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Would any practicing Roman Catholics on here, help me to understand how they are able to accommodate their religion in the face of diametrically opposed scripture?
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.I was dragged up a RC and was beaten daily from a young age by the good sisters of St Patrick's. When you look back you realise it was all brainwashing, otherwise I wouldn't have all this information in my head about the parables, the miracles and all the rest of it.
Does anyone know that when Jesus handed out 'The five loaves and the two fishes' .. mankind had their first taste of the fish finger butty .. a mushy pea topping and tomato ketchup were never mentioned ... a bad mistake !
Does anyone know that when Jesus handed out 'The five loaves and the two fishes' .. mankind had their first taste of the fish finger butty .. a mushy pea topping and tomato ketchup were never mentioned ... a bad mistake !
I distinctly recall one school assembly bible reading because of the contradiction between its central advice and what we, as a group, gathered together in a place were doing: it said adherents to Christianity should sequester themselves in a private place, in order to worship.
I took from that the idea that church gatherings were a way to put yourself on display. Not merely to worship but to *be seen to worship* and to be faithful.
It would seem incongruous for a nation of just a single faith to have to bother with making a show of following the 'correct' faith but, if early Christians ever followed Jesus' advice to worship in the privacy of the home, I guess they soon had to abandon that because multiculturalism (Roman era) meant competition from other religions and conducting rituals in a group combats feelings of isolation and vulnerability doing it at home, feeling surrounded by 'the others'.
I am wondering if that is at the heart of the papal abhorrence with "personal Jesuses"?
(In other threads it has been observed that the church set itself up as the middleman, between you and God. Their fees have certainly bought them a lot of shiny things, over the years, not to mention the rest of their portfolio).
I took from that the idea that church gatherings were a way to put yourself on display. Not merely to worship but to *be seen to worship* and to be faithful.
It would seem incongruous for a nation of just a single faith to have to bother with making a show of following the 'correct' faith but, if early Christians ever followed Jesus' advice to worship in the privacy of the home, I guess they soon had to abandon that because multiculturalism (Roman era) meant competition from other religions and conducting rituals in a group combats feelings of isolation and vulnerability doing it at home, feeling surrounded by 'the others'.
I am wondering if that is at the heart of the papal abhorrence with "personal Jesuses"?
(In other threads it has been observed that the church set itself up as the middleman, between you and God. Their fees have certainly bought them a lot of shiny things, over the years, not to mention the rest of their portfolio).
Hypo, I suspect that the reason that the CC doen't like personal jesuses is that the pope would not be their sole conduit to the 'almighty'. People might have their own ideas and form their own cults of christianity as so often happens. Roman catholicism is after all just a cult of christianity, along with Greek othodox, coptics etc.