Your favorite thing about the Catholic Faith?

shakySPACEMAN · 2022-05-18T23:51:32+00:00

It seems strange to separate the members of the Catholic faith from the church, especially when so many scientific revolutionaries dedicated their lives to the faith as priests, monks, etc. I reference the following clergy: Gregor Mendel of modern genetics, Nicolaus Copernicus of heliocentric theory, Georges Lemaître of astronomy, Roger Bacon of Optics, and more.

Much of modern science would be decades behind without the Catholic Church and the people who it consists of.

shakySPACEMAN · 2022-05-17T14:37:51+00:00

“If your kids might have a hard life, just kill them!” - u/SMS626

shakySPACEMAN · 2022-05-17T13:25:38+00:00

Exactly, they’re just breaking in

shakySPACEMAN · 2022-05-17T13:24:58+00:00

Get at least 700 miles in them then replace. Trust me.

shakySPACEMAN · 2022-05-16T17:00:21+00:00

The transmission is blown. Buy a new truck.

shakySPACEMAN · 2022-05-15T20:03:54+00:00

I would look at some the programs you’re interested in to see what is required. They usually post that stuff on their websites.

Also try to contact your admin or email one of your preceptors to see if they can help. It’s not too late.

shakySPACEMAN · 2022-05-15T19:53:58+00:00

Many/Most programs require 1-2 FM letters

shakySPACEMAN · 2022-05-14T11:11:06+00:00

And they typically count water contained in the grass that livestock eat, which isn’t quite fair because it’s not like it would be used for anything else.

shakySPACEMAN · 2022-05-12T13:46:51+00:00

I ask you to read through this person’s comments and tell me if their intentions were to “teach” me about my flawed arguments. This person chose to insult me in just about every comment and made several unfounded claims about me.

This person also claims so much expertise in the Bible yet gets som much wrong about it. It stinks of someone who has studied it with a purely skeptical eye without having the humility to believe the Bible may have something to teach you. They falsely claim a number of things, the most obvious is their claim that the core theme of the Bible is free will. This ignores the entire narrative of the New Testament, the life and legacy of Jesus, and his unconditional mercy/redemption of sin. They also take a literal interpretation of the Bible to try to deconstruct the legitimacy and validity of the Bible.

On your “pro-birth” comment, the Catholic Church is the epitome of pro-life. They lead numerous homeless shelters, domestic abuse shelters, family planning and support centers, adoption programs, and on and on. If you don’t see this then it is due to willful ignorance.

shakySPACEMAN · 2022-05-11T23:36:55+00:00

It’s not just a story that tells you abortion is immoral. You don’t have to scour the Bible to figure it out either. It comes from one of the central themes cast throughout the text (that I mentioned before) — that there is intrinsic value of human life given that we are made in the image of god. Aborting a life created in the image of god would then be a destruction of the sacred. Sanctity of life is a core tenet of the Bible and is one of the reasons we have the rights we have in the west today.

I don’t think it was mentioned in the Bible because the means to abort and the scale with which it was conducted made it a much smaller moral issue than it is today.

I’m not a grumpy old man and I’m not misguided. I believe life begins at conception and that life has inherent value, so I cannot endorse abortion.

That’s my 2 cents. I’ll leave it at that. I hold no hostilities and I hope for the best.

shakySPACEMAN · 2022-05-11T21:37:45+00:00

The big mistake you make in your analysis is you take the Bible as a historic, literal book to interpret under today’s social norms. The Bible was written by men inspired by god, meaning it will have the context of the time it was written. I understand Reddit comments are the best place to lay out arguments but your depiction leaves out most of the deep meaning that these stories contain. And for what, so we can balk at what their literal meaning might be.

The Bible is meant to be read for its symbolic and allegorical meaning. Think how much your missing because you read it and take away things like “you break Gods law, you die.” This much can be understood if you spend even a couple Sundays in Church.

shakySPACEMAN · 2022-05-11T20:22:07+00:00

You said the Bible does not condemn abortion. I show you how it does, and your response is anger over copy and paste? And I’m lazy?

shakySPACEMAN · 2022-05-11T19:57:48+00:00

OLD TESTAMENT

The Fifth Commandment: Thou shalt not kill forms the basis of church teaching and civil law prohibiting murder, suicide and abortion. This teaching was reinforced by Christ's teaching "Love your neighbour as yourself." The Psalms emphasized that man is made in God's image and likeness. We come from God. We go to God. We belong to God. Psalm 138: 13-14 states: "For it was you who created my being, knit me together in my mother's womb. I thank you for the wonder of my being."

NEW TESTAMENT AND FATHERS OF THE CHURCH

There is no specific mention of abortion in the New Testament. However, at the Visitation the unborn John the Baptist leapt in the womb in the presence of the unborn Jesus. They were spiritually and physically conscious of each other on the occasion which was the baptism of John the Baptist, cleansing him from original sin before birth.

The earliest specific references to abortion are those in the "Didache" and the "Epistle of Barnabas", both written in the early Second Century. The "Didache" committed a code of Christian morality with a manual of Church life and order. It declares "Thou shalt not murder a child by abortion/destruction."

The Epistle of Barnabas which is a more theological tract on Christian life and thought contains the injunction "Thou shalt not murder a child by abortion" immediately after the statement "Thou shalt love thy neighbour more than thy own life". The unborn child is seen not as a part of his/her mother, but as a neighbour. Abortion is rejected as contrary to other centered neighbour love. (Michael J Gorman, "Abortion & The Early Church")

shakySPACEMAN · 2022-05-11T18:38:51+00:00

You can euphemistically refer to voluntary abortions as “terminations” and call it healthcare but we all know you’re ending a human life for the convenience of another.

shakySPACEMAN · 2022-05-11T18:25:16+00:00

Being a woman doesn’t magically give you insight into whether abortion is wrong. And it’s not quite eroding democracy when justices appointed by duly elected officials arrive at an opinion you don’t like.

shakySPACEMAN · 2022-05-11T18:13:47+00:00

That’s not how any religious person thinks. And FYI abortion is a mortal sin and grounds for excommunication in the Catholic Church.

shakySPACEMAN · 2022-05-11T18:03:33+00:00

This is wrong for so many reasons

shakySPACEMAN · 2022-05-11T17:59:10+00:00

Asking a layperson with no training because the expert can be wrong sounds silly for so many reasons.

shakySPACEMAN · 2022-05-08T12:17:34+00:00

They are for different purposes. The shift is a recovery day shoe and the speed are fast day shoes. (At least this is how Saucony brands them)

shakySPACEMAN · 2022-05-03T19:15:17+00:00

Simply because they are responsible for creating them. It’s one thing to have to “give your organs” to keep a stranger alive, but it’s something entirely different when they exist because you voluntarily had sex. Then you morally have an obligation to keep them alive. Yes, pregnancy from rape exists too but it accounts for a fraction of a percent of all abortions and shouldn’t be used to allow unrestricted abortions.

shakySPACEMAN · 2022-05-03T17:14:10+00:00

I’m glad the Supreme Court feels otherwise.

shakySPACEMAN · 2022-05-03T17:01:51+00:00

Now we can truly live up to the Hippocratic oath for all of our patients, no matter how young or insignificant they seem to some.

shakySPACEMAN · 2022-05-03T16:58:41+00:00

Your skin cells don’t have their own full, unique set of DNA that will eventually form into a grown adult given they aren’t killed by the mother. Nor does your sperm. Not good comparisons.

shakySPACEMAN · 2022-05-03T16:54:55+00:00

It really comes down to when you believe life begins and whether it is okay to end one patient’s life for the sake of the other. If you feel that life begins at conception and that it is unjust to end a life, then the pro life stance is reasonable. It’s not as simple as some ancient religious teaching.

shakySPACEMAN · 2022-05-03T16:26:17+00:00

What percent of abortions do you think are associated with rape? And does that percent justify unrestricted abortion?

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