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In reply to the discussion: What people here who demand Catholics leave their church don't understand. [View all]Whisp
(24,096 posts)and actually I have not seen all that much demanding of DU Catholics to leave the church (there have been countless threads and I have not followed most so I could be way wrong) but an interest in how DUers can both be progressive and be a member of such a backward organization when it comes to human rights.
So I believe that a lot of this upset is guilt... yeh, guilt for not being able to explain why belonging to an organization that is hateful and bigoted should be given a pass. Or high discomfort. There is no answer that makes any sense when you are looking from the outside in.
If one is a Catholic and doesn't believe in the Church's teachings of bigotry and sexism and homophobia and all that rotten mess of ugly, are you really a Catholic then? If you use contraception and don't hate gays, are you really a Catholic if you are going against the word of the Pope who supposedly has been chosen by god?
Do you believe in heaven and hell and how does that stand with your standing if you don't follow the Church's rules. Will you still be able to go to heaven, or maybe you don't believe in that part either.
From what I have seen here, the church is mostly a community club for people who don't really believe all that nonsense, but find it a nice place to meet regularly.
Nothing wrong with that I suppose. But you have to take some lumps for it.
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