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Originally posted by Jacob
No...listen...the Bible is going to be modified...and when it is, does this mean you're going to change your beliefs? It's been modified in the past...meaning that somebody, other than God, has changed it.
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To add upon that, I'd like to mention that Homosexuality will one day be considered normal. Just like sexism and racism have died down, and their respective rights have been acknowledged. It just takes time.
I belong to a Catholic family, a loving and caring family. I can see how it benefits us, as all the family firmly believe in God. We don't follow all the rules, and I don't hold it against them. We do what we feel is right, we do the just and moral thing. It works in our case, as I've grown up in a loving family. However, we don't look down on others, and make them convert or repent. Hell, we crack jokes about them Anglicans, Orthodox and Jehovah's Witnesses
Me and my Mother are extremely close, and from her I've learnt most of my religious knowledge. Regularly we'll chat, mostly while doing the dishes, and it'll be about a range of subjects. She is, and will always be the only one that can bring me to tears just thinking about her in certain circumstances - our relationship, is well, something to be proud of.
Christ, sometimes she makes me question my Agnosticism in favour of Catholicism. I wonder sometimes whether I will end up being a Catholic again. Only because of her, and how she's interpreted the word of God. She understands that Man has ruined the word of God, the original word of God. It was the words
"Catholicism has been ruined by Man, Peter. Corrupt and greedy men, even Popes, that have tainted it. Just remember, the core beliefs of God will never change. Just do what is right. God can't ask any more of you.". You just can't put into words the value of her to me.
That, I understand is somewhat due to her Catholic upbringing - and thus, I can see the value of Catholicism.
Hope.
Alcar...