Posted on 03/07/2007 2:39:08 PM PST by nancyvideo
How can you not love those secular progressives. They've taken a human condition that has bedeviled mankind for centuries and solved it in one fell swoop.
Various cultures deal with sin and guilt in vastly different ways. Certain Arab cultures flagellate themselves till they draw blood and thus achieve cleansing. Catholics are given proscribed penance and absolution. Christians, thank God, have Jesus who died for their sins.
Secular progressives, having chosen man over God, are thus left in a peculiar situation. The closest the left comes to religious observation is obeisance to 'Mother Earth,' so they have had to figure out how to reinvent human nature to fit their own worldview. This they have done with style and elan.
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This is hilarious, but I certainly hope that the writer was not implying that Catholics are not Christians! Otherwise, it's amusing reading.
Reminds me of the Dire Straights(?) song -- money for nothing and the chicks are free!
Satire Ping
I likes it, especially the customized offers to feminists and anti-Christians!
My oldest daughter (Catholic) is a graduate of Baylor University (Baptist), and her sorority sisters did not know Catholics were Christians. They just knew that their parents had told them not to date Catholics or Jews.
The Dean of Women assured me that "Catholics are our favorite minority." Turned out that Catholics were 1% of the student body there. It was a tough 4 years! LOL.
Good school, however. Great Music program.
You heard that question all of the time on campus, "Are you a Christian?" They meant "born again". Of course Catholics are baptised in infancy, usually. Perhaps that is the difference. We don't have to be born again. Sometimes we talk about "conversion" if we have been leading sinful lives and decide to take our faith seriously. But we are born once.
Since Baptists don't baaptise their children until adulthood, that may be the reason that "born again" is such a popular concept.
BTY, I notice the TX in your screen name. I think the idea that Catholics are not Christians may be peculiar to Texas -- or discussed more. When we lived in TX in the 1970s, most of Texas was still considered Missionary Territory by the Catholic Church.
Thanks for the ping!
And pinging the usual (& some unusual) suspects!
I'm going to pass on the Satire ping list to one of you that would really like to have it as I have other interests and have not served it well.
Please FReepmail me if anyone really, really wants it!
1John3: 3 Jesus answered and said to him, "Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God."
4 Nicodemus said to Him, "How can a man be born when he is old? He cannot enter a second time into his mother's womb and be born, can he?"
5 Jesus answered, "Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.
6 "That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.
7 "Do not marvel that I said to you, 'You must be born again.'
1Peter 1:23 For you have been born again. Your new life did not come from your earthly parents because the life they gave you will end in death. But this new life will last forever because it comes from the eternal, living word of God.
24 As the prophet says, "People are like grass that dies away; their beauty fades as quickly as the beauty of wildflowers. The grass withers, and the flowers fall away.
25 But the word of the Lord will last forever." And that word is the Good News that was preached to you.
1Peter 2:1 So get rid of all malicious behavior and deceit. Don't just pretend to be good! Be done with hypocrisy and jealousy and backstabbing.
While there is common agreement on the identity of "the Spirit" as the Holy Spirit, there is difference of opinion on the meaning of "born of water." (1) Some speak of this as water baptism which is regenerative and salvific, but this is antithetical to the teaching of salvation by grace. (2) Another view interprets it as the water of natural birth. It is unlikely that Jesus would present this as a requirement for Nicodemus' salvation. (3) Water may stand for the word of God and its cleansing qualities (John 15:3; Eph. 5:26; 1 Pet. 1:23). (4) An interpretation that is more attractive is found in Ezek. 36:25ff. and Titus 3:5, which speaks of the washing of regeneration and the renewing of the Holy Spirit. To be "born from above," then, means to be regenerated and cleansed by the Holy Spirit, which entitles a man to enter the kingdom of God. (from Believer’s Study Bible)
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