[UA] Templars Exonerated

[Edward Parsons]

I'm not entirely sure, but I think "Official" Church line is still that
Catholicism is the one true faith, and that others aren't nearly as worthy.
I guess that means catholics stay in a slightly more upmarket bit of heaven
post-mortem.

Suicide is, and always has been, a very punishable sin. Suicides didn't used
to be buried on consecrated ground for starters, which was an instant ticket
to hell, but they were also supposed to have some extra punishments (or to
rise as vampires. It depended where you were)....

Oh the glorious days of "Olde Worlde Europe"......


----- Original Message -----
From: "Christopher J. Carroll" <ccarroll1 at mac.com>
To: <ua at lists.uchicago.edu>
Sent: Friday, April 05, 2002 3:54 PM
Subject: Re: [UA] Templars Exonerated


> on 4/5/02 8:32 AM, Mario Magallanes at aegypto at telefonica.net wrote: >
> > Well, I went to a Catholic school and never got this impression. Our
> > religion texts included comments on buddhism, islam and judaism, and
> > even if there was the assumption that we catholics had it "right", the
> > other people had some things right, too, so they were not going to burn
> > in Hell.
> >
> > Now I come to think about it there was an old priest who was very
> > condescending towards Luther and protestants, but he was so much your
> > stereotipical old, fat priest (with an habit to pat children's shoulders
> > if you know what I mean) that it was difficult to take him seriously.
>
> Here in the US, the whole non-Catholics going to hell thing seems have
been
> pretty much dropped. The general consensus seems to be that as long as you
> avoid the obvious evil stuff, you should be pretty much okay. We may be
> right and you wrong, but God won't hold it against you.
>
> > It's kinda like that thing about suicide being the biggest sin a
> > catholic can commit. It gets mentioned sometimes in american series, but
> > I never heard of it before watching them. Surely it's considered as a
> > sin (I seem to recall it was declared a sin in order to stop crazy
> > people who was too eager to chat with Jesus) but the biggest?
>
> I think the reasoning is that by its nature suicide sends you upstairs for
> Judgment with a sin on your conscience. Other sins at least allow for the
> possibility of repentance and forgiveness from God before you die.
>
> > Or maybe is that the american branch of the catholic church is more
> > conservative and take these things more seriously. Dunno.
> >
>
> I think it's pretty much the other way around. We colonial Catholics are
> fairly progressive, at least by Church standards.
> --
> Christopher J. Carroll
> <ccarroll1 at mac.com>
>
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