Posted on 11/19/2012 6:05:33 AM PST by servo1969
Maybe he did buy it, but so what. He’s still sassing the church that he wants to get confirmed by. I don’t think that’s going to fly!
Except that a bare unitary God would be like soooooo dull... “hey man I want my idols!” The UUs had (at least past tense) some ideals.
The priest did not push this young man away; this young man pushed the church away.
Not to mention broadcasting it to the world. Seriously, I see people put things on Facebook for the world to see, when I considered some pictures of myself and my girlfriend, then fianceé, then wife, to special to publicly broadcast. Is something seriously wrong with this picture? Seriously, if you have some things to say about yourself, how public you make them says a WHOLE LOT about who you are. I personally don’t bother with plenty of photos about me making political statements. Unless the person knows me I could care less about them seeing some picture of me, and if they know me, well, the photo is irrelevant.
Such things are small potatoes next to the souls of your family, but I don't suppose father really believes in the Living Christ who will judge the living and the dead, either. For him, religion is probably nothing more than smells and bells, baptistries and sepulchres and pretty music. He seems to be merely a consumer of religion-it is beyond the pale for it to make any demands of him.
with a smirk no less... does this not look like the cat that got the canary?
that priest would be amiss if he did nothing less than exhort the lad to get right with the Lord.
Isn’t the boy old enough to choose where he wants to be buried when he is ready to push up daisies? This sounds bizarre of the parents too. It isn’t all the boy’s weirdness.
ah got it, the super cool thing going on, .
[SIGH]
I teach and run a confirmation class. Yes - nobody is allowed to be confirmed unless they agree to follow all the teachings of the Catholic church.
I’m happy that this diocese did this - I haven’t had to exclude a student yet - but I would if one of them did something like this.
“It has always seemed to me that a few Catholics consider Catholicism to be some sort of club instead of a religion whose teachings they are to follow. “
A GROWING problem with MANY Christian sects in America which is one of the reasons we are losing to Islam.
They believe in SOMETHING, regardless of how depraved we know it to be. It sets limits and is inflexible.
Contemporary Christianity has become a wishy-washy mix of shifting values, dictated by the media and Hollywood elites.
“It’s just the way the priest has things running. He’s so strict. He won’t loosen up about things.”
Wow. The priest is strict? Wait till he meets a Holy God.
Exactly. The same here. It's crazy what some people post. Do they even realize that stuff will be in forever cyberspace? As in, Hey granny, I think I saw a naked picture of you on the internet.
It is to many of us.
The title of this thread was clear. If you didn't deem it news that you wanted to read, why did you click on to it....and then furthermore, even bother to post a dumb comment?
Leni
Father: the liberal son of an old Catholic family, he loves the physical plant of the church and the "mystical" connection to his ancestors. Real faith? Maybe, maybe not, but one way or the other he is 100% subject to...
...Mother: a liberal agnostic, she tolerated the "church thing" for her husband's sake. Now that repentance has been required she has expressed her intention to leave and never return rather than submit. I suspect that she'll throw herself into the lake of fire on Judgement Day if doing so means that she can continue believing and acting as she chooses.
Son: a typical teenage youth culture drone. I doubt he cares one way or the other. No church means he gets his Sunday mornings back. AWESOME!
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So by wanting to be ‘confirmed’(is that right?) but disagreeing with the churches teachings about homosexuality aren’t they saying that they intend to pick and choose what parts of Catholicism they like and and don’t like? Or do I not understand what we’re talking about? (Happens to me all the time.)
Once upon a time, it would have been obvious to anyone with any common sense. These days, there is hardly a shred to be found.
No one forces those people to be Catholics. If they don’t want to follow the Cathlic beliefs then they can cease being a Catholic and, if they want to continue being a Christian, become, say, a Methodist.
Conversely, the Catholic church can kick them out if they don’t agree with the Catholic set of beliefs.
1. Believe whatever you want so long as it does not make others uncomfortable.
2. If you simply must believe in something dogmatic (such as a specific God rather than a general "god-spirit"), keep it to yourself.
Stop it with the “GAY” crap already. They are HOMOSEXUALS. Besides, “gay marriage” is an oxymoron.
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