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BootinUp

(49,020 posts)
Mon Oct 24, 2016, 08:27 PM Oct 2016

I'm agnostic these days

raised a Catholic. My parents are amazing people, gotta give them credit. Anyway, I have been through a rough time lately, but just when I thought there was no hope, things start going better. It's weird, but I want to thank somebody. That's all I have to say I think.

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shrike

(3,817 posts)
3. Most Catholics tend to be live and let live. I'm no exception.
Tue Nov 1, 2016, 04:33 PM
Nov 2016

So we should be supportive of this poster, agnosticism or no. Everyone's spiritual journey is different.

 

rug

(82,333 posts)
5. Reading encyclcals of Pius X is not a requirement to be Catholic.
Wed Nov 2, 2016, 09:08 AM
Nov 2016

Charity toward all, including those seeking answers, is.

 

Edward Palamar

(17 posts)
7. Reading of encyclicals is a requirement
Thu Nov 3, 2016, 05:14 AM
Nov 2016

as Jesus answered in Matthew 4:4, "It is written: 'Man shall not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God.'"

The infallibility of Pascendi Dominici Gregis includes a conviction against agnosticism :

Pope Pius X - Pascendi Dominici Gregis - On the Doctrine of the Modernists - 8 September 1907 A.D.

"Let us turn for a moment, Venerable Brethren, to that most disastrous doctrine of agnosticism. By it every avenue to God on the side of the intellect is barred to man, while a better way is supposed to be opened from the side of a certain sense of the soul and action."

"We order that you do everything in your power to drive out of your dioceses, even by solemn interdict, any pernicious books that may be in circulation there."

Oddly enough, I met your spirit of teaching, rug, here :

http://risen-from-the-dead.forumotion.com/t26-regarding-grand-larceny-against-elias-of-jesus

The apostate site of Catholic Answers attempted to cite charity as do you, just like the hypocrites whom Jesus convicted during His walk with us.

When that "certain sense of the soul and action" is nothing but hatred repackaged, one comes face to face with some one who does not follow Jesus' commandments.

 

rug

(82,333 posts)
8. That encyclical, like most of them, is not infallible.
Thu Nov 3, 2016, 05:32 AM
Nov 2016

On the other hand, Matthew 22:36-40 is.

Banning books is not the way to achieve anything of value, spiritual or otherwise.

I have a question for you. Do you belong to the SSPV?

 

Edward Palamar

(17 posts)
10. Such thinking (writing) makes you an apostate,
Fri Nov 4, 2016, 09:47 AM
Nov 2016

in need of the Three Days of Darkness in order for your soul to be converted.

At base level, simply put, you do not believe in Jesus Christ.

MADem

(135,425 posts)
13. Your name-calling is in opposition to the faith you purport to follow.
Fri Nov 4, 2016, 10:47 AM
Nov 2016

It's also a violation of the rules of this website.

MADem

(135,425 posts)
9. You are wrong, but thanks for playing.
Thu Nov 3, 2016, 09:46 AM
Nov 2016

You might want to get out more. Maybe listen to your holy father's WORDS every now and again, too.

MADem

(135,425 posts)
16. Ain't that the truth...! Good thing he's made of stern stuff.
Fri Nov 4, 2016, 12:41 PM
Nov 2016

All those years as a nightclub bouncer prepared him for his journey to Vatican City...

Who knew? LOL!

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