Reason for issuing the Compostela (was Re: Re: numbers..final)

[Rolf Gunnar Rolfsson]

Perhaps beliefs are beyond churches? On the roof?

--Rolf

 --- Scott Horton <lasemillabesadaahotmail.com> skrev:
> Perhaps, at the root if this, is the idea that some
> here seem to promulgate
> that the exclusivity of receiving a "real"
> Compostela for "real" beliefs
> makes the piece of paper all the more valuable.
> Shortage increases value?
> I think it is a mistake and rather distasteful to
> apply economic and
> marketing theory to what is, ultimately, a personal
> and individual
> motivation having a life and extreme value
> regardless of Catholic ritual and
> strictures.
>
> --Scott
>
>
> >From: Howard Mendes <HMe347aAOL.COM>
> >Reply-To: Road to Santiago Pilgrimage
> <GOCAMINOaPETE.URI.EDU>
> >To: GOCAMINOaPETE.URI.EDU
> >Subject: Re: Reason for issuing the Compostela
> (was Re:      Re:
> >     numbers..final)
> >Date: Thu, 6 May 2004 09:43:20 EDT
> >
> >In a message dated 05/06/04 09:29:12 AM Eastern
> Daylight Time,
> >ed_maddenaLINEONE.NET writes:
> >And no-one surely would say that an attempt at
> thought control was involved
> >if a Catholic priest would only agree to provide a
> baptism certificate to
> >someone who professed  the faith and went through
> the ceremony?
> >This is fine for adherents to a faith; but what
> about non-believers who
> >walk?
> >  there is no requirement, thankfully, that one
> profess to be a Catholic to
> >receive the Compostela.  As for Marathon
> certificates and academic degrees,
> >of
> >course there are requirements to earn them.  I
> don't take issue with the
> >proof
> >that one has walked or cycled a certain distance,
> but what does "a
> >religious
> >motive" really have to do with getting a
> Compostela?  The Church should
> >eliminate this aspect of granting the Compostela
> despite all your arguments
> >for
> >keeping it.  As I said, personal or private motives
> are just as valid in my
> >mind.
> >HM NYC

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