The Theological Correctness of Evolution

[God's Errand Girl]

[quote name='Kismet' date='Feb 2 2006, 12:32 PM']I've taught biological anthropology on the university level on three continents for many years...it is you, instead, that doesn't know of what he speaks...
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Even if you have the truth, Christ calls you to speak it in love.

[Kismet]

[quote name='God's Errand Girl' date='Feb 2 2006, 04:59 PM']Even if you have the truth, Christ calls you to speak it in love.
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Exactly correct...but why didn't you write that to the person who uncharitably said that I didn't know what I was talking about?

I find too many people on this site to be very hypocritical. People making ad hominem attacks and insisting that their views alone are correct. People condemning opinions different from their own but who balk when people attack theirs. I was told that I couldn't express my opinion because I had only been on the site for a year. I've been criticized for posting as I do and told that I don't have the credentials to express an opinion and then when I do declare the field in which I hold an expertise, I'm told that I was rude or prideful. That's insanity. One can't win. I've stopped being demure and now dish out criticism as well as I previously had taken it.

The point to Catholicism is to be a saint; to be perfect like the Father (Matthew 5:48.) If you can't manage sainthood then don't piss and whine about the others who similarly can't make it. We are to follow Christ's Gospel of love towards each other and refrain above all from judging each other. It's ridiculous to criticize me and simultaneously ignore the nonsense that goes on here. Aloysius, for example, is proud to tout his homophobia! This is Christianity?! This is what Christ's Church is about? The Church's opinion about homosexuality is clear and there may or may not be discussion of this issue but the Church is similarly clear about how it condemns stupidity and hate-filled thinking. Does Aloysius, or anyone who refused to condemn his brand of stupidity and hatred, really believe that when they stand before God on Judgment Day, that He would "give extra points" for hating or being sacred of gays (or anyone else for that matter!?) I'm sorry….I'm too orthodox to believe nonsense like that. Hate the sin, love the sinner? Anyone who wishes to hate a sin, please feel free to post your sins so that the rest of us can follow Aloysius' stupidity, close-mindedness and anti-Christianity. Pride? Hubris? Lies? List them herein so that we can condemn you for the life of sin you've chosen for yourself. Are there those who can honestly cast stones? (John 8:7) in that case, you're probably the Messiah. If so, step up and introduce yourself. But, of course, if you hate, then you can't be a very Christian and obviously you've only deluded yourself into thinking you're the Messiah. If you're not the Messiah then you've lost the right to judge or hate others. Christ never demanded the right to hate sinners. Why do you dare usurp a right that God Himself would never ask for?

As to the nonsense that Catholics are human and we allowed to have our faults, I tell you now….let me be the first to enjoy this forgiveness and utter humanity. Let me have my opinions and be free of your judgments and whining. Accept the humanity of those who disagree with you (eg liberal and moderate Catholics) and refrain from insulting them…unless, of course, you've found a loophole in the Bible that gives you alone the right to judge others.

[Cow of Shame]

[quote name='Kismet' date='Feb 2 2006, 01:55 PM'] ad hominem attacks
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I love that this term is brought into practically every debate & argument in here.

[Cow of Shame]

[quote name='Kismet' date='Feb 3 2006, 01:49 AM']ad hominem attacks
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ooh! ooh! A second time! And we're still only on one page!
Although, both have been uttered by Kismet, so I'm not sure if that counts. Did I miss another one?

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Père Pierre Teilhard de Chardin had interesting views on original sin, and for this he was silenced by being sent to China on some sort of mission. Nobody went through the effort of making a heretic out of him formally, as far as I know.

[Era Might]

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[Era Might]

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I need to renounce the Internet.

Edited February 3, 2006 by Era Might