"It's maaaagic...."
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 ...
Unlike the children of the Reformation, I accept God at His Word. I don't try to remake it every time I pass in front of the mirror.
I posted a prayer for you, not an exorcism. Learn the subject matter before you accuse.
Paul didn’t email his epistles? Who knew?
I am saying that people who insist the world could not have been created in six days 5771 years ago because "that's now how the world works" but who simultaneously believe in magic babies being born without a human father are obviously hypocrites whose choice of "miracles" they believe in is based on whom they identify with sociologically rather than any rationality or reasoning . . . otherwise they would have to admit that both are equally possible or equally impossible.
But I think you knew that.
Not only that, but his website was by subscription only and only the Reformed and the OSAS crowd who emailed were given a password. It was kind of a Mormon / Masonic thing.
The whole 'cookies' deal is their overwhelming objection to the Eucharist, since Paul's website planted some spyware and also datalogged their computers for credit card numbers and other personal information. A real drag, but since the Trojans in their computers blamed Catholics, well, then, here we are with the antiCatholic bias.
That is what we're up against.
Details, details.......
“Lovie come quickly. The riff-raff are gathering again. How dare they stand before our home, holding signs and carrying those unfortunate black books. Don’t they know darling, that everything they need to know is given to us by our dear magisterium. The nerve! Talking about Paul...’Hey, riff-raff, don’t you know that Paul knew that our beloved Peter was in charge? Simpleton fools. They have no idea that Peter was in Rome. And that Emperor Constantine in Rome. Muwhahaha...Everyone knows it was Vatican City. Ask your officials to read your bibles, fools! It’s in there. It’s all in there.’ I’m exhausted. It isn’t easy trying to teach simpletons. Ring Cadburry and have him bring candles. We shall light a candle and pray they understand someday. We are so blessed to have the best teachers the Church can infallibly declare infallible. Wretched souls who read the Bible for themselves..I’ll never understand it, dear..”
Alex, what is your method for finding old Free Republic posts? It seems almost as if you can find any specific post that you want, no matter how obscure and no matter how long ago it was posted.
You said this is a prayer that accomplishes the same thing. As an exorcism. That was the subject matter. Exorcism. Don’t try to claim ignorance of what you wrote.
Just read the prayer (if you can) and then comment. Your petulant displays of ignorance are getting annoying.
And what he can't find he makes up.
To God be the glory for any good
As you so gently remind us at every opportunity, one should not be making the thread “about” another person. It is called making it personal, do try to remember.
"It's maaaagic...."
If only God would grant Paul one night on this forum. Just one. There would be people sauntering in, peacock feathers in full array, awaiting the big moment when Paul is impressed. Those would be the same people who would be limping out of here, feathers between their legs, pretending to be cool, calm and collected even as their knees buckled under the nervous ticks.
An exorcism prayer that accomplishes the same thing as a post he claims he can find no evidence of but he appears to know the content of.
Ooops......
I love how they have to invent what Catholics “believe,” or else they’d have nothing to rally against - shows how scummy some pretend-Christians can be
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