So, basically, what you are saying is...don't question anything. Don't work to create a better environment within the church...just get out? Why NOT question? Why NOT work for change? They are seeing a flaw in the system. They feel a need to speak out against it. These are parents, born and raised catholic who are caught in the middle...between their faith, and their childrens sexuality. I really feel for them. They are experiencing something unique and they are trying to speak out and say, "Hey, maybe the status quo ain't right here", kinda like the whole the earth is flat thing. But the issue everyone seems to have is that someone, anyone would have the audacity to QUESTION anything...and like I said...we are talking about opinions and beliefs here...which means that everything is interpreted...which means that ones interpretation is as good as anothers. So, these folks might be the ones who are in fact right, and the ones fighting against them wrong.
Yes...I know your opinion...don't question anything....nothing. Your interpretation is correct...and I don't believe that for a second. And I think you should be challenged. But you insist the interpretation that you know is absolute, and as long as you say that, well, then you may as well stick your head in the sand and stick to posts where noone questions you and your beliefs and where you don't have to actually face any realities when it comes to your religion and the impact it has on society. Many of the points I bring up, the good points, you don't even attempt to answer, I notice. It would be nice to hear an answer from you, but as long as you don't want to answer them, well, then, yup, may as well keep that head in the sand.
Depends specifically what you mean by doctrines. And which church. The church used to make a lot of empirical claims that had the status of doctrine about the nature of the cosmos and gave people like Galileo and Copernicus a pretty hard time about some of them, but it now concedes that they were right. It even bought the theory of evolution recently, in a weasely sort of way. The church has pretty much retreated from making empirical claims in the last 400 years, it was shown to be wrong too often. If you're referring only to matters of faith rather than things that can be determined empirically, you might have a case, but isn't the schism between the eastern and Roman rites of the Catholic Church a disagreement over a fundamental doctrine, the nature of Christ's divinity?
Well...go back and read my posts. I think you will see what I feel you are ignoring. I hope you see what I am ignoring. I think I brought up some fair points...regarding the position catholic parents of gay children find themselves in, the impact of the churches positions on society as a whole...seperation of church and state or not, etc.
