What dogma are you referring to? All religious standpoints have a definition. Not a lot any of us can do to avoid that.
Perhaps I should quote feed plumber here as he seems to say it at least as well as I could.
“We do have a set of what I would refer to as eight characteristics of our understanding of progressive Christianity. However, when it came to theology or Christology we intentionally left, and continue to leave, those topics open to discussion and the opportunity for new understanding. For us, the word progressive is based on an understanding that as we receive new information from scholars from all fields, scientist, and spiritual practitioners, the understanding of our faith can change or “progress” as well. We did not, nor do we intend to have a progressive Christian creed, dogma, or catechism. We believe it is this openness that allows us to be truly progressive.”
Fred Pulmer
This may or may not have anything to do with anything, but I so often read here a “Catholic teaching” that really isn’t much like what I was taught growing up in the RC Church. Some of it, such as a sin of commission and a sin of omission, is the same (I always thought of that as having to do with telling the truth)–but some of you present such a different interpretation of RC teaching that I wonder if you’re being serious. It’s velly intelesting!
I was taught to “Avoid the near occasion of sin.” Some of you see that as trying to avoid natural thinking; I was taught differently. I was taught, before I knew the meaning of the word, to avoid ‘purulent’ thought.
Anyway, I find it interesting that RC’s have as many interpretations of ‘sin’ as does any other formal religion. I think I’ll stick with the Jesuits.
You are in contradiction, and confusion.
You are confusing “progressive” with “Progressive”
and you are in contradiction that you are “A Progressive Christian” on the one hand and not following a creed on the other.
They’re the dark thoughts, phyllo–infected by the devil with sloth, envy, pride, gluttony, lust, greed, and anger. Your thoughts should be full of the heavenly virtues, instead: diligence, kindness, humility, temperance, chastity, charity, and patience.
It seems the poster still does not know the meaning of the word “purulent”.
Prurient? Perhaps?
Such a tragedy. Rather than avoid prurience, one needs to learn to understand it.
There is nothing more natural than such thoughts and they come completely unbidden from the very depths of the human psyche.
What would I do without you, hobbes? See, that’s what happens when a person is taught something at too early an age. BTW, my name is Lizbeth, not “the poster.” You could make it even easier to type if you shorten it down to Liz.
Hello Liz,
Have you had an humourectomy? Did you not find it amusing? Not amusing that you used a reference to pus, and not sex?
Maybe your parents mispronounced the word in the first place? That would be even funnier.
It is oddly appropriate that a parent wanting to warn you about sex might confuse sex with the ejaculation of pus; sex being something dirty and replete with disgusting bodily fluids.
I hoping that you are a woman of a certain age and this sort of thing is not of recent history. I think it shocking that a parent would still give this sort of damaging advice to their child.
That’s funny, it could be said excatly the same about religion, the bible contatin so much nonsens and babble, and so much violence, death n destruction, that the first genesis are made obsolete.
There are so many fanatical christian people in USA, that an illegal court ruling was pushed by these vile christians called in as jury in Texas. If thou slay a man with iron, ye shalt die thouself (or something like that) that was used to judge a man who shot another dead, and therefore he had to die too, which was highly illegal to mix religion with state affairs.
Religious sects has too much power in USA, by their power of votes, by power mongering politicians.
