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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These are not Christians, they have no intention in Christians discussing. They are not worth your rile
Very true and very wise, Cronos.
I had a car like that...Took it to the junkyard...
These are the losers in school who either bullied others and then grew up and realised that they were nobodies or the bullied kids who had no skills.
either way, they are sad, pathetic losers with no social or any skills -- they may claim to be psychologists but one wonders how desperate folks would be to go to them! Also, they strangely seem to not know anything about psychoanalysis.
They also have strong parental issues -- their parents were hurt that their kids rejected orthodox Lutheran theology for the wildness of aliens-among-us beliefs.
ABSOLUTELY INDEED.
BLESS YOU BRO.
Well put. I feel quite similarly.
I can better wrap my understanding around the notion that Christ would have us IDENTIFY WITH HIS SUFFERINGS in a more existential way.
I still have a hard time believing that HIS SUFFERING lacked anything.
One of those mysteries, imho.
LUB, BRO.
May Holy Spirit guide your every choice and action this day and weekend.
May those near lovingly support you in tangible, profoundly touching ways.
May His joys chase after you regardless of your tasks.
Profoundly, Biblically and well put.
Thx.
Quite so. Quite so.
THx thx.
WRONG ON ALL COUNTS, YET AGAIN.
Those perspectives, each point,
come merely from looking closely and long at the EVIDENCE.
Thankfully, God knows my mind and my heart.
He also knows the evidence.
You’re assertions are simply grossly wrong.
No...It's your queen of heaven who is Ishtar...The one you worship is not Mary, Jesus' Mother...
Your Ishtar was born sinless...Mary wasn't...Your Ishtar never had other children than the one son...Mary did have other children...Your Ishtar is the Mother of God...Mary is not and never will be...
You get the picture...
Actually still waiting for you to tell me all about it. :-)
There has been an increase in stories about Catholic homos the past few years and you seem to have a vast knowledge in this area. Thanx in advance for sharing. :-)
But there are all kinds of homosexual advocating brochures available along with every possible kind of anti-American literature you could think of.
Thank you for your generous prayers.
When Paul writes (as the RSV has it) “what is lacking in the sufferings of Christ,” my response is, “’What is lacking?’ You can’t be serious!”
I hear him say, “That’s the problem. I AM serious, too serious for words. I had to use words, so I used these wrong ones. Work with me and you’ll get it.”
“You’re assertions are simply grossly wrong.”
GUFFAWWWW!
No they aren’t.
“merely from looking closely and long at the EVIDENCE”
You admited on a thread not too long ago that you never looked at Catholic theology and really didn’t know much about it.
I can find that statement.
Is it worth my time? Probably not. These threads are not about discussion anyway or the exchange of ideas.
They are simply the vehicles to display a preening ego to the “lurkers” in lieu of something worthwhile to do. The conceit of “missionary evangelizing” while sitting on ones rump in the den with that boss of coke is worthy of scorn.
*and I’d best be off my evangelizing rump and off to work
Sorry, dear. I’d written something with your name and deleted it in the post but neglected to delete the “To” name.
"When any commentator says religion is against gay marriage, it really rankles me," said the Rev. Jan Carlsson-Bull of the Unitarian Univeralist Congregation of the Catskills. UU ministers presided over hundreds of gay weddings in New Paltz in 2004 after Mayor Jason West was barred from doing so.Nothing in the old or new testaments suggests to Carlsson-Bull that marriage must be between a man and a woman.
"(The Bible) is not a doctrine, but an anthology," she said. "It was put together by decisions that were political as well as religious."
you can go there yourself. Enjoy.
Let's see, we have had these crazy statements from the leftist loons also known as the Unitarians:
gay rights activists: Geneva's Unitarian remains bastion of liberal ministry
Pamela Rumancik, 49, who’s openly lesbian, recently finished a year of training as a minister at Geneva’s Unitarian Universalist Church. Her role was assistant minister, leading services and performing weddings and memorial services.What a bunch of loons! The Lesbian and Gay club is another name for the Unitarians! Biblical, yeah, right.... ;-PRumancik grew up Catholic and was always involved with the church.
“I couldn’t be a minister in the Catholic Church, but I could as a Unitarian,” she said.
..“As a Catholic, I was totally repressed so much,” Rumancik said. “I really didn’t notice (I was a lesbian) until I got older.”
Since your posts also talk about how the NT is wrong, you should give them a visit, right?
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