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RM | January 26, 2007 | Religion Moderator

[Knitting A Conundrum]

LOL!

And if it were my job, no one could lose one's cool and say mean things about (x -pick your favorite group to say mean things about)and the use of tin foil would be a signal to hit the door and everybody would have to be a monthly donor.

Wouldn't be the same place at all!

[Ciexyz]

I personally get tired of the anti-Catholic mudslinging and challenging of traditional Catholic beliefs on Catholic-themed threads. But if you say we must put up with such comments on an open thread, then of course I will accept that stipulation.

Why do posters enter into a thread titled, for instance, "The Virgin of Guadalupe" and start attacking the core beliefs of the Mexican people as heresy? Would they not have a more congenial discussion among themselves if they start their own thread, for instance, "Protestant Positions on the Virgin Mary". Just a thought.

[Enosh]

... Or, you might have some real fun by looking into the meaning of "anti-Semitist"... despite what wikipedia might say.

"The offspring of Shem" is correct, but that includes both Arabs and Hebrews. (Note I did not say Muslims and Jews, the traditional religious affiliation.)

Indeed, we are so far along now that we are all "The offspring of Shem."

[Knitting A Conundrum]

LOL... Ah, how we love to assert:

Certain persons by swerving from these have wandered away into vain discussion, desiring to be teachers of the law, without understanding either what they are saying or the things about which they make assertions. 1 Timothy 1:6,7.

And how many electrons do we sacrifice at that altar...LOL!

And dear RM has to be there to make sure we don't use brickbats in the process!

[Ciexyz]

A "closed" thread, then, allows no challenges to the faith, and is labeled "Daily Devotions, Reflections, Meditations, or Daily Caucus", words of that sort.

One thread that is posted under the "Religion" designation but does not include the above identifying labels, is Tozer on Leadership. It reads like a closed caucus thread even though it's not specifically identified as such.

[Salvation]

Excellent point and well taken.

[Salvation]

I caught my mistake -- see #73

[P-Marlowe]

brick·bat (brkbt)

n.

1. A piece, especially of brick, used as a weapon or missile.

2. An unfavorable remark; a criticism.

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[brick + bat¹, piece of brick.]

Word History: The earliest sense of brickbat, first recorded in 1563, was "a piece of brick." Such pieces of brick have not infrequently been thrown at others in the hope of injuring them; hence, the figurative brickbats (first recorded in 1929) that critics hurl at performances they dislike. The appearance of bat as the second part of this compound is explained by the fact that the word bat, "war club, cudgel," developed in Middle English the sense "chunk, clod, wad," and in the 16th century came to be used specifically for a piece of brick that was unbroken on one end.

[Knitting A Conundrum]

The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune indeed!

[Running On Empty]

What was that quote all about?

Just a reminder for us all --that was the Lord Jesus speaking--Who knew the hearts of men. We mortals are not in that same league at all. We can't read the hearts of others and we are not the living God who can say what He wishes to the sleek and the proud.

So I don't see that He asked us to imitate him in this particular passage. Rather, at other times He admonished us not to judge one another, because we cannot read hearts and minds and we are not the God who can catch out the proud and arrogant and call them on it publicly..

[P-Marlowe]

What was that quote all about?

That was a joke, son. A Joke.

[Scarchin]

A shame, and perhaps ironic, that you have to make such a post.

[Domestic Church]

Holy Mod!

[VOA]

bump for publicity

[Vicomte13]

Oh, but Jack Chick cartoons are just THE BEST.

Honestly, I love them. They make me howl with delight, like some bad Saturday Night Live skit gone awry, where the actors are taking themselves way too seriously.

Couldn't you allow them on their own special thread, the "South Park" of the religion forum?

You haven't LIVED until you've been called a "mackerel-snapping thrall of the Whore of Babylon"!

Pretty please?

[Vicomte13]

"No suggestions (you do an excellent job), but I do have a question: How are the religion moderators selected?"


The Lady of the Lake, her arm clad in the purest of shimmering samite, held aloft Excalibur from the bosom of the waters, signifying by Divine Providence that he, the Religion Moderator, was to carry Excalibur. That is why he is the Religion Moderator.

[Vicomte13]

"LOL! I'd like to know what you'd pick."

Deus Ex Machina would be apropos.

[Vicomte13]

"Please, do not think that if you are described as a heretic someone is trying to insult you. All that is typically meant by the epithet is that your belief does not conform to the teaching of the Catholic Church."

True.
Back at the Academy, we in the Catholic Choir referred to our Protestant counterparts as the Heretic Choir, but we did so with the utmost of Christian charity...

[Vicomte13]

"I guess that makes us antidisestablishmentarians ..."

Or perhaps just ultracrepdiarians.