Posted on 11/03/2005 3:00:30 PM PST by MikeA
Do you think Thomas was lying when he called Jesus "God" in John 20:28?
There is only one right answer you know.
Thomas was telling the truth.
I know they do. They "oppose" (if that is the right word) the Protestant faith too. So what? I don't take it to mean I have to proselytize every Protestant I meet or every Mormon or every Jew. It sure does not mean you have to insult people. And it certainly does not mean that the target of your proselytizing can't RIGHTFULLY tell you to shut up and mind your own business.
My denomination and why I have chosen it is NOT anyone's business unless I decide otherwise.
Right on!!!
I don't get it either.
"And they do this all the while hypocritically accusing others of being unChristian. I am certain God will make them answer for it. "
The first time someone told me my denomination was a cult I was so insulted and angry!!! What terrible manners! How impolite! Who the hell do these people think they are!! What nerve!!
"Anyway, thanks for the support."
You're welcome.
"The first time someone told me my denomination was a cult I was so insulted and angry!!! What terrible manners! How impolite! Who the hell do these people think they are!! What nerve!!"
There's is truth and beauty in all faiths. To just trample on that truth and beauty, and what's sacred and divine to others, is antithetical to everything I know about Jesus Christ and his teachings. I grew up Catholic and my entire family is still Catholic. I really cherish and honor my Catholic background. It gave me the foundation of faith from which I operate today. I later became LDS, but that doesn't in any way diminish Catholicism or the Catholic faith or say anything bad about the church. It's just for me what I found in the LDS Church spoke to me and gave me what I was looking for in my life. So I too am insulted to see Catholics and Catholicism held up to derision by the ignorant and mean.
This should be added to all Government HS curriculums.
here's another link to keep, an old article but very rimely...
http://www.nationalreview.com/murdock/murdock010603.asp
Dems Need a Houseclean
No innocents.
By Deroy Murdock
Even with Trent Lott (R, Miss.) relegated to the Senate's backbenches, Democrats want the issue of Republicans and race front and center.
"How can they jump on [Lott] when they're out there repressing, trying to run black voters away from the polls and running under the Confederate flag in Georgia and South Carolina?" Bill Clinton wondered on CNN December 18. "I mean, look at their whole record. He just embarrassed them by saying in Washington what they do on the back roads every day."
Senator Hillary Clinton (D., New York) said two days later, "If anyone thinks that one person stepping down from a leadership position cleanses the Republican party of their constant exploitation of race, then I think you're naive."
Incoming House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi of California added: "The Republican party still needs to do much more to remove the issue of race and any of its symbols from our political process."
Before lecturing Republicans, Democrats should mop up their side of the political spectrum.
Bill Clinton, for starters, approaches this matter in mud-soaked boots. As NewsMax.com recalled on December 22, then-Governor Clinton was among three state officials the NAACP sued in 1989 under the federal Voting Rights Act of 1965. "Plaintiffs offered plenty of proof of monolithic voting along racial lines, intimidation of black voters and candidates and other official acts that made voting harder for blacks," the Arkansas Gazette reported December 6, 1989. It added: "the evidence at the trial was indeed overwhelming that the Voting Rights Act had been violated."
A three-judge federal panel ordered Clinton and Arkansas's then-Attorney General Steve Clark and then-Secretary of State William J. McCuen to redraw electoral districts to maximize black voting strength.
During his 12-year tenure, Governor Clinton never approved a state civil-rights law. However, he did issue birthday proclamations honoring Confederate leaders Jefferson Davis and Robert E. Lee. He also signed Act 116 in 1987. That statute reconfirmed that the star directly above the word "Arkansas" in the state flag "is to commemorate the Confederate States of America." Arkansas also observed Confederate Flag Day every year Clinton served. The governor's silence was consent.
Arkansas' former governor, the late Orval Eugene Faubus, attended Bill Clinton's 1979 gubernatorial inauguration, where the two pols hugged, as Arkansas Democrat-Gazette editorial page editor Paul Greenberg recalls. Faubus, of course, resisted the integration of Little Rock's Central High School in 1957. He actually deployed National Guard soldiers to bar nine black students from entering. Republican President Dwight Eisenhower dispatched soldiers from the 101st Airborne Division to break that logjam and give the black teens a fighting chance to learn. Clinton once lauded that same Faubus as a "man of significant ability."
Just this fall, Clinton praised Arkansas' late Democratic senator J. William Fulbright, a notorious segregationist who opposed the 1964 Civil Rights Act and the 1965 Voting Rights Act. He also signed the Southern Manifesto, which denounced the U.S. Supreme Court's landmark Brown vs. Board of Education school desegregation decision in 1954. Clinton called Fulbright "My mentor, a visionary, a humanitarian."
But even with that record, Bill Clinton is Rosa Parks compared to his party's most senior senator. Until the 108th Congress convenes tomorrow, Robert Byrd (D, W.V.) remains the Senate's president pro tempore, the third in the line of presidential succession behind Vice President Dick Cheney and House Speaker Dennis Hastert (R, Illinois). Byrd, who also chairs the Senate Appropriations Committee, joined the Ku Klux Klan in 1942 at age 24. He resigned in 1943. But in 1946, he wrote this to the KKK's Imperial Wizard: "The Klan is needed today as never before and I am anxious to see its rebirth here in West Virginia."
Bryd was elected to West Virginia's House of Delegates that year. In 1947, he criticized the military's proposed integration. In a letter to segregationist senator Theodore Bilbo (D, Miss.), Byrd said he would "never submit to fight beneath the banner [the American flag] with a Negro by my side. Rather I should die a thousand times, and see Old Glory trampled in the dirt never to rise again, than to see this beloved land of ours become degraded by race mongrels, a throwback to the blackest specimen from the wilds."
Byrd filibustered against the 1964 Civil Rights Act, joining Albert Gore Sr. and 19 other Democrats (and only four Republicans) in voting against that groundbreaking legislation. He fought Thurgood Marshall's Supreme Court nomination before becoming Senate Democratic leader from 1977 to 1989.
Byrd says he regrets his Klan membership. As a December 23 Wall Street Journal editorial noted, Byrd urged young Americans in 1997 to pursue public life. However, "Be sure you avoid the Ku Klux Klan. Don't get that albatross around your neck. Once you've made that mistake, you inhibit your operations in the political arena."
Byrd was a buzzard on the March 4, 2001 edition of Fox News Sunday. Asked about race relations, Byrd told host Tony Snow: "There are white niggers. I've seen a lot of white niggers in my time. I'm going to use that word." He apologized and said, "The phrase dates back to my boyhood and has no place in today's society."
Byrd will appear next February in the $51 million Warner Brothers Civil War epic, Gods and Generals. Although he is age 84, Byrd will portray Confederate general Paul J. Semmes, who owned at least a dozen slaves. He was badly wounded at Gettysburg and died July 10, 1863 at age 48.
Byrd's Senate colleague, Ernest Hollings (D, S.C.), meanwhile, told reporters on December 14, 1993 that he attended international summits alongside "these potentates from down in Africa." He continued, "rather than eating each other, they'd just come up and get a good square meal in Geneva." There also would be no debate today about flying the Confederate flag over South Carolina's statehouse had then-governor Hollings not defiantly hoisted it above the state capitol in 1962.
(read more...it's terrific!)
Katie Couric?
Sometimes, it's hard to understand anger born from ignorance, but everyone has a right to speak thier mind no matter how illiterate they may be.
There is ONLY one way to God and that is thru Jesus Christ, not through some farcical, money digging, con artist, who couldn't interpret his way out of a paper bag.
BTW, do you see God's kingdom here on earth, I don't, especially at some little piece of dirt in Missouri...Remember a prophet is not a prophet if what they proclaim never passes. Are you still waiting?
So were the Dems lying then or are they lying now?
This list has been out for at least two years...and I'm still waiting for Russert, et al to throw it in the faces of the left.....still waiting.
I have been a Catholic for 56 years and I know what they teach. We could go into the fine print but I am not going to bother.
Sure! Not a problem. ;o>
Hey, you did read the fine print. That's what I call doing your homework. You might want to check out the encyclical Lumen Gentium. But first try this VERY interesting and brief explanation of the Catholic Church's' teaching on who can be saved. http://www.ewtn.com/library/SCRIPTUR/EXTRAECC.TXT
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