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Offline 800 Cruiser

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Re: You know you’re a fundamentalist.....
« Reply #15 on: September 27, 2018, 12:05:27 AM »
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    • Lovely responses, one and all. 
    And (lol), no, it didn’t answer my question. This is because I’ve left the question open ended. Think of it as a pick your brain kind of thing. 
    No. I’m not trying to be controversial—rather I really am here to pick every brain available with legitimate questions that I have. 
    I do not remember exactly how the line went, but in The Three Musketeers, dartagnan in his haste at one point exclaims that he PERCIEVES he is being insulted. This concept of perception has affected my thinking greatly. 
    If I can get another persons perception that can help me with my own. 
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    Offline Neil Obstat

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    Re: You know you’re a fundamentalist.....
    « Reply #16 on: September 27, 2018, 12:27:40 AM »
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    Since you never finished your opening statement it makes you look insincere. 
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    Offline 800 Cruiser

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    Re: You know you’re a fundamentalist.....
    « Reply #17 on: September 27, 2018, 12:37:45 AM »
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    • Understood sir. 
    And I agree in general that is what this kind of thing appears to be. 
    I assure you that I am most sincere however. Anything that I put up anywhere comes from my heart and a genuine desire to expand my knowledge and understanding. 
    I have all these thoughts and questions in my head, and certainly I do much better at typing them than speaking them, but even given that I sometimes find myself unable to truly articulate what is in my head. 
    Therefore I beg of everyone here (on Cathinfo) to temporarily withhold judgement upon me until you have several posts of mine under your belt, that you may come to see me and my style. 

    Again, Neil, valid point and good observation.
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    Offline cassini

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    Re: You know you’re a fundamentalist.....
    « Reply #18 on: September 27, 2018, 04:59:34 AM »
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    • Here is Pope Francis on the subject: I think he was talking about me.

    https://www.christianpost.com/news/pope-francis-slams-fundamentalist-catholics-who-believe-in-absolute-truth-151350/

    Pope Francis has slammed fundamentalism across religions, but warned that there are many Roman Catholics who believe they have "absolute truth" and are fundamentalists themselves.
    The Vatican leader took aim at fundamentalism within the Church during an in-flight press conference at the conclusion of his three-country tour of Africa, calling it a "sickness that is in all religions."

    "We Catholics have some [on Catholic Info Forum] — and not some, many — who believe they possess the absolute truth and go ahead dirtying the other with calumny, with disinformation, and doing evil. They do evil. I say this because it is my Church," the pope said, according to Catholic News Service

    Pope Francis has slammed fundamentalism across religions, but warned that there are many Roman Catholics who believe they have "absolute truth" and are fundamentalists themselves.
    The Vatican leader took aim at fundamentalism within the Church during an in-flight press conference at the conclusion of his three-country tour of Africa, calling it a "sickness that is in all religions."
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    Online Stubborn

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    Re: You know you’re a fundamentalist.....
    « Reply #19 on: September 27, 2018, 05:24:22 AM »
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    • Quote from: 800 Cruiser on September 27, 2018, 12:05:27 AM
    Lovely responses, one and all.
    And (lol), no, it didn’t answer my question. This is because I’ve left the question open ended. Think of it as a pick your brain kind of thing.
    In the second post in this thread, you said: "Perhaps fundamentalist is too strong a word...maybe I should go with something like bottom line."

    In a nutshell, for Catholics the bottom line is the faith. The true, orthodox, holy, Catholic and Apostolic faith which is what we must continually strive to grow in our whole life, through the Catholic Church.

    To that must be added charity and good works, without which, faith is altogether useless. Charity and good works feed our own faith as well as the faith of others, and paves the way for the increase of sanctifying grace in our soul, which is what we must have to remain faithful, which will make us holy, which is a requirement for salvation.

    That's the bottom line, in a nutshell.     
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    Re: You know you’re a fundamentalist.....
    « Reply #20 on: September 27, 2018, 02:17:01 PM »
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    • I must admit, Cassini, that I have never heard of “absolute truth”. 
    I read the article you linked to and saw nothing there to give me an idea of what it is. 
    Can you help me with that please?
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