At 10/28/04 06:49 PM, P-o-s-t-a-l wrote:
well yea, the biggest cults in the would have called themselves christian... the spanish inquisition, the dark ages, whitch hunts were all done in the NAME of the catholic church.
If you want to go on about RC, you're preaching to the choir. I'm baptised Catholic, but my quest for knowledge has led me to despise that sect above virtually all others. The crap you mentioned, thousands of other instances of that sort, rampant hypocrisy, etc., have simply left me disgusted ... and it's extended to the rest of Christianity as well. My favorite joke is over the Dead Sea/Nag Hammadi scrolls. The Dead Sea Scrolls are now accepted documents. When they were written, the Essenes with the pens were heretics. The Nag Hammadi scolls were written by Gnostics, and are still heretical. Why?
Q: How many words were translated before the Pope declared the Nag Hamadi scroll heretical?
A: Five: The Gospel According to Mary.
Read that and The Gospel According to Thomas; then get back to me about your Bible.
Christianity has a enormous number of sects, Catholicism being one of the majors. Even so, that does not preclude my lumping born-again Christian sects with them, if nothing else for the sheer audacity of their hypocrisy. Love they neighbor ... except gays and lesbians who are an abomination in the eyes of God and abortion clinic personnel whom it's OK to kill even though Thou shallt not kill and people who don't have the right kind of faith because even though we're not Catholics we at least agree with the Pope that they are heretics and slick televangelists are good people even though they fleece their flock because it's really the message that counts and ...
Any good idea that involves humans, and their self-serving interpretations, inevitably becomes corrupted. Even the Bible is an interpretation of an interpretation of an interpretation, ad infinitum, of a bunch of people who sat in a room and argued for 20 years before finally deciding which writings they were going to include in it and which they were going to leave out. Everything we think we know about angels comes from the conglomeration called the Apocrypha. About 1,000 years before Justinian's Council, the Jews got together and did exactly the same thing over the Torah. Everything they left out is the Apocrypha.
Soooo ... how much of what you clutch every Sunday is really God's undistilled word, and how much of it is the interpretations of a bunch of self-interested old men?
Cult or not, as a rule Mormons not only believe, they understand their faith. In my book that puts them far and away ahead of people like you.
Then I must apologize to Befell, for the Mormons I had known were not of the dedication.
I know what you mean by such dedication. I knew a Jahovah's Witness willing to literally DIE for her faith in the new testament.
if you truely have faith the size of a mustard seed, you can move mountains.
again, sorry Befell, for insulting your faith
BeFell may or may not have that degree of dedication, but it's moot as that was not the issue. The problem was you popping into a thread to attack someone over comments in their sig. Were those statements attacks on you (Postal is a [insert random series of expletives]) , it would at least been understandable. Did you really think he'd change his sig simply because you said to?
(bush, however, still serves the rich and greedy)
Speaking as one of the formerly rich, but still greedy, Bush is an idiot who's still trying to get daddy's approval. He serves no one but himself.
At 10/28/04 07:16 PM, David_Deluxe wrote:
yeah...the last 5 days i am getting more b/s points ^^
5 days ago, I was Citizen...and no I have some b/s. Not pretty much...but it´s a start. Understood :D
700 BPs in 12 days is a pretty good start. Good luck =)
And finally ... even that pack is empty, time to get more refills ...