Posted on 06/10/2007 7:24:29 PM PDT by Reaganesque
Very classy.
Care to comment on the virtues of Catholic cult? What makes it wonderful and free of criticism?
Care to comment on the virtues of Catholic cult? What makes it wonderful and free of criticism?Oh, that's easy. It was the sword of Constantine, the 13th Apostle as he styled himself. He gathered the councils that issued the creeds and canons and organized Christianity, and Christians, according to the requirements of the Roman state. Julian the (so-called) Apostate later tried to reverse Constantine's reforms. Ironically, Julian is responsible for the triumph of the orthodox. Constantine favoured the Arians and tended to persecute the orthodox. Julian was convinced that by allowing the orthodox to return to civic life that the Christian communities would cut themselves to pieces in factional strife, which the Christians of that era tended to do. Conclusion: Christianity as we know it today is a state enterprise. The canons, the creeds, these are the results of emperors trying to save the Christians from themselves. Well, that's one interpretation anyway.
Professor, you contradicted yourself with such aplumb: “Of the 2 of us, TG and I, I am the only one of us posting on-topic, the only one of us who has anything intelligent to contribute to this thread. Nor do I insult others ...” Um, Professor, you’re being an insulting prick with that comment. Did you imagine Freepers would not comprehend the insult? [prick = little nettle]
Professor, you contradicted yourself with such aplumb: “Of the 2 of us, TG and I, I am the only one of us posting on-topic, the only one of us who has anything intelligent to contribute to this thread. Nor do I insult others ...” Um, Professor, you’re being an insulting prick with that comment. Did you imagine Freepers would not comprehend the insult? [prick = little nettle]Are you baiting me now too? I'm not sure, because I'm not following you. For example: Did you mean aplomb, or did you mean "with a plumb"?
Hey, let's do get back to the subject ... I'm sure nowandlater will be happier. I'll take a sip of my Ruby Port and await the next post. Here's to ya ...
Hey, let's do get back to the subject ...Yuh-huh. And maybe you should ease up on the port a little bit. And stop issuing checks that you cannot cash, i.e. trying to get people who are doing nothing wrong banned etc.
Checks I cannot cash? Nice try, but off topic. Care to try again? I’m sure nowanadlater would be overjoyed to have a post addressed to him/her.
Care to try again?How about this. Were we to compare cults, I think I would be far more comfortable voting for a Mormon than a Catholic. Why: because Mormons have no history of killing Jews, or of accusing Jews of murdering their Lord etc. Constantine and his successors--the Christian emperors of the Byzantine era, the architects of the Orthodox faith--persecuted Jews so effectively that the Jewish communities of Egypt and Anatolia greeted their Arab cousins as liberators--dimmitude was preferred to life in the Christian empire. In the West the Jews fared even worse: massacres, expulsions, The Reconquista, The Inquisition, exclusion from the city life, from the guilds, ghetto life etc., etc.
It takes all kinds to make a nation like ours (the U.S. I mean). [I think nowandlater is busy on another Romney thread. He’ll catch up, eventually.]
It takes all kinds to make a nation like ours (the U.S. I mean).Indeed. So you would be comfortable voting for a Mormon (provided that other ideological and policy conditions were met etc.)?
It doesn’t appear ‘on topic’ means the same to all posters. You appear needy, to go back and try a baiting to Turret Gunner again (reaching back to post #401 when we’re well into further topical exchanges). Why? Can’t you leave him be? Do you need the needling game to amuse you? If he did contact the Admin Mod about your heckling, you’re risking banning to play a silly game. Was your slur against his military service a point of guilt you feel you must absolve somehow by seeking to bait him into reacting to you? Please don’t do that.
Actually, if I thought Romney could get elected and Fred Thompson dosen’t end up running, I would have voted for Oven Mitt if for no other reason than his his family values and moderate conservatism.
It doesn’t appear ‘on topic’ means the same to all posters. You appear needy, to go back and try a baiting to Turret Gunner again (reaching back to post #401 when we’re well into further topical exchanges). Why? Can’t you leave him be? Do you need the needling game to amuse you? If he did contact the Admin Mod about your heckling, you’re risking banning to play a silly game. Was your slur against his military service a point of guilt you feel you must absolve somehow by seeking to bait him into reacting to you? Please don’t do that.Fascinating. You snapped out of your bubbly incoherence and assumed that canting, hectoring tone again. As I wrote before, you, or he, or anyone who wants to, may contact the moderator about me at any time, and about any issue, and with my blessing, because I am not doing anything wrong. As long as I play by the rules--and I am--I am as free as anyone else here to participate.
Suit yourself, professor. BTW, Ruby Port is not a ‘bubbly’ beverage; has a texture and flavor similar to the Jewish holiday wine, Mogen David, I drank as a young man in my grandparent’s home.
Fascinating thread so far!
Only several? Methinks you doth underestimate much. ;)
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“Think we can safely say that it did not work.”
>>>> For once you are right — the reason being that I haven’t tried it — until now.. I thought that perhaps you might have wised up, and decided to get off my back and leave me alone. How very fooloish of me.<<<
Ruby Port is not a ‘bubbly’ beverageGranted. I was referring to your manner, not your beverage. You seem to have returned to your incoherent bubbliness, BTW, which I much prefer to your schoolmarm pose.
How very fooloish of me.Yes. Indeed. And about a lot of things. And I could add a number of other adjectives besides foolish, but why bother? Your behavior is the best testimony of your character and veracity. So: now that that's settled, may we return to the topic of this thread?
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