Posted on 07/09/2012 4:28:17 PM PDT by Gillibrand
Relaxed and at ease, Archbishop Gerhard Ludwig Müller returns a week after his appointment as prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith to the Diocese of Regensburg. A series of interviews for journalists are on the agenda for Friday: liberation theology, the SSPX and the situation of divorced and remarried. Minefields for an ecclesiastic, who has moved to third place in the Vatican's ecclesiastical pecking order.
Archbishop Mueller, first of all, congratulations on the new job. Since when did you know about your appointment?
I definitely knew it on 16 May, when the Holy Father has summoned me to his presence.
Did your commitment to the liberation theology endangers your appointment?
I do not know. If you know the Catholic faith, we know that to her essentially belong the social obligation, the responsibility for the world, the love of the poor. Liberation theology is a big word - but every Christian theology has something to do with the freedom of man. Also in South America in this context, it is about theological questions: Given the misery and indignity that many people around us can not imagine, given this glaring injustice, we can not simply go away with a pious raising of eyebrows about it. Faith and doing good go together. These are the two sides of a coin.
Are you then in agreement with the Pope?
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I really meant the other posters who were swarming on you after you said you were agnostic. I assumed that your claim implied a fairly good understanding of the definition.
I just don’t know if there is, or is not, a god...or God, if you like. I mean no disrespect.
Disrespect? How could your 'beliefs' cause me any disrespect? I thought 'freedom' meant you could choose to believe what you want, when it comes to the 'super' natural?
I’d like to know but I don’t. But then, I hold myself to very strict logical standards.
The smartest people I know are the ones who say they don't know.
Thank GOD for small favors.
Ten bucks says you can’t tell me what the subject of this thread (or the title) is, without looking.
The laws of nature, as understood by humans, approach complete understanding the more we learn and apply logic. I continue to search for truth...that’s all I do, really. You are welcome to pity me for my lack of understanding from your perspective.
If they lied as much then as now, then they also told the truth as much then as now.
Do you have an independent test of how smart they are, or is your test for their intelligence simply that they claim to be agnostic? (agnostic—translated as ignoramus in latin)
I couldn’t agree more!
“You are welcome to pity me”
Don’t introduce unnecessary and irrelevant emotions. They only get in the way of seeing the truth.
Spoken by one of the greatest philosophers of our time: Popeye. ;)
sorry
Ain’t that the truth!? :{)
Technically, the direct Greek translation would be "one who does not know." Your definition is pretty close to that.
“And truly Jesus did many other signs in the presence of His disciples, which are not written in this book;
“but these are written that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing you may have life in His name.”
(John 20:30-31)
Thank you for your ability to understand my position. It is just that, a position. We agnostics don’t mind being wrong but we just want to know why so that we can ammend our positions.
ah jeez...is that really your response? Color me unconvinced, but thanks for trying.
Sorry, I'm only responsible for my own beliefs. My beliefs are based on my life, my experiences, my logic, and therefore would be of no help to you.
I cannot 'prove' GOD exists to anyone else, mainly because I find it hard to prove something whose definition varies, person to person.
I just think of the zillions of creatures who have no brain at all, and yet build the most intricate constructs. I see motors designed on the molecular scale, within living cells. I see a planet full of life that 'adapts' to the environment. I see a pile of Eukaryotes form a single collective conscious in a human form, and ask "Why do I exist?".
The answer is always the same.
Congratulations on a religious thread that approaches 100 responses. I am happy to help.
Apparently you assume that I don’t have a brain due to my beliefs...why waste time responding to such a brainless one as myself? Oh, you thought you might be able to save me...thanks for your compassion.
I'm not.
—that the Resurrection is very good news if true.
Of course.
My point was that you seemed to be trying to 'tie' GORUSH down with the resurrection event.
So, if he accepts it, and says that is proof, does that mean if it didn't happen, that you would not believe in your religion anymore ?
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