JP2Iloveyou Posted July 10, 2006 Share Posted July 10, 2006 This thread is inappropriate. Anybody remember the story of the Pharisee and the tax collector in Scripture? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cmotherofpirl Posted July 10, 2006 Share Posted July 10, 2006 [quote name='VeniteAdoremus' post='1020875' date='Jul 10 2006, 06:19 AM'] I'm a total heretic. But I try hard not to be. [/quote] Doubts do not a heretic make. Only outright denial. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Justified Saint Posted July 10, 2006 Share Posted July 10, 2006 (edited) [quote name='pyranima' post='1020841' date='Jul 9 2006, 10:15 PM'] explain [/quote] Heretics dissent from the truth in [b]part[/b]. If in whole then there is some other derogatory word for them like heathen or some such variant. Edited July 10, 2006 by Justified Saint Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
she_who_is_not Posted July 11, 2006 Share Posted July 11, 2006 I am not a heretic according to any of the heresies I can name. However, I have been briefly led into both Arianism (college christian ethics class) and watered down Nestorianism (RCIA) though I rejected that as soon as I got home and looked it up in the catechism. But my theologian friend says I must be heretical in some way I am not aware of. She thinks we are all heretics. My education does not suffice for a proper answer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lahecil Posted July 11, 2006 Share Posted July 11, 2006 [quote]Heretics dissent from the truth in part. If in whole then there is some other derogatory word for them like heathen or some such variant.[/quote] Being called a heathen is not derogatory...it's a well known area of modern paganism. As for me, by Catholic standards I'm a heretic in many ways. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Justified Saint Posted July 13, 2006 Share Posted July 13, 2006 [quote name='Lahecil' post='1022052' date='Jul 11 2006, 03:21 PM'] Being called a heathen is not derogatory...it's a well known area of modern paganism. As for me, by Catholic standards I'm a heretic in many ways. [/quote] Except paganism contains and conceals much of the truth, though I can't be so sure of [i]modern[/i] paganism Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lahecil Posted July 13, 2006 Share Posted July 13, 2006 Concealing the truth in modern paganism is looked down upon, for the most part. There are groups that [i]reveal[/i] the truth after a certain time though, and everyone knows what goes on anyway... How many Gardnerian Wiccans does it take to screw in a lightbulb? That's a third-degree secret. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Justified Saint Posted July 13, 2006 Share Posted July 13, 2006 [quote name='Lahecil' post='1023586' date='Jul 13 2006, 07:24 AM'] Concealing the truth in modern paganism is looked down upon, for the most part. There are groups that [i]reveal[/i] the truth after a certain time though, and everyone knows what goes on anyway... How many Gardnerian Wiccans does it take to screw in a lightbulb? That's a third-degree secret. [/quote] In regards to concealing and revealing the truth -- I usually give pagans the benefit of ignorance (i.e. they conceal the truth out of ignorance). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lahecil Posted July 13, 2006 Share Posted July 13, 2006 [quote]In regards to concealing and revealing the truth -- I usually give pagans the benefit of ignorance (i.e. they conceal the truth out of ignorance).[/quote] Reasonable enough. I disagree, but there's not much to say other than I don't think we're ignorant. Not most of us anyways. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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