Religious types: what does your church, etc. teach that you don't believe, and why?

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On the other hand, in my particular Assembly of God congregation, I’m the liberal one, tho I’m still to the Right of much of the world.

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Catholic here.

I don’t believe that women cannot be ordained, although I believe the Church can (but shouldn’t) choose not to ordain them. I don’t believe my Church’s teaching on birth control, and I think it’s inconsistent and doesn’t make much sense.

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Oh yeah, I also don’t get how artificial birth control is bad, but “natural family planning” or whatever is OK.

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I’m a member of the Episcopal Church in the United States. Our only official statement of faith is the Apostle’s Creed. I agree with it in its entirety, so regarding that I have no disagreements with the church.

On a personal level, I believe that the Episcopal Church (and all other American churches) should be much more vocal about opposing torture and other human rights abuses by the U. S. government, war, and sweatshop labor by American corporations. The bishops issue statements with the correct stances and I applaud them for that, but the message isn’t being presented forcefully.

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I disagree with my (United) church that homosexuality is a sin. I’m strongly supportive of gay rights and same sex marriage.

I disagree with the Christian Union at my university that everything in the Bible is the infallible word of God. I think it’s a great book describing Israel’s and, later, the church’s history and their experience of and insights into God. It was inspired by God, but written and published by flawed, biased (though well-meaning) human beings.

I’d never heard of modal monarchism before I read Shodan’s link, but it makes a lot more sense to me than the way I’ve always heard the trinity explained at church.

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Catholic and don’t really believe in transubstantiation. I think the Protestants are more correct, that the Eucharist is symbolic. However, I can’t 100% disagree because Jesus did say “This IS my body…”

I am pro-choice because Jesus did not address it, the question of when a clump of cells becomes human is not so easy as the Church makes it.

The Church’s position on birth control was outdated 50 years ago, even more so now. I see it more as anti-sex than pro-life.