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.”
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Sure. If you repeat a Protestant lie often enough, the comic book readers will believe it. Makes sense to me.
Are you giving up?
When the entire basis of your existence is anti-, then it's all you have. We cannot expect any more from them, except the cream who rise to the surface and in spite of themselves cross the Tiber, or head East. We have some notable converts in this crowd who surpass me in their understanding of the Faith.
An interesting term for it.
But, thanks for the lead...
For me it does. Thank you.
Nope. Same old 2000 year old message. The sacrifice of Christ is sufficient for all men. Yet some men will reject that offer of salvation. No contradiction.
As it turns out, it wasn't Quix's experience. It was a claim to have been at an event that was lifted from an Internet fairy story. Lying for the Lord, the Mormons call it. What would you call it?
They certainly are in the theological sense. They post here every day.
You can take it to the bank that I reject your Catholic faith...And God tells you in Revelation 17 how he's going to reject your faith...
You can boast about your pagan faith all day long but in the end, if you do not have the Spirit within you that raised Jesus from the dead, you are none of his...Cut and dried...
And that fire you seem to be looking forward to after you die will not be some phoney purgatory...That fire emanates from hell...
You need to dump that religion (faith) and turn to Jesus...Ask him to save you and trust in Him, and only Him...
“...it’s false but true on principle.”
They were ~mistaken~.
http://www.rickross.com/reference/tv_preachers/tv_preachers20.html
“A chastened Willard Thiessen, host of a daily religion program on Winnipeg television, admitted yesterday he was wrong in telling his tele-flock that God had inexplicably planted a gold tooth in his mouth.
It turned out the gold tooth had been implanted by his brother Elmer, a dentist in British Columbia.
“I’m embarrassed to tears about this,” said Mr. Thiessen, president of Trinity Television. “I thought I had a miracle”
And, all that glitters is not gold!
“A Brazilian evangelist at the center of the “gold dust” phenomenon being reported at charismatic churches across the United States and Europe says she is unfazed by scientific reports suggesting that all that glitters is not what it seems.
Two independent tests on samples of the gold-colored dust that falls from Silvania Machado’s head during services have found the substance to be more like plastic glitter, with no gold content.
But Machado, who attributes the manifestation to her divine healing from cancer, is untroubled by the conclusions of the analyses carried out on behalf of “Charisma” magazine. “To me, it doesn’t matter what it is as long as it’s from God”, she said”
It’s not from God, Lady!!! It’ straight from the pit.
http://www.apologeticsindex.org/d04.html
Geeeeeeeeeeeeezzzz...Where do you come up with this stuff???
Exactly...If a Catholic calls me a heretic, it's a feather in my hat...
When did Paul start preaching??? Minus the 3 years he spent in the presence of the 'risen' Jesus Christ...
I see you had another busy night last night...Was that at home or at your religious gathering???
Nope...I said showing up on earth...We during the Rapture are heading up, well above the earth to meet Jesus...
Discuss the issues all you want, but do not make it personal.
Naw...Those are unbiblical Catholic terms created by your religion...There's no such thing as sacramental presence in the scriptures...Jesus did not say that you will not see Me again until I show up at the 2nd Coming EXCEPT FOR my sacramental presence...
You guys can get away with that with the lay people in your religion...They'll believe anything you tell them...But it doesn't wash with bible believers...
As long as you admit that you don’t understand your ownquestion and wouldn’t understand the answer (and don’t want to), I’m good with that.
“Blessed are those who have not seen yet believe.” That describes the faithful in adoration.
I don't have enough interest in your council of Nicea to ever remember where it was...But I'll bet if one could talk to the real Christians in that day, it was the council at Nicea that was excommunicated by the Christians...
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