I'm catholic... I have never said that before... If another catholic did I would be pretty pissed off!

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I'm Catholic & I have no problem with contraception or people wearing the rosary.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Technically speaking, if your friend had followed the catholic stance on sex before marriage, they probably wouldn't be in that situation. So the catholic could just say "I told you so". Just sayin.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

unless they were infected via their mother... or raped.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

That's why I said probably

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Your husband/wife could have HIV...

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Assuming they weren't raped or born with it, they probably wouldn't have it if they had also waited until marriage.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Am I the only one who finds it funny when people affiliate themselves with a religion, but then add that they don't believe everything that religion demands of them? Do they not realize that, according to most religions, picking and choosing what rules to believe/follow is not an option?

by Anonymous 13 years ago

That's why some religions have different houses of worship so you could go to one based on how religious you are. Even if it's not an "option" things have changed a bit from the biblical days, so some people may find some of the ideas kind of outdated. Contraception isn't so bad when the earth is already overpopulated.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Oh, I completely agree; I'm a rational empiricist and don't subscribe to any of that crap. Sex is fun, natural, and nothing to feel guilty about when it's done honestly. The rules about it being for procreation date back to a time when we actually needed to expand- not limit, as you pointed out- our population growth. I point these things out because I think it's absurd that at their core, most religions refuse to admit that many of their rules are outdated and at best irrelevant- at worst, dangerous and counterintutive. I don't doubt there are more "liberal" churches... many depend on donations from worshippers to stay open, and sadly almost come off like businesses... but my point is(at least for catholicism) the official stance of the pope is the only one that's "truth". In theory, every catholic church is strictly governed by decree of the pope; anything else is an abberation that would probably be condemned by the Vatican, were it to come to their attention.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Whoops, guess I took your comment totally wrong! But yeah that's true, although honestly with all of the corruption and politics that gets brought into it I wonder how much they could really condemn anyone for going against such a small thing.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

That's the crux of it right there; in creating such a rigid and inflexible system of belief, they weaken themselves. What doesn't bend, breaks. Obviously illogical claims breed contempt... these days there's no real way to limit the information people can find to refute specious claims, short of what those creepy cults do when they build communes in the middle of nowhere and don't let people leave. *shrug* I don't think religion in it's current form will last forever, whatever that means. I think it's slowly choking itself to death on the past, right now. And yes, I do realize that's just my opinion xD

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I agree that it'll probably either fade or change quite a bit, especially when you see the amirite community who (for the most part) seems to be pretty non-religious XD. Still it might take a while, there are some people who are really so close-minded in their beliefs that I can't imagine them ever relenting.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I'm Catholic and I have never said that. Or heard of anybody saying that. Are you sure you didn't just make it up?

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Lady on the bus said it to me. Fun fact: I actually am Catholic, it was a real rosary blessed by a priest, and therefore wasn't a "fashion statement".

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Haha at Sunday school (I'm catholic) everyone used to put them on their heads. Then the teacher yelled at us, but whatevs.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

(Black_No_1): Catholicism is actually somewhat subject to change when it comes to having outdated rules. And there's nothing prohibiting the use of condoms in my church, only the use of birth control pills. At least this was so the last time I asked (which was years ago) I'm sure now it's different. Don't pigeon-hole people just because they choose not to practice something as extremely outdated and unsafe as that.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

"In November of 2010, the Pope stated that it is acceptable to use condoms in some very special cases as a device for the prevention of disease. He gave male prostitutes as an example, where the purpose is to "reduce the risk of infection" from HIV. ... Federico Lombardi , spokesman of the Vatican, clarified that it applied to heterosexual and transsexual prostitutes, both male and female, as well. He did, on the other hand, also clarify that in that interview the Pope did not reverse the Church's longstanding prohibition, in place for centuries, on contraceptive use in the context of heterosexual sexual acts, which the Church states must normally be open to the transmission of life." This is the catholic church's official stance on condoms- it even goes on to say that they're only ok as a first step in the direction of ceasing immoral behavior. If you believe something different than that, then you are defying your church. I don't agree with it, but that's the rules.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Ok first of all, condoms don't have a great record of protecting against disease. Secondly, the church never condones the use of any type of contraceptive because it helps the industry. And people who say they're Catholic but they don't believe this stuff, that's not ok. If you belong to a certain faith, that means you believe everything that faith teaches. You don't get to pick and choose.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

As a Catholic, I think I have every right to be offended by someone wearing the Rosary in an irreverent way--that's MOCKING the Catholic faith. If it's worn prayerfullly and respectfully, like some of my friends wear it, then that's not a problem.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Yeah, but as a Catholic, you'd know that unless a rosary is blessed by a priest, it isn't a real rosary. It is highly unlikely someone who wasn't Catholic would go to a Catholic church solely to get jewellery blessed, so what they're wearing is little more than costume jewellery - not blessed, not a real rosary. Haha, I personally reckon it's pretty good. I don't have a lot of money, so I can get small rosary necklaces and the like that I bought at markets for $10 blessed, and it makes them no less real or religious than a $200 bought from the church.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Gotta love the assholes in my faith....

by Anonymous 13 years ago