I just finished it. I'm a bit controversial in my views so i thought it would be fun to share it:
Reflection Ch. 6 + 7
Is the pope infallible? Wow. Immediately I feel put in an awkward position as a person with a wholly realist opinion on life and the people in it. I learned about the stages of world views in Ms. Larkin’s Intro to Theology class and I found that I fit right in the middle of the group, as a realist. I don’t sugar coat the world but recognize that it is falling apart at the seams. Likewise I don’t mope about how it always seems like the apocalypse is right around the corner but learn to appreciate the happy things in life. But I digress. The point of my rant was to state that I have a hard time initially trusting any one person as good. Just because a man is labeled the pope I’m supposed to believe that he is initially good and that his morals are just?
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As you can imagine, if the above is my initial reaction, then how am I going to feel when I take an in depth look into the text and realize that when a pope says something infallible, that’s it. It’s written in stone and irreversible. During a discussion on Wednesday the class, as well as you, Mr. Jeffreys became extremely defensive of the church. Know that I wasn’t making a personal attack, and, being a Christian myself, like to have some basic faith in the Pope. Sort of like a guidance counselor, a really really old guidance counselor. But anyways, I always try to look at a topic objectively, sometimes I fail, but my point was not that there was a big conspiracy in the papacy. I was simply stating that people of low moral standing and kindness are priests and such and therefore wouldn’t it be possible for such a pope to exist? While I’m on that topic is it really possible that, in all of history, we’ve never had one bad pope? When the human condition is brought in, in all its bloody glory, it’s hard to imagine that every single man to have held the title of pope was good and holy. We’ve had corrupt government officials, and even corrupt priests before, and yet it seems that when I touched upon the subject of the pope’s honor I was breaching on some sort of taboo.
So what I’m really trying to say is that what one man says should not be held as permanent law for all time, with no exceptions. Perhaps what is being put down shouldn’t stand the tests of time. I may be the only one who thinks this way but it’s my opinion and I’ve been dying to put it to paper.
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