[quote]I'm a Christian with a Christian world view[/quote] Isn't that another kind of globalization? [quote]We've been way above for too long and we have to be brought low first to be on a level playing ground with the rest of the world[/quote] Turn back Evolution and progress? Be just as stuck in the dark ages as they are? I've never heard such bullshit. They should catch up with us. You're right you ARE out of sync, and you're a pathetic, small-minded imbecile. C
Infidel
[quote]I can definitely relate to this. I am our of sync with the culture and I should be. I'm a Christian with a Christian world view. Makes sense[/quote] You took a small part of the entire quote out of context to praise yourself. You should be ashamed of yourself.
[quote]I don't want to be in sync with a culture that thinks things today is just business as usual.[/quote] So you're a counter-culture anarchist?
[quote]and yes we as Christians ARE certainly to be out of synch with even our own culture. This world is not our forever home so we are not to get too comfortable in it. Paul wrote to the Romans that we are not to be conformed to the pattern of this world but to be transformed by the renewing of our minds. In other words like I said about the world being crooked? We are to straighten up and fly right as God intended us. First the Jews and then the Christians were told to be a peculiar people
[quote]I can definitely relate to this. I am our of sync with the culture and I should be. I'm a Christian with a Christian world view. Makes sense. [/quote] Once again, you miss the point. Us in the West are out of sync with the East. You're not supposed to be out of sync with your own culture.
[quote]there was a big article in Time Magazine recently about the decline in the churches not to mention the fact they were asking if Christianity wasn't dead. Most polls are coming out with a declining membership. [/quote] "The myth has to deal with the cosmology of today, and it's no good when it's based on a cosmology that's out of date. That's one of our problems. I don't see any conflict between religion and science. Religion has to accept the science of the day and penetrate it
[quote]There is nothing superstitious about calling believers to prayer[/quote] Not per se, no. Has anyone else here ever noticed that when Muslims pray, they look like they're getting screwed in the ass?
[quote]centerary[/quote] [quote]centeries[/quote] That's really pathetic.
[quote]Jews, for religious reasons, would rather have supermarkets that don't sell ham).[/quote] [quote] Muslims, for religious reasons, would rather have the imam use loudspeakers and wake up the entire city at five in the morning).[/quote] Superstitious, outdated bullshit. Dogma is hilarious.
[quote]and another example of a one liner with nothing to back it up with. [/quote] Ok, how's this? You're a gullible, superstitious moron.
Another example of religious zeal clouding judgment.
[quote]Quit forcing insurance carriers to cover things that they don't want to cover [/quote] Including sick people?
[quote]Perhaps someday we can all discuss things in a reasonable, rational, and even logical manner.[/quote] But that's not what blogging is for.
FoxNews: 1. Fair and balanced? Says who? FOX NEWS! 2. The network that gave Geraldo Rivera a show. 3. I remember when O'Reilly tried to convince everyone that calling someone a "pinhead" is not an insult.
[quote]Peter was known as a man of action[/quote] Peter. Saint Peter.
[quote]My comment had nothing to do with Jesus seeing where we are going. Why would you think that? [/quote] Partly a joke. What DID you mean?
[quote]First off you SHOULD NEVER pack your bible. It should be on the front seat with you on the trip.. [/quote] Why, does Jesus need to see where you're going? Can't he watch over you from inside the suitcase?
[quote]I don't go by my own private interpretation.[/quote] Isn't that what every individual is supposed to do? Isn't religion supposed to be personal and subjective? Aren't you supposed to keep it to yourself? Once again, I call Priestcraft.
[quote]I'm glad Obama hasn't been able to change any of those symbols [/quote] But he's probably been trying to, right?
[quote]Nice try, Infidel, but ID symbols of military/goverment bureaucracies approved by a state/nation are not personal symbols created/used by leaders.[/quote] Ok, so the leaders didn't create the symbols themselves, but they operate under the symbols. They are still symbols of the offices.
[quote]It shows the Pope nearly everyday giving audience to tens even hundreds of thousands of people who go to the Holy See and celebrate the Holy Mass[/quote] His terms, not theirs.
[quote]If men of the world build beautiful houses for their wives and families, shouldn't the Catholic people through their donations over time build beautiful dwelling places for Christ, our Lord and King?[/quote] No. [quote]And as far as the Pope and Bishops being inaccessible..you are wrong. [/quote] The pope is.
If Jesus started the CC, it must have lost its way somewhere. I don't think he would want it to be rich, full of pomp and circumstance and for its leader to be so inaccessible to followers.
[quote]Why does it sound like a fairy tale? Is it simply because it doesn't exist here, here being all that we know, and because of that fact it simply seems not possible?[/quote] No, because it's happily ever after. Maybe our definitions of paradise are different. I'm not talking about Heaven or the Garden of Eden.