Only "Ceiling Kitteh" can beat "Basement Kitteh". ;o)
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.”
(Excerpt) Read more at religion.blogs.cnn.com ...
Kinda how I feel reading about all those "Eucharistic" miracles where a leftover "host" turns into tissue from a human heart. Or, all the rosaries that got changed into gold when the "Blessed Mother" appeared at Medjugorje. Or recently when one of the Medjugorje "visionaries" said that a local tennis player (Ivan Dodig) defeating the number two in the world ranking of tennis (Nadal) in this August's world match was "another message of Medjugorje".
So, you don't have a lot of legroom mocking Quix's experiences. Has this just become a spontaneous reaction to anything he says now?
Only "Ceiling Kitteh" can beat "Basement Kitteh". ;o)
If I ever saw any colored cat taking out my garbage, I'd let him. Mine just MAKE garbage! ;o)
Baby Boom generation is actually til 1964.
It’s another one of those ... too much truth and that’s their only defense. Man made teachings fail it’s students - garbage in, garbage out.
It appears as if you have failed to even read the article at the link. It is QUITE well documented and is just as, if not more so, credible as any "objective" - read Catholic - sources could be seeing as the article INCLUDES the very same writings from the Early Church "Fathers" that may be used to support whatever "agenda" you seem to prefer.
You say you TOLD Daniel to "study objective history". I wonder if you held yourself to the same standard, did you? Tell me, what or who do you consider "objective" sources for the first millennium after Christ? I'll wager it is the same theologians quoted in this article, seeing as real objective - meaning NOT Catholic and censured - documentation may not have survived the many "purges" instituted by the same hierarchy.
No, you could not have read the article very thoroughly at all, because if you had, you would not have posted the uneducated fiction about the formation of the canon of Scripture nor would you have expressed the FICTION that all objective historians agreed on the results of Hippo and Carthage and Alexandria. I know because none of those "councils" did unanimously agree nor did even those who participated at Trent. Daniel is hardly the one misinformed about the Bible's formation. Let me know the link to your own studied and objective treatise about this, won't you. I promise I'll read it.
I loved playing the “Opposites” game with my elementary students as well as nieces and nephews. Both my Dad and Mom did/do the crossword puzzles in ink, too. I also will never do one that has the answers somewhere else in the newspaper - too tempting to cheat! ;o)
Ah, a teacher. I bet you are a good one.
I do crosswords in ink, but it is really more a matter of arrogance than being smart. Lots of mistakes but still I persist.
You should see my checkbook. LOL
BTW, how long has that been your tagline? I don’t know why I just now noticed it. Like it.
“Yea, the sparrow hath found an house, and the swallow a nest for herself, where she may lay her young,... “
Psalm 84
Has Medjugorje been given the official okey-dokey? As far as I know, it’s still controversial, though I do know of one marriage saved and two lives changed in connection with it.
But, well, I dunno ...
Talkin’ ‘bout my. GENurayshun!
LOL!
Um, no.
I'm also thinking of the gargoyles on the outside of the cathedral. They're on the outside.
No, I DON'T know what I'm trying to say!
The superficial, even superstitious, piety of those who may turn out to be tares, or, perhaps, whose faithful, if misdirected, piety may one day encounter the upheaval of the Spirit, is like the thorns and gargoyles. If one’s eye stops on it, one misses what lies beyond and within.
Today for us is the feast of the birth of Mary. Though she was undoubtedly born, a lot of the “material” seems to come from the extra-canonical and extremely dubious “Proto-evangelion of James.” If one stops there, one is ensnared in legend or repulsed. But last night the blessing given to me was a new appreciation of the Love and Humility that would lead God the Son of God to be born of a “featherless biped”, however immaculate (or not) for our sake.
Contemplation of the birth of Mary led me to a deeper gratitude for the birth of her Son.
Eyes on the prize, and all this shall be added unto you.
As first ascribed to Demeter... the Greek 'Isis/Ashtoreth/Ishtar' ... the 'Great Goddess', the 'Mother Goddess', the 'Queen of Heaven'... Good Lord, but this sort of thing gets tiresome. Just sayin.
Negative. There's a good measure of spite and whole buckets of envy and inferiority complex to round out the mixture.
Sure. Every day when Proddys get up and gaze fondly at the god in the mirror, he blesses them with a new miraculous revelation of doctrine.
That story is plastered all over the internet. Apparently, everybody and his pente brother claims their presence. Too bad no dentists did. What baloney.
Another idiot lying for the Lord? Reminds me of the Democrats - it's false but true on principle.
MY King conquered all the false gods and took their titles. Evidently the weak god of some Protestants acknowledges the claims of false gods to honors which are Jesus’ to bestow.
In any case, in a fashion to which I am used, rather tan acknowledge that the fact I adduced refutes the false statement from your side that only “Roman Catholics” hold Mary to be holy (and what does your side hold “saint” to mean anyway?) you change the subject.
How very frightened and weak must be the faith in Truth of those who will change the subject to preserve the illusion of victory!
“Those with a valid EXPERIENCE”
The Name-It-And-Claim it experience is simply God-on-Demand heresy which presumes to demand that God give them what they want.
I’m assuming that this quotation actually means something to somebody. Where is it from? Google, like the triumvirate of the Reformation, is proving insufficient.
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