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<t>rainbowsmiles wrote: The Catholic Church has made it clear that their followers are not to take part in the practice of yoga but other Christian leaders say differently. Any opinions?Yes. You're a complete idiot. Of course, that's just my opinion, as you requested. The Cath...

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<t>Ted wrote: I have one question just for clarification. Are there any lay people involved in such decisions?In which decisions? Defining doctrine? I don't think so, certainly not directly, because such decisions have more to do with the interpretation of the history of the Church's previous teachi...

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<t>William Ess wrote: Not really but in an emotive business such as the Church, it would be surprising if the Pope did not have strong views on certain issues - private agenda, if you wish - and in the final analysis the facility of Papal Infallibility even if not used explicitly must carry some wei...

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<t>spot wrote: I've never had the least hint of any personal psychic ability. I don't believe I've had any clinically psychotic episodes and none have ever been diagnosed. Have you any other invasive questions you'd like answering?Well then, let's stop the nonsense, because it's too serious a subjec...

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spot wrote: The only enemy your country faces today is its administration and those who collaborate with it.So THEY'RE the ones who flew those planes into the WTC!

Wow, spot, now YOU'RE the psychic. Is it that psychotic?

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spot wrote: Then I call you a collaborator. And no, describing koan as a psychotic isn't remotely funny.A collaborator in what? Defending my country against its enemies?

Gee, I guess you're right.

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<t>spot wrote: Rather in the same vein as "assuming that he really is an American and living in the USA, rather than just staging a charade from some Islamic hellhole, anyone who knows who this jerk is should report him to the Department of Homeland Security immediately"? Bronwen, you've lots touch ...

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spot wrote: This, lady, is just disgusting and repetitive abuse. Is there no way to persuade you to stop it?I suppose you could send some Muslims after me.

Lighten up, spotster, it was just a little joke.

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<t>William Ess wrote: 1. The last instance of papal infallibility cannot have been that long ago since the infallibility was only ascribed to the Pontiff as recently as 1870 and was hotly contested by many of the RC Bishops of the day. Did it not cause something of a schism in the church? ...

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<t>William Ess wrote: 1. The doctrine of papal infallibility may be a highly ingenious way of preventing argument within the guiding councils of the Vatican 2. ...but to claim that an individual born of woman can speak - even under limited circumstances - with the authority of God is sur...

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<t>rainbowsmiles wrote: SINCE YOU AREN'T BRINGING ANYTHING NEW TO THIS TOPIC AND REFUSE TO DISCUSS THE ISSUE AT HAND, I WILL NO LONGER BE RESPONDING TO YOUR POSTS. I JUST RECENTLY LEARNED A FEW THINGS ABOUT YOU AND I THINK I KNOW WHAT YOUR AGENDA IS AND FRANKLY, I'M NOT INTERESTED IN FULFILLING YOUR...

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<t>Ted wrote: We do not accept the infallibility of any human being regardless of office or position. God alone is infallible.Teddy, you are falling back into your old habits here. You are well aware that 'papal infallibility' does not imply that the MAN is infallible, but that the Church...

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<t>Lulu2 wrote: BRONWEN Quote: Originally Posted by Lulu2 Madonna was raised a Catholic but is now a devout follower of the Kabbalah, a mystical off-shoot of Judaism. +++++++++++ I'm not offended...but I didn't say this.In case anyone is confu...

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<t>koan wrote: 1) I hope you are, one day down the road, suitably embarassed by your statements here. The wars today are being fed by attitudes like yours. Islamophobia. There is treatment available. Seek it. 2) I have not made predictions of the future in these matters. You have. But...f...

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Accountable wrote: Excuse me, I have to bathe now.Once every month, whether you need it or not, right?

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<t>Lulu2 wrote: Madonna was raised a Catholic but is now a devout follower of the Kabbalah, a mystical off-shoot of Judaism.The only altar at which Madonna worships 'devout'ly is the altar of self-promotion.Lulu2 wrote: If the Catholics don't like what they HEAR about the possible program Madonna ha...

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BEST....JOKES....EVER! On this subject, at least.

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<t>koan wrote: 1. There are a few citations needed as noted. I've not been aware that jackals have religious behaviour. Perhaps you mean "people" ie) human beings? Your predictions are just that. 2. Do you have credentials as a political analyst? or even a psychic? 3. In a few...

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<t>spot wrote: What, were it true, is the inportance of that? You know it can never happen, I know it can never happen - who anywhere thinks it can happen? Christianity had the same damned ambition for centuries and they never even got to be a majority, much less the only game in town. The danger fa...

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<t>Raven wrote: Bronwen, unfortunately the west has too many liberal 'peace not war' fanatics to allow a quick but sure conclusion to the terrorist problem. spot wrote: You know it can never happen, I know it can never happen - who anywhere thinks it can happen? ...The danger facing the world i...

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<t>William Ess wrote: I believe there is some grey area in this respect. I have an idea that when the CoE accepted women into its priesthood about ten years ago, a number of married CoE clergy were allowed to 'transfer' to the RC church. Whether there were complications arising, I do not know, but I...

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<t>Raven wrote: Bronwen, unfortunately the west has too many liberal 'peace not war' fanatics to allow a quick but sure conclusion to the terrorist problem. Rave, this thread is progressing much faster than I can follow it, having only about an hour to post daily, but I don't want to leave your...

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<t>Katy1 wrote: Bronwen, if you wish to discuss the RC church's views on contraception in general then please set up a new thread. This is going completely off topic. No, I don't particularly want to discuss that, but in any case it has little to do with the AIDS crisis. I guess my problem here is t...

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<t>gmc wrote: 1. You know I really can't believe the level of ignorance you show sometimes. 2. Islam does not allow the use of idols in their religon, Islam has always been wary of representations of the human figure and anything which could even remotely suggest idolatry is frowned upon...

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<t>Ted wrote: The use of statues in the Roman Catholic Church and the veneration of relics is much more complicated than that. I don't have much time at the moment but later on if Bronwen hasn't responded than I shall add some thoughts. Shalom Ted:-6I also have too l...

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<t>Katy1 wrote: 1. I do find it difficult to concur in the main with your thinking because your views are influenced with the ideologies of your own religion, and so your angle is at the outset partisan which automatically adds another dimension to your reasoning. 2. It seems from your p...

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<t>Scrat wrote: Right on it is going to get worse. The Muslim people know what is going on and they know the future we have in mind for them. It sure as hell is not democracy, it's whatever tinpot murdering dictator we say they get. The rantings of a disordered personality and a diseased mind. ...

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Adam Zapple wrote: Bronwen, I'm gonna have to start seeking out your posts. I like your thinking.Well, needless to say, I appreciate the compliment, and as you have no doubt noticed, not everyone here agrees with you, nor would I expect even you to agree with everything I post.

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<t>Marie5656 wrote: OK, since this post has been bumped, I have a question, in hopes that someone with more knowledge of how the Bible is interpreted can answer this. In the matter of celebacy within the Catholic priesthood ..why is it that other religeons which follow the teachings of th...

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<t>William Ess wrote: 1. Bronwen bach... 2. If you feel that there are points raised in the debate that I have not addressed, perhaps you would be good enough to repeat them and I shall respond as best I can.1. Doesn't know the difference between a he and a she, and... 2. ...i...

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<t>William Ess wrote: Then I trust that Bronwen will learn from your example and cease the personal attacks which started the trouble in the first place. This may result in an outbreak of peace.There isn't anyone in the world who appears more stupid than a fool trying to pass himself off as erudite....

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<t>Katy1 wrote: 1. I think my problem with what you are saying is that you seem to to make no distinction between the zealots who do commit atrocities and are happy to make themselves martyrs and despise The West etc. etc. with other Muslim people who have no desire for any of these things. Muslims ...

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<t>Katy1 wrote: 1. Hi bronewn, 2. I don't think that the majority of Christians believe that Islam is 'evil and inhuman', certainly none that I know. To wander down that path is to become as hate filled and vitriolic as the fundamentalists themselves. 3. And please remember th...

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<t>William Ess wrote: Strange then, that my logic should win me plaudits and prizes from Cambridge. You infer that the judgement of Senate House stands in the shadow of yours. What your predecessors did, has no bearing on the matter. Paradoxically some of mine were on the German side of t...

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<t>Ted wrote: I find personal references to one's country of origin and its people very offensive. That was some 66 years ago. It is time to get over it. William Ess wrote: Forgiveness comes from those who were directly affected. Were you bombed?Since my maternal ancestors came to the USA in t...

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<t>rainbowsmiles wrote: 1. So the point of this discussion isn't whether or not the Church leaders (Including the Pope) spoke against it. 2. That has already been established and quite frankly I won't bother trying to prove it to you further. 3. I hardly think this topic woul...

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<r>Lulu2 wrote: Believing himself "infallible," the Pope CANNOT step in "doo doo". Instead, he delivers "the message." <EMOJI seq="1f444" tseq="1f444">:lips:</EMOJI> <EMOJI seq="1f444" tseq="1f444">:lips:</EMOJI> <EMOJI seq="1f444" tseq="1f444">:lips:</EMOJI>Lu, I will assume for the time...

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<t>rainbowsmiles wrote: 1. You asked for my source and I gave it to you. And I'm very surprised that your Catholic friends don't know about this. 2. If your friends are devout Catholics (as are quite a few of my own family members) I believe they would have known about what Pope John Pau...

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<t>Adam Zapple wrote: I believe The Church of God In Christ is predominantly black which is a different denomination from The Church of God.I believe that there are two COGIC's, one mostly black and one mostly white. This situation is probably the result of a split somewhere along the line, which, o...

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<t>William Ess wrote: 1. If someone else likes to raise the points you have made I will discuss them but frankly I am wasting my breath with you. 2. You may think so but then you were not woken one morning by a Luftwaffe bomb which not only razed our house to the ground but almost did fo...

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<t>I appreciate the time you took to post that. I don't think, however, that it supports your allegations. In fact, I would call it, as a whole, a well-balanced commentary. There's certainly no accusation of heresy. Of course, it's important to note that the headlines are the ...

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<t>venus wrote: 1. Now how many times in the past 5 years have you heard good ol' Dubya's crusade as an extension of Christian extremism? How many times has his soundbite of "This is a Crusade" been played out over the world AP? How many times have people made the reference tha...

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<t>venus wrote: 1. Of course. They have every right to be pissed off but with that you have to balance the equation by accepting these muslims are pissed off at the constant bombing of their own innocents which run into numbers far greater than even a militant racist can count on the fingers of one ...

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<r>capt_buzzard wrote: An Evangelical church with six million members worldwide is planning to build a 10m euro church in County Louth in Southern Ireland. Over 1,300 worshippers will be able to attend sesions in the church. It is being built by the Irish arm of the Church of God, a relig...

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<t>William Ess wrote: 1a. Even if it were to be accepted that the line of descent from Christ to the present day is pure, the fact remains that the RC Church has been shaped by men over the course of time. 1b. To suggest that whatever decisions they took were the embodiment of God's will...

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<t>William Ess wrote: Not necessarily. What would have the position of the individual have been as an English Roman Catholic and a member of the Armed Forces if the Vatican had issued an edict in support of Argentina during the Falklands Campaign. That catholic soldier would have to decide whether t...

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spot wrote: Really, Bronwen, why do you do that? I only do it when I'm in my 'crabby bitch' mode.

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<t>William Ess wrote: 1. You are not suggesting, surely, that the Church that existed in, say, AD50 was a recognisable form of the RC church. 2. To believe in God it is not necessary to believe in matters such as the papal succession nor in many of the other assumptions that the RC church...

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<t>zinkyusa wrote: So when were you in the miltary Scrat? What service and branch? Been in combat? I doubt it. I bet you didn't even finish your full enilstment. I think most likely you just couldn't cut it and now hate the miltary. You don't anything about what's going on Iraq or about ...

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<t>venus wrote: 1. After reading this drivvle from you Bronwen all you have done is cemented the idea that l already had in my mind that you are an anti-semetic, xenaphobic racist. 2. No matter how many times many of thye good people on here have tried to show you the reasons for their op...

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