Any Pearl Jam Catholics?...

PearlJain

Was born and raised Irish Catholic. But I know longer practice Catholicism. I find MY personal "god" in Nature. And -in order to best avoid arguements - I try my best to never discuss politics nor religion with others. (It only leads to places I don't want to go). I strongly believe ....to each his own. However - "Peace be with you......"

PearlJain

Indifference wrote:

I think you meant to say "he is actually way off base on many of his views WHEN COMPARED TO MINE."

Excellent Point! No one could have said this any better!

And I meant to add to my last response - what I personally think of EV's views about religion....I respect EVERYONE'S viewpoint - including his - and would hope that others will respect mine.

sometimes80

Stephen Flow wrote:

Because, believe it or not... not every parent feels the same way you do... there are parents who would take offense to their kids leaving religions... believe me I know a few (not mine).

If you grow up learning the differences between your religion and others and you choose to stay in that religion and be a part of it, fine... but my beef is with people who raise their kids under any religion and don't teach them the fundamental aspects of the religion, heck I went to Sunday school and learned nothing about that kind of stuff... it was all just assumed and we all know what happened when you assume eh?

i whole-heartedly agree with you. if you wanna bring your kid up in a religion, the least you have to do is explain it to them.

LukinFan

IntoTheSun wrote:

I'm a Pearl Jam fan. I am a Catholic. Eddie's views do not affect me.

ditto

Carlos D

I'm Catholic and I don't give a toss what Ed says,he's entitled to his opinion even if at times he's condescending and self-righteous about it.

MakingWaves

Crazy Breed wrote:

i can't believe people think the pope is God on Earth!!

here,read about your pope and see who's side he's really on.


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oh and I'm a Christian just so you don't assume I'm an atheist.

I'm Catholic and nothing Eddie says bothers me. He is free to think whatever he likes.

Also, I don't know any Catholics that believe the pope is God on Earth.

According to the Catholic Encyclopedia:
"The title pope, once used with far greater latitude, is at present employed solely to denote the Bishop of Rome, who, in virtue of his position as successor of St. Peter, is the chief pastor of the whole Church, the Vicar of Christ upon earth."

I think a lot of confusion comes from that last part, "Vicar of Christ upon earth." and with good reason. But the title Vicar of Christ actually means: A title of the pope implying his supreme and universal primacy, both of honour and of jurisdiction, over the Church of Christ.

Big Man

wouldyouhitme? wrote:

Im Catholic

Eddies views on Jesus matter to me about as much as Jesus's views on Eddie.

I love Jesus - Hopefully Eddie will too someday

What did Eddie say against Jesus or religion, I must have missed that. I thought Given To Fly was about Jesus, and that didnt sound like an insult.

Big Man

sometimes80 wrote:

Given the Pope visiting the U.S.....any pearl jam fans that are catholics? If so, how does some of Eddie's anti-religion views affect you?

What are we talking about here? We need to have some references, maybe quotes by Eddie, otherwise I dont see Pearl Jam being anti-religion at all and am interested in hearing why you think otherwise?

ashtrayrock

lifehouse was about entertainment replacing religion
pete t

my brother became a catholic to get married to a catholic so they could raise their kids and send them to a catholic school. i sat during their wedding and listened to what the priest said about man being the head of the household etc etc and all i could think of was how wrong catholics are, about a lot of things. they're just not very today.

all IMHO

gtrplyr

ashtrayrock wrote:

they're just not very today.

Thats a very interesting statement. I'm not Cathlolic. But as far as religions go, they are very much "today". They continuously change their positions on matter in order to maintain members. IMO, a religion, who follows the Bible, should not change its views to things that disagree with the Bible just so they don't offend their members.

The world is going down the toilet. Why should a religio, of all things, follow that trend? PEOPLE should be modifying their lives to fit their religion. Not the other way around. I'm pretty sure God didn't say "ok...heres the rules written down for you...feel free to make up your own as you go. I don't want to offend anyone who wants to do things I don't approve of."

covered in bliss

Big Man wrote:

What are we talking about here? We need to have some references, maybe quotes by Eddie, otherwise I dont see Pearl Jam being anti-religion at all and am interested in hearing why you think otherwise?

I was wondering this as well. How does anyone here know what Ed's religious views are? Especially since getting married and becoming a father? (2 VERY big life-changes.)

pipedreams

Catholic. Former alter boy. Had no problems with the priests whatsoever. My wife has two aunts that are nuns.

Like most, i don't agree with the church all of the time. I don't believe Ed is anti-religion either. He can say whatever he wants. Its free will baby!

Blessed are the cheesemakers.

RyeGuy

Just listen to the music and forget about the politics behind the people who make it.

roar

nowayimfaithfull wrote:

Im catholic , eds rants dont bother me, what bothers me is the people in here that use it to sound high and mighty like we are stupid.

I'm Catholic. I like rants. I go on many of my own.

Opposing views make my beliefs stronger.

It only bothers me when people who claim to be open-minded assume that people are stupid to subscribe to organized religion. How can you claim to be open-minded if you degrade those "stupid enough" to disagree with you? ...but I digress.

ashtrayrock

gtrplyr wrote:

Thats a very interesting statement. I'm not Cathlolic. But as far as religions go, they are very much "today". They continuously change their positions on matter in order to maintain members. IMO, a religion, who follows the Bible, should not change its views to things that disagree with the Bible just so they don't offend their members.

The world is going down the toilet. Why should a religio, of all things, follow that trend? PEOPLE should be modifying their lives to fit their religion. Not the other way around. I'm pretty sure God didn't say "ok...heres the rules written down for you...feel free to make up your own as you go. I don't want to offend anyone who wants to do things I don't approve of."

you make me laugh...and if you think i'm going to discuss religion with you then you are kidding yourself!

i look forward to the day when pete t's vision is proved right.

EvilRabbit

I'm not going to say anything about religion. I said enough in the other thread ("Ed On Religion") and anyone who reads it will know my atheist views (and probably hate them).

All I want to say here is that Ed appearing on Bill Maher would kick ass. I don't agree with Bill when he gets all psycho about food, but his politics and anti-religion views are excellent. I would love to see Ed converse with Bill.

BTW, if you don't know it yet Ed is endorsing Barack Obama. That's fact.

Mamasan Bren

I was at Ed's LA1 show and what he said was only making fun of the music involved in those messages and not really the messages themselves. I would have to think that Ed is indeed a Christian and not an atheist just by looking at all of his lyrics. What proof is there out there that Ed is anti-religious? I was born, baptized and raised a Catholic, fell out during college and a long time afterwards but have recently come back into it. I'm even receiving the sacrament of Confirmation as a 33 year old next month.

Peace to All Jammers

EvilRabbit

Mamasan Bren wrote:

I was at Ed's LA1 show and what he said was only making fun of the music involved in those messages and not really the messages themselves. I would have to think that Ed is indeed a Christian and not an atheist just by looking at all of his lyrics. What proof is there out there that Ed is anti-religious? I was born, baptized and raised a Catholic, fell out during college and a long time afterwards but have recently come back into it. I'm even receiving the sacrament of Confirmation as a 33 year old next month.

Peace to All Jammers

Do The Evolution.

Pearl Juli

EvilRabbit wrote:

Do The Evolution.

Well, I'm a person majoring in science AND a Catholic.
I believe in evolution. That doesn't make me anti-religion, nor does it mean I don't believe in God, for example.

Evolution explains how different species changed over time, not how everything was created. Therefore, the thought of a "creator" (call it God, or whatever you want) AND evolution, may co-exist.

covered in bliss

DTE has nothing to do with how everything was created --- it's more about what has happened SINCE we were created.