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Originally Posted by Betonov
When I was in sunday school, the same question arose. And about still born babies.
Our priest answered that God opens the heavenly door to all those that lived pure even if for only 5min and that the Bible has loopholes and contradictions that God himself sorts out.
He also pointed out there are non-christians more christian than some christians and that we should beware using the name of the Lord for doing sins.
It's a strange day on Earth when the Catholics talk more sense than anyone else.
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From what I recall, Slovenia has a large Catholic population. (A young lady I worked with, though born in the US, had family in Slovenia and always spoke highly of the country and it beauty). When I went to Catholic school, it was from the mid 50s to 1966. The Church was just getting into the whole Ecumenical Council reforms abut the time I graduated. Up to then, it was a very old style school, very hard and regimented. Our teachers, mainly nuns, didn't really tolerate very much questioning and most of the time the answer to a potentially unanswerable or uncomfortable question would be "Because it is God's will"...
It sounds like your priest was a Jesuit. You were lucky to have such a good teacher. I still, myself, choose to just try to follow the "Golden Rule" and try to avoid being locked into any particular flavor of religion or faith...
One point to be made about the topic at hand: all references to God (I n God we trust, under God, etc.) could be removed from all branches of the US government tomorrow and nothing would change and nothing would be materially damaged; the currency would be just as strong, the flag would still fly as always; the only difference would be that those who would impose their views and wills on other under the guise of faith would have to find something else to occupy their time. You know, like try to obey the Commandments...
BTW, if anyone would wish to give examples of any harm possibly done by actually separating church and state, I demand actual, tangible, material examples and not rhetoric or platitudes...
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