Yaworski
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Saying "I believe because I wanna be safe" makes it sound like your "faith" is a matter of convenience.
Pope Francis is dead
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Saying "I believe because I wanna be safe" makes it sound like your "faith" is a matter of convenience.
I think it was in the Novel "Still Life with Woodpecker" by Tom Robbins that I read one of the most profound statements ever, at least for me. I have it printed and posted on my wall.
"Ideas are Created by Masters, Dogma by Disciples "
There in itself lies the problem with any religion. I strive to live by the teachings of Christ but not by how most Christian religions now interpret or practice them.
Oh, and I hope this late pope is resting peacefully with his God.
The one issue I do have with his passing is lowering the American Flag to half staff. I think this should only be done for Americans.
"Ideas are Created by Masters, Dogma by Disciples "
There in itself lies the problem with any religion. I strive to live by the teachings of Christ but not by how most Christian religions now interpret or practice them.
Oh, and I hope this late pope is resting peacefully with his God.
The one issue I do have with his passing is lowering the American Flag to half staff. I think this should only be done for Americans.
Yaworski
Hawkeye
The flag flew at half mast when the queen died.
Would you like to try on the uniforms? They are , however, marginally better than those Greek ceremonial guard uniforms.
I am a converted Catholic. My wife was born, raised and educated in it. I enjoy the pomp, circumstance and ceremony of the Church, but I don’t really think their message is any better than any other. May Pope Francis rest in peace.
Do they come in XXXXL? The stuff I'm interested in seeing doesn't involve folks in uniform for the most part ;)
A older friend of mine began going to Sunday mass with his Wife awhile back. He despised the idea for years. I asked why the change? He told me the Doc told him to get more exercise on the weekends aside from doing excessive sets of 12oz arm curls......if one has ever been to a Catholic mass you know it is similar to low speed calisthenics....sit, stand, kneel, sit stand, left foot in, left foot out and shake it all about.....he calls it his Sunday morning Hokey Pokey and says he's exhausted by the time it ends. The message he said he received was to stretch before and after mass.
I know and not to put her down but I don't think we should have lowered it for her either....
Hell, our ships don't lower their flag for anyone.....at least the last time I checked.
Yes they do....it's called half mast
Yaworski
Hawkeye
Urban myth. Dipping the colors is a nautical tradition and the US Navy follows that tradition.
The Navy has been known to "dip" the flag now and again, but they don't sail around for a month with the flag hanging low in the halyards for just any Tom, Dick or Harry.
The Pope was a man of God. If making sport of him is your idea of being funny, you should pray better
I am a Christian. I don't know where this pope got his message from but I seriously doubt it was from God.
Do not forget the wallet stretch of emptying it into the basket they force down the pews a few times per session.
A one-time-only event, is different from an ordinary occurrence.
When putin dies, maybe they will jack up the flagpole even higher.
He was only a man, who worked his way up thru the system, and when the committee needed a man that they could all agree on, thats who he was. Investiture by committee. Hundreds of years oId. Their whole world now awaits a puff of white smoke, then they will have a new one to listen to or ignore as is their wont.
Dipping the colors is not lowering the flag. Its like a tip o' the hat isnt a full courtsey.
The whole world is not waiting. I for one couldn't care less. I do not need an emissary between myself and my God, that was taken care of a long time ago.
I said "their whole world", not "the whole word". Ah do tryta say what i mean as offen as ah kin.
I'm not a believer, but I think that overall religion has contributed more good to humanity than it has done evil, even if sometimes this is a close call. Our moral codes, and to some degree, our legal perspective is an outgrowth of the Judeo-Christian theology that generated the Western world. Personally I find it amusing that some people think of the Creator, if there is one, as aware of and involved in the lives of billions of human beings living on this little speck of a planet on the edge of a non-special galaxy in a universe of unimaginable size, and many of these same people think that there is a singular entity that they call Satan that consciously tries to influence people to do evil things.
That said, I see the Catholic church as one that has tried for two thousand years to make sense of the unknowable, and to codify what some see as the way humans should behave and see reality. Through clearly imperfect means a leader is chosen for that church, and whether we agree with that person or not he has a degree of influence over what happens on this little planet. To that extent, I hope that the group of Cardinals that has the power to chose the Catholic Pope pick someone who will at least temporarily make the life of part of humanity a bit better.
That said, I see the Catholic church as one that has tried for two thousand years to make sense of the unknowable, and to codify what some see as the way humans should behave and see reality. Through clearly imperfect means a leader is chosen for that church, and whether we agree with that person or not he has a degree of influence over what happens on this little planet. To that extent, I hope that the group of Cardinals that has the power to chose the Catholic Pope pick someone who will at least temporarily make the life of part of humanity a bit better.
Yes, the cardinals have a good chance of pulling a waitaminit, yeah, those other cardinals. Good luck to them, too.
Practicality / logic.
Yaworski
Hawkeye
Nah. It's like saying, "If my parents think that I still believe in Santa Clause, I'll get more stuff." It really isn't "belief" at all. God will know that belief is a sham and the reward will be getting cast into the outer darkness.
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