[Mad Dawg]

And they certainly don't want you to search the scriptures to find out for yourself what God says...

That no doubt explains why reading the Bible is an "indulgenced" activity. We Catholics are so stupid that we always reward what we want to discourage.

It also, no doubt, explains why we give bibles to everyone in the RCIA (enquirers) class. "Here's a free Bible. Now don't let us catch you reading it."

Does truth matter to you all at ALL? I mean, facts about the Catholic Church are not as important as many facts, but to gratuitously get things wrong and then claim to worship Him who calls himself the Truth strikes me as, well, interesting.

[Iscool]

That no doubt explains why reading the Bible is an "indulgenced" activity. We Catholics are so stupid that we always reward what we want to discourage.

It also, no doubt, explains why we give bibles to everyone in the RCIA (enquirers) class. "Here's a free Bible. Now don't let us catch you reading it."

Every Catholic I've talked to on FR says you can't read and understand the bible...It 'must' be translated first by your church...So what good does a free bible do for any Catholic???

I'm sure some Catholics read some scriptures...It's interesting to read the historical accounts...But are they forewarned not to believe anything that sounds unusual, like the crossing of the Red Sea, and Jonah living in a whale???

What I said is that you guys don't want them 'searching the scriptures', on their own...Getting those goofy ideas that bible believing Protestants get...

[presently no screen name]

It also, no doubt, explains why we give bibles to everyone in the RCIA (enquirers) class. "Here's a free Bible. Now don't let us catch you reading it."

Sure they can read it and they will, also, interrupt it for them! God's Word is spiritually discerned and no one with spiritual discernment would be going to an initiation of the RCC, anyway.

Does truth matter to you all at ALL?

Now that's rich coming from a member of an church who does not believe God's Word is the FINAL authority. There is ONLY ONE TRUTH, Jesus, The Word - Who is The WAY, The TRUTH, The LIFE.

but to gratuitously get things wrong and then claim to worship Him who calls himself the Truth strikes me as, well, interesting.

It is because we do worship HIM and HIM alone we can speak about the many many wrongs of the RCC teachings and, moreso, those who were taught their doctrine.

[bkaycee]

Certainly it is a matter of historical fact that at various times in history, the church did not support scripture for the laity. That it does support it to some degree today, does not nullify in previous times were both clergy and laity were ignorant of scripture.

I recall my own mother who mentioned to me that reading scripture was dangerous. My aunt had nearly driven herself crazy trying to reconcile the 2.