DaddySatyr
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Joined: 8/29/2011 From: Pittston, Pennsyltucky Status: offline
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I'm sorry, Hill but I have to dispute your numbers. While Baptists certainly go to church as often as you claim, I can tell you that for traditional Catholics, it's more like 1.5 hours per week (with a few other "Holy Days of Obligation") and the Vatican tries to keep mass to under an hour (especially during football season). I can also tell you that Lutherans run about an hour a week as well as Universal Unitarians. Also, I've gone to church, a lot in my life and I can tell you that hardly every minute of every service is devoted to Creationism. In church, itself, I have hardly ever heard sermons on Creationism. In the Catholic and Lutheran masses, you'll find that the sermon is almost always based upon a gospel reading. While Creationism is the very first part of Genesis, you won't find it mentioned by any of the "Big Four" that Constantine chose to keep. Now, if you wish to speak about parochial schools , that's a discussion we can have about indoctrination. I would caution you, though, the Catholic school that I went to and the one at which I taught (very briefly) both taught that it was okay to believe in evolution as long as part of that belief was that God caused evolution to happen. Not to hijack but on what seems to have become a bit of a broader subject; I have always believed that God caused evolution to happen because to deny evolution is a pretty stupid thing to do, considering the mounds of evidence in favor of such a thing. Even more to my beliefs, though, is the gut-wrenching feeling that science will, one day, prove the existence of God. Yes, I believe that. I don't believe that the two are diametrically opposed. I believe in the old adage that "The Lord works in mysterious ways, His wonderous works to perform" and I believe that He authored science so that one day, the doubting Thomases of the world would have iron-clad proof that there is some "Great Spirit" (or whatever the new politically correct bullshit term will be) that has been watching over us from the very beginning. Having said all of that, I find it ironic that most PPLs want people to believe that people of faith wish their children to be ignorant of what's going on in the world around them. Quite the contrary, I raised my children to question any authority that didn't square up with what they felt in their gut. I know far too many people of faith that are not mind-numbed robots (as the left would like people to believe) and we've seen negative evidence of such on these boards. I remember a thread where someone was "slamming Catholics" (because that's one of the favorite sports, around here) for using birth control in amazingly large numbers. It seems that some Catholics didn't get the memo or they have chosen to find their balance between what their church teaches and what life teaches. I don't think you can pigeon hole any group of people, no matter how you choose to try to group them, into any one, neat, little, category. Imagine how dull the world would be, if we could. Peace and comfort, Michael
< Message edited by DaddySatyr -- 11/13/2012 8:38:32 AM >
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