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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Is this a joke? Seriously? I’m not religious so it’s a serious question. I thought churches were supposed to be full of the honest people and it was the rest of us heathens who were apparently dishonest and dishonorable. I can’t even imagine being called a liar by a priest.[/quote]

It's not that the priest calls people liars, just that they want proof that you're being truthful.

Missing mass is a mortal sin for Catholics, yet many do it and apparently some will even lie about it -- yet another sin.  [/quote]

It is a mortal sin if the person in question chooses not to go and replaces God with other activities. A kid without someone to take them or guide them is not acting with intent by missing mass. I’m always amazed at how many ‘Christians’ seem to forget the many biblical exhortations to not judge others. Frankly your making assumptions about other people, their motivations and worthiness is a grave sin in and of itself. You know what they say about people in glass houses and such! [/quote]

Doubt very much that pp is Christian. It’s probably the Jew who comes on here constantly to bash Catholics.[/quote]

This is not "bashing" - this is simply explaining how the church works[/quote]

I was referring to the pp who claimed the Catholic Church will send the kid to hell because he can’t get to church, or priests are calling people liars, and the other nasty and untrue accusations. [/quote]

Wait, what? I'm the PP who asked the question about whether this is some sort of joke. And now you're saying that not only is it apparently NOT a joke, but that the priests are apparently not calling people liars AND that I'm making "nasty and untrue accusations"? So now I'm wondering whether THIS is a joke.

If I go to work and say on my timesheet that I arrived at 9am, and my boss says "I don't believe you. Prove it. Show me your punch card." then I see that as the literal definition of someone calling me a liar. What do YOU call it?

And then if I tell someone that I'm upset my boss doesn't believe me and claims that I'm lying on my timesheet, and that I'm looking for a new job because I don't enjoy being called a liar, then you would say that I'm "making nasty and untrue accusations"?

Do you actually know what an untrue accusation is? Or what it means to be nasty? Because if someone is throwing around nasty and untrue accusations here then it seems to be you.

I can't speak for the other people on this thread but I find this behavior (and indeed the thread) to be totally bizarre. And totally not in keeping with what I'd assume about how a church runs.[/quote]

It’s how you phrase it all that’s nasty, duh. You yourself said you asked if it’s a “joke.”  How would you feel if somebody claimed the requirement that a kid attend Hebrew school is a joke? And then you come out with some assertion that priests are flat-out calling people liars. They aren’t, just like a rabbi may be unhappy that your kid isn’t attending Hebrew school regularly, but he isn’t going to come right out and call the kid a “liar.”

Watch your histrionic and abusive language and you won’t get accused of being nasty. This is really a very basic issue of respect. [/quote]

Actually I was seriously wondering if it was a joke. As in, I’m honestly having trouble believing that this exists in some church somewhere.

And I don’t know who runs a church if not a priest, but I guess I could have said “I can’t even imagine attending a church where the people running the church think I’m dishonest and would think there’s a chance I’m lying if I say I did something so I need to prove it with signatures”.

You’re the one being histrionic and abusive. Actually the practice of “the people who run a church” insisting that people get signatures from priests so they can be included in religious activities is histrionic and abusive. The fact that you can’t see that is really perplexing.

And for the record, I still don’t think I believe that there’s a church somewhere that makes people get signatures proving attendance. So I guess that means I’m calling someone a liar - you should accuse me of that instead.[/quote]

So you’re saying rabbis don’t care if kids don’t show up to Hebrew school? Good to know. [/quote]

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