Posted on 12/09/2001 7:20:04 AM PST by Valin
Edited on 04/13/2004 3:36:03 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
On Dec. 4, the Star Tribune had an excellent editorial decrying the fact that AIDS-fighting condoms are being recycled because they are in short supply in African nations. The U.N. population fund estimates that $1 billion is needed and only $40 million gets funded. Millions of people are needlessly dying because of this shortage. The pope and bishops of the Roman Catholic Church should take a major share of responsibility for this loss of life.
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Please allow me to define 'Many'
Being one of a large indefinite number; numerous: many a child; many another day. Amounting to or consisting of a large indefinite number: many friends.
Her statement falls within the bounds in which the term 'many' is valid.
So, as long as you've been Catholic long enough, you have the moral authority to teach that the Church is wrong? What about me? I'm only 23--I feel disenfranchised. I want to be a dissident too!
I DO know wot you mean!
And what you do must be what God would do. Gotcha.
The bible was passed around word for word before it was written down. Have you ever played Telephone? Words get mixed up in the course of even a few minutes.
The parts containing the narrations of Christianity's main article of faith, the Resurrection, the thing Christianity stands or falls on, were recorded within the lifetimes of the people who witnessed it or their direct companions (and their enemies, who would surely use it against them if they could prove it anything less tham true). This sort of thing is most definitely not subject to the rules of the game 'Telephone', since these people didn't claim to see the thing for only a split second, which would be the only way it could be analagous to the game. "Words" do not "get mixed up" when you're claiming 500 people all at once saw Jesus rising from the dead; either those people made that claim or they didn't, and that claim is either true or it isn't.
I think the people in the Bible existed, and that the Bible teaches some good things, but since it was written, people interpret those words to mean whatever they want, as long as it suits THEIR gain.
People will always misuse 'good things'. And perhaps the proper, correct understanding of the Bible could still be used for some person's gain - but that doesn't mean the proper understanding doesn't exist and isn't out there. You seem to be rolling over mighty fast for the 'if everyone disagrees then it's useless and we can never know anything for sure' view of the world.
A lot of people say that "God told them something" (like murdering other people), so they do it. Should we record that in a supplement of the Bible as well?
No, because that'd contradict Biblical teachings.
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Only if all of them were true, which would be impossible.
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We all live under the same God...So we are all wrong.
Exactly how did you come to that conclusion? That if there's one God over all of us then all of us must be wrong?
I think the trick is marrying a person with a like minded attitude, so that the chances of 'clashing' are reduced.
Not really, no.
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