[thechat] Mythology was comics

Warden, Matt mwarden at mattwarden.com
Tue May 22 20:39:08 CDT 2001


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> I think you are talking about the doctrine of Papal Infallibility.
> They first invoked that one in the 20th century, and they only
> have invoked it twice, IIRC.

Um, nope. It applies whenever the pope talks about official Catholic
doctrine.

> Fundamentalists tend to say "The Bible says it, I believe it,
> and that settles it", but they are very careful to decide which
> verses they want to read. 

Yup. Fundamentalists are the opposite of contextualists.

> I agree with the earlier assertion - most members of any 
> given church are poorly informed or completely mistaken 
> as to the fundamental doctrines of that church.

Yeah. It gets twisted when you start thinking about how members of
sect one of Christianity have personal beliefs that fit with sect two
and vice versa. So, at least to me, it makes the whole segregation
within Christianity a little... umm... well, I'll stop there so I
don't offend anyone.

> Not that there's anything wrong with that....

heh.


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mattwarden
mattwarden.com

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