Added More "gay Marriage" Links To The Defense Directory

[dUSt]

http://www.phatmass.com/catholic-apologetics/

 

Check it out, and let me know if there are other articles that should be in here regarding this topic.

 

Oh, and maybe take about 1/2 hour to read through some of them.

 

Spiritual food!!!

[Lil Red]

where are the documents about what the Church teaches about marriage, and the State authority (or lack of) over Christian marriages? 

[dUSt]

The "Life, Morality, Ethics and Sex" topic is where I added them.

 

If you can find an article that is needed here, give me a link.

[qfnol31]

Have you considered www.marriageuniqueforareason.org?

[Vincent Vega]

Knowing you, they're probably all documents in defense of Holy Mentramony.  :stubborn:

 

 

[dUSt]

Knowing you, they're probably all documents in defense of Holy Mentramony.  :stubborn:

 

Why are you a Protestant?

[Vincent Vega]

It's a long, boring story.

[HisChildForever]

It's a long, boring story.

 

Make a thread. :) Seriously, we need new discussions around here.

[dUSt]

It's a long, boring story.

 

I for one would like to know the reasoning. Personally, if I ever came to the conclusion that the Catholic Church was not true, I don't see how I could logically still believe in Christianity. I'd have to consider Judaism or Agnosticism. So, the well informed Catholic > Protestant evolution intrigues me.

[Amppax]

Make a thread. :) Seriously, we need new discussions around here.

I would second this. But no pressure, if you really don't want to/don't have the time. Can I ask what flavor of Protestantism?

[Lil Red]

If USAir doesn't want to discuss it, it's his business not to, and I don't think to keep asking him is very polite. 

[dUSt]

If USAir doesn't want to discuss it, it's his business not to, and I don't think to keep asking him is very polite. 

 

Completely disagree. If you care about someone you want what is best for them. 

[qfnol31]

Have you considered www.marriageuniqueforareason.org?

:bounce:  :yawn:

[HisChildForever]

I for one would like to know the reasoning. Personally, if I ever came to the conclusion that the Catholic Church was not true, I don't see how I could logically still believe in Christianity. I'd have to consider Judaism or Agnosticism. So, the well informed Catholic > Protestant evolution intrigues me.

 

I think it depends. A person with a heavily Protestant background who converts to Catholicism could easily convert back, especially if he has very strong roots with a particular Protestant community. I don't know if that's the case with US of course. Just a thought. In general though, "radical" type conversions or fallings-away do happen. Just look at Will - born and bred Catholic, at one point considered the priesthood (so obviously pretty well informed) and now atheist (or agnostic?).

[Vincent Vega]

I for one would like to know the reasoning. Personally, if I ever came to the conclusion that the Catholic Church was not true, I don't see how I could logically still believe in Christianity. I'd have to consider Judaism or Agnosticism. So, the well informed Catholic > Protestant evolution intrigues me.

I feel the same way, in essence. My protestantism now fills several roles - including as a link to a spiritual heritage, a way to experience and participate in the liturgy (which I am and always have been in love with), a foundation for a social community - but being my religion in the sense that Catholicism is the religion of everyone here (i.e., a source of spiritual strength, a relationship with a real, personal God and savior) is a function that it fills or that I feel the need to fill. I don't know that my views on the function that religion has for me could be adequately explained/understood working in the framework of a religion as "traditional" as Catholicism. In other words, by Catholicism's definition (read: one who believes in the Nicene creed), I wouldn't be properly called a Christian, but by a (much) looser definition I might.