Posted on 12/08/2006 6:22:38 AM PST by NYer
I totally agree.
It is a blind ideology with a single mindedness that does not allow for the ability to see the truth.
>> (Clinton "tried", 3000 died)
Perot divided, Clinton "tried", 3000 died.
>> Talk about "My house is a house of prayer, but you have made it a den of thieves!"
I think God is fully capable of attending to His real estate. That said, I'm surprised the lead up to the transaction went unnoticed.
**Former Massachusetts Catholic church sold, slated to become a mosque **
Really a sad commentary on the state of affairs in MA.
Excelelent answers and explanations.
Excellent answers and explanations.
So you use the term incorrectly.
Do some research and see what the volumes of feminist "scholarship" entail.
This statement is uncalled-for. Feminism is a pernicious ideology, but feminists are simply people misled by an error. "People misled by some error" is a category big enough to include pret'near everybody, at least at some point in our lives.
I was mercifully drawn away from feminism by people who had a much more inviting and constructive attitude than yours. People who shared a wider view, not people who wished me dead.
Feminism is a misnomer for its supposed adherents since they wanted to become men themselves instead of fighting for equality between men and women. If you define feminists in the context of equality instead of resentment towards others, then you're welcome.
Feminism is an amorphous, internally contradictory structure of ideas, some of them sensible and constructive, and some fatally misshapen. To the extent that the whole edifice is built over a sewer of babies' blood, even the fairer stairways and balconies of the "building" have to be decontaminated before they can be considered usable.
I don't want any feminists dead, though. I just want to get them out of that doomed building.
Don't forget, shootin's too good for 'em. (#19). ;)
Sometimes there's a spate of free-floating malice that shows up in FReep city. For my mental health, I have to assume that most people don't wholeheartedly mean the surly things they say.
I am not a catholic, but I'd kick in rather than see a venerable church defiled.
Oh, they mean it; they only have the guts to say what they mean anonymously, on the computer. :)
So, these local priests are happy that their church s going to be used to workship the moon-god?
>>they only have the guts to say what they mean anonymously, on the computer. :)
Oh Really? That's an interesting assumption.
How many Freepers have you actually met in person to verify this?
I wouldn't imagine they are shouting with joy but they really have no say in the matter. I tend to agree with Wagglebee. The parishioners should have collected the monies necessary to purchase the Church and then burned it to the ground.
A similar incident occured in Russia, in 2003.
From the Daily Telegraph
MOSCOW — The Russian Orthodox Church has demolished a chapel where a priest conducted a "marriage" ceremony between two men.
The Chapel of the Vladimir Icon of the Mother of God was torn down apparently after local churchmen decided it had been defiled.
The "marriage" of Denis Gogolyev and Mikhail Morozev in Nizhny Novgorod scandalized the Orthodox Church and created outrage among ordinary Russians.
The priest, the Rev. Vladimir Enert, was defrocked after the men said they paid him a $450 bribe to ignore a ban of same-sex "marriages."
A spokesman for the Orthodox Church said the chapel had to go, as it had been desecrated. Some local officials said it was due for demolition to make way for a new, larger church, though this would not open until 2005.
A spokesman for the Nizhny Novgorod Patriarchate told the Daily Telegraph, "The chapel was dismantled because it is no longer needed."
But he conceded that the homosexual "marriage" ceremony may have "sped up the process."
Just curious. How has the Orthodox Church dealt with Church closings?
"We at St. Jude's are going to take this opportunity to talk about the Islamic faith, to talk about Turkish culture and to use it as an example of our multicultural world," he said. "I think it's going to be very exciting.""
I am dumbfounded! I simply don't know what to say.
"Just curious. How has the Orthodox Church dealt with Church closings?"
We've had two closings of old churches in my state, both replaced by newer, larger temples. In the first instance, about 30 years ago, the building was sold to some sort of Baptists who still are there. In the second, about 8 years ago, the temple was sold to a large group of Serbian immigrants for a Serbian Orthodox church.
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