Does God Give Catholics The Right to Disagree With The Roman Catholic Church?

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Are not “God given rights” and a “God-given free-will” two different things.
 
Another fake “poll” just like the last one, a few days ago, that @camoderator closed almost as soon as the OP posted it.
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That’s because the poll is overly simplistic and doesn’t take into account the fallibility and infallibility of certain teachings.
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That’s why it is an easy “yes”. I could disagree with all manner of things, some as a matter of conscience, and some as just a matter of taste. Then there are some things I cannot disagree with.

As God gave us a conscience, he gave us the right to follow that conscience without sin as long as we are not deliberately obtuse and choose ignorance, but try to learn all we can on faith and morals.
 
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That wasn’t your original question. Not every Church teaching is dogma.
 
Still don’t know the point of all this. There’s no reason to ask a question like this if you just joined unless you’re trying to make a point through it.
 
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In a sense, while we have the freedom to disagree-and the Church teaches that this freedom must be preserved and protected, we nonetheless from a moral standpoint don’t have the right to do so. But God has patience and we start out ignorant about these matters in any case. Anyway, from the catechism:

1778 Conscience is a judgment of reason whereby the human person recognizes the moral quality of a concrete act that he is going to perform, is in the process of performing, or has already completed. In all he says and does, man is obliged to follow faithfully what he knows to be just and right. It is by the judgment of his conscience that man perceives and recognizes the prescriptions of the divine law:

Conscience is a law of the mind; yet [Christians] would not grant that it is nothing more; I mean that it was not a dictate, nor conveyed the notion of responsibility, of duty, of a threat and a promise. . . . [Conscience] is a messenger of him, who, both in nature and in grace, speaks to us behind a veil, and teaches and rules us by his representatives. Conscience is the aboriginal Vicar of Christ.

1782 Man has the right to act in conscience and in freedom so as personally to make moral decisions. "He must not be forced to act contrary to his conscience. Nor must he be prevented from acting according to his conscience, especially in religious matters."

1783 Conscience must be informed and moral judgment enlightened. A well-formed conscience is upright and truthful. It formulates its judgments according to reason, in conformity with the true good willed by the wisdom of the Creator. The education of conscience is indispensable for human beings who are subjected to negative influences and tempted by sin to prefer their own judgment and to reject authoritative teachings.

1785 In the formation of conscience the Word of God is the light for our path,54 we must assimilate it in faith and prayer and put it into practice. We must also examine our conscience before the Lord’s Cross. We are assisted by the gifts of the Holy Spirit, aided by the witness or advice of others and guided by the authoritative teaching of the Church.55

1801 Conscience can remain in ignorance or make erroneous judgments. Such ignorance and errors are not always free of guilt.
 
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Still, I don’t want to assume ill will on the part of the OP.
 
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Do you believe God gives Catholics the right to disagree with the Roman Catholic Church?
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The question is unanswerable as posed; it’s a more complex question than you’ve attempted to frame up.

Some things? Yep. Others? Nope.
 
Perhaps because you are not aware of the nuances involved in the question?
 
As a Catholic, I just deal with all the nuances involved ; that is why I voted so quickly.
 
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As a Catholic, I just deal with all the nuances involved ;
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And this? How does being a Catholic mean you easily navigate the nuances which make your question impossible to answer correctly?
 
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