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Aswad -> RE: "Lesbian couple in Wyoming denied Communion" (4/16/2007 12:37:52 PM)
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I would say the Catholic church tries to do a good job, but there's a lot of powermongering as well. Accepting a divorce is really rather progressive of them, as they actually take the vows seriously. Getting remarried would be pretty iffy, since you've already shown that you can't make a responsible decision to undertake such vows with the level of sincerity they expect. So, yes, it makes a person less Catholic to remarry.
The Protestants generally accept anything, including atheism (Denmark has an outspoken atheist priest in their national Protestant church, for instance), and so still being "religious" would be a valid argument with them, but being religious isn't the same as adhering to a specific religion, which Catholicism is.
I think the Catholic church make a lot of stupid decisions, sometimes, and that they don't interpret their scriptures correctly, as well as excluding certain texts they should have included, but I have a lot of respect for the fact that they go further than most organized religions in not compromising their faith, despite the fact that they could get more power by doing so. Integrity is very rare in organized religion, and the Catholic church goes fairly far in that regard.
Hypocrisy is rampant in society by and large, I don't think this is specific to the church, and I think it's important to distinguish between specific members and the church as a whole, as there is a lot of variation in what individual biases are perpetuated on a local level.
As for guilt, that has ever been a popular means of enforcing specific behaviours, attitudes and worldviews. Again, this is not specific to the church, although covering this point will be well beyond the scope of this thread.
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