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To: jude24
The Church is supposed to be a means by which God communicates grace

Communicating Grace does not include telling folks that blasphemy, idolatry, profanity, disrespect, murder, theft, adultery, dishonesty, or covetousness are just peachy.

There's a group of folks whose whole mission in life is to get "society" to believe that buggery is just fine. They're wrong, and the Church would be remiss in her duties not to tell them so. The message must be, as with all sins, to repent, to "go and sin no more". The author of this piece seems to both reject and misrepresent this message. She has also rejected and misrepresented the message that abortion is wrong. She has also rejected the message that false worship is wrong. Finally, she does just that, creating for herself a 'god' in her own image and likeness.

None of this is OK ... her apparent embrace of polygenism is apparently heresy ... and failing to note all of this does not communicate Grace.

65 posted on 02/23/2007 12:10:49 PM PST by ArrogantBustard (Western Civilisation is aborting, buggering, and contracepting itself out of existence.)
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To: ArrogantBustard; Campion; Alex Murphy
The author of this piece seems to both reject and misrepresent this message. She has also rejected and misrepresented the message that abortion is wrong. She has also rejected the message that false worship is wrong.

Given the screeds of Fred Phelps and Jerry Falwell (and the Catholic analogs that we all know are out there), its not entirely surprising. Given the pathetic state of catechesis, I bet you she has never heard a cogent explanation of why homosexuality is wrong but homosexuals should not be hated; why abortion is evil but that she must show compassion to women contemplating abortion as a choice of desperation

The writer of this article has certainly missed the point of Christianity. I'm not convinced its wholly her fault, though. The Church has done a poor job of communicating grace, so what she's seen sure does look a lot like hatred.

69 posted on 02/23/2007 12:19:36 PM PST by jude24
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