solfeggio wrote:

Shi -
Interesting point about some Catholics being very liberal.  Several of the women with whom I associate are church-going Catholics who never miss Mass, but they also make very naughty jokes about priests and nuns, etc. and laugh at some of the 'rules' of the church.  I asked one woman if she would have to confess to a priest about making such jokes, and she just laughed and said nobody worried about such things anymore.

Where the man known as Jesus is concerned - I don't know.  In an effort to learn more about why he is so venerated by religious people, I did a lot of research into biblical history some time ago, and I couldn't find any actual historical reference to such a man at all.  And there is the fact that some of what is attributed to him was first said hundreds of years earlier by Confucious and others.

In any case, I was very pleased to see on the news that President Obama is allowing the scientists to go ahead with stem cell research now.  It is such a promising field, and it can offer hope to so many people with devastating diseases.

Not to get off the subject (whatever the subject is birthcontrol, sex, stemcells?) anyways but what do you mean when you say "some of what is attributed to him (Jesus) was first said hundreds of years earlier by Confucious and others?" Word for word?