Post by potatoparadox333 on Mar 9, 2008 20:14:47 GMT -5
no offense to any catholics but i find catholicism outdated and irrational. if anything i claim here is untrue then say so and i will retract my statement and apologize. being an engaging student in a catholic high school has taught me alot about the faith and i find most of it intruiging and very true to my beliefs. however many things they preach i find plain stupid.
this entire body of believers is led by a body of officials headed by a pope. this pope is supposedly like jesus here on earth. NO MAN CAN CLAIM TO BE JESUS ON EARTH!!! no one is near to being as half as holy as god on earth. and the same goes to women (cough cough virgin mary). i believe in the immaculate conception but i think it is sort of blasphemous to think that just because somone birthed a god means they are free of sin. as long as you are a true human (meaning all human no half god or part angel etc.) you cannot be free from sin. mary gave birth to a man. the only difference was that this man happened to be the son of god. what about his father? was he free of sin too? just because jesus didnt directly come from joseph doesnt mean joseph wasnt his true father. joseph was jesus' human father. i dont believe that jesus was exactly the son of god, that just seems like an easy way for humans to describe their realtionship.
just like the devil. do you really believe that god would allow evil to exist in a form like the devil. 1)god causes all the evil in the world so that we learn compassion and love 2) THERE IS NO HELL. hell is a human made-up fear. why would god make us spend eternity in a place absent of love? he loves us and would never do that to us. what i believe is when we die we are forced to relive our lives but through the eyes of everyone around us. so you will have to feel how you made others feel. this is punishment enough. im sure any sinner would repent 100X after having to live through the consequences of thier wrongdoings.
this has got me hungry haha so im going to go make grilled pb&J
this entire body of believers is led by a body of officials headed by a pope. this pope is supposedly like jesus here on earth. NO MAN CAN CLAIM TO BE JESUS ON EARTH!!! no one is near to being as half as holy as god on earth. and the same goes to women (cough cough virgin mary). i believe in the immaculate conception but i think it is sort of blasphemous to think that just because somone birthed a god means they are free of sin. as long as you are a true human (meaning all human no half god or part angel etc.) you cannot be free from sin. mary gave birth to a man. the only difference was that this man happened to be the son of god. what about his father? was he free of sin too? just because jesus didnt directly come from joseph doesnt mean joseph wasnt his true father. joseph was jesus' human father. i dont believe that jesus was exactly the son of god, that just seems like an easy way for humans to describe their realtionship.
just like the devil. do you really believe that god would allow evil to exist in a form like the devil. 1)god causes all the evil in the world so that we learn compassion and love 2) THERE IS NO HELL. hell is a human made-up fear. why would god make us spend eternity in a place absent of love? he loves us and would never do that to us. what i believe is when we die we are forced to relive our lives but through the eyes of everyone around us. so you will have to feel how you made others feel. this is punishment enough. im sure any sinner would repent 100X after having to live through the consequences of thier wrongdoings.
this has got me hungry haha so im going to go make grilled pb&J