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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank
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To: Neocon who wrote (61533)10/8/2002 11:25:27 AM
From: The Philosopher  Read Replies (2) of 82486
 
If a standard is truly inappropriate or unrealistic, why would I, or anyone else, expect
you to live up to it?

It seems to me, in my limited understanding, that the basic doctrine of the Catholic Church is to set a standard which one cannot live up to. The whole point of confession is that nobody can live up to the standard, that humans always fall short, and that they must acknowledge their shortcomings and do penance for them. But they will go out again and fall short again.

I know of no Catholic who has ever been able to go for a year without having any sins to confess -- that is, having lived that entire year up to the standard. And there are hundreds of millions of Catholics in the world.

I would call that a pretty unrealistic standard.
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