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Posted on 05/03/2008 8:48:06 AM PDT by HairOfTheDog
It’s something that’s very hard for me to understand, this weird dichotomy between the wonderful official moral stances, and the personal beliefs of the folks in the pews. It’s like they don’t care that it doesn’t match and that’s just hard for me to understand. I grew up with a background that said if your personal moral beliefs differ from your church’s, one or the other of you is wrong and something needs to be done about that.
Came home yesterday to find almost all of my chickens overcome with heat. We’d butchered four over the weekend so sixteen birds were laying around half dead. I sprayed them with the hose and thirteen of them perked up, two of them remained unconscious and one died. I kept the hose running on the other two and they finally came around but couldn’t stand so Steve butchered them when he got home.
Whew...coulda been worse. A few more minutes and they would’ve all died, probably. I’m going to spray them periodically today.
Supposed to be almost 100 degrees here today...
Ugh...just went out and checked on the rabbits. Hyacinth’s entire litter was dead. I checked them yesterday morning and they were fine.
Our Rose’s are doing ok, but Our Rose has been a good mom all along...Hycinth seems kinda clueless.
Sorry about Hyacinth’s litter too...you gonna let her try again?
It's cooled off here and looks like it's gonna rain...I sure hope it does.
My parents, older sister, and her two kids just left. They got here on Sunday. She's the one with colon cancer. She had a colostomy bag put in two-three weeks ago. She looks ok, but I think it's gonna be a hard year.
So, you having chicken for dinner? :-) Do you have any idea what they weighed?
Mrsnad
That's true of most Christians, but as I mentioned before, humans are very good at justifying our behavior, and thinking that it's OK for us, even though we know it's not.
Can you set up a little misting system, with an old hose, that will keep their area cooler?
So sorry to hear about your sister. I’d be happy to put her on our Parish Prayer list!
Yeah, Hyacinth’s already expecting again so I’m going to give her one more try. It was probably the heat that got ‘em. I brought Our Rose’s babies in the house! Rabbits only nurse once or twice a day...she can take care of that tonight.
I stuck a container of old frozen food in each of the rabbit cages. They can lick them or lay down next to them and keep cool.
Thanks Suzi...not really sure what to pray for though. Her ex is a drug addict and she continues to defend, and chat with him. My way of being ok with it all is knowing that she is not a good mom and this is probably better for the girls. She has made some very poor choices and her girls have been through more than any kid should have to go through. Prayer for her girls would be appreciated. There is some concern on our part (my parents, G’nad and I) that thegirls would go to their dad. DHS says it won’t happen, but sister refuses to do anything about it, to make sure.
It’s all very frustrating, and I don’t understand my own sister. I love her and it’s very sad, but I don’t understand her.
Thanks for your concern. Health issues bite! :-)
Mrsnad
Good ideas.
Mrsnad
What I really meant was, if I totally disagreed with my church’s moral teaching on something, I’d either find another church or take another look at my stance. It seems like there are a lot of people who find it more important to be affiliated with a particular church than to actually believe what it teaches.
At least when they join some apostate group like the UCC or the ELCA you know what you’re dealing with.
The Church attracts a fair amount of what I think of as “cultural Catholics” — people who come from families who were historically Catholic and who go to church more for socialization and because it makes them feel good than because they’ve thought through the actual beliefs and agreed with them. It’s almost in the same realm as people who are Jewish by background, but not actually believers. They may go through the motions especially on the holidays and participate in the ceremonies, but if you actually questioned them, they often don’t know what they’re really doing, or don’t really believe any of what they’re professing. They’re just drawn to the externals and the memories they associate with them.
As a child of converts who was raised to take my faith seriously and who tries to know what we believe and why, I do find it frustrating. Especially when the media counts those people as real Catholics for poll purposes, thus giving the more rabid bashers in the religious forums ammunition. :-\
And you do get those types most anywhere. There’s always someone in the pews who just comes because that’s what Grandma did. It is annoying though to be following a car with a Kucinich bumpersticker all the way into the church parking lot.
Maybe they just believe the church’s teaching on the validity of their authority more then they are able to believe other things. I can’t fault that even if I think it makes them wishy-washy. Better than leaving and going some place that will just water their faith down even more. At least they don’t think affiliation should be subject to their personally wavering morals because deep down they know they are not in the right.
That’s what my parents were, cultural Catholics. They were both raised in the faith but they didn’t really believe in it anymore, despite their claims otherwise.
As far as the cafeteria Catholics are concerned, we have always had these types of Christians, in the later first millennium in the middle east and North Africa, these Christians became known as Muslims. Should sharia law ever be imposed here, the same thing will happen.
Any meeting in which the movers and shakers deside to dump money on your department can’t be considered a total failure!
Yes, quite.
It was a major stressor to get ready for the meeting. They can be a really tough audience. I was just so relieved that it went well. It doesn’t always, with that group.
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