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Adriana Lima

^ How do u know?Lol just kidding:flower:
Well i didn't even know they were engaged haha
 
OMG thanks for those marvellous pics...she is stunning!Once again...
 
cestmagique said:
I don't mean to insult, or question anyone's religiousness, but how can you be catholic but not follow catholic teachings? what makes you catholic? believing in God? hell, then even I'm Catholic... :shock: :p
Religion is not just a belief - it's a cultural thing too - it's a whole way of life. And it's mixed up with ethnicity too. Thus you have Irish-Catholic, Italian-Catholic, Polish-Catholic, Mexican-Catholic etc. And they're all different: all have differnt saints, different holidays, different foods, different ways of living life. So if you're born and raised in it - spend 12 years of your life in Catholic grade school & high school, you are it, wheather you like it or not. You can reject it, rebel against it, convert to another religion, or just become lazy and not bother anymore. But you're still Catholic, just as you're still Irish, or Puerto-Rican, or Italian!
 
capt_bob said:
Religion is not just a belief - it's a cultural thing too - it's a whole way of life. And it's mixed up with ethnicity too. Thus you have Irish-Catholic, Italian-Catholic, Polish-Catholic, Mexican-Catholic etc. And they're all different: all have differnt saints, different holidays, different foods, different ways of living life. So if you're born and raised in it - spend 12 years of your life in Catholic grade school & high school, you are it, wheather you like it or not. You can reject it, rebel against it, convert to another religion, or just become lazy and not bother anymore. But you're still Catholic, just as you're still Irish, or Puerto-Rican, or Italian!

Uh, Tom Cruise was raised with Catholic beliefs, but now he is a firm believer in Scientology which is totally different from Catholicism. So basically, what you are telling me that even though Tom Cruise converted to Scientology, he is still Catholic? :blink: I thought Catholicism was a religion that you can convert not some sort of ethnicity or heritage that you can't change. I also thought that Catholicism and ethnicity were two different things, not something that is combined.

But I could be wrong.
 
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capt_bob said:
Religion is not just a belief - it's a cultural thing too - it's a whole way of life. And it's mixed up with ethnicity too. Thus you have Irish-Catholic, Italian-Catholic, Polish-Catholic, Mexican-Catholic etc. And they're all different: all have differnt saints, different holidays, different foods, different ways of living life. So if you're born and raised in it - spend 12 years of your life in Catholic grade school & high school, you are it, wheather you like it or not. You can reject it, rebel against it, convert to another religion, or just become lazy and not bother anymore. But you're still Catholic, just as you're still Irish, or Puerto-Rican, or Italian!
I'm going to have to disagree strongly with this one too. I come from a country that is around 90% catholic, my whole family are catholics, I was baptised catholics, and trust me, I am NOT catholic.

As for Adriana, I think none of us have a clue how she acts in her private life and if she follows the teachings of the catholic church and lives a "catholic" life. Her pictures, her public image, the persona she projects to us as VS model is all calculated and planned, and as provocative as they may be, are her job, not her life.
 
mundodabolsa said:
I'm going to have to disagree strongly with this one too. I come from a country that is around 90% catholic, my whole family are catholics, I was baptised catholics, and trust me, I am NOT catholic.

As for Adriana, I think none of us have a clue how she acts in her private life and if she follows the teachings of the catholic church and lives a "catholic" life. Her pictures, her public image, the persona she projects to us as VS model is all calculated and planned, and as provocative as they may be, are her job, not her life.

OK, well I was raised Catholic (12 years in Catholic schools) and I don't practice it either, not for quite a few years- I disagree with a lot of their teachings: birth-control, abortion, priests marrying, etc. But I never converted to any other religion (we can't all be shining inspirationl role models for the rest of humanity like Tom Cruise, who decided to abandon Catholicism for the teachings of a failed third-rate science fiction writer!) But I never converted - so I guess, technically, I'm still Catholic. I'm not an atheist. So you tell me - what am !?
 
For what it's worth, the Catholic Church considers you Catholic if you've been baptized Catholic, even if you don't. Unless they excommunicate you.

I know what Bob's trying to say, and agree. When you're raised in a religion that also has a culture - not just popping down once a week to whatever Protestant denomination is closest to your house - it can be as much a part of *you* as your ethnicity, nationality, or sexual identity. You can embrace it or reject it, but it's always going to be there in one way or another.
 
mkfan24 said:
really with the "virgin" story i dont know what to believe:blink:

oh, I don't know either. :doh: I can understand both sides, but personally lean one way... and it seems like both the arguments about catholics are valid as well. :ninja: glad this isn't complicated or anything.
 
So u r too lazy lol...i guess i don't have unseen pics but i can check out
 
haha i was only joking, but thanks for posting anyway, i hadn't seen that pic before!
 

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