[CautiouslyHopeful]

I do feel remorse for the rcc. It is so missing the mark and the attenders and members think they know what they know....they don’t even know that they don’t know the Lord...and that is the rcc leaderships fault.

It’s so hollow, procedureal, unloving, unemotional, heirarchical....

I mean DAMN! My sins are forgiven! Thats CRAZY emotional! I’m not doomed to hell, but redeemed! CRAZY WONDERFUL STUFF! PRAISE THE LORD JESUS CHRIST AND HIS MERCY! He achomplished all I need....and the rcc is left holding the bag big with a huge Vatican mortgage payment.

You really feel that being emotional is the best way to relate to the divine? I want a faith built on reason and truth, not the shifting sands of emotion. Emotion is an involuntary thing anyway; if we predicate our repentance on having to "feel" something then we have no free will to repent. Of course it is not a good thing to feel joy and love in the Lord. But faith and repentance must be a matter of making intellectual choices, not trying to induce some kind of emotion. If you base your faith on emotion, once the emotion fades, you lose your faith.

[griffin]

If it was intellectual, Christ wouldn’t have chosen uneducated fisherman, but learned Pharisees.

[griffin]

“You really feel that being emotional is the best way to relate to the divine?”

No, but it is an appropriate way to react to the grand gift that is given you that is salvation.

All those wild 1st catholic guys at pentecost...sheesh. Heretics!