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For all of you catholics out there, the rules of the catholic religion are based on the catechism and the bible (as im sure you know). But what you might not know is that according to the catechism...
"It is by the judgment of his conscience that man perceives and recognizes the prescriptions of the divine law".
In other words, as long as you can't honestly find anything wrong with your long hair, there is nothing wrong with having it.
you can find more info here http://www.christusrex.org/www1/CDHN/moral.html
"In other words, as long as you can't honestly find anything wrong with your long hair, there is nothing wrong with having it."
Very true... totally agree, but the thing is my friend... there isn't a single catholic that opposes long hair because its inmoral, the opposition comes from people who don't like it, but they never say its morally wrong.
Christians who oppose long hair for its "evilness" are fundamentalist Christians mainly, along with Baptists and Methodists. They take the famous passage from Paul very literally. That doesn't happen with anyone around catholic teachings, or other similar christians.
What those people don't realize is that even some rabbis have long hair. And I've also see catholic priests with nice long hair, not many, but I have.
St. Paul was not against long hair absolutely.
Long hair is very common as a sign of religious consecration in Eastern Christianity.
It's nice to see that people still let 4,000 year old documents govern their lives.
my conscience governs my life
HAHA. So true!
In Islam, we are allowed to grow long hair to whatever limit, even though most Muslims think that long hair is unacceptable. To them, it is unacceptable because their lives are governed by obscure cultural rules which have no logic whatsoever. Our Prophet (pbuh) himself had shoulder length hair. The only condition that we have is that we must not do it to imitate others.
In verse 16 of Corinthians, St. Paul makes it very clear that there is not set law or custom of men having short hair in the churches of God. Also, St. Paul in Corinthians (1Corinthians 14: 12, 26, 40)states that if such regulations cause division or strife, they are null and void.
Another point, what happened to the next paragraph which states that
short hair on a women is a shame to her? Why aren't the people who limit long hair on guys limit short hair on WOMEN? I was taught as a Christian, you follow ALL of God's teachings. You CANNOT pick and choose which teachings you follow. It's either all or nothing.
If you are going to try to follow ALL of the teaching in the Bible, then it becomes very difficult when you find two contradictory teachings. I agree that it should be "all or nothing". The problem is that this leads me to choose "nothing" instead of "all".
The problem with all or nothing is that the whole thing is so contradictory. The Bible was written by different people over periods covering thousands of years - how can you expect to find anything consistent in that? Then, when you consider the cultural differences between then and now and the eastern and western worlds, it just becomes hopeless. Not to mention the loss of meaning in translation...
Unfortunately the fundamentalists pick out the bits that suit them and use these quotations as a justification to beat people over the head with their prejudices.
I too, choose "nothing."