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Why do non-Catholics want so desperately for the Catholic Church to change its teachings?<\/p>\n

It\u2019s fascinating, the amount of emotion at least some non-Catholics seem to have about Catholic teaching. I can tell you that when I was in the anti-God period of my life, I did not give one whit what any church taught. I paid them the ultimate diss of not giving a care.<\/p>\n

But from what I\u2019ve seen on this blog, there are a large number of people who claim to be atheist or some what-not version of what I was in my anti-God period, who appear to think about Christianity, the Catholic Church in particular, 24\/7. They appear to be, in a word, obsessed with the minutiae of Catholic teaching.<\/p>\n

If you doubt this, go to some of the atheist blogs. All they ever talk about is God, Christian teaching, and the Bible.<\/p>\n

There are a few issues in particulate that really rev their engines. They are:<\/p>\n

Who gets to take communion in Catholic Churches (which they insist, even while they debate this endlessly, is just a superstition and a wafer.)<\/li>\n
Why the Church won\u2019t affirm gay marriage.<\/li>\n
Why the Church won\u2019t say it\u2019s ok for them kill people they want to kill (the unborn, the elderly, disabled, etc.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
When someone confronts them with the obvious inconsistency implied in their obsessive demands that a Church they claim is a stupid cult alter teachings that they claim are based on a myth, they start denouncing Catholics for using their rights as American citizens to vote and advocate according to their consciences.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s as if it offends them that Catholics have the same rights to vote, free assembly and to petition their government as other citizens. I suppose it\u2019s true that it does offend them. Because one takeaway I get from reading the comments from most (not all, there are a couple of clear exceptions) of these people is that they are, at base, bullies.<\/p>\n
I also think that the core reason they keep coming around here to drop off their load of insults (most of the truly insulting ones never see the light of day on this blog) is that they are either mental on some level, or, whether they will admit it or not, they are God haunted people who desperately want what the Church offers, which is peace with God, eternal life and a spiritual home. It\u2019s just that they can\u2019t bring themselves to go to God on God\u2019s terms. They want Him \u2014 meaning His Church \u2014 to come to them on their terms.<\/p>\n
These are people who refuse to be forgiven for their sins. What they want is to have the Almighty ratify their sins. They are obsessed with finding, not absolution, but vindication, from a Church they claim they believe is a fraud.<\/p>\n
However, that\u2019s just my reaction. Yours may be different. I\u2019m going to throw this open for discussion.<\/p>\n
Why do you think nonbelievers are so obsessed with the Catholic Church?<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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