And the Catholic Church doesn’t insist it’s 100% correct? Unless you’re in full communion with the RCC, that is accepting the full teaching of the RCC regardless, you’re not suppose to receive communion. I can go to the catechism if I must. Just send me a private message.
In science, it doesn’t matter what people believe – it matters what the evidence indicates.
By definition, not believing in something requires no faith.
You have a weird definition of religion.
Of course it should. Public school is a government-run, public institution funded by the tax dollars of people of all religions and no religions. There should be no official, mandatory prayers because we have a secular government that is not in the business of supporting religions. If students want to privately pray in their head, they can do it all the live-long day for all that I care, but mandatory prayer cannot be allowed.
But I do not declare myself to be the final arbiter of truth, as the Fundamentalists do. If your interpretation does not fit with your pastor, then what? You leave until you find someone who matches, rather than form your conscience to the Truth, passed down from the Apostles through the Holy Catholic Church.
Hi Jericho!
I’m gonna go out on a limb and agree with the atheist here. I know who is teaching in public schools. I send my kids to those public schools. I do not, repeat, DO NOT want them LEADING PRAYER for my children! You can bet your bonnet that the “prayer” chosen in most public schools will not be Christian prayer.
Hey grace The Holy Spirit inspired fallible men to write infallible scripture. 2 Tim 3:16 All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness,
Who told you which books were inspired?
If I want to pray ANYWHERE just try and stop me! No student should be prevented from praying if he or she wishes. I see what you really want: a tyranny without religion, in order to remove value from any person. A person will only has value as long as the state deems it so.
What about the law of causality? The effect (infallible Word of God) cannot be greater than the cause (fallible men inspired by the HS to write Scripture)…
They are outdated because of the efforts of secularists and people who respect the constitution. Even still, there are plenty of people who would like to change some of these things if they had the power. For example, take the relatively recent battles over “intelligent design” and science textbooks in some districts (Texas, in particular).
Huh? What the heck? Did you miss where I said that I don’t care if a student prays all day long in his or her head?
Good. If you agree with me all the time, you’re going to be right much more often than not.
Just as I was respecting an independent voice, it needlessly does itself a disservice.
For the record I agree with this.
A student should be able to pray OUT LOUD, mahe a Sign of the Cross or whatever. Or do you also wish to strip Christians of freedom of speech as well as the free exercise clause,
Fundamentalists do not declare themselves to be the “final arbiter of truth.” No, that would be the Bible. Unfortunately differences have led to fractures within the churches. We’d all hope that the differences could be settled biblically.
This last point has been argued to many times.
When Paul wrote to Timothy, the New Testament books hadn’t been compiled. Do you think Paul knew that the letter he was writing would become a part of the Christian Scriptures? Or was Paul telling Timothy not to throw out the Jewish Scriptures, that they were still God-breathed, useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting, and training in righteousness?
I thought the bible was the word of God and not the personal property of any one else. I don’t know what Paul knew but he knew God had made him an apostle and servent. His work or word could not contradict the already revealed word of God.
So was Paul still writing Scripture when he told Timothy that the Church was the pillar and bulwark of truth? Did Jesus really mean it when he gave to the Apostles the ability to absolve sin? Was Jesus just kidding around when he changed Simon’s name to Peter, and gave him PERSONALLY the power to bind and loose? Here we are seeing a problem with Fundametalism. They only accept the Scriptures they LIKE, and convenioently ignore the rest.
THANK YOU!!! :clapping:
In fact, come to think of it, there may come a day when no churches will be allowed to be built, because that will require getting permits and paying fees and such, and that would be “government involvement” in religion 