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I will leave you with a couple of thoughts.  Which you may or may not accept.  It is your choice.

First, the Pope is only infallible when he goes Ex-Cathedra, which has only happened twice in the last 500 years.  All the rest of the time, he is just the head teacher, and is as fallible as any man (or woman).

Second, the concept of condemning babies to hell was papered over in the Middle ages with the concept of Limbo.  A concept that the Second Vatican Council put to rest.  Basically, the child has not sinned so is not eligible for Hell, and there is no Limbo (Dante not withstanding).

I know that many would like to vilify the Catholic church due to past transgressions.  However, I would hope that most would learn more about the teachings before passing summary judgement.  And the Pope's latest teachings (in no way is it infallible), are just addressing questions of interfaith differences, so that a starting point for interfaith reconcilliation can occur.  It is not meant to be marching orders for any of the faithful, just a theological discussion so that other Christian faiths can then start a dialogue of commonality to reach an understanding of agreement.  Nothing more.  And certainly nothing within this blog.

I can't dance. Dr. Guy is a good dancer, though. The Catholic church is Fred Astaire

Dr. Guy is a good dancer, though.

No,just trying to educate those who dont want it.

I think it just has.

"No,just trying to educate those who dont want it."

Educate those who don't want what? Education? Catholicism? A Bullshit factory 2 hours north of where I currently live?

I apologize, teach on. Be clear this time - I am concerned there might be a test later. By the way, I looked up ex-cathedra, so you DID teach me something - rather I taught myself - as usual. "When a Pope speaks from the chair (cathedra) of authority as the visible head of all Christians, his teaching is infallibly Christ’s true teaching." So can I get these chairs from IKEA? I'd like to be right all the time by virtue of the fact I'm in a certain chair.

anyone who dies under 8 goes straight to heaven

the reason age 8 is becouse that is when you are supposed to know right from wrong.

this is why i think adam and eve spent 8 years in the garden.

anyone who dies under 8 goes straight to heaven the reason age 8 is becouse that is when you are supposed to know right from wrong. this is why i think adam and eve spent 8 years in the garden.

Dude, are you for real? At 8 years old I was still refining the best way to wipe my own ass.

I've got it down now, by the way.

i didn't say you knew everything

Jesus did only create one church. The First United Bapti-costal Church of Christ Our Lord. If the Catholics want to have their own church, that's fine, but meanwhile, the church that Jesus created, you know, the one WITHOUT a Pope (I thought Jesus was the head of the church he created?) will be over here worshipping Jesus instead of Mary.

Pretty soon he'll say that everyone, even not in the Christian sects, are members of the church Jesus set up.

Anyway, I thought the 8 year old thing was just a rough guideline, and that it is when you actually know right from wrong.

Education is not bad, and self eduction is the best as it is retained the longest.

Thanks, LW. Now I don't have to leave random messages on whatever your latest post is

No word on where to get the Infallible Chair, I see.

As for knowing right from wrong, it's not 100% possible because context has as much to do with right/wrong as action. Example. I buy an underage drinker a bottle of booze. That's wrong, no? Well as it happens, he careens out of control in his car after getting wasted and runs over a guy who's holding up at gunpoint and in fact is about to kill the person who will eventually cure Pancreatic cancer. Good thing I bought him the booze now, eh?

I'm sure that because my tongue is so firmly implanted in my cheek, the message will be lost, but then I don't find it often the case that fundamentalists really want to think about things in different ways anyway, so no problem. They're blessed with already knowing everything about right and wrong. They must have those Infallible Chairs!

What if the kid dies in the accident, and he was going to grow up to cure AIDS? Now you've done wrong again.

Now the guy holding him up at gunpoint just needed some money so he could buy his son a chemistry set, which was going to spark his interest in Chemistry and he was going to cure, hmm, the common cold. But since he's now not getting that Chemistry set, he's never going to discover science. Plus he lost his Dad, which causes him to drop out of school start his own career as a stick-up man, who then ends up killing you.

Good story, but not likely. Anyway, the point is, wrong and right are dependent on both intent AND results. But only the results that you could foresee. At least, that's how I see it. I don't know how God sees it. Man, maybe none of us EVER really understand right from wrong.

Never mind.

Anyway, the point is, wrong and right are dependent on both intent AND results. But only the results that you could foresee. At least, that's how I see it. I don't know how God sees it. Man, maybe none of us EVER really understand right from wrong.

Yes, that's what I said. Actually said it a bit more in depth right here: Quantum Truth