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To: aMorePerfectUnion

What behavior, living in buildings owned by the Church while doing the job the Church has asked them to do? Wearing the uniform of their position while performing its duties?

Religious vestments and habits are the opposite of “worldly”: they are intentionally unworldly, that is, not what regular people are wearing. A suit and tie, or hipster gear, or randomly-selected Salvation Army items would be “worldly,” although not necessarily unsuitable to the roles of the people who choose that clothing.


46 posted on 08/05/2014 1:43:50 PM PDT by Tax-chick (No power in the 'verse can stop me.)
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To: Tax-chick

“What behavior, living in buildings owned by the Church while doing the job the Church has asked them to do?”

Living the high life while purporting to represent the One who had no place to lay his head.

“Wearing the uniform of their position while performing its duties?”

There are no Christian uniforms/costumes. It is pagan.

“Religious vestments and habits are the opposite of “worldly”: they are intentionally unworldly, that is, not what regular people are wearing.”

Pagan practices like this are worldly.


72 posted on 08/05/2014 2:09:39 PM PDT by aMorePerfectUnion ( "I didn't leave the Central Oligarchy Party. It left me." - Ronaldus Maximus)
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To: Tax-chick
Religious vestments and habits are the opposite of “worldly”: they are intentionally unworldly, that is, not what regular people are wearing. A suit and tie, or hipster gear, or randomly-selected Salvation Army items would be “worldly,” although not necessarily unsuitable to the roles of the people who choose that clothing.

Did Jesus wear religious vestments?

Seems to me that John the Baptist wore *unworldly* garments but I don't think camel's hair would thrill a lot of those already accustomed to the finer type.

84 posted on 08/05/2014 2:33:30 PM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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