Posted on 06/29/2012 6:55:12 AM PDT by marshmallow
KELLER, Texas – (KDAF) - Billboards are popping up in parts of Texas asking Catholics to quit the church.
“I no longer want my name on their lists.I don’t want to be considered a Catholic at all,” said Zachary Moore.
Moore, who is with the Dallas-Fort Worth Coalition of Reason, is doing what a billboard near I-30 and Highway 360 urged. He has decided to quit the church because he does not like the stand the church has taken on contraception.
“The vast majority of Catholic women are using birth control and for the bishops to take the position that they have shows a severe disconnect with their own parishioners,” Moore said.
The Wisconsin-based Freed From Religion Foundation placed the billboard to send a message. The billboard reads: QUIT THE CHURCH PUT WOMEN’S RIGHTS OVER BISHOPS’ WRONGS.
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100% Percent of us sin. So therefore no one can stand up and preach. All of the Apostles sinned so they are invalidated from preaching so says this logic. Pure stupidity.
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It's a sin in assuming that your own sinful behavior is reflective of the behavior of 500,000,000+ women that you don't personally know.
Thanks for proving, yet again, that you are gullible and naive and none too shy about publicly demonstrating same.
Rhythym/natural planning..whatever
It's a sin in assuming that your own sinful behavior is reflective of the behavior of 500,000,000+ women that you don't personally know.
In the US/developed countries the vast amount of Catholic women are using BC. In 2nd and 3rd world countries probably not because 1.) They cannot afford it and 2.) it is not readily available...when it is they will use it and as they move out of poverty.
Of course in the developed world the Catholic faith is dying except with 2nd and 3rd world immigrants. It is growing in Africa and other such places but those people believe if you rape a baby it will cure aids...so what does that tell you? The Catholic church will die in those countries too once they become more developed.
Totally backward to think condoms/tubal ligations/vasectomies/women priest/altar girls etc are sinful and most people have the same view as I and the church needs to move in the 21st century regarding women taking a more active roll and BC or it will eventually die on the vine.
So do you also think premarital sex should be declared not a sin?
I'm not saying that..just that the vast amount of American Catholics do not follow church doctrine.
I'm not saying that..
Why not? You said, "the majority of Catholic women use some sort of BC beyond the rhythm method just as the vast majority of Catholics have premarital sex" and concluded, "Totally backward to think condoms/tubal ligations/vasectomies/women priest/altar girls etc are sinful" - so why wouldn't you also conclude that it's totally backward to think premarital sex is sinful?
What I was referring to is the majority of Catholic women and men are having premarital sex of some sort or degree and if they are doing that(which they are) they they surely have no problems with using a condom.
This is nothing new, they have been showing up in the Religion Forum for years.
Actually, the denominations that have "moved in the 21st century" are the ones dying on the vine. (In truth, taking themselves off the Vine is why they're dying.)
I think so too.
When inactive, or drifted away Christians are openly confronted, openly challenged and pushed into getting off the fence and choosing a side, when they are cornered and forced to confront their own deeper feelings, then most of them are going to embrace their faith, and see that what they took as routine political questions of the day, are actually religious issues.
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