To: Religion Moderator
I have zero tolerance for any further flare-ups on this thread. >>
Sorry about the flareup, besides the ping, I made only one post on this thread. I guess I flareup when one intimates that I'm a drunk, I'm old and that I'm am irrelevant.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/1699136/posts?page=9#9
Aren't both the KOC and the Freemasons basically just drinking groups for older men?
They may have stood for something at one time, but from what I've heard, both are in great decline and are now largely irrelevant.
191 posted on
09/11/2006 9:46:14 PM PDT by
Coleus
(Roe v. Wade and Endangered Species Act both passed in 1973, Murder Babies/save trees, geese, algae)
To: Coleus
Post 9 was not "making it personal" because it was speaking of a collective, i.e. Masons and Knights of Columbus.
Likewise, if a poster ridicules Scientology it is not "making it personal" - but if he ridicules another poster it is "making it personal."
There is no guideline to protect posters who take ugly remarks about the group or belief they embrace, personally.
To: Coleus
My own understanding is simply based on what I've noticed in my own area or have read. I've had a 3rd level KoC member tell me about his own experience with KoC meetings. I've read in the Dallas Morning News about the hard times that have befallen the Freemasons with their own need to sell many building assets because of declining membership levels in cities, in particular it was speaking of some large buildings in Texas.
If you want to read the article from which I got my information on the Freemasons, follow the link:
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/religion/stories/DN-masons_15rel.State.Edition1.2125b22c.html
To: Coleus
Dear Coleus,
We should be generally grateful when those who show ignorance and lack of piety only attack us. We Catholics have seen on this forum blasphemous attacks against God, and Mary and the other saints. When they are merely attacking us, we should rejoice.
sitetest
196 posted on
09/12/2006 6:13:23 AM PDT by
sitetest
(If Roe is not overturned, no unborn child will ever be protected in law.)
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