tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7772353322407022699.post1189835779712992353..comments2023-05-07T02:42:28.740-07:00Comments on Whiskey and the morning after: Confessions of a Recovering CatholicUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7772353322407022699.post-53448768212580800202012-09-01T19:56:09.742-07:002012-09-01T19:56:09.742-07:00I am sorry for your pain and the cr@p you have end...I am sorry for your pain and the cr@p you have endured under Catholicism. Christians who are more conservative than God contribute to Atheism every day. I can look back over my own life and see I may have been one of those people at times (judgmental, hypercritical). It took me falling on my own face more than several times to see the beauty in Christ is His grace and mercy without works, without me having to do anything. I am drawn the wonder and mystic beauty of the liturgy of the Catholic church and Eastern Orthodoxy church...and drawn to the grace of the Protestant offshoots I have seen in some churches. I am deeply saddened that these bad apples, @$$holes, have poison the barrel. I personally know of some priests who are great, loving people. And they have to bear the cross of what these @$$holes have done to their flock. <br /><br />This world is a place full of sickness and hate. The only answer is love. Love in this case with the sick @$$hole is to MAKE HIM ACCOUNTABLE. It sickens me to my stomach.<br /><br />1 John 4:8 dutchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05037048434409857094noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7772353322407022699.post-83895268943037140572012-06-11T06:56:10.900-07:002012-06-11T06:56:10.900-07:00Amen.Amen.OBX Wahoohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03775256169001105145noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7772353322407022699.post-39691274545753759682012-06-11T06:35:56.345-07:002012-06-11T06:35:56.345-07:00I still have that catholic guilt. Even though I c...I still have that catholic guilt. Even though I consider myself an atheist at this point, my sister wanted me to be the godmother to her children. When I had to go to my church and lie to get the paperwork, I was nervous. seriously! But I agree with your reasoning and I like your last paragraph here.Alyson Withayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07135651501947283655noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7772353322407022699.post-30360545621483406212012-03-11T20:07:36.083-07:002012-03-11T20:07:36.083-07:00My early experience with religion was very similar...My early experience with religion was very similar, except in Mormonism. Mormons delay baptism until the "age of accountability", which they have decided to be around 8 yrs. This imparts the requisite sense of guilt for any thoughts of straying from the "true" religion, but long before one has the life experience to actually make such a decision with any level of enlightenment.<br /><br />Republicans have good reason to be wary of Romney. Mormons believe that the first order of business that Christ will take on is the establishment of "socialism" for the chosen people who remained true to their faith. Others, of course, will be left to flounder in their capitalistic rut. The religion was founded in a period that saw greater acceptance for economic theory and experimentation that eventually contributed to the new deal measures that pulled us out of the gilded age and it's destruction of our economy. The phrase "from each according to his abilities, and to each according to his needs", is often quoted exactly in church documents describing the state of "Zion" that is to be established following the second coming.<br /><br />It's too bad that the church leadership has chosen to suppress expression of this belief in favor of more traditional "conservative" rhetoric. Many of the church doctrines even go so far as to instruct in sustainable agriculture and healthy diet. The church believes in much more intrusive authority over people's life style than they would ever accept from government.oldandgrumpyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06250969050783191700noreply@blogger.com