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To: papertyger
"We formally recognize the error of "scrupulosity.""

I want to thank you for reintroducing me to that word.

Scrupulosity is a psychological disorder characterized by pathological guilt about moral or religious issues. It is personally distressing, objectively dysfunctional, and often accompanied by significant impairment in social functioning. [wikipedia]

One need look no further than any Catholic topic thread in this forum to find examples of scrupulosity in those anti-Catholics who show up like flies on a hot August dung heap.

Peace be with you.

1,036 posted on 06/02/2012 8:16:11 AM PDT by Natural Law (Jesus did not leave us a Bible, He left us a Church.)
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To: Natural Law
There's that benignity again!

From http://www.thefreedictionary.com/benign>http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/benignity

be·nign (b-nn) adj.

    1. Of a kind and gentle disposition.

    2. Showing gentleness and mildness. See Synonyms at kind1.

    3. Tending to exert a beneficial influence; favorable: a policy with benign consequences for the economy. See Synonyms at favorable.

    4. Having little or no detrimental effect; harmless: a chemical additive that is environmentally benign.

    5. Medicine Of no danger to health; not recurrent or progressive; not malignant: a benign tumor.


1,083 posted on 06/02/2012 8:35:47 PM PDT by boatbums (God is ready to assume full responsibility for the life wholly yielded to Him.)
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To: Natural Law; Gamecock; papertyger
One need look no further than any Catholic topic thread in this forum to find examples of scrupulosity in those anti-Catholics who show up like flies on a hot August dung heap.

Or even, it seems, the anti-everyone-who-isn't-Catholics who show up on Protestant topic threads and buzz around like flies on a hot August ..... Some of you guys just can't help yourselves, can you? It's a form of religous OCD. You know...scrupulosity?

1,085 posted on 06/02/2012 9:32:32 PM PDT by boatbums (God is ready to assume full responsibility for the life wholly yielded to Him.)
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