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I'm hitting the religious theme today
Oct. 6th, 2006 03:34 pmSo, as I understand it the Pope is abolishing Limbo, the First Circle of Hell and, also, the place where the souls of unbaptised children go.
I am reminded of the item in The Day Today where the Vatican imprisoned two teenaged boys who hacked into the church's central computer and changed Catholic doctrine. 'The Vatican realised the computer had been tampered with when they discovered Jesus had died of food poisoning aged 19, and Lou Reed had been canonised.'
My problem is with the fact that one old man can say 'Limbo doesn't exist anymore' and a whole theological concept just disappears in a puff of smoke and, presumably, millions upon millions of little tiny souls, and also, if Dante is to be believed, the souls of Socrates, Homer and Plato, whoosh up the celestial escalator to some kind of holding area near the Gates of Heaven so that they can process all the new arrivals. Isn't this just admitting that Christianity is made up? Can any Catholics attempt to enlighten me on this one?
I am reminded of the item in The Day Today where the Vatican imprisoned two teenaged boys who hacked into the church's central computer and changed Catholic doctrine. 'The Vatican realised the computer had been tampered with when they discovered Jesus had died of food poisoning aged 19, and Lou Reed had been canonised.'
My problem is with the fact that one old man can say 'Limbo doesn't exist anymore' and a whole theological concept just disappears in a puff of smoke and, presumably, millions upon millions of little tiny souls, and also, if Dante is to be believed, the souls of Socrates, Homer and Plato, whoosh up the celestial escalator to some kind of holding area near the Gates of Heaven so that they can process all the new arrivals. Isn't this just admitting that Christianity is made up? Can any Catholics attempt to enlighten me on this one?
