[lbo-talk] Signs of the times

Chris Doss lookoverhere1 at yahoo.com
Wed Sep 16 11:19:52 PDT 2009


There may be a Mormon equivalent to Thomas Aquinas or Duns Scotus out there, but if so I haven't heard of him.

--- On Wed, 9/16/09, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:


> From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com>
> Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Signs of the times
> To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
> Date: Wednesday, September 16, 2009, 12:44 PM
>
> On Sep 16, 2009, at 12:34 PM, Shane Mage wrote:
>
> > On Sep 16, 2009, at 12:20 PM, SA wrote:
> >> Chris Doss wrote:
> >>> Plus you have to admit that there is something
> completely deranged abiut converting from Catholicism, with
> its 2000 years of intellectual tradition, to the gutter
> religion of Mormonism.
> >> I think Catholicism supplies the Church of JCLS
> with a large majority of its U.S. converts, for some reason.
> I saw a priest lament this on cable access once.
> >
> >
> > Catholicism claims, like the others, to be a revealed
> religion.
>
> After reading Ratso's reflections on homosex:
>
> <http://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/congregations/cfaith/documents/rc_con_cfaith_doc_19861001_homosexual-persons_en.html>
>
> I really do wonder about that splendid "intellectual
> tradition." The language is more high-falutin' than what a
> Mormon would produce, but still...
>
> Doug
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