Reply #126: Still no excuse... [View All]

[tedzbear]

You don't HAVE to do Communion and the Sacraments from within the Pope's official institution. You can find a breakaway church or create your own, or figure out how to do Communion on a personal level with trusted friends. You keep making excuses for your fellows when I honestly don't see the difficulty in making the necessary change. If one believes in a truly loving God, that God will allow one to seek a relationship with him/her that does not include a bigoted church. If one worships a God that forces one to accept bigotry, well then, that's all fine and good too, but don't ask me to trust you as a friend. You and such a God are not truly loving to my mind.

I don't trust your arguments. They seem very calculated to defend people who are willingly participating in a bigoted institution. I don't see how you can be on my side. Sorry.

P.S. I agree that changing countries is much more difficult than changing your church. It's much, much harder to move to a new land than to go across the street to a new church. But some people do it and God bless them. They just show that where there's a will there's a way, and that right there sucks the air out of Julie's insistence that one HAS to stay in a church because of rituals. Funny that these rituals only "work" if administered under the pope's jurisdiction. How convenient. I don't buy it.