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My ideas on catholicism and christianity
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Props to Chris,Belinda,Kylie and chris' mum, who are the people who contributed ideas and
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helped write this text.
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tonight i was sitting with my mates and we were discussing the supernatural stuff like
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dead grandparents and ghost sightings when we got onto the topic of christianity. we were
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sitting there in his backyard and pretty much unanimously that catholicism is a crock
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because when some big dude
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(his name is emporer Constantine i was just told) ruined
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catholicism and gave christianity a bad name. Now don't get me wrong, i am a christian,
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but i don't agree with catholicism. I don't care what you say but there are 2 movies that
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i will refer to in this text. Stigmata-rather creepy little movie about christianity and
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Dogma- the most Pollitically and relegiously incorrect film on the planet.these movies
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are the basis for my argument. Catholicism started with the birth of a baby known through
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out the world as Jesus christ. the son of god. the guy who started the whole christianity
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movement.his teachings were the word of god and his disciples are the wrtters of the
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gospels which we - the followers of christianity, are supposed to believe and live by.
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these are some of the questions and ideas that we have come up with:
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Why in catholicism do we have to tell our sins to a priest in confession, when we say The
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Our Father before communion? Does godnot forgive us when we say that? in the rest of
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christianity you don't have to confess anything to anyone because you can just confess to
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god.
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Why did the deciples write gospels of jesus which are sometimes arcane and are somewhat
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subjective in nature? Also why didn't Jesus log his own stories and events? Or did he?
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the movie "stigmata" discusses this issue, when the jesus gospel is found and is
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something that contradicts the whole rest of the bible, so the church decides to hide it.
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The expelled gospel of St Thommas is said to be the exact words of Jesus Christ, however
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this gospel is very controversial to the current catholic beliefs and hence is considerd
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herecy. that is definately not cool.
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Jesus basically said all men are equal, however the Catholic Church descriminates against
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many races and people, Negros, homosexuals and others. Did you ever see in the 50s-60s a
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church of white and black? hell no!Christians on a whole do not accept Homosexual acts
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but do accept the person. where as catholics do not accept homosexuality or the person.
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which is plain descrimination! exactly the opposite of what Jesus said. While the
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black/white issue has slackened off a bit, there are still very few black bishops,
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priests and brothers in the catholic community. also descrimation.
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We were taught in primary school that the scriptures were written word for word.Now in
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high school we are taught that the bibleis not word for word but was told and written in
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a way that could be comprehended by us as human beings.for example, when the world is
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described as being created in 7 days, when really it is meant in a sense that it took a
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time longer than what we couldcomprehend, a lot like the time when Jesus goes into the
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Desert for Forty days we are told, but is actually a lot longer.Why lie to us?
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the message that we are trying to put across here is that catholicism has been warped by
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the need for control, and is now become more of a heirachy, that was told by god through
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Jesus, that all men are to be treated equal. emperor Constantine didn't think that it
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waws that important. people today still don't pay attention to it.As said by Chris Rock
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as the thirteenth apostle in"Dogma" - "Beliefs are concrete impressions.beliefs are
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harder to be changed, where as ideas are still something concrete but are also something
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that can be changed more easily". the big thing is that god put forward a message and
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people- the apostles,emporer constantine, the popes- they change the overall message to
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suit the needs of the people, eg. the witches. people didn't know what they where dealing
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with so the church stepped in and to keep the crowds happy started persectuting what they
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didn't understand. so here it is.... CATHOLICISM IS NOT THE PROBLEM, THE PEOPLE WHO RUN
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THE SCENE WHO ARE CHANGING IT. anyways here my side. i want to here your opinions on my
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text.
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Frontier Psychiatrist. - cereal_killer@yada-yada.com
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