Cthulhu

Gemma Therese

...product of a cult...

Rousseau_CHN

Hedonism?
What's wrong with the "flesh"?
What's wrong with "carnal" thoughts?

Why do Catholic make such a big deal out of sex?
I don't find anything dirty about the workings of the "flesh." It's natural. It is what makes us man.

I'm even tempted to say that people who surrender to their carnal desires are compassionate people. Our flesh arouses multitude of feeling in all of us. feelings of joy, feelings of pain, feelings of mortality.

Our flesh makes us vulnerable...we see that in our experience, and we see it in others. We know their pain because we feel pain.

(If I'm compassionate, it doesn't show. I know. )

Bill Snedden

Brighid is not a theist. I think by "recovered Catholic" she meant the same thing I mean when I use it to describe myself: no longer Catholic (i.e., "recovered" from Catholicism).

For the record though, I don't believe that the moderation policy at II actually prohibits theists from being moderators. We have considered a couple in the past. IMO, it would be somewhat problematic as it seems to me that effective moderation requires to some extent that one be a "full" member of the community. Very few theists on this board would be able to adhere to the tents of their faith and still support metaphysical naturalism.

Regards,

Bill Snedden

brighid

A RECOVERED Catholic is someone who has recovered their mental sensibilities and cognitive abilities after relieving themselves of the brainwashing of theism, specifically Catholicism in my case. As I was raised Catholic I know about all the Catholic mumbo-jumbo and that was the point of my statement.

I am a strong atheist when it comes to the existence of man made gods and I am agnostic when it comes the actual existence of something that can be defined as a GOD.

You can do a search under my name to find a whole slew of information about my atheism.

I hope that clears up your confusion.

Brighid

Amos

Not to worry Bill, we love Brighid. She great as moderator and contributor. The only thing she needed to recover from is the unresolved faith of her youth, which, I think, is fair and just.

Talulah

No, he intended to reform the corrupt beast that was the Catholic Church, which meant almost a total overhaul.

He DIDN'T start his own theology anyway, he started basing his views more on scripture than on tradition. [Sola scriptura wouldn't you know]

Amos

Because they keep going in the wrong direction! For example, soon we'll have a war to make it easier for Christ to land in he Holy land and they wanne be next to it. Catholics, on the other hand, see the second coming of Christ as a personal event into the heart of the believer. If ever this would have happened to a protestant don't you think he would have told the others? Instead, they insist that "looking for a sign of the times" is a good thing to do while the bible says that only an "evil age [will] look for a sign of the times."

Banff will be beautiful especially if you've never been there. The weather will be OK, sweather or light jacket in late spring/early summer. I've never been there in June so that is just my guess.

Amos

Nice post Pousseau. I like passionate people.

Biff the unclean

OH good grief. I thought that I left the Protestant /Catholic BS behind when I left Ireland.
Catholics are wrong because they don't believe in just the magic book.
Protestants are wrong because they threw half the magic book out, and made a cult out of the part they kept.

Will you people quite this!
There are no magic books!
There isn't any Christ, for Christ's sake.
:banghead:

Amos

"Christ or no Christ" is not the argument. If they would only listen there would be no argument but how can they listen when their ass is on fire.