[RobbyS]

Looking at matters objectively, the Vatican is not much more extensive than the holdings of the First Baptist Church in down town Dallas. Add up the personal holdings of its members and you have several billion dollars. You have a bourgeois prejudice against the Renaissance decor and trappings on display at the Vatican. But I will agree to let the clergy there to make a bondfire of them said garments if all the preachers at the First Baptist Church agree to imitate St. Francis and strip naked in front of their congregation, and walk out naked onto the streets and join the homeless sleeping—voluntarily under I-45. and depend on panhandlng for their daily bread. Or to put the matter another way, imitate Our Lord who pretty much did the same thing. Or to take to the road liked St. Paul did and risk everything in order to bring the Gospel to the World.

[1000 silverlings]

Baptist pastors better not be stripping naked in front of their congregations, and by the way, neither did Christ. The practice may be Roman Catholic but not Christian

[1000 silverlings]

Or to take to the road liked St. Paul did and risk everything in order to bring the Gospel to the World.

What planet are you on? Evangelical missionaries do it constantly

[Dr. Eckleburg]

Looking at matters objectively, the Vatican is not much more extensive than the holdings of the First Baptist Church in down town Dallas.

That is objectively a ludicrous statement.

You have a bourgeois prejudice against the Renaissance decor and trappings on display at the Vatican.

ROTFLOL. Thank you, God, for giving me a "bourgeois prejudice" against the sickening opulence enjoyed by the false bishop of Rome and his toadies. lol. If that is supposed to be a slander, all I can say is "More, please." (And my personal preference in decor runs more toward 18th century English antiques, lots of mahogany, Sheraton sideboards, pewter, Minton china, Thistle crystal and tartans everywhere. If that's "bourgeois," so be it.)

But I will agree to let the clergy there to make a bondfire of them said garments if all the preachers at the First Baptist Church agree to imitate St. Francis and strip naked in front of their congregation, and walk out naked onto the streets and join the homeless sleeping—voluntarily under I-45. and depend on panhandlng for their daily bread.

Why do Roman Catholics always think in terms of bonfires?

Who looks more laden down with the gaudy trinkets of wealth, excess and hubris? This guy...?

Or this guy...

wearing this...

[P-Marlowe]

But I will agree to let the clergy there to make a bondfire of them said garments if all the preachers at the First Baptist Church agree to imitate St. Francis and strip naked in front of their congregation, and walk out naked onto the streets and join the homeless sleeping—voluntarily under I-45. and depend on panhandlng for their daily bread. Or to put the matter another way, imitate Our Lord who pretty much did the same thing.

So Jesus was a panhandler? A beggar?

I can't recall any verses in the Bible where Jesus stood on the corner begging. He relieved a lot of beggars of their livelihoods by healing them and making them productive members of society, but I don't recall Jesus standing on the street corner with his hand out begging for assistance.