Many Christians will bristle if told they believe in the supernatural. "No, no God is natural. the supernatural is the Devil's tools". This conditioning to believe in the supernatural but not believe is how they are led around by their superstitions. They are so unable to tell the fictions apart that they question the reality they see with their own eyes. They have to rely on sources outside of their own brain to tell them what is real, superstition or God's work. The Republican party has capitalized on this by converting the masses from those who love Jesus to those who think Jesus is a weak communist.
I imagine there were few Catholics that got this 'quiz' 100 percent correct. Not that they would be able to tell, the answers to this true/false quiz are not true/false answers.
Seriously, the quiz article could have been much shorter.
If the church says it’s real it’s real, if it comes from any other source it’s superstition and evil.
It’s all nonsense and the nonsense backed by the church tends to have a long history of violence and cruelty, which makes it far more dangerous than throwing change in a wishing well.
Shorter version: Our version of magical thinking and special pleading are all absolutely true because the Pope said so. You're bound for hell if you question any of it. End of discussion. Now, go say a rosary and beg God's forgiveness, or he will torture you for all eternity because he loves you so much.
Firstly, let's once again acknowledge that the word "supernatural" is just a euphemism for the word "magic," which is a much more honest term. Religious folks don't like using the word "magic," because it sounds AS CHILDISH AS IT IS.
So to state the overall assertion of this "test," if it's about magical beings, magical powers, magical objects, magical words, and magical phenomena FROM THE CATHOLIC INTERPRETATION OF THE BIBLE then it's religion, and okay.
But if it's similar or even exactly the same magical beings, powers, objects, words, and phenomena but NOT from the Catholic interpretation of the Bible, then it's superstition and not okay.
So remember, children, Catholic bullshit is good religion, and non-Catholic bullshit is bad superstition.
Good grief, Agnes! This from the church that asserts the existence of an unseen and undetectable god (which they all do, admittedly), multiple types and ranks of unobserved angels, multiple levels of a hell which cannot be found, supposedly vets "miracles" to sanctify saints (who apparently can also be prayed to), priests who can absolve wrongdoing (a.k.a. "sin") with a wave of their hands and a few prescribed prayers, and more assorted unsubstantiated tripe than I could hope to document here.
When it comes to superstition, the Catholic Church leaves everyone else in the dust!
I went over to the original article just to see if I could make a comment. But then I saw the rules regarding comment. And this was the first thing that they said. You cannot:
"troll;
attack the divine element of the Church or her doctrines, even tacitly"
I thought I would write the following, but then I realized that poe's law is an operation here. There is nothing I could write that would be anything but trolling or attacking the divine elements of the church. So here's what I didn't say:
"I have been forbidden to say that belief in any kind of magic is just silly, whether it's tossing pennies into a well or asking an exorcist for advice, so I won't."
“Chalking the door” sounds like when I caught my evangelical Xtian mother anointing the doorways in my home with oil crosses during a particularly difficult period in my life. I could hear her chanting “praise god, in jezuz’ name” like a mantra.
That was the moment I realized how deeply deluded she was. Needless to say, her ridiculous chanting/anointing was just wasted cooking oil.
Clearly things haven't changed much since my years as a catholic. I took the quiz with a former catholic grade school frame of mind and got "correct" answers across the board. Great reinforcement of my skepticism that started around that time.
What we have here is a misleading title for the original article over at the National Catholic Register. The title should have been something like "Do you know your Catholic practices as well as you think you do?" but that wouldn't be the same click bait, now would it? The point here is to show how superstition is just fine, provided it's Vatican-approved Catholic practice superstition.
The RCC is well known for its pageantry, and the reason for said pageantry is maintaining the superstitious status quo. The whole point is an end-run around rational thinking, because if worshipers start thinking for themselves, the leadership loses control over them. Watch the show and do as we say, be sure not to stray, and maybe there will be a reward for everything after you die. It's a con job from start to finish. A checklist article is virtually required to keep 'em in line properly, have to keep folks focused on something unimportant so they don't worry about what really matters. That may well be part of the reason for the misleading title, come to think of it.
I first encountered the chalking of doors when I lived in a German village for a few years. A group of people from the church would go house to house in the neighbourhood and offer to chalk the lintel above the front door for a small 'consideration' for the church. Very similar to going carolling to raise money. It generally happened in the week between Christmas and New Year's day so you'd be "protected" during the next year. I wonder if anyone keeps stats on how many "blessed" houses get burgled or burn down every year. 😈😆
I read this piece with the voices of my brother and me loud in my head. Most sentences was followed with one of us shouting "What the a.f.? Does anyone sane actually believe this shit?" Only in Norwegian, not English.
Fortunately, although most of my extended family are Catholics, I was spared that poisonous upbringing and had no clue what the quiz was babbling on about.
Many Christians will bristle if told they believe in the supernatural. "No, no God is natural. the supernatural is the Devil's tools". This conditioning to believe in the supernatural but not believe is how they are led around by their superstitions. They are so unable to tell the fictions apart that they question the reality they see with their own eyes. They have to rely on sources outside of their own brain to tell them what is real, superstition or God's work. The Republican party has capitalized on this by converting the masses from those who love Jesus to those who think Jesus is a weak communist.
I imagine there were few Catholics that got this 'quiz' 100 percent correct. Not that they would be able to tell, the answers to this true/false quiz are not true/false answers.
Seriously, the quiz article could have been much shorter.
If the church says it’s real it’s real, if it comes from any other source it’s superstition and evil.
It’s all nonsense and the nonsense backed by the church tends to have a long history of violence and cruelty, which makes it far more dangerous than throwing change in a wishing well.
Cherry picking superstitious nonsense after cherry picking the bible? That tracks.
Re Caspar, Melchior and Balthazar: the (unnumbered) wise men are not named in the NT. The names probably arose centuries later. Don't they know that?
You're right. it is a silly question.
Shorter version: Our version of magical thinking and special pleading are all absolutely true because the Pope said so. You're bound for hell if you question any of it. End of discussion. Now, go say a rosary and beg God's forgiveness, or he will torture you for all eternity because he loves you so much.
Firstly, let's once again acknowledge that the word "supernatural" is just a euphemism for the word "magic," which is a much more honest term. Religious folks don't like using the word "magic," because it sounds AS CHILDISH AS IT IS.
So to state the overall assertion of this "test," if it's about magical beings, magical powers, magical objects, magical words, and magical phenomena FROM THE CATHOLIC INTERPRETATION OF THE BIBLE then it's religion, and okay.
But if it's similar or even exactly the same magical beings, powers, objects, words, and phenomena but NOT from the Catholic interpretation of the Bible, then it's superstition and not okay.
So remember, children, Catholic bullshit is good religion, and non-Catholic bullshit is bad superstition.
Now go outside and play.
I think this is why it seems to anger Christians more when I say I am, "just not superstitious" than self identifying as a atheist.
Good grief, Agnes! This from the church that asserts the existence of an unseen and undetectable god (which they all do, admittedly), multiple types and ranks of unobserved angels, multiple levels of a hell which cannot be found, supposedly vets "miracles" to sanctify saints (who apparently can also be prayed to), priests who can absolve wrongdoing (a.k.a. "sin") with a wave of their hands and a few prescribed prayers, and more assorted unsubstantiated tripe than I could hope to document here.
When it comes to superstition, the Catholic Church leaves everyone else in the dust!
I went over to the original article just to see if I could make a comment. But then I saw the rules regarding comment. And this was the first thing that they said. You cannot:
"troll;
attack the divine element of the Church or her doctrines, even tacitly"
I thought I would write the following, but then I realized that poe's law is an operation here. There is nothing I could write that would be anything but trolling or attacking the divine elements of the church. So here's what I didn't say:
"I have been forbidden to say that belief in any kind of magic is just silly, whether it's tossing pennies into a well or asking an exorcist for advice, so I won't."
“Chalking the door” sounds like when I caught my evangelical Xtian mother anointing the doorways in my home with oil crosses during a particularly difficult period in my life. I could hear her chanting “praise god, in jezuz’ name” like a mantra.
That was the moment I realized how deeply deluded she was. Needless to say, her ridiculous chanting/anointing was just wasted cooking oil.
Clearly things haven't changed much since my years as a catholic. I took the quiz with a former catholic grade school frame of mind and got "correct" answers across the board. Great reinforcement of my skepticism that started around that time.
What we have here is a misleading title for the original article over at the National Catholic Register. The title should have been something like "Do you know your Catholic practices as well as you think you do?" but that wouldn't be the same click bait, now would it? The point here is to show how superstition is just fine, provided it's Vatican-approved Catholic practice superstition.
The RCC is well known for its pageantry, and the reason for said pageantry is maintaining the superstitious status quo. The whole point is an end-run around rational thinking, because if worshipers start thinking for themselves, the leadership loses control over them. Watch the show and do as we say, be sure not to stray, and maybe there will be a reward for everything after you die. It's a con job from start to finish. A checklist article is virtually required to keep 'em in line properly, have to keep folks focused on something unimportant so they don't worry about what really matters. That may well be part of the reason for the misleading title, come to think of it.
I first encountered the chalking of doors when I lived in a German village for a few years. A group of people from the church would go house to house in the neighbourhood and offer to chalk the lintel above the front door for a small 'consideration' for the church. Very similar to going carolling to raise money. It generally happened in the week between Christmas and New Year's day so you'd be "protected" during the next year. I wonder if anyone keeps stats on how many "blessed" houses get burgled or burn down every year. 😈😆
Since the entire purpose of the catholic church involves mandatory belief in superstitious nonsense, this is exquisitely funny to me.
I read this piece with the voices of my brother and me loud in my head. Most sentences was followed with one of us shouting "What the a.f.? Does anyone sane actually believe this shit?" Only in Norwegian, not English.
Fortunately, although most of my extended family are Catholics, I was spared that poisonous upbringing and had no clue what the quiz was babbling on about.