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Thread #142208   Message #3279455
Posted By: GUEST,mg
24-Dec-11 - 04:14 PM
Thread Name: BS: Virgin Mary & pregnancy test
Subject: RE: BS: Virgin Mary & pregnancy test
I do not believe that for one second. I am bound up with Catholic dogma because that is the religion that I was assigned to. I do not care if others subscribe to it or not. I totally respect their rights to believe whatever they want, as long as people etc. are not harmed..and I will say as I have said before that some of the Catholic dogma, or rules, or whatever, are harmful. If someone wants to come up to me and say I challenge your dogma, go ahead. I won't be offended by the challenge and I won't challenge anyone's else's dogma though. If they go beyond a polite challenge, and start showing me "art" that ridicules or is caused to shock and offend the religion of at least half of my ancestors, then I will be offended. It means I think they are rude and infantile people in some cases, but it does not mean I do not respect their right to not subscribe to that same dogma. We have all sorts of rights it is best we use prudence in exercising. In a multicultural democracy, or whatever it is that we have, we need to rein in our feelings of superiority, scorn, derision etc. so that things just run more smoothly..now, we don't have to exactly..it is just probably better for the body politic not to go creating offenses for the pleasure of it. mg