What will this accomplish?

[in2Nas]

Just curious here.

Am I Liberal Catholic because I have no problem with someone smoking pot in the mother's basement watching cartoons and eating Cheetos and that I'm for gun control....or am I a Conservative Catholic because I support the war in Iraq and I'm against the death penalty?

Don't know why we can't all just hang out in OBOB.

 

[Da_Funkey_Gibbon]

Hey, I'm starting to think the more Catholic Forums the better. Protestants get like eight and we get a measly one... and a half??? How is that fair?

 

[Protinus]

thanks, this is the initial unwanted blast...but it will be better (except for Charlie of course)

 

[Ave Maria]

I am so glad we finally got our own forum even if it is a sub forum.

 

[JasonV]

I hope you make yourself at home here Peacelover02!

 

[scraparcs]

Because you can't question much of anything in OBOB lest it be "EVIL HERETIC DISSENTER!!!"

Could I really say over there that I don't particularly care what gender a priest is, I think that the priest abuse scandal is much worse than a few Catholics on the Pill, and that a bit of lay participation in the Church might not be such a bad idea?

 

[Protinus]

Because you can't question much of anything in OBOB lest it be "EVIL HERETIC DISSENTER!!!"

Could I really say over there that I don't particularly care what gender a priest is, I think that the priest abuse scandal is much worse than a few Catholics on the Pill, and that a bit of lay participation in the Church might not be such a bad idea?

ouch!

thanks lel

 

[scraparcs]

I should have said using condoms - if the Pill is abortifacent then yeah, it's a big thing.

Changing that bit, I keep my statement.

 

[Protinus]

I should have said using condoms - if the Pill is abortifacent then yeah, it's a big thing.

Changing that bit, I keep my statement.

we'e trying to work those things out ...we were just born you know...to make a metaphor awkward.

 

[JasonV]

It would have to be rhythm method guys....come on now!

 

[Fish and Bread]

we'e trying to work those things out ...we were just born you know

Does that mean the folks who were opposed to the new forum's birth were trying to abort it?

*ducks*

 

[Protinus]

Does that mean the folks who were opposed to the new forum's birth were trying to abort it?

*ducks*

in so many words but we have many miles to go.

 

[Maynard Keenan]

I don't think it has to do with liberal politics as much as being liberals on issues within the church.

 

[in2Nas]

Hey, I'm starting to think the more Catholic Forums the better. Protestants get like eight and we get a measly one... and a half??? How is that fair?

Sorry. Didn't know there was such a big push for this forum. I disagree with a lot of things and sometimes I do feel out of place in OBOB. But, I've been saying what I think now for the past year or so...because it's just a forum.

 

[Cosmic Charlie]

A seperate base of operations will faciliate the takeover of OBOB by liberal catholics.


Hey, Hitler wrote "Mein Kumpf" in 1931 and nobody believed him either.

 

[Loki]

Because it's nice to be able to discuss this stuff without everyone immediately aborting the conversation by telling us that it's forbidden to question the church, and in doing so we cease to be Catholic?

I know I'm much more likely to be driven away from the church by the folks at OBOB than by the people here, and I am currently on a razor's edge, I think.

 

[JasonV]

Well I for one don't want to see anyone lose their faith, Loki, so if we can help in any way.....just ask.

 

[Loki]

Well I for one don't want to see anyone lose their faith, Loki, so if we can help in any way.....just ask.

Not sure I ever had faith to begin with, but I was raised in the church and am sort of approaching it again like a skittish squirrel. Quick movements and loud noises are likely to send me running in the other direction, or possibly up a tree.

 

[Caedmon]

Because you can't question much of anything in OBOB lest it be "EVIL HERETIC DISSENTER!!!"

Could I really say over there that I don't particularly care what gender a priest is, I think that the priest abuse scandal is much worse than a few Catholics on the Pill, and that a bit of lay participation in the Church might not be such a bad idea?

I offer to a certain few posters in OBOB one of my favorite moments of Babylon 5:

"Now, if this bothers you, I suggest you stay in your quarters, stick your fingers in your ears and hum real loud until it's over. Unless you'd like to try something as breathtakingly rational as trying to open up a dialogue."
Captain Sheridan talking to G'Kar in "The Coming of Shadows" on Babylon 5

 

[Da_Funkey_Gibbon]

See, this is kinda the reason I didn't want this forum - can we not use it as a place to hurl insults and derision at OBOB? This forum has been pretty good so far, and I don't want to see it go down that road.

I was only half-joking with my first post, BTW.