steve_bank
Diabetic retinopathy and poor eyesight. Typos ...
One hour of Hail Mary.
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steve_bank
Diabetic retinopathy and poor eyesight. Typos ...
Kind of like listening to some of the music today.....
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For drinking heavily? What is this thread supposed to be about?
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That’s one hour of Bloody Mary.
steve_bank
Diabetic retinopathy and poor eyesight. Typos ...
About odds and end you may find regarding religion...
Perhaps you are unfamiliar with the cultural expression.
Perhaps I could have called the thread Religious Sundries.
Perhaps you are unfamiliar with the cultural expression.
Perhaps I could have called the thread Religious Sundries.
Cheerful Charlie
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Matthew 6:7
But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do: for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking.
It was a simple test. The Catholic church flunked.
Cheerful Charlie
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Matthew 23:9-11 KJV
And call no man your father upon the earth: for one is your Father, which is in heaven. Neither be ye called masters: for one is your Master, even.
The Catholic Church flunked this one also. The word Mister is derived from the word master. We can't use that word either, if you are a true Christian.
And call no man your father upon the earth: for one is your Father, which is in heaven. Neither be ye called masters: for one is your Master, even.
The Catholic Church flunked this one also. The word Mister is derived from the word master. We can't use that word either, if you are a true Christian.
steve_bank
Diabetic retinopathy and poor eyesight. Typos ...
Yea. One of those gotchas theological contradictions.
And Jesus said pray/meditate in private and don't wear your faith on your sleeves for show like the hypocrites. That pretty much excludes the majority of American Christians who contractually and loudly and publicly prclaim ther beliefs.
ideologyhunter
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2/16/1568: The Holy Office of the Catholic Church condemned the entire population of the Netherlands (with a few named exceptions) to death as heretics. I believe this was a reaction to the outlawing of Catholicism in that country. Hard to beat as an odds/ends tidbit. Who said the Holy Office didn't have a sense of humor?
Learner
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This is wonderful, (don't quite agree with "majority" though) . But both you and Charlie recognise and understand ..
.. that any act that conflicts with what Jesus teaches, is NOT Christianity as according to Jesus! I may quote your posts for future use.
Nice one chaps.
James Brown
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Matthew 5:42
"Give to him who ask of thee, and from him that would borrow of thee, turn not away."
Learner, will you give me one percent of your gross income for the rest of your life?
"Give to him who ask of thee, and from him that would borrow of thee, turn not away."
Learner, will you give me one percent of your gross income for the rest of your life?
ideologyhunter
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There's an easier way; you can just take stuff. Luke 6:30 tells believers that if anyone takes what is yours, you do not ask for it back. Sweet deal.
Thomas II
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Pretty Much Everything Done By Pope Boniface VIII
Photo: Artaud de Montor / Wikimedia Commons / Public Domain
When you're such an evil pope that Dante reserves you a spot in the Eight Circle of Hell, you definitely get a place on this list (and are probably laughing in heaven right now at the filthy plebs who wrote this). It's amazing to think people of this nature were endorsed by the Catholic Church, let alone elected to lead the organization.
Boniface VIII (1230-1303) was guilty of many horrible crimes that, sum total, make him seem like a sadistic Roman emperor. Among other things, he oversaw the complete destruction of Palestrina, a city that peacefully surrendered. Palestrina was completely razed, and Boniface ordered a plow driven over it to prove it had been reduced to nothing but earth and rubble.
You know priests take a vow of celibacy, right? Apparently, Boniface VIII didn't take his too seriously. He once had a three-way with a married woman and her daughter, but was even more well known for saying that having intercourse with young boys was as natural as rubbing one hand against the other. So, obviously, he was raping (or at least fornicating with) children.
To celebrate his many great accomplishments, Boniface VIII just loved erecting statues of himself. So add hubris to his list of sins.
ideologyhunter
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Is he now a saint...or...pending?
Cheerful Charlie
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Boniface VIII. Patron saint of homosexual pedophiles.
Thomas II
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A "saint"?...I doubt it...Maybe another Pope named Boniface...From Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Boniface_VIII
Character: (from Wikipedia)
"The pope is said to have been short-tempered, kicking an envoy in the face on one occasion, and on another, throwing ashes in the eyes of an archbishop who was kneeling to receive them as a blessing atop his head..."" Dante recalls the pontiff's feud with the Colonna family, which led him to demolish the city of Palestrina, killing 6,000 citizens and destroying both the home of Julius Caesar and a shrine to Mary. Boniface's ultimate fate is confirmed by Beatrice when Dante visits Heaven. It is notable that he does not adopt Guillaume de Nogaret's aspersion that Boniface VIII was a 'sodomite', however, and does not assign him to that circle of hell (although simony was placed in the eighth circle of fraud, below sodomy, in the seventh circle of violence, designating it as a worse offense and taking precedence above activities of sodomy)."
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