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Originally Posted by Ustwo
I think Christianity goes a bit overboard with the 'blessed are the meek' philosophy. I see weakness as nothing to celibrate.
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Well,I don't think you have to worry about this, too much. The values of Christianity change over time and this may go the way of celestial significance...
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I think my family has adopted a 'don't ask don't tell' philosophy for all members when it comes to religion. The last true believer Catholics all died in the last 10 years, and the current group doesn't make a big deal about it. It came up once or twice when I was younger but didn't really go anywhere. My last real religious discussion with my mother was when I was a wee lad and she tried to explain the whole infallibility of the pope concept. That didn't go well for her and it was her last attempt. I think she suffers a bit from Irish Catholic guilt in that shes not really religious but feels like she didn't do her job as a mother with her kids in that department.
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Have you adopted a "don't ask, don't tell," you're on your own religious philosophy to your own children? Do you still practice Catholicism beyond secular Christmas?
I find it funny that your mother had such faith in the pope (assuming she was prosilytizing something she actually believed in). I mean, it's one thing to believe that an invisible force you can never objectively confirm to be perfect but to say that another
person can be infallible is... simply wrong...
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Originally Posted by ustwo
Actually we didn't come from monkeys we came from apes. But that aside there are still apes because they have evolved to fit their nitches as well as we have evolved to fit ours. Evolution produces a tree with many branches, its not a ladder of progress.
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I don't think he meant, literally, monkeys. I think he was just saying that he doesn't want to know that evolution is how we came about and that he needs his religion. You, more than anyone else in this thread, understand how much some people need their religion...