pickled meat
if the hypocrites at the catholic church were going to relax there pious standards, it would have been nice if they could have say...done anything other than let people eat corned beef! they remain steadfastly against equality across gender, sexual preference, etc., but they are able to turn a blind eye here. i guess when you make the rules, you can bend them to suit your needs. sort of like settling the sexual abuse cases brought against them out of court and just moving the offending priests to new parishes to placate the dioceses. total bullshit.
posted by robb | 3/17/2006
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I'm very proud of the Church for finally asking, "Why do we do what we do?" Some items, primarily the fundamental doctrines, are rooted in Scripture and in a serious examination of Christian philosophy. Some, however, are the product of a checkered past and have been blindly sustained even though the reasons for them have long since become irrelevant. I don't want the Catholic Church to become, like so many other sects, a cultural weathervane, but I'm glad that she has begun to recognize that many of her traditions are solutions to problems that no longer exist – and that she needs to come up with new solutions to the new problems now facing her.
I really fear that some liberals (people I agree with in the substance of their opinions) semi-consciously invoke reasoning that is far too close to the following ridiculous argument:
1) I am a secular-humanist-liberal. (Tell me that many or even most liberals don't conflate these terms!)
2) Secular-humanist-liberals reject blind faith and hold that only those opinions should be accepted that are revealed to be true by strict, skeptical, rational scrutiny, which is to say they ought to be acceptable by all rational individuals.
3) Someone who draws more than modicum of inspiration from a religious tradition supports policy x, but I disagree.
4) From (2), my opinion is the universal, rational one, and this faceless theist is advancing narrow, theological dogma.
5) Therefore, since the 1st amendment ensures the separation of church and state, my opinion is, in effect, enshrined in the constituion.
I am a georgia peach...
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