|
|
Back to UserFriendly Strip Comments Index
|
So, anybody (please those who have nothing | by adiplomat | 2005-05-11 19:12:01 |
| The unfortunate truth is that people are people. |
by hadji |
2005-05-11 19:39:35 |
I was looking for a good Bible study group for a long time before I found one I liked. The people are open minded, and anyone who walks through the door (or even passes by the door) is, without a second thought, accepted as a brother or sister in Christ.
Well . . . except for one guy. He took offense at something that was written in the Bible and got huffy with a priest about it. It apparently went against something one of the Popes had taught, and gosh darn it, the Pope is infallible, so the Bible must be wholly wrong on this point. o.O
Questioning something in the Bible to better understand it's context is all fine and good. That's the purpose of our group. But to get feel obligated to take offense at the merest suggestion that the Bible opposes a teaching of one of the Popes, and to get huffy with the priest for suggesting that there might be another interpretation there, well a person who would act in such a way doesn't belong in a group whose goal is to analyze how different interpretations may or may not fit in with the spirit of Christianity.
I guess I'm going off on a tangent here, but I guess my main point is that people are people, even in Church. Even in Bible study. A lot of us are paranoid, narrow-minded, sheeple who need everyone to fit the same mold. And unusual "unusual" means "bad" because it means that not everything has to fit the norm. Not everything we learn as truth necessarily is truth. And that is an unsettling prospect. |
|
[ Reply ] |
|
|
[Todays Cartoon Discussion]
[News Index]
|
|
