Mon
Sep 18 2006
09:31 am
Infallability
By: JPROF

I thought being infallabile meant not ever having to say you're sorry.

No, wait, that's being in love.

Never mind. 

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Crimsonnape's picture

Infallible

Submitted by Crimsonnape (not verified) on Mon, 2006/09/18 - 9:53am.

In the Catholic church the infallibility is limited, unlike stupidity in liberals.

Please not the the correct spelling in the subject line.

jah's picture

Yeah, that was a cute joke,

Submitted by jah on Mon, 2006/09/18 - 10:14am.

Yeah, that was a cute joke, but it expresses how many of the Catholic doctrines (um, is that a doctrine?) are misunderstood by most of the non-Catholic world (including me).

bizgrrl's picture

Some peeple take jokes a

Submitted by bizgrrl on Mon, 2006/09/18 - 11:05am.

Some peeple take jokes a little too seriously.

Something I found in my 10-15 year old dictionary:

Infallible: 

(in Roman Catholicism) immune from fallacy or error in expounding matters     of faith or morals.

I don't understand many religious or government doctrines. But, apparently there are definite limits to the infallibility of conservatives.

jah's picture

Like I said, I'm not

Submitted by jah on Mon, 2006/09/18 - 12:06pm.

Like I said, I'm not Catholic. But if you're going to make fun of them, I think you should make fun of them instead of your idea of them.

Yes there is a doctrine (or whatever - I don't know the terminology) of papal infallibility. But that doesn't mean the pope can't make mistakes. The immunity to "fallacy or error" is only in effect when the pope says he's stating something infallibly - which he does very, very rarely (as in a few times a century).

This time, he just made a statement, not a statement he claimed to be infallible. 

 

bizgrrl's picture

Sorry, jah, did not want to

Submitted by bizgrrl on Mon, 2006/09/18 - 12:18pm.

Sorry, jah, did not want to seem disrespectful. If I am anything it would be Catholic, born and raised, baptized, confirmed. Catholic school for a while, church every Sunday for many, many years, respected/feared (feared/respected) the nuns.

Jprof this is all your fault.

jah's picture

heh. 

Submitted by jah on Mon, 2006/09/18 - 12:25pm.

heh.

 

JPROF's picture

Yes, I accept the responsibility . . .

Submitted by JPROF on Mon, 2006/09/18 - 12:32pm.

. . . for the misspelling and most of the rest of the world's troubles.

 I'm fallible.

 I did not mean to offend. But I do remain puzzled over the concept of "limited infallibility." My problem, though. No one else's.

jah's picture

Oh, you've got me. I just

Submitted by jah on Mon, 2006/09/18 - 2:59pm.

Oh, you've got me. I just know what I've already said. I think the whole "infallible" thing is pretty sketchy. But whatever.

Socialist With A Gold Card's picture

Just sayin'

Submitted by Socialist With ... on Mon, 2006/09/18 - 3:01pm.

Received via email:

 

This man (on the left, wearing a fabulous vintage chiffon-lined Dior gold lamé gown over a silk Vera Wang empire waist tulle cocktail dress, accessorized with a 3-foot beaded peaked House Of Whoville hat and the ruby slippers Judy Garland wore in The Wizard Of Oz) is worried that The Da Vinci Code might make the Roman Catholic Church look foolish.

 

I'm just sayin' ...

--Socialist With A Gold Card

"I'm a socialist with a gold card. I firmly believe we need a revolution; I'm just concerned that I won't be able to get good moisturizer afterwards." --Brett Butler

 

 

redmondkr's picture

THE SUN WILL COME UP

Submitted by redmondkr on Mon, 2006/09/18 - 5:39pm.

THE SUN WILL COME UP TOMORROW!

The Catholic church only recently laid to rest that old saw about who goes around whom and you have to bring it up again.

 

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