My Faith AND my Gloranthanlore force me to answer. I think this is not true,
Julian.
Heroquesting is a way in which a Gloranthan, even a Western one, willingly
tries to change the world and/or a cult.
'Willingly' is the key word in this sentence. You think that Jesus was
deliberately going to doubt himself when he cried "God, Why did you abandon
me?". He had a crisis, but that didn't change the world (incidentally: an
event that Easter did; not the death of Christ, but his resurrection and -
God forgive me- his godquesting in the Underworld).
A dogma, then, is another thing: dogma is not the real, sensible world,
otherwise why call it dogma? It is a definition, by the Church, that says:
if you want to believe in Christ as revelled by the Roman Catholic Church,
you also have to believe that this thing (not evident) is true.
e.g. St.Mary was a virgin (not demonstrable): this is a dogma; if you don't
believe it, you don't believe in the Roman Catholic Church's Revelation; you
can still believe in Protestant Church or in Christ all by yourself; you can
even be saved; the Church does not say that if you don't believe in a dogma
you are damned, it says that in this instance you are not a catholic.
Period. This could hinder your personal salvation, but none can really say.
Pardon me. I hope someone of you can use all this to better ends.
Ciao
Gian
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