fusillade762: You are aware that Protestants are not Catholics, right?

I am. But I'm also aware that "Protestant" isn't a denomination but an entire branch of Christianity full of many different denominations.

She's kind of cute, so I wouldn't mind making her say "Oh God" over and over again.

So I have a penguin fetish, don't judge me.

I'd like you to know that I slept with a nun once.

It was fun - did the meal, the movie, then the rest ...

Then in morning the plane landed at LAX and we all got off

/starchy Gidget outfit kept poking me every time she moved
// a NZ girl who'd signed up for a nunnery in the Bronx

shivashakti: Why wouldn't she make a good science teacher, submitter? Catholics believe in evolution and the Big Bang.

I'm getting really tired of the hostility towards all religious people here, as if all religious people are like the anti-science fundamentalists.

I came here to say this. The catholic church has gotten much better about science since it condemed Galileo. Not all religious people are young earth creationists, in fact most scientists do actually believe in god.

/atheist

LovingTeacher: in fact most scientists do actually believe in god.

Well, now you've done it. It doesn't matter if you're an /atheist, what you said is blasphemy 'round these parts.

sweet-daddy-2:

Religion is man searching for a god.
Christianty is God reaching out to man.
A whopping big difference.

And I'm sure you have something to back that up (outside of "the bible says the bible is true so it must be true").

Huh, I thought not. If you want to believe go right ahead but your beliefs have no more validity, proof of correctness, or logic behind them than buddhists, muslims, mormons or scientologists.

shivashakti: Why wouldn't she make a good science teacher, submitter? Catholics believe in evolution and the Big Bang.

The previous pope did; the current one, not so much. There is a backlash in American Catholicism nowadays; they are rejecting the liberalism of the 1980's clergy and finding they have more in common with the fundamentalists. Also, the fundamentalists have done a bang-up job of convincing a lot of mainstream Christians that their own denominations used to embrace biblical literalism before the damn hippies took over.

pciszek: The previous pope did; the current one, not so much. There is a backlash in American Catholicism nowadays; they are rejecting the liberalism of the 1980's clergy and finding they have more in common with the fundamentalists. Also, the fundamentalists have done a bang-up job of convincing a lot of mainstream Christians that their own denominations used to embrace biblical literalism before the damn hippies took over.

Just because an evangelistesque Catholic like Santorum is getting a lot of press and there's been a focus on the whole anti-birth control issue doesn't mean that the liberal wing of Catholic has somehow disappeared. It's still there only they're generally too busy doing things like volunteering, helping the poor, or focusing on compassion to worry about getting the attention of the press.

There are still Dorothy Days, Thomas Mertons, and Daniel Berrigans out there.
There's still a Catholic Worker movement.

fusillade762: shivashakti: fusillade762: Right on claim #1, incorrect on #2.

Maybe I'm looking at the chart wrong, but I don't see a particular denomination larger than Catholicism there.

Unless you're counting Evangelicals as a denomination rather than a type...

You are aware that Protestants are not Catholics, right?

Nor are they a denomination. They are many denominations. That chart does not tell us what the largest single protestant denomination is, but that would be helpful in this argument.

If it wasn't for the whores (of Babylon), she never would've spent that year teaching chemistry

LovingTeacher: sweet-daddy-2:

Religion is man searching for a god.
Christianty is God reaching out to man.
A whopping big difference.

And I'm sure you have something to back that up (outside of "the bible says the bible is true so it must be true").

Huh, I thought not. If you want to believe go right ahead but your beliefs have no more validity, proof of correctness, or logic behind them than buddhists, muslims, mormons or scientologists.

While I wasn't fishing for a response,just making a personal observastion, I will give a short reply.True,my statement is not found in the Bible that I read.It is simply my own thought.As to the validity of my beliefs, you have no more proof that God does not exist than I do that He does.

ultraholland: how about the calling to receive spankings and perform the oral sex?

SHE LOVES.

shivashakti: Why wouldn't she make a good science teacher, submitter? Catholics believe in evolution and the Big Bang.

I'm getting really tired of the hostility towards all religious people here, as if all religious people are like the anti-science fundamentalists.

Don't pay them any mind. They're just jealous.

theorellior: sweet-daddy-2: Religion is man searching for a god.
Christianty is God reaching out to man.
A whopping big difference.

Philosophy is a walk on slippery rocks
Religion is a smile on a dog.

You're not aware of too many things, are you?

_{goddamnit I was hoping that would knock Ladytron out of my head but won't}

I've got a real cool story bro on this type of thing. I think it has been long enough to clear any nda's. I'm pretty sure that I saved a girl from the nunnery. I met her a few months before she became a postulant. Then, I felt she was just trying to escape a false reality based upon horrible secrets that she told me. After that, I played the love game. I gave her the acceptable out to quit to be with me during her postulancy. Finally, I showed her how to be an adult about life and not fear what others think. She's married now to someone else. We talk every now and then. She doesn't need me or the church, but she still has faith. It was a very difficult thing to do. Some may call me an ahole, but I gave way more than I got.

I thought this was a sweet story. That is all.

She dose know only priest get to play with quire boys?

sweet-daddy-2: UsikFark: Comsamvimes: shivashakti: Why wouldn't she make a good science teacher, submitter? Catholics believe in evolution and the Big Bang.

I'm getting really tired of the hostility towards all religious people here, as if all religious people are like the anti-science fundamentalists.

I always like pointing out this guy:
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Catholics are pretty good about science.

I went to a catholic school. The science teacher's interpretation of it was that evolution, genomes, astronomy, whatever, was totally compatible with religion because God created life, evolution, etc.

/I once convinced her Neanderthals invented the beverage that modern Coca-Cola is based on. I got extra credit for that factoid.
//I'm not religious

Religion is man searching for a god.
Christianty is God reaching out to man.
A whopping big difference.

Oh, a brilliant theologian you are.

shivashakti: Why wouldn't she make a good science teacher, submitter? Catholics believe in evolution and the Big Bang.

I'm getting really tired of the hostility towards all religious people here, as if all religious people are like the anti-science fundamentalists.

But the church doesn't that's the point. Catholics, in my experience, believe whatever they want to and often say well the Vatican says this but I believe this is right. However, the Holy See is not really on board with science. Accept it or don't but it is what it is.

"I was waiting for something to really jump out at me, but that's not usually the way it works. God whispers, he doesn't yell,does not exist therefore cannot speak to people unless they are schizophrenic or on drugs"

JJadziaDax: But the church doesn't that's the point. Catholics, in my experience, believe whatever they want to and often say well the Vatican says this but I believe this is right. However, the Holy See is not really on board with science. Accept it or don't but it is what it is.

I'm not sure where you're getting your information about the Holy See, but it appears to out-of-date...

The Catechism teaches:
"Methodical research in all branches of knowledge, provided it is carried out in a truly scientific manner and does not override moral laws, can never conflict with the faith, because the things of the world and the things the of the faith derive from the same God. The humble and persevering investigator of the secrets of nature is being led, as it were, by the hand of God in spite of himself, for it is God, the conserver of all things, who made them what they are"

The Big Bang...evolution, etc. are taught in Catholic schools. Science is taught in Catholic schools. Catholicism doesn't teach Biblical literalism, so why WOULDN'T it be taught?

GilRuiz1: LovingTeacher: in fact most scientists do actually believe in god.

Well, now you've done it. It doesn't matter if you're an /atheist, what you said is blasphemy 'round these parts.

It depends how you define "scientist". If you include every person who teaches elementary school science in Kansas, it does. However, if you survey the National Academy of Sciences, you find that as of 1998, 7% believe in (a personal) God, 72% don't believe in God, and 21% are agnostic. More surprising is the fact that atheists were in the majority among accomplished scientists as early as 1914.

namatad: St_Francis_P: I guess I'm happy she likes being a nun and all, but I have no idea what we're supposed to take away from this article.

april fool!!!
she was arrested for farking her students!!

Looks like a winner to me.

shivashakti: The Big Bang...evolution, etc. are taught in Catholic schools. Science is taught in Catholic schools. Catholicism doesn't teach Biblical literalism, so why WOULDN'T it be taught?

How well do their biology courses cover reproduction? Sincere question. Other religious schools skip the subject entirely, or teach it inaccurately because of, you know, s-e-x. Unlike biblical literalism, being hung up about sex is something that the Catholic church shares with the fundamentalists and evangelicals.