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Originally Posted by Mithalwen
Rightio, first of all please bear in mind that I shoved my ten pennorth in to this thread partly because I felt that a certain person's ludicrous statement was potentially offensive to Catholics ..... not everyone who is not with you is against you.....  but I beginning to wish I had kept my woolly liberal mouth shut.
Second "Jesus Christ was Crucified, Died, and was Buried, and that He Rose Again from the Dead" was the thing I referred to as being 2/3 certain, Catholics being Christians as objective fact and the status of the Bible as being subjective. Actually I should have said 3/4 but I was in a rush and lumped dead and buried together. pretty good historical evidence for the Life and death of Jesus and for all my issues with taking the bible to literally (and I have a whole load more having read some of the Old Testament last night as research!!!) I used to be able to say the creed in good conscience. |
You know... I'm almost disappointed. I was hoping for some amusingly clever theory/equation for Catholics being 2/3 Christian...
Also, interestingly enough... the Resurrection of Jesus was the main rational reason, in the book I mentioned above and which I forget the name of and no longer have access to. And not just how the Resurrection, if it happened, validated Christianity, but how the Resurrection is the most logical explanation for what actually happened to Jesus and the disciples.
I seem to be having an interesting day, making connections...
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This life ain't so bad - and anyone able to surf the net isn't doing badly on the scheme of things. I have had some difficult thing happen as most people do if they live long enough, but I don't want to go in to that now or the reasons for my lapse - if you want to know PM me - but you appreciate it so much more if you think it is all you are going to get. I am so much happier now I no longer beat myself up for my failure to be perfect. I don't behave any less morally now than I did but I certainly seize the day more rather than banking on an afterlife to make up for the bad sides of this life. It would be lovely to believe I would be reunited after death with those I have loved and lost but I can't. Believing this life is all there is doen't have to turn you in to a selfish hedonist it can make you more compassionate and concerned with people's immediate needs rather than their eternal salvation - isn't the Christian Aid slogan "We believe in life before death"....
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Well, it doesn't necessarily turn you into a hedonist- I quite agree (I don't think I intimated that I did... did I?). However, it seems like a terribly, terribly sad thought... Blame it on my being young, but I don't see a problem with living forever- especially in a perfect Heaven. I consider myself fully capable of amusing, entertaining, and occupying myself forever- especially with the good health, peaceful relations, and advanced mind and body that is part and parcel with being in Heaven.
For one thing, I want to create a fictional word with as much or more depth than Middle-Earth.
