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No, it's irrelevant to you. It's not irrelevant to over 1 BILLION Catholics worldwide and over 70 million Catholics in this country.
You can't make those numbers insignificant no matter how much you would love to.
Of course, only small % practice.
I went to 2 RCC grade schools. Both closed. My city had 4 of them as I was growing up. Now they have 1, and its headcount by itself is not larger than when there were 3 more.
My RCC high school is one of a few surviving with 1/2 the kids it had when I was there, and overall RCC HS headcount in my state is under 25% of that era's headcount, but public schools here did not shrink nearly as much in headcount.
All over this nation, thousands of RCC churches and schools have closed..permanently.
Says the Holy Bible, which is inspired by God. During Jesus' day, it was well established in the Jewish world that homosexuals, who were referred to as sodomites, engaged in abominable behavior because that's what the law of Moses taught. Jesus never corrected that assumption and only acknowledged a marriage relationship between a man and a woman.
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No, it's irrelevant to you. It's not irrelevant to over 1 BILLION Catholics worldwide and over 70 million Catholics in this country.
You can't make those numbers insignificant no matter how much you would love to.
As the Church can never make its protection of predator priests insignificant no matter how much it'd love to.
Says the Holy Bible, which is inspired by God. During Jesus' day, it was well established in the Jewish world that homosexuals, who were referred to as sodomites, engaged in abominable behavior because that's what the law of Moses taught. Jesus never corrected that assumption and only acknowledged a marriage relationship between a man and a woman.
You go your way & I'll go mine.
As a Jesus-loving agnostic, I consider how the New Testament stories of Jesus very often focus on how Jesus consistently chooses to hang out with those who others reject as somehow or another 'less than'.
Jesus consistently treats them with compassion, understanding, respect, kindness, ... & always with love, both his own & on behalf of his Father. We are all children.
The Pharisees, as individuals & as a group, consistently try to trap Jesus & are consistently exposed as hypocrites. They are obsessively concerned with the 'letter of the law' while disregarding its spirit.
In the story of the adulterous woman, the Pharisees bring the woman to him saying, “Teacher, this woman was caught in adultery, in the very act. Now Moses, in the law, commanded us that such should be stoned. But what do You say?”
Jesus begins writing with a stick on the ground while they pepper him with more questions.
He finally says to them, "He who is without sin among you, let him throw a stone at her first.”
Eventually they all walk away.
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