[Glice]

I said 'yes to some of it, with reservations'. I couldn't give you a precise taxonomy of which aspects I believe in with greater or less veracity because, frankly, ecclesiology is a sprawling wreck of mindwrong. Simply, I believe in most of the fundamental tenets of Roman Catholic faith. This includes maintaining that the Genesis myth is allegorical (as per Nostra Aetate/ VII), that transubstantiation is true (per Nicene Creed, I think), 'an afterlife' (which is a massive fuckcannon of Theological debate, hence a vague demurring), Jesus' miracles as per the canonical gospels and other bits and bobs. At base, most of this is pretty simple things, but my qualifications to those outside of faith systems needs quite a bit of legwork (or pomo bollocks, as you might have it) to get past the invidious tropes of post-Enlightenment 'secular' (iffy term) colonisation of logos. If I were having this conversation with Gail, it'd be over pretty sharpish - 'hey, Jesus is pretty awesome, right?' 'yeah he is. High five?' 'High five!' With suchfriends, it's a different thing again, because he's a lot closer to the sort of properly theological dialogue that I'm on about, though he has a massively different approach to me.

Where is suchfriends, he usually like this sort of thing...