--- "Frederick \"FN\" Noronha" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 1. Religions like Catholicism require you to believe > in a full package, not parts of it. (Therefore the > outrage against 'cafetariat Catholics', a loaded > term, if ever there was one.) > Mario observes: > Not so fast, Fred. Catholics have a rock solid moral code of conduct embodied in the Golden Rule, the Ten Commandments, the Sermon on the Mount and the personal example set by the founder, Jesus Christ. > That is the basic package that every Catholic is expected to accept as part of being a member. > Then there are other parts that were created out of whole cloth by subsequent personalities within the church. For example, the role of women - nowhere did Christ say that women should be excluded from the leadership of the Church - this is a pure excercise in sophistry by the ruling male-dominated-leadership, based on the empirical observation of the gender of the Apostles during a period when it would have been unseemly for HIM to have female apostles following him around and consorting with him. > Another example is the pomp and ceremony that the leadership exist in which is about as far removed from the manger where it all began as night is to day. > Another are the rituals and pre-prescribed prayers that are supposed to be followed blindly, or mouthed blindly by rote. > There are other such bureaucratic rulings that have nothing to do with the basic rock solid moral code. > The term "cafeteria" refers to disagreements on such extraneous matters, not on the fundamental codes themselves. It is ludicrous beyond belief for anyone to demand that these man-made bureaucratic tenets be accepted and be placed on the same moral plane as the basic moral codes for someone to be a "true" Catholic. > _______________________________________________ Goanet mailing list [email protected] http://lists.goanet.org/listinfo.cgi/goanet-goanet.org
