You've got a sailor, who's getting into Viking stuff.
Imagine this:
Painted white, with a red bow stripe.
Posted on 01/05/2010 9:46:47 PM PST by the_conscience
I just witnessed a couple of Orthodox posters get kicked off a "Catholic Caucus" thread. I thought, despite their differences, they had a mutual understanding that each sect was considered "Catholic". Are not the Orthodox considered Catholic? Why do the Romanists get to monopolize the term "Catholic"?
I consider myself to be Catholic being a part of the universal church of Christ. Why should one sect be able to use a universal concept to identify themselves in a caucus thread while other Christian denominations need to use specific qualifiers to identify themselves in a caucus thread?
I never said it was or was not photoshopped.
I said that, unless Dr. Eckleburg took the photos, she was not in a position to authenticate them as photoshop-free.
You've got a sailor, who's getting into Viking stuff.
Imagine this:
Painted white, with a red bow stripe.
And your Da Vinci Code interpretation of this is what???? That is a secret symbol instead of an incredible piece of Church Art?
And let’s not forget that photoshop only means that the pictures themselves have been altered.
Without any perspective for scale or location, some of the pictures could be from anywhere.
What’s to stop me from going to a friend’s farm, chopping off the head of a chicken, hanging the chicken upside down on a wall, drawing a pentagram above it, taking a picture and claiming that the picture was taken at the local Machenite church?
By the way, Tax-chick, Mel Gibson is planning on making a movie in Old Norse and Old English soon.
I once studied Old English and Old Norse at the same time. I don’t advise that anyone do that. Kennings are a lot of fun though. So are Old English riddles.
Anoreth could have drawn that.
You wrote:
“Vladimir998 now also says he/she...”
He.
“...has seen a couple of these before.”
Which ones specifically?
“So I guess it is safe to assume it was not altered by anyone. Right!”
Again, which ones are we talking about?
Protestants have this fantasy of the Catholic Church which is fueled by non-Catholic run media and Protestant written hsitory text books. In this vision th4 Church is this wonderful but awful organization more like the KGB than anything else on earth.
It is of course, nonsense. Personally I think "imprimatur" is Latin for "what the heck!"
As I said, if you view the making and keeping of promises a loss of sovereignty, then this passage will give you the heebie jeebies. I happen to view making commitments and showing mercy as the perfection of freedom. So I have a different reaction.
The anti-Catholics do not seem to understand that the Assumption of the Blessed Mother was a result of the Power and Love of GOD. They simply do not have enough faith to believe that God is capable of assuming someone, body and soul, into Heaven. It’s no different from their inability to believe that God can change the substance of the Eucharist.
They actually don’t have faith at all, they have a remedial grasp of logic.
That sounds like the sort of thing Anoreth would love. I don’t go for the terrifically violent movies, myself, being a very Staid Older Lady.
We used to play with kennings in literature classes in college. I should look some up to quiz my sons at the dinner table ... that would be a Fun Game.
Please pass on to her the idea of a longship in USCG colours.
What about when you threatened to bludgeon Anoreth with frozen food?
Amen, and thanks for the kind words and great scripture. :) I saw Brit do several interviews after his infamous Tiger remarks and in every case I could see these scriptures going through his head. By his wry smiling I could see him thinking: "We read that the world will hate us for our faith, but when we see it and experience it ourselves so explicitly and so publicly it's like "Wow". :)
I'm sure it was not lost on Brit that the hatred he received actually went toward proving Brit right! The word of God is perfect and just as true today as when it was given.
You wrote:
“That the art, if indeed representing Mary, doesn’t bother you is irrelevant to the fact that it bothers me.”
True, but objectively no Christian should be bothered by a piece of art that depicts Mary missing her son. Being bothered in that way would indicate either an unchristian sentiment or a dislike of art.
This thread and others.
Bottom line is that even if I had doubts about Holy Mother Church, the relentless attacks demonstrate more than anything else that She must be doing SOMETHING right!!!
#5271 passed to you, Petunia. Maybe you could incorporate a sail, or some bearded seamen with axes, in the t-shirt design. Btw, I’ll buy one ;-).
And we resolved the pork roast issue amicably, thanks.
And if this
is acceptable, surely a longship ...
“They simply do not have enough faith to believe that God is capable of assuming someone, body and soul, into Heaven. It’s no different from their inability to believe that God can change the substance of the Eucharist. / They actually don’t have faith at all, they have a remedial grasp of logic.”
Incorrect. Many of us have no problem with ENOCH being assumed, because it suggests so in scripture:
Gen 5:24 Enoch walked with God, and he was not, for God took him.
What many “anti-Catholics” find odd is that such an event - which would qualify as a spectacular miracle - would go unmentioned in scripture. If they mention her presence meeting with disciples in Acts 1 but never again, it seems odd that she A) is Queen of Heaven, Co-XYZ, and B) was assumed to Heaven.
That isn’t a lack of faith or logic. As Wiki has it, “Although the Assumption (Latin: assumptio;, “taken up”) was only relatively recently defined as infallible dogma by the Catholic Church, and in spite of a statement by Epiphanius of Salamis in AD 377 that no one knew of the eventual fate of Mary,[4] apocryphal accounts of the assumption of Mary into heaven have circulated since at least the 4th century.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assumption_of_Mary#History
The assumption doesn’t exactly sound like part of the faith given us once for all by the Apostles. That doesn’t make it false, but it should be obvious why Protestants don’t endorse it as dogma!
Hmm. Easily done, I think.
Cool train! I wonder if I could get the van done like that ...
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