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Strat, I was not whining, I was gently confronting you and others on your patently non-loving treatment of one another. It embarasses me to see people who go by the name of Christian engaging in this kind of caustic rhetoric. Now, I try to be polite to others when I disagree with them...

There is a story in today's Wall Street Journal analyzing why people are far more rude to one another on the internet than they would ever be face to face. I found it interesting and enlightening.

Not having convicts (without restored civil rights) and non-citizens vote will definitely help Romney. That is not news. Why should someone who cannot prove who they are be allowed to vote in an election? This should have been dealt with long before the election year, though. After November...

I don't subscribe to a political philosophy based on whether others who subscribe to it are people I like or don't like. I subscribe to a philosophy or ideology based on whether there are good arguments to support it. The notions of limited government, personal liberty, economic freedom...

I'm afraid you are misinterpreting my disagreement with "ignoring the importance of 1 Tim 2:14". Now, the Jews had scriptures before Christ. Jesus even read from the scrolls in the synagogues. When He did that everyone understood that He was reading from the scriptures, even though there was...

Well, Kepha, I agree with Axehead that the Bible, and not the Magesterium or Sacred Tradition, are the way God has communicated His truths to us. What I was questioning was something that sounded offensive even to my Protestant ears, which was the statement that those who disagree with me don't...

On what scriptural authority do you judge the souls of others?

I kind of like how many Orthodox Jews view the issue of what happens after we die. Their position is that they simply don't know. Now, we Christians know that God gives us life everlasting. Eternal life is the gift of God to us as believers. How exactly He does that and how He conducts the...

I'll just share my thoughts on this, attempting not to become contentious about it. Silence of the early church fathers indicates only that there was no controversy about it, not whether they believed one way or the other. Theologically, the idea is that for Christ not to have original sin...

You seem to be drawing some picture of my beliefs that is false so you can criticize it. I believe Jesus to be born of a virgin. That is not what the immaculate conception is referring to, however. It is not a matter of my faith being weak, I believe it is more a matter of you...

The more secure a person is in understanding their own beliefs the less threatened they are about what other people think or say. People who understand Catholic theology extremely well offer well thought out defenses for things that strike non-catholics as wrong or "unchristian". I consider my...

I have not criticized your so-called three dimensional artistic depiction of Jesus or Mary. If you can point out a lie I've told, I'll confess and repent. If you cannot then you need to confess and repent for calling me a liar. You don't strike me as soneone for whom thoughtful discussion is...

I have a good Catholic friend from another discussion board who found my analogy very enlightening. He said it helped him consider what things look like from the point of view of another person. We had many fruitful discussions. I learned a lot about Catholicism from him. Some people are not...

Me too. Shake it off! Move on!

I illustrated how misunderstanding the symbols of others can cause distress. In what way is that "knee jerk paranoia"? As I compare what I wrote with your reaction to it, I get quite lost. And I cannot for the life of me figure out how my mother or her picture got into the conversation. I...

There are many beliefs about Mary that cause me to cringe. Greatest among them is the label "Mother of God". I understand how it came about, the heresies that were being put forth about Christ, and so forth that caused this to become an issue. We can debate whether Jesus has two natures or...

It may be your opinion, but it is not rooted in any facts I'm familiar with. I have quite a few Catholic friends. I have discussed Catholic theology with them at length, including one who is a religion teacher at a Catholic high school. Not a single Catholic person I know of, or have ever...

From what I have observed in my limited time on this site is that there is not a single person here (or anywhere else, in my experience) who fully and compltely understands 100% of all of God's truths. We had all better count on God being merciful and fogiving of the things we don't quite get...

No matter where you go, you are never more than three feet away from a spider. If that's just the way it is, then that must be the way God wants it to be. Spiders are not bad things. Well, at least not most of them... Now, here in Florida we have huge wolf spiders. They don't spin webs, they...

What a strange comment.