TheScout

I've had a many drinks in my time and a few smokes in my time. I feel fine.

Teaching a child something right does not violate free will. Its just like 2 and 2 equals 4.

Then what is your point? The BSA are not hypocrites, they just have views on those two terms that are not the same as yours. Theres includes homosexuality being wrong, yours does not.

Some religions hold that theirs is the only true faith and that it is the parents duty to teach their child that.

They are enforcing all their policies. Smoking and drinking doesn't make one not physically strong. Being a gay does not make you morally straight. Its not that hard.

If you believe there is only one right way, why wouldn't you teach their child that right away to ensure they don't make the wrong decision.

I know many people who smoke and drink and are strong.

Like I said you can't let a child decide anything he/she wants? What if he decides through reason to be a anti-semetic national socialist. What then?

Of course not.

"And if we knew for an absolute fact that there is a creator and who that creator is...I would agree with you. We don't though and that is why it is called faith. A properly educated child should be taught to think for themselves and make their own decisions when they are old enough to think objectively about faith and religion." It is not OK for a child to learn objectiively the wrong faith. It is the salvation of the child's soul for all of eternity we are talking about. What if the child is allowed to think forhimself and becomes a viciously anti-semetic national socialist. Is tha

If actually taking seriously the oath to defend the Constitution is pedantic, than I am guilty. Good thing nobody told Gen. Washington politics is the art of the possible. He might have never dared to fight the greatest empire in the world with an army composed of the militia from a bunch of divided colonies.

A properly educated child should know who their creator is at a real young age. It is the first thing taught in any religious education class. If they have poor parents who do not see to this development, the least we should do is make sure the kid knows this is not acceptable. In the long run it is in the best interest of the child. Who cares about the BSA numbers? Are we know a consumer product whose only purpoe is to appeal to the masses to maximize numbers. If people do not care about our beliefs, we should not want them in.

"Neither was Lincoln's suspension of habeas corpus." Which was also wrong. "The point is, UENI (or our grandparents really, both my parents were way under 15 on Inauguration Day 1933) needed confidence in the banking system. FDRs method gave it to them. It worked." Did it work? The Great Depression continued to get worse. Look at unemployment numbers in 1933 compared to 1939. Even if it did work. Is that right? Did you take an oath to defend the Constitution of the United States except in an emergency? There is no such thing as a good idea clause in the Constitution. Somet

Then how do you explain John Paul II's Centesimus annus? The Church has always stood against modern socialism.

One would think even the smallest of children would be able to tell who created him/her.

But the Bank Holiday was not constitutional . . . Oh wait, I forgot, the Constitution doesn't matter in emergencies, right?(This message has been edited by TheScout)

Some people use the term to mean the same thing as a mortal sin.

Ever since modern socialism has existed it was been criticized by the Church.

Since the modern ideas of Catholic social teaching were collected in the late 19th Century the Church has had a similar position on socialism. I do not like to call the Successor to St. Peter as the head of Christ's Church on Earth a revisionist.

I think the participation that is barred is receiving the sacraments. Of course one is still to kneel in the presence of the Lord during the consecration and such. Sadly, some such people continue to attend Mass and receive the sacraments. The same problem with people receiving the Eucharist without repenting after a grave sin.

Except the Popes have consistently condemned socialism for over 100 years. Ever since the Church began talking about the doctrine.

"Vatican backs abortion row bishop" http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7930380.stm

Catholic social teaching has always come out strongly against socialism in all its forms. The very recent encyclical Centesimus annus by Pope John Paul II makes this very clear which says in part (Revrum Novarum was Pius XII's 1891 encyclical on social justice: "The commemoration of Rerum novarum would be incomplete unless reference were also made to the situation of the world today. The document lends itself to such a reference, because the historical picture and the prognosis which it suggests have proved to be surprisingly accurate in the light of what has happened since then. Thi

I wrote about the President of Brazil in the context that he had the audacity to condemn the actions of the Archbishop. I poor example for a leader of a mostly Catholic country. Of course there is nothing wrong with trying to do your best. But I know many people who are very educated without having traveled widely or been to college. An elitest is one who thinks they are better than others. I do not think that is a good trait.

Excommunication no longer lifts a Catholic from the obligation to attend Mass. However, he/she can not participate in any form.