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A lot of people seem to think that the Church functions according to the principle “That which is not forbidden is compulsory.” So many folk seem to be under the impression that there is a black and white magisterial answer to everything and that “You’re with us or agin us”

Many modern people have the notion that the principal mission of the Catholic Church is to impose belief on unbelievers. The reality is that most its time is spent trying to restrain belief in everything from spoon-bending to the aliens who allegedly speak to us through a cat in Poughkeepsie. The riptides

Discussing the moral sense of Scripture would seem easy. After all, we’re talking The Good Book here. Even when they were busy abandoning Christianity as supernatural revelation from God, Americans for the past couple generations still tended to treat the Bible as a Solid Moral Code Enshrining Tested Values with