RE: Ask a Traditional Catholic
June 30, 2015 at 9:36 pm
(This post was last modified: June 30, 2015 at 9:37 pm by SteelCurtain.)
It's easy for you to brush off everything that is harmful about your religion as a bastardization. Yet there is a reason that "Catholic Guilt" is a meme in our lexicon, and has a rich history in our literature. There is a reason that "fire and brimstone" speech is part of our lexicon, there is a reason why fear of hell is nearly ubiquitous among Christians. I'm sorry Randy, but reading through the Bible, you cannot escape the death cult nature of the "believe in me or suffer eternal anguish" bullshit that is rampant throughout. Whether you want to accept it or not, your intellectual honesty is at stake in not acknowledging its pervasiveness.
I listened. I provided support for what they needed rather than what I wanted for them. I asked them questions and allowed them to come to their own conclusions. I allowed them to grieve for a lost part of their life. I was supportive. My conscience is without reservation perfectly clear.
Which brings me to my point: why did you post that verse from Matthew? If you don't believe that I or anyone that leads a person from your concept of Truth, if you can understand the murder of a person that simply doesn't believe the same things about foreverland that you do, why post those verses or that opinion at all?
I listened. I provided support for what they needed rather than what I wanted for them. I asked them questions and allowed them to come to their own conclusions. I allowed them to grieve for a lost part of their life. I was supportive. My conscience is without reservation perfectly clear.
Which brings me to my point: why did you post that verse from Matthew? If you don't believe that I or anyone that leads a person from your concept of Truth, if you can understand the murder of a person that simply doesn't believe the same things about foreverland that you do, why post those verses or that opinion at all?
"There remain four irreducible objections to religious faith: that it wholly misrepresents the origins of man and the cosmos, that because of this original error it manages to combine the maximum servility with the maximum of solipsism, that it is both the result and the cause of dangerous sexual repression, and that it is ultimately grounded on wish-thinking." ~Christopher Hitchens, god is not Great
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