tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12171673.post7014394921968035748..comments2024-02-13T01:25:33.947-05:00Comments on The Gods Are Bored: Sir, How Dare You Presume?Anne Johnsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15478513906953607043noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12171673.post-40063710238378805672009-07-11T23:56:13.937-04:002009-07-11T23:56:13.937-04:00Bob tells me he/she/it's sending in the Flying...Bob tells me he/she/it's sending in the Flying Spheghetti Monster to kick some Catholic ass.<br /><br />Or, he/she/it could be pulling my leg. Bob loves doing that.Alex Pendragonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15877845166621794334noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12171673.post-20233277808129988032009-07-11T16:20:16.925-04:002009-07-11T16:20:16.925-04:00Caesar Please !!!Caesar Please !!!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12171673.post-27329688516462779132009-07-11T15:46:21.262-04:002009-07-11T15:46:21.262-04:00I was hoping Obama would use his meeting with the ...I was hoping Obama would use his meeting with the nazi pope to press our concerns(who gives a shit about a man in a dress, covering the asses of pedophiles) about abortion, contraceptions and stem cell research...or if nothing else tell him to fuck off...sigh*...im getting so radical in my old age.yellowdoggrannyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14906624317290990109noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12171673.post-58419274523771494742009-07-10T13:29:01.194-04:002009-07-10T13:29:01.194-04:00hmm, cut off the last bit I posted..
In the end, ...hmm, cut off the last bit I posted..<br /><br />In the end, this entire snippet seems far too much rhetoric and fluff. It doesn't really REALLY sound like he's denouncing the pagans and other faiths, which actually surprised me more than the pagan blog-o-sphere's focus on it right now.<br />He's just making fluffy sounding blurbs about finding the Truth. Granted, the Church wants it's own truth to be self-evident to everyone (which will never happen) but he avoids directly calling out or making examples of particular groups. <br /><br />The entire document (located in link below) is much more chock-full of the traditional "Follow god or Perish" deal that the Catholics enjoy. This particular snippet though, while used in a few pagan sites to wail and gnash teeth, seems relatively harmless to me.<br /><br />http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/benedict_xvi/encyclicals/documents/hf_ben-xvi_enc_20090629_caritas-in-veritate_en.html<br /><br />To each their own though! That's the beauty of this open-minded world we inhabit!<br />-MaebiusMaebiushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15818255129828936381noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12171673.post-26380589738336844712009-07-10T13:22:46.232-04:002009-07-10T13:22:46.232-04:00I'm going ot go out on a limb and play Devils ...I'm going ot go out on a limb and play Devils Advocate for a moment (though I agree with Anne in spirit for this post).<br />I may be semantics, but I've always seen a huge distinction between Religion and spiritual Paths. Personal beliefs do not a religion make, even if you get a bunch of people following them. It's the trappings and rituals required to commune with the Divine which forms the religion, and I will agree that they are not equal at all.<br />It's too much to get into here, I think, but on the surface I am having to agree with the basics of the Pope's words, even as I can not make myself ascribe to Catholic teachings in general. <br /> <br />Following your own ecclectic path in a solitary way to commune with your chosen Gods may be perfectly valid Spirituality. Yet, in that act, you are probably eschewing contact with others of different paths and counting them as false. <br />(Hypocrite Catholics are guilty here, as are we probably in a sense). This does <b>give rise to separation and disengagement</b>.<br /><br />I think the major failing of that quoted text is right at the end.<br /><b>Religious freedom does not mean religious indifferentism, nor does it imply that all religions are equal.</b> There needs to be one additional sentence, which Papal duties would never make. Namely: "Yet may be valid to their adherents in some way.".<br /><br />/off soapbox. :)Maebiushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15818255129828936381noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12171673.post-41392993448013903592009-07-10T12:31:05.075-04:002009-07-10T12:31:05.075-04:00Reading this quote from the encyclical is a very s...Reading this quote from the encyclical is a very strange experience. All the individual words can be found in an English Dictionary but the whole doesn't seem to be English at all. Could anyone produce anything so badly written and impenetrable? Or is it a very poor translation from Latin by someone with little grasp of English.<br /><br />Anne your writing is much better by far and you talk sense too.Paulhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16886130526321774584noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12171673.post-72679491438742550602009-07-10T11:40:34.037-04:002009-07-10T11:40:34.037-04:00I'd be happy with the "ignoring" opt...I'd be happy with the "ignoring" option... <br /><br />The thing that makes me wonder - why is there such a sudden interest and compulsion to comment about these "paths" that attract "small groups" or "single individuals" (redundant much?)? If there is no truth to our path and theirs is the ultimate truth and there are just small numbers coming to these paths - why bother commenting on them? Or maybe the realities are much different than they first thought and the numbers aren't as small as they'd once thought - especially in recent times.Pomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12294207351440999597noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12171673.post-74902479170295686312009-07-10T11:30:51.249-04:002009-07-10T11:30:51.249-04:00The Pope, and the Catholic Orthodoxy he represents...The Pope, and the Catholic Orthodoxy he represents, are so charmingly insensible to irony. And to hypocrisy too, of course.Debra She Who Seekshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01845703092794695023noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12171673.post-21104053311068609312009-07-10T11:17:39.641-04:002009-07-10T11:17:39.641-04:00Oops - when I said, "...I don't think the...Oops - when I said, "...I don't think there's much threat of swaying many here", I didn't mean 'in this forum'.Morninglori77noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12171673.post-83562898103218661272009-07-10T11:15:18.272-04:002009-07-10T11:15:18.272-04:00Can a sister get an amen!!??
I think there are a ...Can a sister get an amen!!??<br /><br />I think there are a few points to keep in mind when addressing the issue of the Roman Catholic Church. <br /><br />First, a large majority of people have no idea what all those big words mean, so I don't think there's much threat of swaying many here.<br /><br />Second, I think a religious organization loses its right to criticize other religious organizations once it has 'reconsidered' and changed its own belief system at least three times.<br /><br />Finally, this from a man who will tell you that God wants you to lay down your life for 'him', while he speaks from behind several layers of bulletproof glass.Morninglori77noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12171673.post-55104598268583333732009-07-10T11:07:13.899-04:002009-07-10T11:07:13.899-04:00As I was reading this I thought....sounds like he ...As I was reading this I thought....sounds like he is talking about his own church. <br />Then I got to your comments...well said.Celestitehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14786165729352851549noreply@blogger.com