RE: Ask a Traditional Catholic
June 29, 2015 at 9:44 am
(This post was last modified: June 29, 2015 at 9:45 am by Razzle.)
(June 28, 2015 at 10:05 pm)PiousPaladin Wrote:(June 28, 2015 at 9:59 pm)Nope Wrote: And the other Christians on this forum did not speak out against some of the crazy things that Pious Paladin said.
I think that is the thing that most surprised me. I was expecting Protestants to respond after I started screaming about how they're all going to hell but then again why would they look at Catholic threads?
I'm just putting it down to them not reading where I've been posting, it's only really been on the gay marriage and Catholics threads.
Also, whooo for the supreme court decision! Never thought it would come so soon!
Maybe some of them will correct me, but I don't think you're ever going see many Christians arguing with other Christians here - that's not why they'd sign up for a forum like this. There are many large forums full of Christians debating other Christians, but the ones who come here want to debate and possibly "save" atheists, and getting side-tracked arguing with other people that they know we're not persuaded by anyway, is not a good way to do that. I don't think there's a motive for liberal and moderate Christians to even READ threads where atheists are debating fundamentalists. In my experience liberal and moderate Christians tend to present their own interpretations, without directly addressing literalist and inerrantist arguments, even when they are on Christian forums.
"Faith is a state of openness or trust. To have faith is like when you trust yourself to the water. You don't grab hold of the water when you swim, because if you do you will become stiff and tight in the water, and sink. You have to relax, and the attitude of faith is the very opposite of clinging, and holding on. In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about the nature of God and the universe becomes a person who has no faith at all. Instead they are holding tight. But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be."
Alan Watts
Alan Watts