tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34803820.post5747804304654603175..comments2023-03-23T01:32:44.827-07:00Comments on The Expatriate: How to Offend A CatholicThe Expatriatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11762488684043664889noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34803820.post-29154849482896529602009-09-23T03:51:46.048-07:002009-09-23T03:51:46.048-07:00Expatriate,
Hmm. Well, interesting. I was going t...Expatriate,<br /><br />Hmm. Well, interesting. I was going to say much the same about you. The terms in which you have stated some of your points (especially the points that touch on women's rights and homosexuality) indicate that you are probably somewhat naive about the source of your own ethics. It is possible to attend Catholic schools in this day and age and get very little genuine Jonathan Watsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16642612731164345970noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34803820.post-38857165302518866982009-09-22T08:08:00.621-07:002009-09-22T08:08:00.621-07:00I'm sorry to break it to you, Jonathan, but I ...I'm sorry to break it to you, Jonathan, but I don't think you have truly made much of a break from your fundamentalist origins. You have just exchanged one form of intellectual slavery for another. Exchanging papal infallibility for Biblical infallibility is not much of a trade.<br /><br />As for your comment that I do not know much about Catholicism, I would politely point out that I The Expatriatehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11762488684043664889noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34803820.post-35305810809096349252009-09-22T03:41:28.869-07:002009-09-22T03:41:28.869-07:00Expatriate,
In regard to #15, you're right. M...Expatriate,<br /><br />In regard to #15, you're right. My reply was snarky, and I apologize. There was no excuse for making a crack like that.<br /><br />In regard to #10. My point is that your argument is with the Church's stand on homosexual behavior. But that's not what you said. You were suggesting that what would (I assume rightly) offend the Catholic is the argument that the Jonathan Watsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16642612731164345970noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34803820.post-35155131407231991272009-09-21T13:44:11.028-07:002009-09-21T13:44:11.028-07:00A response:
4: Yes, but we don't see the Amer...A response:<br /><br />4: Yes, but we don't see the American public school hierarchy moving pederast teachers around to conceal their identities.<br /><br />5: There is a difference of barring out right stupidity and barring any type of intellectual inquiry that challenges the status quo.<br /><br />6: I consider any form of religious infallibility stupid, whether attributed to a book or a The Expatriatehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11762488684043664889noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34803820.post-57120314969650687892009-09-20T06:25:04.995-07:002009-09-20T06:25:04.995-07:0011. Point out various revisions the Church has mad...<i>11. Point out various revisions the Church has made to its own doctrine.</i><br /><br />This is actually called "development of doctrine", and the acknowledgment of it has been around for a long time. I actually took a graduate course in it at my very devout and orthodox university.<br /><br /><i>12. Note that Catholic charities are not the only way to help the poor.</i><br /><br />Jonathan Watsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16642612731164345970noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34803820.post-82231140648694788902009-09-20T06:24:56.907-07:002009-09-20T06:24:56.907-07:001. Tell them you used to be a Catholic, but are no...<i>1. Tell them you used to be a Catholic, but are no longer.</i><br /><br />Well, of course. I used to be evangelical. That I rejected exclusive evangelicalism for the Catholic Church implies a critique of the evangelical faith. When people criticize that which you love, you naturally spring to its defense, whether that thing be your mother, your church, your sports team, or your choice of Jonathan Watsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16642612731164345970noreply@blogger.com