Milkshake, if you are insinuating that Catholics are not Christians, I suggest you study a little bit about your own faith.
*Let me announce now that I am a Catholic, and thus am obviously biased*
Catholicism is the orginal basis of Christanity. The "main tree" out of which other denominations branched off of. (Although many of Eastern Orthodox faith will claim their own church as the orginal doctrine, and have some credit to that argument.)
And Conservative Catholicism is definitly christian, if somewhat extremist. Mainstream Catholics (like myself, and somewhere in the region of 65 million Americans) follow the tenets of the Catholic faith, but ignore ideas which seem to extreme.
Also Dolash, you stated earlier that the Pope is some perfect figure. He is not. The Pope is elected to lead the Catholic Church- but that doesn't means hes some god incarnite. He is a man, like all other men, chosen to help guide his people spirtually. His word, while highly respect, is not law to Catholics. The same goes for the words and teachings of bishops and preists.
Catholics are guided by the clergy, but answerable to God first and foremost.
Oh god... what have I been thinking all of my life? Here I was, living my life as some out of control, "disipline" lacking lesbo-heathen, but reading this brings it all into perspective
No, Milkshake, there is not. There are liberal Christians who bizarrely disagree with some tenets of their own religion while embracing others; there are individual churches (mostly in Canada and Europe) where a more liberal and progressive version of Christianity is practiced; but there are no liberal wings of Christianity. Even the sects that manage to appoint gay bishops end up having nearly all of their members threaten to leave.
If you think your sect -- whatever it is, I've long forgotten -- is any more liberal than Catholicism, Lutheranism, Mormonism or the Baptists, that is just plain wrong. My parents are Catholics and were liberals before the corporate monster ate them up and spat them out as grinning suburbanites. But by going to a Catholic church and paying Catholic dues, they still contribute to a vastly conservative organization.
They embraced the tenents of a faith, I assume of there own accord.
Just becuase they changed their mind and were no lober "liberal" doesn;t mean they have fallen from grace or lost their minds. I mean come on, thats a terrible viewpoint to have- when you express pity for those who have differing opinions from your own.
You may disagree. You may think their viewpoint is wrong. But if others choose not to agree with you, or share your beliefs its there perogative.
You can sincerly try to sway their opinion or change beliefs, but you shouldn't say that simply because they are "X belief" that you are "sad."
All i was saying is that its too bad for HIM that his parents to longer agree with him on religious and politicial stuff. I mean, i couldent stand that if it were me.
