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To: Mrs. Don-o
I give my opinion and my reasoning--- why not you?

Because mine is of no value.

'Tis much better to post what your chosen religion teaches; and let the lurkers make up their own mind.

400 posted on 06/09/2016 6:14:07 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Elsie
"'I give my opinion and my reasoning--- why not you?'
---Because mine is of no value."

But why do you say stuff like that? Of course your opinions and your reasoning are of value... Have you been knocked around recently by some insolent twit who said your thoughts don't matter?

A great deal of what I post is not the in the official catechism of "my religion." It's thoughts and evidence and reasonable inferences from evidence, buttressed by the learned and insightful contributions of saints and scholars past and contemporary. For instance, the Catholic Church has dogmatically interpreted only very few sections of Sacred Scripture. The rest is open to a great deal of flexibility.

To refer only to recent posts, as far as I know, very few of the philosophical speculations about the natures of angels and the properties of glorified spiritual bodies, are doctrine.

They're speculation --- high-level speculation to be sure--- but they're open to any reasonable critique any Catholic or non-Catholic wants to launch

In the essentials--- unity.

In uncertain things, liberty.

And in all things, charity.

What do you think?


402 posted on 06/09/2016 7:18:44 AM PDT by Mrs. Don-o ("The riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man." - G.K. Chesterton)
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