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I hope I didn't upset anyone with my talk about the church. I just don't get their blind boycotting policy of things that shouldn't change the way anyone feels about their faith. Movies, books, music...do these things really have such influence over our lives? Can we not see them and then decide how they affect us? If a movie or book does, in fact, sway our beliefs, how strong were those beliefs to begin with?
And is that what the church is afraid of - that people aren't strong enough in their faith to handle watching a movie?
I look at it this way - Spirutality comes from within. Faith is what you have in God/Jesus/Buddah/Allah/ Diana/Athena/Zeus/your Deity Name here. Churches are made by man, and therefore subject to the faults and insecurities of men. Even the church can't be perfect, and that's the feeling I always got from the Catholic Church - that their rule was beyond contestation. What we say goes. Well, you're human, just like me. And I never got the whole "Only the priest can talk to god, you can't" deal. Why can't I? Who says God doesn't listen want to what I have to say? I don't think it's so much an issue anymore though.
Okay, now I'm having a Bruce Almighty moment - yanno, when he's answering all the prayer e-mails. LOL.
I'm not trying to beat up the CC - I know it gives many people a base for their faith and comfort, and everyone has their own truth.
All this fuss over words on paper and pictures on a screen. Faith is bigger than that, isn't it?
And is that what the church is afraid of - that people aren't strong enough in their faith to handle watching a movie?
I look at it this way - Spirutality comes from within. Faith is what you have in God/Jesus/Buddah/Allah/ Diana/Athena/Zeus/your Deity Name here. Churches are made by man, and therefore subject to the faults and insecurities of men. Even the church can't be perfect, and that's the feeling I always got from the Catholic Church - that their rule was beyond contestation. What we say goes. Well, you're human, just like me. And I never got the whole "Only the priest can talk to god, you can't" deal. Why can't I? Who says God doesn't listen want to what I have to say? I don't think it's so much an issue anymore though.
Okay, now I'm having a Bruce Almighty moment - yanno, when he's answering all the prayer e-mails. LOL.
I'm not trying to beat up the CC - I know it gives many people a base for their faith and comfort, and everyone has their own truth.
All this fuss over words on paper and pictures on a screen. Faith is bigger than that, isn't it?