RE: What Human Rights?
August 30, 2015 at 3:13 pm
(This post was last modified: August 30, 2015 at 3:14 pm by Catholic_Lady.)
(August 30, 2015 at 3:03 pm)Neimenovic Wrote:Quote:Before you villainize an entire group of people, you have to understand their intentions and where they are coming from, and to see things in context.
Have I done that? I get that you don't see a difference between 'Catholic officials and church representatives in positions of power' I refer to as the RCC and the average catholic Joe, but there really is one.
Ah, gotcha. Perhaps you didn't mean to, but that's how it came across to me when you first brought it up in this post to Chad:
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(August 29, 2015 at 5:16 pm)Neimenovic Wrote:(August 28, 2015 at 10:05 am)ChadWooters Wrote: (Chad responding to someone's claim that Christians are not actually pro life because they don't do anything for the suffering) Maybe you haven't heard of the Salvation Army, Catholic Charities, World Vision, or any of thousands of Christian organizations working locally and worldwide to be Christ's presence on a suffering world. My favorite is the Pacific Garden Mission.
And maybe you haven't heard of the countless deaths from AIDS in Africa, because *somebody* told them condoms would kill them, leaving millions of orphans behind. Pro life my fucking ass.
"Of course, everyone will claim they respect someone who tries to speak the truth, but in reality, this is a rare quality. Most respect those who speak truths they agree with, and their respect for the speaking only extends as far as their realm of personal agreement. It is less common, almost to the point of becoming a saintly virtue, that someone truly respects and loves the truth seeker, even when their conclusions differ wildly."
-walsh
-walsh