The Fools Strike Again

[Raelynn]

Devil's advocate.

It seems to me that any Church that presumes to dictate to its laiety how to vote is engaging in self destructive behavior.  It is for precisely for such reasons that I did not, and shall never, undergo Catacumen and become a member of the Catholic Church, a course of action I considered after I got married to a wonderful Catholic woman.  The Sacred Heart Church opened my eyes on Catholic Doctrine, and laid out for me the "you are for us, or against us, and these matters are non negotiable, as well as not abstainable."  Right, I'll meet you in Hell, Deacon, where your Vanity will bring you, as mine will me.  It was an interesting conversation.  Three weeks later, our son was baptized in that same Church.  Those people thought I was certifiable.  (Hmmm, they may be right.)

The Church that crosses that line is saying to its membership "my way, or the highway."  Some folks will hit the road, congregation shrinks.  Is that healthy for the church in question?  The departers are likely to be people of strong mind, self confident people.  Not the kind of folks I want to throw out of a congregation, but then, I am not a clergyman.  Maybe all they want is sheep to shear.  Or, like in a marriage about to fall apart, they are bound and determined to be Right.

Occhi
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I've gone through all the sacraments but mainly because I was raised Catholic. My biggest problem with the church is it seems to not want to accept that times have changed. The rules that worked in the middle ages either don't work now or are stupid because the reason that they were true isn't the case anymore (big one being limitation on what you eat due to health concern originally).

Another problem I have is all the changes in the true teachings. Taken for what it truely is, the Catholic teachings are some of the greatest in history. They teach acceptance and understanding. Taken for what is actually taught, they seem more like the ancient "eye for an eye" teachings. Too much is taken out of context, or too literally, or just plain wrong.

Don't even get me started on Bible-quoters ;)