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Duh! But...the runners-up are fascinating. Folks, it is official. An on-line quiz proves that I'm 100% Catholic. Finally, an independent instrument confirms what we all suspected, including myself, of what my theological worldview. There you have it, in black-and-white! You scored as Roman Catholic. You are Roman Catholic. Church tradition and ecclesial authority are hugely important, and the most important part of worship for you is mass. As the Mother of God, Mary is important in your theology, and as the communion of saints includes the living and the dead, you can also ask the saints to intercede for you....

There is a cry within many Christian churches - a lamentation over the sins and divisions of the past - sort of. There is an emotional exhaustion among believers who have never understood the biblical and historic issues that have fragmented the visible church, and especially among those who understand them all too well but who somehow wish that they didn't. All the bitterness and bickering, not to mention the wars - after 2000 years of bloody history's crushing weight, who can blame them? But is the church coming together again under one roof really just a matter of forgiving...

On the Doctrine of the Imago Dei By S. Gannon Murphy - (Man made in the Image of God) Introduction: Perhaps no other doctrine of the Christian faith goes against the philosophical grain of modern sociocultural paradigms as abrasively as the doctrine of man created in the imago Dei. The smoke of controversy and protest encircled around this foundational doctrine can be seen clearly simply by observing the prodigious energies with which the droves of committed secularists propound their naturalistic theories regarding human and cosmological origins. Such materialistic theories run the gamut of ideas from the random, spontaneous generation of...