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Actually this moves the catholic church closer to the mormon church, of which I used to be a part. In the mormon church, members are encourage to seek personal revelation but if the revelation you recieve is different than something the church has spoken on then it is a false revelation.
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Yeah, my church was exactly the same way. In fact, that was their answer when I first asked about the fact that many different religions experience speaking in tongues, "when we do it, it's from God, when anyone else does it, its from the devil." Whenever we had any problems getting to church (car trouble and so forth), it was "the devil trying to stop us." When I later decided to visit a Unitarian church and my ride didn't show, it was "God trying to tell me something." That's why its so difficult to reason with "true believers:" they interpret everything through the filter of their faith.
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Those kinds of faith recognize one thing, first of all, about the nature of God and humankind, and it is this: If God really is God, then God must, by definition, surpass our human understanding...WE cannot know with the kind of surety that allows us to proclaim truth with a capital T. there will always be something that eludes us.
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Exactly. It was precisely because I finaly realized this that I became an agnostic. Like Dr. Scott Peck said, "All of the evil in the world is committed by people who are absolutely certain they are doing the right thing." (See also DizzyDee's signature.)