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Apr 4, 2019 7:03:43 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Apr 4, 2019 7:03:43 GMT
Why do we go through all that " prayer, church going, genuflecting, and listening to old men drone on for hours,..." Because we Christians DO believe in God, and want to maintain our relationship with Him. Ditto for people from other religious traditions in the world. In fact, following one's religion faithfully in this life, is like being with Our God in this life, as well as the next. As for "be embarrassed by their paedophilic exploits and generally power of a corrupt institution," you do realize that practically every single institution has had their share of paedophiles & other kinds of sex offenders, don't you? Case in point, are schools. We all agree that it is for the children's own benefit & growth, that they be sent to school to be educated, yet, there have been plenty of cases of kids being sexually abused by teachers, in school. Look, that is great. You can just say... I like it and it has meaning for me. The problem is when there is an assumption that others who see things differently, are wrong. This, in a nutshell, is the problem with religion. What about people of religion who's goal is not to convert their neighbours, but to live in harmony with them? like Pope Francis just told Catholics to do. We are more of a go and do good works in your community people, than a go out and tell them to be like us people.
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Post by goz on Apr 4, 2019 20:25:42 GMT
Look, that is great. You can just say... I like it and it has meaning for me. The problem is when there is an assumption that others who see things differently, are wrong. This, in a nutshell, is the problem with religion. What about people of religion who's goal is not to convert their neighbours, but to live in harmony with them? like Pope Francis just told Catholics to do. We are more of a go and do good works in your community people, than a go out and tell them to be like us people. That is great too. Catholics like you and I suspect Clusium and kls as well, are a credit to your faith HOWEVER past history of that faith is absolutely dismal. Apart from modern restrictions on contraceptives, the paedophilia etc which blemishes it, I have a deep despair about the whole of Catholic ( and other) missionaries in the past. You cannot deny that they were evangelical, destroying local cultures in their efforts to 'save' people ON THEIR terms. In Africa where the AIDS epidemic is at crisis level, the Catholic Church is STILL denying African access to life saving contraceptives, and on Catholic doctrinal grounds there is persecution and killing of gay people.
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