Catholics are DIFFERENT!!
At the invitation of Professor Robert, I'm starting a new thread.
Dr Bob, you are continually trying to draw clear distinctions between Catholicism and other (especially Christian) religions. I grant that Catholics are (a little) different, but, as they still fundamentally believe in the magic, invisible daddy in the sky, there is really NO difference.
Two points: The Bible (whether or not you take it literally) is the foundation of your (and all Christian) religions. A cursory examination of the Bible reveals a SMALL handful of usable tenets along with pages and chapters FULL of utter nonsense. The fact that any religion would base itself upon such a holey book, makes that religion as creditable as Joseph's golden tablets from God which he, unfortunately, misplaced.
God: I will be heartily disagreed with here, but I find the idea of God to be completely understandable. Here we have, at the dawn of civilization, various groups of totally ignorant people trying to put words, meanings, and causes to all manner of things which they couldn't possible understand. Combine this with a clever but ruthless set who have come to realize that, if they ascribed words, meanings, and causes to the world around them, people would actually BELIEVE them (as they no other source of information). These priests could and did use this power to govern the people - insisting that everyone in the tribe bow before them.
Then came the age of knowledge. We could start to actually understand all these things that the priests had, up till then, kept to themselves. As the power base for all civilized people rested with these priests, they were (and, of course, still are) wildly defensive of their position.
There is, however, NO CONCEIVABLE REASON for any educated person to believe in the supernatural - aside from these historic pressures.,
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Permalink Reply by Strega on -
This is a recently issued international arrest warrant for the new pope.
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Permalink Reply by Reg The Fronkey Farmer on -
Good. The last one got away - link
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Permalink Reply by Kris Feenstra on -
"...criminal organization known as The Vatican."
Word on the street is that the Vatican Gang made a play too deep into Anglican territory, and now the Royals and the Romans are gonna have to rumble in the alleyway. It's gonna be mitre mayhem.
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Permalink Reply by Strega on
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Here is "Whack-a-Pope" - once you get used to using the Noodly Appendage (hint, it is the tip of the Noodle that fires) it's quite addictive. And once you get to the end of your time limit, there's a page with a link to helpful self-defence tricks for altar boys.
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Permalink Reply by Kris Feenstra on
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I was careful not to whack an altar boy with my noodly appendage. I wouldn't want to have to turn myself in to the police.
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Permalink Reply by Suzanne Olson-Hyde on -
Yep, that's it. It is all coming back to me now - aagghhhhh.
As a child I thought it saved one from anything dangerous or harmful.
If this is not superstitious tripe, I don't know what is.
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Permalink Reply by Suzanne Olson-Hyde on
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@Strega - If only.
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