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2/11/2003 01:54:00 PM | Jared Alessandroni

It's weird...

...being actually very Christian myself, that I never could find it in me to associate Catholicism to Evangelistic Christianity. I mean, besides hating gay people and treating women like crap, which really only puts them on the FoxNews viewer-list, there's not too much between the Sunday-Goers and the CCC types who, as Jon noted, await your flames to toast their Heavenly marshmellows. The truth is that most Catholics in fact don't espouse these views - they go their own way. Unlike the conservative zealout evangalists, the Catholic Church doesn't really require such indoctrination - and really, given how many Catholics stay home on Sunday, it wouldn't really work anyway. Especially, the numbers note, for Catholic men, religion's kinda optional.

Which is why it's sort of funny that Emmet was thus disturbed. He bemoans, in his typically mastubatory prose, how Karsten makes the easy equation of religious belief with religious intolerance. It's an interesting commentary - that a belief can't exist without, as the CCC does with the blind if perhaps admirable tenacity, an active aggressive encroachment on other people's conflicting beliefs - as if the belief couldn't exist on its own. There's a bit of insecurity here, no? As I'm sure we all know, Christianity has a long evangelistic history. The thing is, that doesn't mean we target people and actively attack what they believe, just that we leave the door open with a light on. It's not a valid part of your belief system to encroach on others' beliefs, others' personal understandings of the universe. So they think that Jews and Mormons and Catholics - ha - are going to Hell - well, I think I-bankers are or at least should - I'm not knocking on doors.



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