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Politics : Should God be replaced? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Solon who wrote (2787)	10/27/2000 7:35:49 AM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 28931

I don't think my arguments were swept away with the wind. One of the nice things about being Catholic is that we like to talk about religion and faith and belief and God and the afterlife - we argue quite a bit - I don't know if you've ever been around Jesuits, for example, not that I am on that level, but that's the level I aspire to, although I secretly dream of being as advanced a thinker as Teilhard de Chardin. You, personally, may be able to reason on that level, or stoop down to meet me as an equal. We didn't get to talk much. But being told that the beliefs of the Catholic Church are obscene is a waste of time. I don't care to argue with emotional people. And having to argue, yet AGAIN, with Del, about fundamentalism is a waste of time, sorry Del. It's old ground. And having to deal with the Inquisition, yet AGAIN, is a waste of time, unless one of you guys brought something new to the argument, and no one did. It's just "Catholics suck because of the Inquisition and their position birth control and abortion and what they did to Galileo." Yawn.

To: Solon who wrote (2787)	10/27/2000 8:52:01 AM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 28931

I would like to add that I have zero interest in proselytizing, or trying to convince you or anyone else to believe in God or any religion whatsover. Nor was I advancing the thesis that the Catholic religion has all the answers or is the One True Way. And I don't recall that I ever once said anything about my own faith, that is, what I personally believe, in a religious sense, except in response to questions by Del about what I believe about the relationship between Christ and God. I did say that I thought if people behaved according to the precepts of Christ, that is, love one another, heal the sick, comfort the afflicted, feed the hungry, give to the poor, the world would be a better place. What I think is going on is that you guys are so used to different kinds of arguments that you automatically assigned me the role of proselytizer, defender of the faith, asserter of the belief that the Bible is the literal word of God, and a lot of other things I never said. My argument is that Christianity, qua Christianity, does not cause people to do bad things. The Catholic Church has been the cause of some wrong things due to mistakes in doctrine which have, in my opinion, nothing to do with the words of Christ. Intolerance of homosexuality, intolerance of women, tolerance of slavery, desire to exterminate schismatics, none of that derives from Christ.