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Originally Posted by Immortal Goat
To be called a "sheep" is the typical analogy used in the catholic religion, and it couldn't be any more fitting. To be a sheep, one follows what is required of yourself, never questioning, never having a unique thought in your head, and never breaking the cycle of conformity.
Does this analogy scare anyone else out there? There are too many religions out there that force orthodoxy upon it's followers that it sickens me. You are either a sheep or a damned soul. Does this shepherd analogy disturb any of you as much as it does me?
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Probably taken in today's contrast of blindly following without question, then it is in no way a fitting analogy to be called. But the analogy itself isn't supposed to be used like that.
The view of the sheep is two-fold...only seen together in light of the Shepard. You aren't a sheep because you blindly follow and believe everything that the Church accepts as absolute dogma (considering the Church has changed its mind over several years on a few issue), but because you recognize the existance of Jesus as a guiding light and helper in your life. It's a mere simile to the fact that God loves you and is watching over you, like a shepard does to his flock of sheep.
There is no sense of conformity attached to it.
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