[245] in Discussion of MIT-community interests
Re: What can we do?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Wally)
Fri Apr 27 14:41:16 2001
Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2001 14:31:31 -0400 (EDT)
From: Wally <wally@sub-zero.mit.edu>
To: Ray Jones <rjones@pobox.com>
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> > I doubt the other papers sent in the packet made claims like "All
> > non-Catholics are less intelligent and less motivated than the
> > Catholic students are."
>
> No, but the Cathloics (and many other religions) do hold beliefs
> almost as disturbing (e.g., if you're not baptized you're headed for
> hell). Admittedly, statements like these probably weren't in the
> packet, but they're still implied by the term "catholic".
This is, in short, wrong. If you're not baptized the Catholic Church no
longer has much to say about you; however, John Paul II has written on
people of other faiths as 'brothers in faith' or some such verbiage. The
long and the short of it is, Catholics aren't (in general) particularly
bothered by people of other faiths -- which is partially the fault of a
Church that's been losing its hold on people's lives for hundreds of years
now. Anyway, mind your generalizations about Catholicism -- the Church's
central tenets are almost entirely unknown to the bulk of its members.
W.
