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MineralMan

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13. It's crucial to be right. At least it is for entrenched religions.

Reply to trotsky (Reply #12)

Mon Oct 1, 2018, 02:02 PM

Oct 2018

If you're wrong about one thing, you might be wrong in everything. So, preserving the minutiae of dogma and doctrine is important. After 1800 years, the smallest things are deeply-embedded truths.

It takes a surgical process to remove such things. The Reformation excised itself from some things, but kept a shit-load of other nonsense, and that's now entrenched in much of Protestantism.

The mess changes a bit in composition, but it continues to befoul humanity, if you ask me.

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If You Have Questions about the Roman Catholic View of Things, [View all] MineralMan Oct 2018 OP

Mineral Man, while now pseudoacademic Chiquitita Oct 2018 #1

Yes. You understand it perfectly, I think. MineralMan Oct 2018 #2

The purpose of The Enlightenment was to free us from the hocus pocus Major Nikon Oct 2018 #10

Why? Yuorik57 Oct 2018 #3

Thank you for taking the time to reply. MineralMan Oct 2018 #4

Seems like you are working a bit too hard to be offended Major Nikon Oct 2018 #11

beliefs do not gain respect automatically edhopper Oct 2018 #15

A core "sincerely held belief" is we're going to be tortured forever for disagreeing. Pope George Ringo II Oct 2018 #18

Do you suppose MM that with so much attention being given asiliveandbreathe Oct 2018 #5

I don't think there's an entry on that in the Catholic Encyclopedia, MineralMan Oct 2018 #6

I understand..I am so removed from any religion - ever since I flunked my asiliveandbreathe Oct 2018 #7

"Natural law" is a big foundation of a lot of Catholic thinking. trotsky Oct 2018 #8

Yes. It's complicated, too, by scriptural stuff. MineralMan Oct 2018 #9

An enormous mess that ruins lives. trotsky Oct 2018 #12

It's crucial to be right. At least it is for entrenched religions. MineralMan Oct 2018 #13

Music rules Cartoonist Oct 2018 #14

Movable type made the obfuscation more difficult.. Permanut Oct 2018 #16

Knowledge Wants to Be Known! MineralMan Oct 2018 #17