Posted on 03/29/2007 5:20:08 AM PDT by Gamecock
"You get sola scriptura out of that exactly how?"
It's called the Handy-Dandy Instant Scripture
Generator. You too can have one. It requires no back-up, no reasoning, and absolutely no input.
Sorry if I'm being flip, but fatuous inanities deserve to answered in kind.
Indeed. The constancy and unity of the descendents of the Protestant Reformation has been exemplary. /sarc>
Other than that, there's nothing to see here. Let 'em rant. Maybe God will help them see how silly they look.
I believe that photo was taken during a showing of a film at the Vatican about the life of John Paul II. Benedict XVI is reacting to a scene in the film when JPII was shot by Ahmet Ali Agca in St. Peter's Square.
Naahhhh ... that was during the daily "foreign intelligence briefing". He was getting an update on the upcoming American Presidential election ... that pic was shot just as the presenter got to the page with the Hildebeeste. He's trying not to vomit.
Your language is rather coarse. It does not reflect well on your faith.
/sarc
As it happens, I entirely believe what I said. I think this thread is provocative and intentionally insulting and offensive. I think it was put up to ridicule and to cause pain You're not going to try to tell me that this thread, complete with explanatory photos, was started to enable a thoughtful charitable discussion of the issues, are you? Faith is a virtue, gullibility is a symptom.
It gets my attention and confirms my point that when I use language which while harsh is not unprecedented in the theological discourse of either side, you rebuke me, while the mockery and hatred of the original post don't seem to trouble you.
If people who putup posts like that find my discourse offensive, I must be, by grace, doing something right. Being reviled with Benedict XVI or condemned with John Paul the Great is an honor of which I am unworthy and which makes me hold up my head. I stand by my words gratefully and happily.
Whohoo! Who let the Dawg out? Oh yeah, and amen to everything you said!
I guess it's true--we're know by the company we keep.
Mad Dawg, please count me on your team. :-)
When you are calling attention to the mistakes of others, please remember to use a comma to attach a subordinate clause to the front of a main clause. Also, the termination of a sentence requires the use of only a single period.
I can't help it--I'm smiling.
Well, it COULD be sheer, though culpable, ignorance. Not so much an outright lie 'in the first degree' with malice aforethought as being so entranced with the prospect of ranting about Catholics that he neglected to learn what he was talking about. There's a lot of that going around, and I expect more as Easter approaches.
May we be counted on His team!
Me, I'm going to go do the office of readings.
If one really wants to know how a religious group actually defines and talks about stuff, one goes to the documents that group writes, not what other people say they say. I do this when learning about any church.
I know what I believe and why I believe what I believe, but occasionally I have people tell me I believe things that just aren't true.
But I love them with Christian love anyway. Even when they tell me my flavor of the faith isn't Christian.
Pedantic? No sorry. My normal vocabulary.
From the time I was a child at Catholic catechism classes, I always knew that to be in hell was to be forever separated from the loving God, our Creator, Redeemer and Sanctifier. So, neither Pope John Paul II or Pope Benedict are really in disagreement as to the existence of hell or what it's meaning is. Furthermore, the doctrine is still the same as it was from the time of Jesus Christ.
This thread needs Captain Obvious!
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