Any reasonably devout Catholic's on this forum?

Gilly said:
To bring Islam into it, in Christianity Jesus is the centre forward, but in Islam he's the right winger, with Mohammed as the CF :D
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Right winger, what you got against lefties eh? ;)

I'm liking the football analogy as both games seem to result in a stupidly large amount of pointless agression and argument.
 
a1ex2001 said:
Right winger, what you got against lefties eh? ;)

I'm liking the football analogy as both games seem to result in a stupidly large amount of pointless agression and argument.
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Cack-handed ginger-like backwards folks, the lot of 'em ;)

In fairness, left-footed footballers usually look better :(
 
whitecrook said:
i still dont get this whole catholic protestant thing. And no one who claims to be one or the other can explain it to me either. just what is the difference?
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Basically 2 branches of the same religion... Both "sides" are christians but catholics like the pope in the Vatican and stuff (traditionally accepted the Bible was in Latin) when the millions of protestant sects went "yo why cant this be in the language of gods people n stuff" so have the bible in english, german and others (back in the reformations). Then all the protestant sects (so there isnt one unifying protestant church just lots of similar ones) decided worshiping like the catholics was silly and everyone should live a pure (read boring) life (which is how we landed the birthdayless johovas whitnesses eventually, or the nutty moremans)

Basically the divide is down to weither you are attracted to children or like sitting on top of ivory towers telling everyone they are going to hell for having fun
 
Hatter The Mad said:
Largely the same deluded fairly tales, just small differences ****
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Mods, why did you remove my comment about Catholicism being more crazy? I was raised a Catholic, so I am in some position to say that. If you don't think that the belief in transubstantiation or their treatment of homosexuals or some other teachings isn't more crazy or insane than the Protestant's take, then perhaps you are :D

Would you also have censored my post if I'd have talked about the Westboro Baptists (also Christians) or Hizb-ut-Tahrir (also Muslims and followers of Islam), and called them batpoop crazy?
 
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I was raised catholic in Derry, stopped being catholic a long time ago after realising that this country is being held back with religious segregation. I for one will not judge a person regarding religious or cultural background which in Derry or most of Northern Ireland is rare.

Sooner people walk up and realise the majority of issues are not even issues the better, but then I'm sure they will find something else to hate each other about.

Imho Protestants are better in bed :) :-P
 
Pestilence said:
I was raised Catholic in NI as a child at the behest of my mother. Knocked that on the head in early teens and quickly became Atheist, like my dear father.
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Atheist, or agnostic?

If atheist do you think that is simply a rebelling against being indoctrinated?
 
Gilly said:
Atheist, or agnostic?

If atheist do you think that is simply a rebelling against being indoctrinated?
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I don't think so, personally. I've made my decision and have the conviction to stand with it, really. My dad was never interested in religion at all, but it made my mum happy to try and get us into what she was brought up in.

As the years went on I'd just had enough of wasting my time with what amounted to fairy tales to me. I bore (and bear) no ill against those practicing, but I literally felt and gained nothing from it.

Funny story that my mum was Catholic and my dad raised Protestant when they were getting married. Apparently the priest/bishop/whoever it was that did their wedding verbally raised his concerns about it and my mum was ready to deck him!

I also married into a less-than-straight-and-narrow family on my wife's side, and have seen first hand far too much violence, sorrow and loss in the name of religion and religious politics. Suffice to say, theology can go jump.

If I were a Viking, though... things may be different!
 
Tee Hee, all this talk of who's better in bed.

I bedded an Irish redhead from Belfast who was happy to show me her full reportoire of sexual knowledge (which wasn't much but I educated her) and as she lay in blissful ignorance she judged me to be the best lover she had ever had.

Massaging my ego somewhat, I got up to go to the toilet and accidently walked into the living room of her flat and uttered a WTF!!! upon seeing an enormous red hand of Ulster adorning the wall. This was also the point where she noticed the gold cross that used to hang from my neck and went completely apoplectic and demanded I leave her flat immediately. I did try to calm her down but she wasn't having it so there I was in the common close, in my undies and clutching my clothes while she continued to rant. I couldn't help but remind her that a Catholic (well she kept reminding me what she thought of Catholics) had just given her the best night of her life. The shouting resumed although I couldn't help but grin as I dressed and walked away.
 
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