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

To: cosmicforce who wrote (2832)	10/27/2000 6:03:55 PM
From: average joe	Respond to of 28931

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To: cosmicforce who wrote (2832)	10/27/2000 6:20:55 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 28931

I am not holding myself out as the representative of organized religion. I think that's a bit much. One thing you may not realize about the Catholic Church is that it, more than any other religion I am aware of, has a very legalistic way of doing things, which derives from the Roman culture. The Emperor Justinian ordered that all the existing Roman laws be codified and the codes promulgated. My favorite law professor, Yiannopoulous, would argue that it was the Greeks, because Justinian was actually Emperor in Constantinople AFTER the fall of Rome. The Church conducts itself according to rules, regulations, and laws that are known to all. It's one of the rules that the rules have to be made public so everyone knows what they are. That's why dispensation is made for young children, insane people, incompetent people and so on. They don't have the capacity to know the rules, so they can't break them intentionally. The Pope doesn't just stand up at the altar and wing it. He is at the head of a bureaucracy, and there a committees and they have meetings and hash things out. It takes a very long time, years, decades, centuries, for doctrine to be hashed out. So when the Pope makes a pronouncement ex cathedra, he's passing on what the church heirarchy, the lawmakers if you will, have concluded after great deliberation. These guys argue more than lawyers, they are all philosophers and very learned, I don't know any group of people who argue more than philosophers and academicians. The doctrine hasn't been around long enough for the Church to have to admit the Pope made a mistake on Church doctrine. It could happen eventually, I suppose.