Posted by Atticus on August 23, 2004, at 20:25:05
In reply to Re: devil's advocate argument! » Atticus, posted by JenStar on August 23, 2004, at 20:11:41
I agree about transubstantiation. When I made my first Communion in the second grade, I was terrified that I would throw up when the wafer turned to flesh on my tongue. The whole idea was really frightening to me at that age, and I'd just gone through the unnerving process of making my first confession a few months earlier. Talk about a year of traumas! I do think that another Vatican Council is long overdue, but I'm not hopeful about what would come out of it. If the church only admitted that it was wrong about the sun revolving around the Earth in the 1990s -- hundreds of years after Galileo proposed it and after scientific research had proven it beyond any reasonable doubt -- I don't know what chance something like allowing priests to marry would have, let alone female priests. You're right. It is sad that an institution that could be such a source of support simply refuses to make what strike me as such common-sense changes. Atticus
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