Cisco, I’ve got a longer response to you over in the other thread, but I wanted to respond to this last post. I think the point people are trying to make is that you aren’t respecting something which is clearly very important to your girlfriend. Here’s the difference.
My brother and I were both raised Episcopalians, and, when we were in our 20’s, we both wound up engaged to Catholics. To generalize, if a non-Catholic is going to marry a Catholic, the Catholic church would prefer that person convert to Catholicism. Episcopalianism isn’t all that big a deal to my brother, so he converted. No problem. As for me, I’ve got good reasons for not wanting to be Catholic and my Episcopal faith is important to me, just as my fiance’s Catholicism was important to him. Much as I loved him, I couldn’t convert, so we found a loophole. While the engagement didn’t work out in the end, it wasn’t because of religion.
What I was reading was not only that you didn’t respect something which was very important to your girlfriend, but that you had contempt for it. That’s not a good basis for a relationship.
Also, I do get tired of the notion, “No intelligent person can be a Mensan.” Thanks to an unusual set of coincidences, I’m a member of Mensa and a regular at Regional Gatherings. This is a self-selected group, I admit, but we’ve got people whose religious beliefs are all over the map, including some whose beliefs have been all over the map during their lifetimes. Since both religion and Mensa supply important needs in my life, I’m not giving either of them up (Cisco, I realize you didn’t say that.). Also, Rex Dart, I’m sorry to say this, but we do have alchoholics and recovering drug addicts in Mensa. Unfortunately, intelligence is no guarantee of common sense. If anything, being intelligent seems to reduce the odds of having common sense.
And you want him to stop playing baseball. In fact, you hate baseball and cannot bring yourself to respect anyone who plays baseball. People who play baseball are mindless morons who can’t think their way out of a paper bag. You wish that Sammy Sosa would forget about his baseball. His baseball means more to him than anything else in the whole word, but for you that doesn’t matter.
For you, what matters is that it means nothing to you.
And I’ve just proven it!:o What I intended to write was , “No intelligent person can be a Christian.” Desmostylus, I’m not sure which way you read that, and I’m afraid to ask!
BTW, cj, from what I know of them there aren’t many differences between RCC and Anglicanism. Just one puts authority in Rome, the other with the English monarch. The practices, as I understand them, are almost identical. What was the hangup about switching?
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There aren’t, but I have two points I simply cannot budge on. I can’t accept Papal infallibility, even with the ex cathedra limitation. More importantly, one of the things my fiance and I had in common is we’ve both considered entering the priesthood. If I become Catholic, that’s not going to happen! I have a few other issues as well. I realize they may seem trivial, but they aren’t so for me. [/hijack]
Oh, well I think that everyone here would agree with me then that you’re just a dirty bigot. I mean, how fucking intolerant can you be? I bet you hate black people too, don’t you?
I hate to have to explain myself but just so you know, that’s not a shot at you personally cj
Cisco, if you can find any point in my entire posting history where I have called Catholics illogical or wrong, I’ll let that post slide. In fact, if you can find any religion which I have shown the contempt you’ve shown Christianity, I’ll retract this entire post. Unlike you, I also did not try to convince my fiance of the error of his ways.
I take accusations of bigotry very seriously, even when made in jest. Maybe especially when made in jest because I find insults more hurtful than funny. Please do not do so again.
General Questions is not intended as a forum for discussion and debate, but rather as a forum for the asking and answering of questions with a factual basis. What you did was make a fly-by judgment of me based not on fact, but on intellectual hysteria.
Bibliophage was not making a suggestion to you; he was admonishing you.
I intended to pit you, but didn’t and couldn’t, because you didn’t show the behavaviour that I had assumed, on my limited experience, that I thought characterised you.
I assumed that you were aware of Bibliophage’s post, and so made my “some fucking sense” post. I accepted your response to that post, and said “Peace”.
WTF is “intellectual hysteria”? What’s a “fly-by judjment” based on “intellectual hysteria”?
