Posted on 06/15/2007 9:52:56 AM PDT by Alex Murphy
ROTFL! Okay, well, I concede that my analogy was less than ideal. LOL!
The bill currently dying a slow death in the Senate is not that 'just and realistic' policy.
This is a pretty vanilla statement. Lots of generalities.
I don't know about the bishop, but I'm having a touch of difficulty seeing the face of Christ in the jihadis in our midst who would love nothing more than to convert or kill every resident of the bishop's diocese.
The Roman bishop of Raleigh, Bp M. Burbidge, recently got on the bandwagon with similar statements re: the “immigration” situation. We have approx 600,000 here in NC, with possible half that number illegals; our crime rates have measurably increased, our school systems are inundated to the point of crisis, medical facilities also overloaded. Who’s paying for all this? Not the RC Church, and that’s a fact. Wonder if there were 12 millions of Anglos here from Canada would the dear NCCB even open its collective mouth. I personally think it ludicris the bishops turn a blind eye/deaf ear to all the violations of the Ten Commandments by the “immigrants” in our midst.
Recognize Christ?
Sittin on death row as a murderer and rapist?
ok.
No prob.
Then he said something snide and nasty about "rednecks," right?
Jesus was born when Herod (the earlier Herod) was still alive. We know that Herod died no later than 3 or 4 B.C. Since Jesus was born before this, and also during a significant astronomical phenomenon ("the Star"), He was probably born in what our calendar would mark as 7 B.C.
Luke — and only Luke — claims that Jesus was born during the census of Cyrenius, governor of Syria. This would have been about 6 or 7 A.D., when Jesus was around that "temple incident" age. Luke reports this as part of a collection of details he gathered by asking around the Christian community.
Matthew, by naming Joseph as a descendant of David, invokes Micah 5:2, which is tantamount to claiming that Joseph and Mary were living in Bethlehem (of Judea) at the time. The family moves to Nazareth later and there may have been some confusion as to when they did this.
Mark (6:1) and John (7:41-43) indicate that Jesus was born in Nazareth. Archaeological evidence supports this as well. Because Joseph was from Bethlehem, Jesus' birth could satisfy an interpretation of Micah 5:2, even if He was born in Nazareth. Some people insist that Mary and Joseph hurried back from Bethlehem with the infant leading people to consider Jesus as being from Nazareth.
Maybe they hurried back because when they got to Bethlehem, they discovered there wasn't a census after all ;-).
Indeed. Thou shalt not steal.
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