Thank you for replying in a respectful way. That's rare on the internet lol. I do find this all to be very interesting and informative and I'm glad you shared it with me and cleared up some misconceptions. You're journey from an atheist witch to a Catholic sounds very interesting. I would most identify as an agnostic these days but I am …
Thank you for replying in a respectful way. That's rare on the internet lol. I do find this all to be very interesting and informative and I'm glad you shared it with me and cleared up some misconceptions. You're journey from an atheist witch to a Catholic sounds very interesting. I would most identify as an agnostic these days but I am very interested in all kinds of religions especially Christianity since that's what I grew up with. Just to give you some perspective the way I've seen it growing up as a protestant (Baptist then Calvinist my parents were rather fundamentalist creationists and kind of still are) is that before Martin Luther kicked off the reformation Latin was used as a way for the church to maintain control because it was illegal to publish bibles in languages other than Latin and only the most educated even knew how to read it so they just had to trust the priests, who had been indoctrinated through education in theological schools to push the Church's agenda, that they were actually telling the truth of what the bible said. Much like how our current culture believes the only way you can say anything about science is if you went through the process of indoctrination at one of the "good" Ivy league schools and that regular people can't do science which isn't true. It was when the Catholic church started asking for donations to save people's relatives from hell that the camel's back really broke and Martin Luther pinned his theses to the church door. I just find it odd that in popular depictions of Christianity they use Latin against demons and whatnot as if it has some special significance to them. Those may just be inaccurate depictions I don't really know. As for priests only being able to talk to God, when I was growing up if I wanted to talk to God I just put my hands together, closed my eyes, and prayed. I didn't need some mediator to confess to. That's where that idea came from.
Thank you for replying in a respectful way. That's rare on the internet lol. I do find this all to be very interesting and informative and I'm glad you shared it with me and cleared up some misconceptions. You're journey from an atheist witch to a Catholic sounds very interesting. I would most identify as an agnostic these days but I am very interested in all kinds of religions especially Christianity since that's what I grew up with. Just to give you some perspective the way I've seen it growing up as a protestant (Baptist then Calvinist my parents were rather fundamentalist creationists and kind of still are) is that before Martin Luther kicked off the reformation Latin was used as a way for the church to maintain control because it was illegal to publish bibles in languages other than Latin and only the most educated even knew how to read it so they just had to trust the priests, who had been indoctrinated through education in theological schools to push the Church's agenda, that they were actually telling the truth of what the bible said. Much like how our current culture believes the only way you can say anything about science is if you went through the process of indoctrination at one of the "good" Ivy league schools and that regular people can't do science which isn't true. It was when the Catholic church started asking for donations to save people's relatives from hell that the camel's back really broke and Martin Luther pinned his theses to the church door. I just find it odd that in popular depictions of Christianity they use Latin against demons and whatnot as if it has some special significance to them. Those may just be inaccurate depictions I don't really know. As for priests only being able to talk to God, when I was growing up if I wanted to talk to God I just put my hands together, closed my eyes, and prayed. I didn't need some mediator to confess to. That's where that idea came from.