: I feel for you for whatever horrible experiences you have had. I really do, and I feel awful about it.
I know you mean well. But you don't know what you're sorry for.
Quote:To me though, everything you're saying about my Church is completely foreign. I never felt tortured or heard of anyone feeling tortured from this. Though I was taught about Hell, I was never taught in a way that I would ever think to describe as "torturing with the fear of Hell." Hell was never, ever any sort of main focus on anything I have ever experienced during my lifetime in the Church. I am not denying your experiences, but feel like you are making unfair generalizations and blanket statements about an entire group of people.
I said it may not be like that everywhere, but it's the same church and the same doctrine. I'm not generalizing about a group of people,we're taking about an institution.that's different.
it's good you didn't have that experience. Unfortunately, many did.
Quote:How have you seen them go about "forcing" peole to save sex for marriage?
telling them they'll burn in hell forever if they don't, and ostracizing those who didn't listen.
