>> Do your own arguments make sense to you? Even in these thread your arguments are contradictory.
Could you point out which one of my arguments are contradictory? Maybe I could clarify them.
>> There is a position of the Catholic Church regarding Abortion. Outside of that it is Murder. Are you saying you are advocating beyond the position of the Catholic Church?
I actually DISAGREE with the Catholic Church with regards to abortion = murder. The whole concept of life beginning in conception kind of ridiculous since fertilized eggs are "aborted" all the time by women's bodies. So all sexually active women who have heavier-than-usual periods are potentially "aborting" their babies if the Catholic Church were to be followed.
If you disagree with me on this, fine. But why don't the Catholic Church support contraception? Wouldn't contraception lead to women not having to abort unwanted pregnancies? Because the Catholic Church is anti-sex and anti-woman. That's why they're opposed to contraception!
>> Priests are citizens. As citizens they can participate in the government.
They're free to vote and publicly express their opinions. But they cannot bully the government into bowing to their whims when it comes to public policy which is what the CBCP is doing. I'm happy the Filipino Freethinkers and Gabriela are fighting back, putting them on the defensive which is what we need because they've been special treatment by the government for way too long.
>> I have mentioned many times that people can be wrong. In that sense, priests can be wrong. Also in that sense, you can be wrong.
Yes, I could be wrong. But PERSONALLY, if I am wrong and the conservative Christians and Catholics are right then I do not want to worship or be with the God that they believe in because their God is a tyrannical, judgemental, misogynist, homophobic, anti-intellectual, narrow-minded, condescending, vain, egotistical, patronizing, corrupt, unjust, murderous, sociopathic God.
I personally would rather burn in Hell than worship their God (and apparently, your God too). So I *hope* that I'm right.
>> Patience is a virtue ... Whoever said studying is easy.
Studying is not easy but life's way too short to try and make sense of a 2,000 year old book that's been translated and interpreted by so many people throughout the centuries and put together arbitrarily by a group of old men. I've read it. I've learned about its history. And that's that.
The torture is not in the reading but it's in the people involved. I've come across these people, I know a few of them. They do not speak the same language as I do. LOL.
I do believe in a God and in a Creator. I believe in Jesus' teachings but I am NOT, I repeat, NOT religious. For me, organized religion, apart from cultural traditions, is really mostly irrelevant in my life right now. No, I do not feel empty or unhappy or misguided because of it.