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To: John Leland 1789

“You must have a variety or form of religion that connects everything with a man-made physical structure.”

No, I just understand logic. Did you not see the original story? It’s about what happened when an anti-Catholic group invaded the private property of a Catholic parish. Thus, logically, if someone wants to use a proper analogy to discuss the event it must have a similar context (i.e. the private property of one religious group used for worship being invaded by another group which disrupts their worship).

“Paul may or may not have gone into a ‘church-type facility’ and interrupted a service. So what?”

No. Paul never did that. That’s why he lived as long as he did. He, as a Jew, could enter the synagogue but he most certainly could not enter a pagan temple and disrupt their worship and expect to live. If Paul had done any such thing, Luke would certainly have recorded the beat down that Paul would have received. . . before his trial and execution.


144 posted on 12/15/2015 4:47:29 PM PST by vladimir998 (Apparently I'm still living in your head rent free. At least now it isn't empty.)
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To: vladimir998
"If Paul had done any such thing, Luke would certainly have recorded the beat down that Paul would have received. . . before his trial and execution."

Huh? Whole cities were drawn into hatred for Paul and plotted to kill him.

I am of the view actually that it was wrong for any to interrupt the services going on in those Catholic congregations. I'm talking about the original story. But I look at it there as a private property issue, and a right of association issue. That property belongs to the Catholic Church, and the worshipers there have the right to worship in association with each other as members, without being "molested" by any who are not members there.

147 posted on 12/15/2015 8:46:32 PM PST by John Leland 1789
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To: vladimir998
That’s why he lived as long as he did.

Paul did die before his execution, and was brought back.

151 posted on 12/16/2015 1:37:40 AM PST by Partisan Gunslinger
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