(July 7, 2015 at 1:17 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote: Since it's hard for me to explain in my own words, I hope it's ok that I post this here from a Catholic dictionary:
"Spiritual life: The life of the Holy Spirit, dwelling in the souls of the faithful and enabling them to praise and love God and serve him in the practice ov firtue. It is called the spiritual life because: 1. its animating principle is the Spirit of god, the "Soul of the soul" in sanctifying grace; 2. it is the supernatural life of the human spirit; 3. it is mainly lived out in the spiritual faculties of intellect and will, although affecting the whole person, body and soul."
...So we believe the sacraments (which can only be performed by priests) help fortify and kind of "make official" the presence of the Holy Spirit in a person's soul.
I feel really silly and vulnerable delving so deep into the spirituality talk with a bunch of atheists who think this is nuts, but there it is lol. Please go easy on me. This is what we believe.
Ok. There isn't even enough substance there for me to mock it, soooooo
Quote:sure, and priests can't give sacraments without having been "gestated" and delivered by a woman first lol. At the end of the day, we both need the other gender to survive as a species. Neither one is more important than the other. We can't do anything without the other.
Does nothing for your case. Everybody needs to be born first. It's obvious and irrelevant. That's the part we subtract from the equation.
To perform sacraments, only men are needed. To procreate, men and women are needed. Once again, inequality.
And women can't influence the church like men do.
Quote:Well, it is pretty easy to believe God wanted women to be the ones to carry life and give birth. ;-)
The other one is a matter of faith without any sort of physical proof, if you don't count the fact that Jesus was a man and chose all male apostles ... but you guys don't believe in that either, so you can call it a matter of faith and I'm cool with that.
Randy tried that one with me too. Suppose it's true.
Is Jesus god?
Is god perfect, infinite and thus sexless?
Then why is a dick necessary to represent him?
I didn't get satisfactory answers from him. Will you surprise me?