How often do you go to church

[Blake]

I go to church once a lifetime.

Voted Never /But spiritual.

[MrFun]

God will probably condemn me to hell because my work schedule does not always permit me to attend services at our local Metropolitan Community Church.

[OzzyKP]

Originally posted by BlackCat
Actually no. Why should you destroy your life and love because of religion ?

If you have different belifs then attend them for yourself and don't push it upon the other part.

Children ? Well, agree to not push any of them on them - let them descide for themselfs.

Religion shouldn't be looked at much different than other child rearing issues that can be devisive. Personally I'm in a pickle because I have a very specific idea about raising my potential children. A non-coercive, respectful, pro-youth rightsy method. This is something I am NOT going to compromise on. So if I were dating a girl who insited that "spare the rod, spoil the child" was a good parenting method, there is no way we'd have a future.

So if someone were as strict about their religious faith as I am with my youth rights 'faith' then its mostly the same situation they'd run into. Would I destroy my love so as not to destroy my children? Yea. It'd be tough, but ultimately, yea.

As for religion, I am more religious than most of the people on these boards and attend mass every week, but I won't force my religion on my kids. I will provide a good example of my faith and really really hope they follow it, but ultimately the decision rests with them. It would go against my very core to force them into it (plus it'd most likely backfire).

[Odin]

The religiousness of the US is one of the reasons I'm not having kids. I don't want angery parents screaming at me because my kid is telling thier kids that religion is stupid.

[Ben Kenobi]

Actually in a meeting with Archbishop Michael Ramsey in 1964 Paul VI declared the Anglican Churches and the (Roman) Catholic Church to be sister faiths, sharing common sacraments, and declared that Anglicans could partake of (Roman) Catholic communion. However, he didn't go so far as to grant reciprocity for (Roman) Catholics.

Funny how times change, eh? I can't see them sharing ordination among other sacraments given the direction the Anglican church has gone since then.

It is true that they had large ecumenical meetings between Catholics and Anglicans, but their recent divisions have made that a chasm.

[Kuciwalker]

Originally posted by Odin
The religiousness of the US is one of the reasons I'm not having kids. I don't want angery parents screaming at me because my kid is telling thier kids that religion is stupid.

I can name another reason you're not having kids

[Ben Kenobi]

but I won't force my religion on my kids. I will provide a good example of my faith and really really hope they follow it, but ultimately the decision rests with them. It would go against my very core to force them into it (plus it'd most likely backfire).

How do you square that with the requirement of the Catholic church to have children baptised? You are right that the decision rests with the kids, but the parents are called to teach their children and to try to live their life as best as they can. How are you going to square those up Ozzy?

[Ben Kenobi]

I don't want angery parents screaming at me because my kid is telling thier kids that religion is stupid.

Great, one less liberal.

[Ben Kenobi]

Why do you need to push your belief upon the other part ? You don't do it if it's political differences - why should religious belief be different?

Religion, if practiced, inevitably becomes an issue. To practice pushes your belief upon the other person. Political opinions are a rather different sort then religion for this reason.

Let the children learn both or neither and let them descide for themself. Thats the only human thing to do unless of course you think that it's reasonable to impress them from early childhood with the "right" belief.

As for both or neither, that's a very good question. The church says that the children are to be baptised Catholic, and that the other party has to agree to this before marriage. So the question then becomes, for someone who is not Catholic, whether they will uphold their promise.

Teaching both can be done by showing the differences between the two, but that does not negate the promise that the non-Catholic christian made, to teach the kids about the Catholic church.

[BlackCat]

Originally posted by OzzyKP


Religion shouldn't be looked at much different than other child rearing issues that can be devisive. Personally I'm in a pickle because I have a very specific idea about raising my potential children. A non-coercive, respectful, pro-youth rightsy method. This is something I am NOT going to compromise on. So if I were dating a girl who insited that "spare the rod, spoil the child" was a good parenting method, there is no way we'd have a future.

So if someone were as strict about their religious faith as I am with my youth rights 'faith' then its mostly the same situation they'd run into. Would I destroy my love so as not to destroy my children? Yea. It'd be tough, but ultimately, yea.

As for religion, I am more religious than most of the people on these boards and attend mass every week, but I won't force my religion on my kids. I will provide a good example of my faith and really really hope they follow it, but ultimately the decision rests with them. It would go against my very core to force them into it (plus it'd most likely backfire).

If both parents agrees that their child should be raised in a certain religious view, well, so be it - I just pity the child. What I commented was the situation with parents of different beliefs.

I really don't care if people has a religious belief as long as they keep it private, or rather that it is something they practice for themself. I just don't like it when they try to impose it upon others.

[Jon Miller]

you bring up your child with other beleifs..

that is part of being a parent

what is it abotu religious beliefs that make it so that you can't bring up your child in it?

the beleif that religious beleifs should be kept private is a belief, that the parent can have or not have, and can bring their child up in or not

Jon Miller

[Ted Striker]

Regarding the situation about Communion, I think everyone is focusing too much on "Anglicans," (aka non Catholic Christians.

I know 3 cases of Catholic women married to Buddhist men, and in every single one of those cases (each in a different chuch), none of the women are allowed to take part in Communion.

Very ironic a religion that supposedly holds women in such high regard, even worshiping one, doesn't even let women lead the church. (Women not allowed to be Priests).

[aneeshm]

Originally posted by Mrs. Tuberski
I have heard from a ffew girls that i went to school with, they are from india and i believe they are hindus They told me that the females when on their monthly cycle arent allowed in the temples during this time i wonder if this is true.

Untrue . It's a self-imposed discipline - you should , of your own accord , not go to the temple if you on the cycle .Nobody is going to stop you if you do go - but nobody will really like your going , either . It is , however , possible that they are not allowed inside the sanctum sanctorium ( the innermost chamber ) for certain ceremonies during that time ( that is , a contravention of these rules will void the intended effect of that ceremony - it will simply not count as having being done ) .


Maybe it was family pressure on these girls ?

[Zevico]

Women not allowed to be Priests

Women are, according to BK, "subordinate" to men in Catholicism, but somehow remain equal ("the greatest among you must be servant to all"--apparently a quote by Jesus used as BK's justification. And presumably the rest of this thread too: http://apolyton.net/forums/showthrea...0&pagenumber=1 --skip the spam to more or less the second page and past it for discussion on a woman's role in Catholicism.