How could you be recieving Dominican Orders if you’re married?
I had not proceeded that far. I was admitted to become a postulant. It was of course before I married.
The reasons you mentioned for leaving the Church strikes me as interesting until the end I became angry. The part where you said its easy to be a conservative Catholic just follow everything your told. To insinuate that conservative Catholics are nothing more than robots not thinking for themselves. I find it offensive. When I could say the same about liberal Catholics. They believe what ever the media tells them such as Homosexuality is ok and God doesn’t really find fault with it. Or that Women and Men being equal means that they are the same thing. When they are biologically not the same. That sex is inevitable among young people so its ok as long as they use contraception. Or that having children is wrong and not under the precepts of God. Liberal Catholics just follow the world and its teaching. Not Christ’s. The bible is very clear about certain issues but many just don’t want to see it because it offends their sensibilities. So who is robotic? Conservatives or Liberals? I’ve traveled the world. I speak several languages. I’ve a graduate education. I think. I teach my kids to think. To make quantitative decisions. To assume just because someone is conservative means they blindly follow someone is absurd.
Now that I got that off my chest. I find that your statement was rude. Your doctinal beliefs are not so much that as your social beliefs. God is love but not to the exclusion of permissiveness. God is also Justice and Judgement. Beware taking him lightly.
Let me ask you this. Do you find is as offensive when Roman Catholics claim that the reason God allows Protestantism is because unlike themselves, many people find Roman Catholicism too hard? Thus they need a watered down version of faith that is easier for them? If you do, then I would happily agree that I was too harsh. But in general I would claim that it is easier to accept doctrine that is decided for you rather than have to go through the very long process of studying, praying, and investigating for oneself. There are countless threads wherein someone here has a question and begins it thus:
“I have no idea if the Church has a position on this or not. If it does, I of course agree with the Church.”
That does not sound like proper use of one’s God given brain.
As to the issue of homosexuality and women. I believe that if the scriptures are properly understood, that they present no bar to loving homosexual union. I believe that women WERE leaders in the early church and that their contributions have been largely covered up and surpressed. I believe there is no biblical prohibition to women’s ordination, and that on the contrary it was assumed in the early church.
To say that I support the use of contraception or its availabilty is not to suggest that I support wanton sexual behavior on the part of children. Fully 90% of all Catholics use contraception. I find nothing in the bible that requires that we burden the planet to the point that we don’t care for all people simple to procreate.
Sex is inevitable between humans and that has always been the case. A healthy understanding of it, coupled with proper and full education always ends up doing more to prevent unwanted pregnancies, abortion and the transmission of STD’s. At least this seems clear from ennumerable studies and is why that more and more states are opting out of “abstinence only” funding.
The question was put to us why those of us who left did so. The fact that my reasonings are not yours does not make them rude. Other than the one sentence which I agree was provacative, the rest was simply my reasoning. You may find my reasons unacceptable, and I would expect you to, but that was not the issue was it.
You are entitled to your opinion. I could as easily say that most of your post went to denegrating liberals. Should I call that rude too? Or is that merely you stating your opinion?
