The entire Christian world, meaning Rome? I'll wear that ribbon.
It's not a ribbon. It's more like a felt star.
Posted on 09/02/2011 9:07:47 AM PDT by marshmallow
Minneapolis, Minnesota (CNN) –Prior to 2006, few people even knew that then-Minnesota state legislator Keith Ellison was a Muslim. Because of his English name, he said, no one thought to ask.
But five years ago, when he ran for a seat in the United States House of Representatives - a race he would go on to win - word of his religious affiliation began to spread.
“When I started running for Congress it actually took me by surprise that so many people were fascinated with me being the first Muslim in Congress,” said Ellison, a Democrat now serving his third term in the House.
“But someone said to me, ‘Look Keith, think of a person of Japanese origin running for Congress six years after Pearl Harbor–this might be a news story.’”
Though Ellison's status as the first Muslim elected to Congress is widely known, fewer are aware that he was born into a Catholic family in Detroit and was brought up attending Catholic schools.
But he said he was never comfortable with that faith.
“I just felt it was ritual and dogma,” Ellison said. “Of course, that’s not the reality of Catholicism, but it’s the reality I lived. So I just kind of lost interest and stopped going to Mass unless I was required to.”
It wasn’t until he was a student at Wayne State University in Detroit when Ellison began, “looking for other things.”
(Excerpt) Read more at religion.blogs.cnn.com ...
I looove these wacked out testimonials with no substantiation. They keep reminding us of who is Christian and who isn't.
In a word...... yes.
I'll wear that ribbon.
Which you may not have any choice in.
It's interesting, is it not?
Protestants consider Christians those who follow Christ. If someone does not follow Christ, they are not a Christian.
Catholics consider Christians those who follow the Roman Catholic church. If you don't follow a certain church, you're not a Christian.
Brilliant post! Thank you.
What do you think a graven image is? I'll bet that violate a few times in your own house. And as for images? Can you post a photo (heh heh) of you burning all your photos? If you take the definition as seriously as you posted to me, then you must take that definition in your own personal life too.
Or do you get a pass because you think that your Judgement is a sham and you'll slide through unscathed?
I have said that prayer at night then see a black cat on my former NY property taking out the garbage. I then cover the spoken words of" Blood of Christ" over it. It either blend in the background or disappeared. I had it happen more than once.
I then read a book about the vatican exorcist that explains that phenomenon.
Well, you failed Catholicism, and you fail here yet again. Your track record is spotless.
It's not a ribbon. It's more like a felt star.
I'm afraid your brilliance overshadows the simplicity that is in Christ. Perhaps you just bore easily when simple questions are asked. I'm sure it's such a drag having to answer to the some are less equal than others crowd. Or maybe you just have knee-jerk reactions instead of actually reading what someone has posted. Either way, assuming is no way to go through life.
Following the “Church” is called Churchianity not Christianity.
I’ve often wondered, if they could, would they? For Church affiliation information only, you see...
I’ve often wondered, if they could, would they? For Church affiliation information only, you see...
Since the Emperor Constantine did not reside in Rome, then the only way that your post can read, is that he invited 300 bishops from Rome. I agree that neither possibility agrees with the facts, but that is what we have come to expect from the heretic, the apostate and the pagan.
I'm afraid your brilliance overshadows the simplicity that is in Christ.
I'm blushing.
Perhaps you just bore easily when simple questions are asked. I'm sure it's such a drag having to answer to the some are less equal than others crowd.
Simple questions asked by simple people are quite revealing. Simple people who try to tart up their questions often fail spectacularly.
Or maybe you just have knee-jerk reactions instead of actually reading what someone has posted. Either way, assuming is no way to go through life.
When you phrase your questions in such a manner as is conducive to reality, then we, as we have in the past, get along very well and complement each other, in fact. When the Kool Aid kicks in, well, this thread is evidence of those who drink from it.
You did, eh? “I was in a moderately large church...”
That story is plastered all over the internet. Apparently, everybody and his pente brother claims their presence. Too bad no dentists did. What baloney.
“Vatican Ishtar-Mary Goddess cult” must be something new in the Pente realm of name-it-and-claim-it heresy.
Assuming it is OK to drag issues from thread to thread, if I had done it (I can't find any evidence of it) it would have been done out of love and concern. In any event here is a short and sweet prayer for you that we used to say after Mass when I was an altar boy that accomplishes the same thing
"If I had done it (I can't find any evidence of it)...." ROTFL! Is that why you're trying it again?
The one who states his case first seems right
until the other comes and examines him.
-- Proverbs 18:17
Hey! Isn’t that against the RF rules? You can’t be performing exorcists all willy-nilly. What do you have, an internet priest and a virtual cross? And can Satan cast out Satan?
“Since the Emperor Constantine did not reside in Rome”
I suppose we can understand that the world of anti-Catholicism only knows Istanbul.
They do have a rather tenuous grasp of history.
Post 1795 is for YOU, Natural Law. Stealth exorcisms cannot be performed on this forum. What are you? Some kind of exorcism addict?
Just as brilliant people who try to out-do God’s word often end up in puddles in a corner.
I suppose we can understand that the world of anti-Catholicism only knows Istanbul. They do have a rather tenuous grasp of history.
They don't have a clue. They think that Jesus taught out of the KJV and that Nicea was a matter of a few hours plane flight for bishops all over Christendom.
They also have no clue about Paul's travels and the length of time it took, the people that he addressed and the extent that he had to go to get not only where he was going, but to escape when they descended upon him with instruments of destruction.
They think that Paul emailed everyone with his epistles.
Isn’t dragging issues from thread to thread against forum rules?
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