a priest, a bishop, and the pope walk into a bar

[faboo]

and the pope says, "Guys, we gotta stop making this shit up," and is mysteriously silent on other aspects of his religion that also aren't documented

Comments

[ext_5281]

In a word, yes.

Though I suppose Ed will arrive shortly to disagree.

[codepoet]

I would have, had I been reading my friends-page that week.

[grainybrains]

i prefer the limbo rock when it comes to matters of hellfire or smitten with kittens. thank you faboo, you are awesome =).

[faboo]

I *loved* the limbo rock. we used to do it on rollerskates at good old Roll On America (the only place to rollerskate in our area, and _almost_ the only place to waste your life savings playing arcade games). it got pretty cheese-ball really fast, `cause who wants to fall down on rollerskates?

[codepoet]

Like the article says, Limbo has never been doctrine, merely speculation. There are plenty of Doctines that Cannot Change, such as the divinity of Christ, but Limbo isn't one of them.

In other words:
Doctrine: True Faith and Love are required for salvation, and normatively baptism too.
Doctrine: God is both perfectly just and perfectly merciful.
Doctrine: God is all-knowing and all-powerful, providentially working for the best of each soul. When it's all said and done, no one will be able to say he got shafted by the Almighty.

Understanding all these doctrines in relation to each other is where speculation starts to come in. One of the usual difficulties is how perfect justice and mercy interact in a specific situaation. Since we don't tend to be very good at either, the perfect joining of both is "kinda difficult" ;)

Why not say everyone goes to heaven?
* We already know some people won't.
* If everyone went to heaven, we would be ignoring justice

[codepoet]

By the way, which "also aren't documented" aspects of Catholicism were you thinking about?