--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > One could say being a fanatic or as you may like to > put it fundamentalist is precisely what being > cafeteria all about. Selecting just one aspect of > life just to scream and fight over is what cafeteria > is all about. Goans are good about this >
Gilbert, Please don't redefine the term Cafetaria Catholic according to your own whim. It is quite clearly defined on the webpage that Gabe forwarded to us. Here's the link again: http://www.concernedcatholics.org/cafeteria.htm The bare definition of Cafetaria Catholics, without the pejorative qualifications, is as follows: "Cafeteria Catholics are those who pick and choose what doctrines they want to follow and what doctrines they want to ignore." A True Catholic or Fundamentalist Catholic would be someone who follows all the doctrines of the Church without asking any questions about them. It is very easy to find out if you are a Cafetaria Catholic or a Fundamentalist one. Please ask yourself the following pointed questions. Your answers would settle the issue. 1. Do you see any problem with artificial birth control? 2. Would you advise an AIDS patient not to use a condom in his/her marital relationship? 3. Do you believe homosexuality is evil? 4. Do you believe abortion should not be legal under any circumstances, including medical contingencies involving the life of the mother? 5. Would you advise a couple to remain married in the face of an abusive and dysfunctional marital relationship? 6. Do you believe that embryonic stem cell research is immoral, and should be banned? 7. Do you believe a man and a woman were created by special creation apart from animals? 8. Do you believe all human beings alive today are sinners because their original male ancestor, thousands of years ago, had sex with his solitary female companion? Cheers, Santosh
