RE: What IS good, and how do we determine it?
June 20, 2015 at 11:38 am
(This post was last modified: June 20, 2015 at 11:39 am by Longhorn.)
(June 20, 2015 at 11:21 am)Randy Carson Wrote: Okay, I've read everything you wrote, and I will try to keep it all in mind as we go forward.
I would like to ask one question. You wrote, "I hate catholicism for what it teaches."
If you can boil it down, what does the Catholic Church teach that you find worthy of such hatred?
Where do I begin?
That we're born broken, sinful and sick and need to be saved. That we're nothing without god. The idea of vicarious redemption. The guilt. The notion of hell. Thought crime. The submission. The idea that some men are better than others. The oppression of women and discrimination of homosexuals. That contraception and abortion are wrong and so is premarital sex. The way it fetishizes suffering. That we should give to the poor, but nevermind the golden cross the pope's holding. That criminals can escape legal persecution and instead be protected by the church. The egocentrism behind the humility. Celibacy. That people can be infallible. That there is a third party involved in every crime that demands an apology.
Enough for you?
