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by Yumyumsuppertime » Thu Jan 29, 2015 8:39 pm
by The Novakian Empire » Thu Jan 29, 2015 8:39 pm
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by Uawc » Thu Jan 29, 2015 9:48 pm
by Distruzio » Thu Jan 29, 2015 9:57 pm
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by Hell for Kerguelen » Thu Jan 29, 2015 10:04 pm
by Distruzio » Thu Jan 29, 2015 10:04 pm
Schiltzberg wrote:I am a Catholic Christian. The Catholic Christian Church is the church described in the Acts of the Apostles as "The Way," and it is the original Christian Church started by Jesus, and carried on by his Apostles. Over the last 2,000 years, several people have broken off from the Church because of different interpretations of the faith and/or doctrine. For example, the Christians located in eastern Europe and Asia in the mid-eleventh century believed that the Pope did not deserve to have authority over God's Church, and they broke off to create the Orthodox Church. Later in the sixteenth century, Martin Luther exposed and protested 90+ reasons why the Catholic Church was corrupt, and he started the Lutheran Church, which was the first Protestant denomination. In the end, I still believe that the Catholic Church is the One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church because it is the one created by Jesus himself, and carried on by his disciples. It is a Church run by humans, so there is bound to be corruption, but in the end, it is still the Church that Jesus commanded be built on the rock that is Peter, the first Pope.
by Schiltzberg » Thu Jan 29, 2015 11:07 pm
Distruzio wrote:Schiltzberg wrote:I am a Catholic Christian. The Catholic Christian Church is the church described in the Acts of the Apostles as "The Way," and it is the original Christian Church started by Jesus, and carried on by his Apostles. Over the last 2,000 years, several people have broken off from the Church because of different interpretations of the faith and/or doctrine. For example, the Christians located in eastern Europe and Asia in the mid-eleventh century believed that the Pope did not deserve to have authority over God's Church, and they broke off to create the Orthodox Church. Later in the sixteenth century, Martin Luther exposed and protested 90+ reasons why the Catholic Church was corrupt, and he started the Lutheran Church, which was the first Protestant denomination. In the end, I still believe that the Catholic Church is the One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church because it is the one created by Jesus himself, and carried on by his disciples. It is a Church run by humans, so there is bound to be corruption, but in the end, it is still the Church that Jesus commanded be built on the rock that is Peter, the first Pope.
You and me. We can be friends in faith.
by Ararat Mountain » Thu Jan 29, 2015 11:10 pm
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by Luminesa » Thu Jan 29, 2015 11:13 pm
Herargon wrote:I am agnostic but I identify myself as a Catholic. Out of respect for the good-doing popes, such as Fransciscus nowadays.
So I can be called an agnostic Roman Catholic.
by Washington Resistance Army » Thu Jan 29, 2015 11:16 pm
by Distruzio » Thu Jan 29, 2015 11:29 pm
Luminesa wrote:Herargon wrote:I am agnostic but I identify myself as a Catholic. Out of respect for the good-doing popes, such as Fransciscus nowadays.
So I can be called an agnostic Roman Catholic.
Yay for Papa Francisco! (And of course, you can never forget St. John Paul II. What a BOSS.)
So, when you say you're an agnostic Roman Catholic, do you mean you're still searching? I'm confused. I mean, it's cool that you're considering the Catholic Church (as I Catholic myself, I say the Church is quite the beautiful and wonderful faith.) I'm just curious.
by Thermodolia » Thu Jan 29, 2015 11:31 pm
by Luminesa » Thu Jan 29, 2015 11:38 pm
Pope Joan wrote:Has not the spaghetti monster become a tiresome meme?
Besides, it demeans Michelangelo.
I am a Mennonite, a follower of the "Third Way". Unlike Protestants we do believe that good works count and should be encouraged.
Unlike Catholics, we believe we have direct access to God without mediation of priests or rituals.
You will seldom find a cross in our buildings (we have meeting places, not "churches"; churches are people, not architecture). Instead, there will be a mural depicting the Good Shepherd, or Jesus standing and knocking at the door.
Congregations sing in four part harmony.
Our clothes are simple but not austere; the age of LL Bean has suited us well.
We like to work and like to help. Where there is a natural disaster we will quickly shoe up in sufficient numbers to be useful.
We are peacemakers and pacifists. I attended a very moving ceremony which honored believers who had refused military service in WW II; instead, they served in (usually military) clinics. Those honored had endured the experience of soldiers flinging bedpans on them.
We reject pride, status, display of wealth, and so on. We are not supposed to run for or hold political office, although that position is currently under review. We cannot take a job which requires carrying a firearm. So, no prison guards or police. I know a pastor who lost his position simply because he was a constable.
We take forgiveness seriously. We will not participate in communion until we have sought out anyone we may have wronged. and received their forgiveness.
We are not holier than thou, because neither we not thou are particularly holy, period.
For further information, look here:
http://www.thirdway.com/menno/
by The Nuclear Fist » Fri Jan 30, 2015 2:03 am
And you touch the distant beaches with tales of brave Ulysses. . .Farnhamia wrote:You're getting a little too fond of the jerkoff motions.
by Risottia » Fri Jan 30, 2015 2:09 am
by Yumyumsuppertime » Fri Jan 30, 2015 2:15 am
Risottia wrote:People don't BELONG to religions, just like people don't belong to ideas and opinions. If anything, opinions, ideas and religions belong to some people.
Btw, ignostic myself.
by Herargon » Fri Jan 30, 2015 2:26 am
Luminesa wrote:Herargon wrote:I am agnostic but I identify myself as a Catholic. Out of respect for the good-doing popes, such as Fransciscus nowadays.
So I can be called an agnostic Roman Catholic.
Yay for Papa Francisco! (And of course, you can never forget St. John Paul II. What a BOSS.)
So, when you say you're an agnostic Roman Catholic, do you mean you're still searching? I'm confused. I mean, it's cool that you're considering the Catholic Church (as I Catholic myself, I say the Church is quite the beautiful and wonderful faith.) I'm just curious.
In any case, I specify: an agnostic Roman Catholic is someone that believes that there may be or may not be a God, but that if He is there, it then would be like the God mentioned in Roman Catholicism.
Thus, if you're an agnostic [insert religion], you believe that there may be a higher or magical power or not, but that if that power exists, you think it is the way that it is in the [insert religion].
That is what I am. To not offend God if He is in existance, but mainly because I respect the good in the universe and the traditions of my grandparets and elders, I go to church every Christmas, marriage and funeral. But aside from that, I don't have pretty much to bother with religion, nor with atheism.
How scifi alliances actually work.Ifreann wrote:That would certainly save the local regiment of American troops the trouble of plugging your head in ye olde shittere.
by Risottia » Fri Jan 30, 2015 2:30 am
Yumyumsuppertime wrote:Risottia wrote:People don't BELONG to religions, just like people don't belong to ideas and opinions. If anything, opinions, ideas and religions belong to some people.
Btw, ignostic myself.
A religion is not just a concept of how one relates to a god-concept (or other non-theistic perspective on the nature of the universe, as in some Eastern religions), but also a group of people who follow that religion's practices and subscribe to the belief system. One may therefore belong to a religion in the same way that one may belong to any other group or organization.
by Yumyumsuppertime » Fri Jan 30, 2015 2:32 am
Risottia wrote:Yumyumsuppertime wrote:
A religion is not just a concept of how one relates to a god-concept (or other non-theistic perspective on the nature of the universe, as in some Eastern religions), but also a group of people who follow that religion's practices and subscribe to the belief system. One may therefore belong to a religion in the same way that one may belong to any other group or organization.
I am rather opposed to that idea of "belonging". Sounds way too similar to people being property of abstract concepts, such as groups (not the algebraic structures, those would be fine).
by Lydenburg » Fri Jan 30, 2015 2:55 am
by Adab » Fri Jan 30, 2015 3:18 am
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