> > teleportation solves the hymen issue > Oh, wow -- what a sentence.
Isn't it, though? :)
> > but the implications that sex/bodies=bad bother me. > I can ask Mary about this sometime if I get the chance. (I mean, *my* Mary, not that Mary.) She's the most conservative Catholic I've ever met and always has good informed answers about things.
I'm definitely returning to the Mary issue in my e-mail to the Father, because while I mostly don't think about Mary ever, she's this huge deal for so many people and in so many religious traditions that I would really like a solid explanation. But I'm certainly interested in how different people find peace with these ideas, so feel free to ask her.
> > I find this interesting because nobody nowadays speaks in tongues or drives out demons, > Um, well, depends on who you're talking to, yo. I promise I could find you some people right here at YDS who'd tell you emphatically otherwise.
Yeah, as I was writing that I thought, "Wait, there are charismatic/Pentecostal/whatever Protestant sects that do believe that -- and I think the Catholic Church still technically does exorcisms." I guess my thought is that no one says, "All true believers in Christ have all these abilities," which is what Christ's statement seems to imply. (Or maybe some people do? But for everyone else who *doesn't* say that, how do they deal with that tension?)
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Date: 2005-12-13 01:41 am (UTC)> Oh, wow -- what a sentence.
Isn't it, though? :)
> > but the implications that sex/bodies=bad bother me.
> I can ask Mary about this sometime if I get the chance. (I mean, *my* Mary, not that Mary.) She's the most conservative Catholic I've ever met and always has good informed answers about things.
I'm definitely returning to the Mary issue in my e-mail to the Father, because while I mostly don't think about Mary ever, she's this huge deal for so many people and in so many religious traditions that I would really like a solid explanation. But I'm certainly interested in how different people find peace with these ideas, so feel free to ask her.
> > I find this interesting because nobody nowadays speaks in tongues or drives out demons,
> Um, well, depends on who you're talking to, yo. I promise I could find you some people right here at YDS who'd tell you emphatically otherwise.
Yeah, as I was writing that I thought, "Wait, there are charismatic/Pentecostal/whatever Protestant sects that do believe that -- and I think the Catholic Church still technically does exorcisms." I guess my thought is that no one says, "All true believers in Christ have all these abilities," which is what Christ's statement seems to imply. (Or maybe some people do? But for everyone else who *doesn't* say that, how do they deal with that tension?)