At the moment we are studying tectonic activity and my teacher claims that the plates of the earth are caused to move by convection currents in the mantle, HOWEVER my priest tells me that god is actually moving the plates!! i do not know what to believe!
is studying geography making me a bad catholic?
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It's too late to ask that, godishardcore, as your moniker states quite plainly, god does NOT fuck around. There is a special hole of despair for you, apostate. God will NOT be mocked! 'Convection currents'? 'Tectonic activity'? BLASPHEMY! You'll have plenty of time to see how they really work, up close and personal! Abandon all hope, this ferry ride is one way, and your ticket is definately authentic. WELCOME TO OBLIVION!
YES! You are a terrible person! GEOGRAPHY IS OF THE DEVIL! Learning about the world is clearly Satanic because Christians are to be in the world but not of it! Be in it, but be wilfully ignorant of it to avoid being a part of it! Worldly knowledge will corrupt you! Satan invented tectonic plates just to deceive you and turn you away from God! REPET OF YOUR SINS NOW AND GO GET SOME HOMESCHOOLING!!!
Nope, it's not gonna work, you're going to march into that classroom and take your geography test, no stupid excuses, God will not strike you dead over plate techtonics.
Now just slow down and think about it a minute. Which makes more sense; the plates moving due to convection currents in the mantle, which has been scientifically proven, or them being moved by the hand of God, which has never been observed, scientifically or otherwise.
Would you build a house with a roof that you'd have to support yourself, or plumbing with holes that you'd need to plug with your fingers? Would you rather grind your grain manually rather than use a mill?
Catholics are mostly down with science, Luis. I think it's partly because the evidence is overwhelmingly in the favour of science, but partly because we've made so many mistakes in the past. The nuns who taught science classes regularly brought up evolution without mentioning God; bless them, but they thought that sort of thing belonged in scripture classes. My parish priest has also indicated his support for a scientific explanation of the universe. Now if only they'd extend that liberal attitude to birth control.
At the moment we are studying tectonic activity and my teacher claims that the plates of the earth are caused to move by convection currents in the mantle, HOWEVER my priest tells me that god is actually moving the plates!! i do not know what to believe!
Listen to your teacher. There's a reason (s)he is your teacher.
is studying geography making me a bad catholic?
Maybe, but being a good Catholic isn't necessarily a good thing.
will i go to hell for it?
Of course not. Hell doesn't exist.
"At the moment we are studying tectonic activity and my teacher claims that the plates of the earth are caused to move by convection currents in the mantle,
Correct.
HOWEVER my priest tells me that god is actually moving the plates!!
Your priest, no matter how much you might respect him, probably isn't a scientist in general, or a geologist in particular.
i do not know what to believe!
It's not a question of whether or not you believe that the plates of crust exist and slowly move around on a plastic mantle. They exist and move whether you believe in them or not. They have been mapped, and their motion measured, extensively.
So...believe in what exists.
is studying geography making me a bad catholic?
No.
will i go to hell for it?"
Assuming it exists, no.
You are aware these don't contradict, yes?
No, of course you're not.
If you believe god is moving the plates, I want you to prove it's YOUR god that is moving them. My 2000-year-old Gospel of Hunches, Assumptions, Hypothesis and Supposition says it is The Great Juju Up the Mountain that is moving them, and I don't think he subcontracts that work out.
"is studying geography making me a bad catholic?
You should know by now that studying ANY science will send you to hell FOREVER! SCIENCE IS THE WORK OF THE DEVIL! LIES FROM THE PIT OF HELL!!! REPENT!!!
That's because the god that endowed us with senses, reason, and intellect intended us to forgo their use.
And when you study cosmology and your teacher tells you that stars are suns like ours, some with planets going around them, some of which might have life of their own, be sure to plug your ears. Studying topics like this for sure will send you to extra-horrible, extra-forever-long hell, and it will probably get you burned at the stake.
Just ask Giordano Bruno.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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