Absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Dave

The excommunication is permanent in this life unless the person repents and does acts of contrition, as I understand it. In Co$, there is a way to get back into the church as well.

The permanence that the CC and Co$ declares is in another existence. My amazement is that someone in this existence makes declarations about what happens in another. Of course, the CC says that it is up to god, but the Pope, as his representative on earth, supposedly speaks with god’s authority.

It can be looked at as the perfect con. There’s no evidence to contradict it just as there’s no evidence it is true.

The mythology of LRH has had only 50 years or so to evolve, while Christianity has had two millenia.

That’s the only sense that matters.

I’m also a fan of the alternative form of the med, Fukitol DM.

And I, another Christian, think that they did wrong by so doing. I don’t know what is up in Brazil.

And, FWIW, as far as I know, excommunication is never meant to be permanent. At least not in the Orthodox Church, it isn’t. I would really doubt if Roman Catholics thought it was supposed to be permanent either.

The only one who is able to decide one’s eternal state is God. I don’t have the hubris to declare that my heaven card is punched, either.

If you’re Amish, definitely.

Yep. Could not agree more.

1 Peter 3:15-16: “Always be ready to make your defense to anyone who demands from you an accounting for the hope that is in you; yet do it with gentleness and reverence.”

Amen, and Amen, and Amen, and YES INDEED.

It’s not just medium bad, it’s all-the-way bad.