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- The government has no business telling a religion what to believe. Obama is now the Pope of the Catholic religion. What a joker.
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- "I don't like to see people suffer but, then, they breed at such a rate that they're bound to suffer." ~ Francis Bacon
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- by mick7744 April 9, 2012 3:49 AM EDT
The Catholic Church may update it's marketing strategy from time to time...but the original scam and their extortionate sales pitch never changes...
"We are the ONLY way for you to gain access to God...
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I was proud of our little community church. The Baptists and Methodists share one building and each meet every other week. Well for Easter they joined together and had a Sunrise Service at a Beautiful Pond. And I loved how part of the message was about Jesus taking in EVERYONE! : ) - Reply to this comment
- Unless the Catholic church is into the business of Insurance now....its none of their business!!!
You don't like Birth Control - Don't take it!
Simple as that. - Reply to this comment
- A pox on the Vatican.
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- this guy said with a straight face said "jfk was guided by the morality of his religion", i think jfk was guided by how he felt about the intern that was sitting closest to him at the time
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- OK, CBS...I see that the article has been returned to a position on the main page...thanks (if I actually had anything to do with it)
But just because I'm still a bit miffed about the whole issue...here's the other post you disappeared...
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It may or may not be true that prostitution is the world's oldest profession...
But religion is most certainly the world's oldest industry...
Millennia before there even was a Catholic Church, there were con-men in colorful robes who would offer to bless your future crop for a backhander (votive offering)...then blame YOU if the crop failed and have you burned at the stake or something, as an accursed non-believer
The Roman Catholic Church merely raised the level of organized and efficient ruthlessness when it came to suppressing other Christian sects (often with violence) who did not subscribe to the preposterous notion that the ONLY way for anyone to have access to God or to enter Paradise was through THEIR church...and by obeying THEIR commands
Meaning that anyone who was not a Catholic...or who PO'd or defied God's holy Catholic priests...would suffer eternal damnation...and they denounced as heresy dozens of gospels and manuscripts, written by others who had lived in the time of Christ, but that did not support the views of their four carefully chosen pitchmen, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John...whose testaments most closely reflected the Church's own views...and goals
How could I ever believe in...let alone worship...such a severely limited and pettily vindictive God?
How could anyone?
As a recovering Catholic of half a century's standing, having turned in my kneepads just before Confirmation because I feared the wrath of an all-knowing God if I swore faith and allegiance to an institution that I already knew I did not believe in...
To me, it always seemed that the church itself was in first place...God second...Jesus coming in third, and so on...I still choose to believe that some "higher power" exists...but not necessarily one that exerts such benevolent micro-management over the trivial happenings of a person...or a planet...or a universe...
A truly omnipotent being, completely aware of what is actually going on, would know that such divine intervention was not often necessary
I believe "free will" to be another term for "crap shoot"
I believe we're given the precious gift of life, and with it, a spiritual obligation to better ourselves and our world...to play the hand we're dealt to endure our misfortune and to conduct our lives knowing that there will be a reckoning...a final balance achieved...ultimate justice...so we must strive to do that which is right and resist doing that which is wrong...
And on some level...we ALWAYS know the difference...despite the billions of words that have been spoken and written attempting to rationalize, condone and justify the latter... be it for God's benefit or to comply with His (or Her) divine will...as a means for maintaining social order (retaining power)...or simply for political or personal expedience...but mostly because the rationalized choice is usually easier, less painful or more attractive and instantly rewarding
I find it very similar to the manner of certain Supreme Court Justices who have a genius for finding legal reasons and precedents that explain why some outrageous corporate crime is not "technically illegal"
The most lucid definition of "God" I ever heard was in, of all places, a history of science course in college..."God is that being or deity of which no higher or greater being or deity can ever be imagined or conceived"
I've always thought myself capable of imagining something infinitely higher and profoundly greater than anything these guys are selling...a stern-looking bearded older gentleman with a scorebook in one hand...a lightning bolt in the other, to name one...
But then, in today's world...so could most Star Trek fans
Only a blasphemous fool would believe in a God that he would presume to comprehend
Please excuse my long-winded post, but I've been reflecting on the subject for quite some time
A joyous and peace-filled Easter to all - Reply to this comment
- Is what is so "queer" about the Leadership of the Roman Catholic Church and their position on the non-use of birth control, is that if any group of people should be using birth control it's the "Roaming" Catholics.
Linda Susan Boreman (AKA Linda Lovelace) was brought up and schooled in a Roman Catholic enviroment. You figure it out. The leadership of the Roman Catholic Church has and has had a very warped and perverted sense of reality. - Reply to this comment
- I'm getting curious, CBS...
For the second time in less than 24 hours, after posting a comment critical of the Catholic Church and Cardinal Dolan (see one of them below) and while you didn't censor or remove my comment...
In both cases, within minutes of my posts, both article were removed from the main board and made almost impossible to find (I had to Google the title to get here because I could not access it on CBS.com)
What gives? Is there some ultra-Catholic sensor at CBS who thinks I'm a blasphemous...but effective writer?
Thanks...(I think)
I posted both comments because I wished to share my thoughts and observations on a subject I've spent over 50 years studying and contemplating...
Having one board removed immediately could just be bad timing on my part...but two...on the same subject? I really don't think so! - Reply to this comment
- What the catholics don't realize or is just too blind to comprehend is that it is and always will be a woman's chioce. We are the one who will be judged and stuck raising the children. Men leave, and women are the one raising children alone and judged by others. As for all you neocon men who think neocon women are so pure, just google what Megan Mccain say about sex!
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