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Lions don't eat rotting flesh!
Posted on 10/25/2014 9:19:13 AM PDT by millegan
Sorry you are right. We were on a long drive from Houston and we were headed back home. I have been there and I was overcome with emotion, as I usually am on battlefields. Just thinking about what happened there, I guess.
Very colorful.
The Buddhists don't have a "god," like the 330-million-faces-of-God that the Hindus have. They just put Sidharth Gautama as The One.
Although the Buddha was just a fairly ordinary Hindu, he, Sidhartha Gautama, INSISTED that he wasn't a deity.
Many Asian Oriental cultures DID deify him, but that was THEIR choice, not Sidhartha's.
Their reality was "nothingness," if I remember right. I taught yoga for a long time and did talk about some of the Hindu faith, but only in a cultural and informational context. Most college students hadn't a CLUE as to anything historical about him.
India MIGHT have had an alphabet but they eschewed it ON PURPOSE for they didn't feel that their Holy Vedda should be sullied by being written out. It HAD been a purely oral tradition. Thus, all the information about the Buddha is based on oral tradition, not the most accurate form of historical recording. Sidharth Gautama's actual history is stuff made up of legends and fairly up to one's imagination or historical theorizing.
We Westerners did yoga for strength, flexibility, breathing and relaxing since yoga was taught as a physical education class--and nothing more.
Their head-dress reminds me a little of the Roman soldiers' head gear.
"Buddha" meant "enlightened" one, not "God."
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Catholic priestly vestments are colorful too: red for martyrs and green for "ordinary." There is quite a bit on them and the historical source of them is long, going back before Christ.
I guess you don’t want to answer the question about believing Jesus Christ is God and that you have accepted Him as your Lord and Savior?
Actually catholics borrowed the idea of their garments based on the royal magistrates of the Romans who they watched processions of...same for their early architecture.
That sounds reasonable.
Exactly what I said: “Counter-Reformation” is Protestant-speak.
It’s amazing how the ignorance of Protestant anti-Catholics undercuts their own claims.
I never realized how much anti-Catholicism still existed today. THIS site was the LAST PLACE I would have expected it. I guess "tolerance" isn't practiced by those who ... oh never mind, you get my point.
They have the right to blast us Catholics. Let them. I am in good company!
You and I, vladimir998, would have been fed to the lions for our faith.
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Lions don't eat rotting flesh!
Huh? How does that claim line up with reality?
We are Anglo-catholic and our priest blessed our house.
My mistake.
I asked one of our former parish priests about house blessings and he said that they are STILL done and done MANY times.
Catholics live in their own fantasy delusions their leadership “colors” for them....amazing what they swallow regardless of the facts.....the leadership are masters at twisting them in knots.
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WVKayaker answered:
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WVKayaker: Is THAT an example of your brand of Christian charity?
Very sad that catholics are so 'dependent on Priests' for blessings they have no power to give and which Jesus himself would be happy to give them himself, if they'd just ask him themselves. ..."For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus".... the Priesthood was done away with now that Jesus is our great High Priest. Why catholics "need" Priests to intercede for them evidences they haven't accepted the finished work of Christ.
I guess it's because Jesus appointed them.
The seventy disciples or seventy-two disciples (known in the Eastern Christian tradition as the Seventy Apostles) were early students of Jesus mentioned in the Gospel of Luke 10:1–24. According to Luke, the only gospel in which they appear, Jesus appointed them and sent them out in pairs on a specific mission which is detailed in the text.
JESUIT COLLEGE RECOGNIZES PAGAN GROUP
A Catholic university located in Chicago has given its blessing to a student organization for “pagans," according to The Campus Fix. Loyola University of Chicago, a Jesuit school, pushed back a little bit and asked the group to change its name from the Loyola Student Pagan Alliance to the “Indigenous Faith Tradition Alliance.” It seems administrators of the school were uncomfortable with the word “pagan.” Even with the name change, however, the group’s mission remains the same.
Founder Jill Kreider wrote on Facebook that her group wants to “to unify Pagan, the spiritual but not religious, those seeking faith or religion, minority faith students (including but not limited to: Buddhists, Taoists, Shinto practitioners, Santeras, etc…) pluralists and those students interested in New Age religions on Loyola’s campus. If you don’t have a faith group on campus, we’re here to fill that gap!”
She told The College Fix, “The name change was necessary because the term pagan does not sit well with the administration. The club’s mission is still the same, and the religions and faith traditions which we practice are indeed pre-Christian, and indigenous to the region or society to which they belong.” ...
A comment below the article says "birds of a feather..." and hits petty close to home!
How sweet.
No , Jesus did away with the Priesthood...Disciples are NOT Priests.....so your argument holds no water. And the Disciples Mission was to present the Good News of Jesus Christ. But of course we know that the catholic leadership must present a priesthood otherwise the house of cards falls....monetarily and otherwise.
God bless you and yours.
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