Do you feel good now Col Rouge? Such a tedious contribution.

To exercise your intellect, mind and imagination have a read and a think on the purpose and contents of Pope Benedict's latest Encyclical on Christian Hope. Fear not.

Do you feel good now Col Rouge? Such a tedious contribution.

To exercise your intellect, mind and imagination have a read and a think on the purpose and contents of Pope Benedict's latest Encyclical on Christian Hope. Fear not.

"The concept of faith-based hope in the New Testament and the early Chuch" and "Eternal life - what is it?" should stimulate some thought.

http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/benedict_xvi/encyclicals/documents/hf_ben-xvi_enc_20071130_spe-salvi_en.html

The church organisations reflect the structure of the society around them. The Catholic Church is feudal, with its papal king and princes and all the rest. The protestant churches arose in and reflect the social move to democracy, with more involvement of the laity, including women. That development is going on now with the rise of the pop-concert approach of the Pentecostals and the search by some for New Age spirituality. Interesting to a bystander. Protestantism has not failed; it is just a phase of history.

Hello boxgum re “Do you feel good now Col Rouge? Such a tedious contribution. “

I feel wonderful. Thankyou for asking.

However, I feel nowhere near as “tedious” as someone who can only make a post twice because he cannot manage to organise his mind sufficiently to encompass what he needs to say in one (I refer here, of course, to the repeat of your 10:09 post at 10:11 plus a bit more of your literary effluent).

I will not bother to review the propaganda from the website you nominated, no point in looking into the pit of a papist when seeking divine guidance, revelation or intercession.

Now run back to your medieval liturgy - but watch out, there are, I hear, some very strange priests about, I would not follow a word they say either, they have been known to tell some whoppers (especially when dealing with pre-pubescent children).

John warren “The church organisations reflect the structure of the society around them.”

I do not agree.

The Church of Rome endeavours to maintain a primitive social structure, holding back social development to maximise its inherited power base.

The Church of Rome did not reflect the society around it. The Church of Rome demanded / demands to regulate the society around it and thus secure authority it has historically usurped through devices like the inquisition and sexual repression.

Take away the pervasive influence of an artificial theocracy and society would have evolve along entirely different dimensions.

There is a place for some form of religion / spiritualism in all our lives.

However, the intransigent dogma of an archaic dictatorship, which segregates people based on gender and places its perverted priest class above the scrutiny of its congregants, is something which has outlived any usefulness which it never really had.

Thank goodness I have not been infected, unlike poor old God, by religion.
From the outside watching this pap discussed in 2007 is like watching the unfolding of a medieval power struggle between warring tribes each on their own hill.
This is what it is all about, of cource the Catholics want a merger again so the man (questionable) in the frock with the cloth hat and the biggest heaviest Blin around his neck can once again get control of the sheep-like starving masses.
We have mostly managed to extricate our society from the cloying oppressive mantle of control freaks who take God's name in vain and use His name to do their filthy work, all in the name of religion.

This is where the worlds most significant problem lies, religion, designed by power seeking men to control the masses. Roll on the internet and education for all so we can bypass this dross and get on with sorting out the problems caused by overpopulation and religious dogma.
Poor old God (if you believe there is a God that is) must by grinding his teeth with frustration while watchng his minnions fighting and squabling amongst themselves as to who has the correct interpretation of His word.
Be extremely wary of men wearing dresses, cloth hats and heavy blin's for this is where most of the worlds agravation is perpetrated.

Commune with your God if you must but please let us be rid of religion.