SilverNRed Posted July 16, 2005 Share Posted July 16, 2005 Get the rubber out of YOUR ass yet? Just wondering. Not really important, just curious. Or was it out of the dog in the avatar? I lose track. What perverted crap was I doing? I forget. Yeah, you were talking to me, sport. You reminded us of insulting with no cause in the middle of a conversation. Witty you are. Feel pretty? Oh so witty? 383304[/snapback] Remind me not to piss you off. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghost of BiB Posted July 16, 2005 Share Posted July 16, 2005 Remind me not to piss you off. 383311[/snapback] I keep track. I didn't appreciate the shot given the other day. I don't do that (pointless shots), and didn't deserve one. No reason for it. But, any guy with a yip yip lap dog for an avatar probably has issues anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blzrul Posted July 16, 2005 Author Share Posted July 16, 2005 The feeling view isn't mutual. The Catholic Church (from what I remember when I used to go) is that everyone will go to heaven. Except Nazis, terrorists, and dolphin fans ! 382979[/snapback] You must have gone to a pretty liberal Catholic church. The one I went to pretty much excluded everyone, including babies who died unbaptized, people who missed Mass and didn't live to get rid of the mortal sin in Confession, or worst of all people who took Communion without having gone to confession. Miss Mass or Confession, hellfire awaits.... Commies, Jews and Protestants were also automatically hell-bound. That's why I found this so ironically funny. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghost of BiB Posted July 16, 2005 Share Posted July 16, 2005 You must have gone to a pretty liberal Catholic church. The one I went to pretty much excluded everyone, including babies who died unbaptized, people who missed Mass and didn't live to get rid of the mortal sin in Confession, or worst of all people who took Communion with having gone to confession. Commies, Jews and Protestants were also automatically hell-bound. That's why I found this so ironically funny. 383317[/snapback] You must have missed Vatican 2? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blzrul Posted July 16, 2005 Author Share Posted July 16, 2005 You must have missed Vatican 2? 383318[/snapback] I guess I did. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SilverNRed Posted July 16, 2005 Share Posted July 16, 2005 You must have gone to a pretty liberal Catholic church. The one I went to pretty much excluded everyone, including babies who died unbaptized, people who missed Mass and didn't live to get rid of the mortal sin in Confession, or worst of all people who took Communion without having gone to confession. Miss Mass or Confession, hellfire awaits.... Commies, Jews and Protestants were also automatically hell-bound. 383317[/snapback] I had an entire childhood's worth of Sunday school and spent four years at a Catholic high school, and I never heard anything close to what you described above. We actually spent an entire year studying other religions in high school (pretty sure we even visited places of worship for other faiths too) and were taught to respect other faiths. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blzrul Posted July 17, 2005 Author Share Posted July 17, 2005 I had an entire childhood's worth of Sunday school and spent four years at a Catholic high school, and I never heard anything close to what you described above. We actually spent an entire year studying other religions in high school (pretty sure we even visited places of worship for other faiths too) and were taught to respect other faiths. 383382[/snapback] Interesting. Where did you grow up? My mother grew up in Brooklyn and went thru Catholic school all the way, same story. HER mother too. I remember when our pastor died all us kids had to file by the casket, I was 6 years old and it scared me to death. My parents even sent me to a Catholic summer camp, it was my first and last time, it was just horrific. It seems like my parish would have been quite at home in the Dark Ages. My husband grew up Catholic in Dallas and his experience sounds like yours. In MY school they told us that the Commies would put nails in our eyeballs and the Chinese would put bamboo slivers under our fingernails to make us deny Jesus. And then there were those butt-ugly uniforms.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wacka Posted July 17, 2005 Share Posted July 17, 2005 I just went to CCD classes (Sunday school) at Resurection in Cheektowaga until I got confirmed in 8th grade. We had lay people teach it, not any nuns. Maybe they didn't teach it that way, but thats's what I got out of it. The pastor was pretty down to earth. When my father went to arrange my brother's christening, they had Crown Royal and cigars for a couple of hours. He told my father he started the lawn fetes at our parish because you have to give people something back for all the money they give. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blzrul Posted July 17, 2005 Author Share Posted July 17, 2005 I just went to CCD classes (Sunday school) at Resurection in Cheektowaga until I got confirmed in 8th grade. We had lay people teach it, not any nuns. Maybe they didn't teach it that way, but thats's what I got out of it. The pastor was pretty down to earth. When my father went to arrange my brother's christening, they had Crown Royal and cigars for a couple of hours. He told my father he started the lawn fetes at our parish because you have to give people something back for all the money they give. 383519[/snapback] My mom became a lay teacher at our local religion school and she and the others who didn't teach STRICTLY to the good old Baltimore Catechism were kicked out. For example, my 5th grade book had, literally, a picture on the cover of people climbing out of this filmy-looking Purgatory, up a ladder into the clouds where a lily-white Jesus, some saints and angels awaited. And anyone who didn't follow this fundamentalist mentality and threatened to bring reality and humanity to religion in that parish, was a "heretic". The pastor in that parish (not the dead one I referred to, a different parish after we moved) was a big lush too. What a hypocrite. Hard to believe that the Diocese headed by Bishop Fulton Sheen had nut jobs like that. Maybe if he had stayed longer he would have done some housecleaning. My favorite priest as a child was cool like the one you describe - we love him. He literally dropped dead of heart failure at age 33. We always thought there was something to him dying of a broken heart at the same as a Jesus was when He died. When I was 12 we ran into a bunch of nuns in the inner-city and they were cool. One took us to see Jesus Christ, Superstar and when I asked what the funny smell was she immediately asked "you've never smelled pot before?". And by age 13 we dropped the Church and pretty much everything to do with it. So my last memories weren't so bad but the first 12 years were pretty much a nightmare. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SilverNRed Posted July 18, 2005 Share Posted July 18, 2005 Interesting. Where did you grow up? My mother grew up in Brooklyn and went thru Catholic school all the way, same story. HER mother too. 383441[/snapback] Grew up in Buffalo, NY. Member of Resurrection Church. Graduate of St. Francis High School. My dad tells me nutty stories too. His parents were divorced in the 1950s and the nuns at his school actually punished him for it. The thought of people treating my father poorly when he was a kid makes me delirious with rage but there's nothing I can do. Thankfully, everything I experienced was the exact opposite. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aussiew Posted July 18, 2005 Share Posted July 18, 2005 You must have gone to a pretty liberal Catholic church. The one I went to pretty much excluded everyone, including babies who died unbaptized, people who missed Mass and didn't live to get rid of the mortal sin in Confession, or worst of all people who took Communion without having gone to confession. Miss Mass or Confession, hellfire awaits.... Commies, Jews and Protestants were also automatically hell-bound. That's why I found this so ironically funny. Aha - the irony....what goes around, comes around. A little taste of one's own medicine. When I lived in WNY, I had two Roman Catholic priests refuse me the sacraments because they knew I was Anglican. And by the way, it's "Roman" Catholic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mickey Posted July 18, 2005 Share Posted July 18, 2005 ok,...so because she gave money "indirectly" to a non-profit organization, she should be able to make or change policy for that organization? 383030[/snapback] Actually, that is exactly what we do when it comes to abortion and contraception the right wingers view as the equivalent of abortion. In fact that has been one of the biggest sure fire winners for the right, making sure that public money never directly or indirectly supports abortion here or in other nations through foreign aid. If they can demand how their money is spent because of their religious views, why can't I demand that my money doesn't benefit people who don't think I, as a catholic, am a christian? I checked out their web site and message forums and there are people there reporting the same treatment of catholic applicants in Maryland. Other chimed in with how the Jackson office of Bethany was justified because indeed, catholicism may not be consistent with their christian statement of faith. What I find most amazing is that the right on this board is so programmed to defend their side that we actually have to debate the merits of a "no catholics need apply" adoption agency policy. I would have thought that to democrats and republicans alike such a policy would be neither defended nor minimized. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Live&DieBillsFootball Posted July 18, 2005 Share Posted July 18, 2005 When I lived in WNY, I had two Roman Catholic priests refuse me the sacraments because they knew I was Anglican. 384430[/snapback] I'm Roman Catholic and I've seen quite a change over the years, but I've never seem them waver on the sacraments. If you're not Catholic, you are not allowed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stuckincincy Posted July 18, 2005 Share Posted July 18, 2005 Actually, that is exactly what we do when it comes to abortion and contraception the right wingers view as the equivalent of abortion. In fact that has been one of the biggest sure fire winners for the right, making sure that public money never directly or indirectly supports abortion here or in other nations through foreign aid.If they can demand how their money is spent because of their religious views, why can't I demand that my money doesn't benefit people who don't think I, as a catholic, am a christian? I checked out their web site and message forums and there are people there reporting the same treatment of catholic applicants in Maryland. Other chimed in with how the Jackson office of Bethany was justified because indeed, catholicism may not be consistent with their christian statement of faith. What I find most amazing is that the right on this board is so programmed to defend their side that we actually have to debate the merits of a "no catholics need apply" adoption agency policy. I would have thought that to democrats and republicans alike such a policy would be neither defended nor minimized. 384473[/snapback] Simple - convince the voters and you will have your way. Calling them stupid seems to have been a crashing failure. Implying stereotype motive to others is another idea that seems to be less than effective. Sometimes, I wonder about you upper-crusters Party on, Mickey. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pine Barrens Mafia Posted July 18, 2005 Share Posted July 18, 2005 In MY school they told us that the Commies would put nails in our eyeballs and the Chinese would put bamboo slivers under our fingernails to make us deny Jesus. 383441[/snapback] Never mind that they probably WOULD have. Filthy commies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reuben Gant Posted July 18, 2005 Share Posted July 18, 2005 Aha - the irony....what goes around, comes around. A little taste of one's own medicine. When I lived in WNY, I had two Roman Catholic priests refuse me the sacraments because they knew I was Anglican. And by the way, it's "Roman" Catholic. 384430[/snapback] On the bright side. I have always been impressed with Catholic Charities for which there is "no religious test for those in need." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stuckincincy Posted July 18, 2005 Share Posted July 18, 2005 On the bright side. I have always been impressed with CatholicCharities for which there is "no religious test for those in need." 384486[/snapback] And St. Vincent de Paul. And Mother Teresa. Millions, daily, worldwide breath and are nourished and tended to in their infirmities thanks to that funny bunch of varied papists. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghost of BiB Posted July 18, 2005 Share Posted July 18, 2005 And St. Vincent de Paul. And Mother Teresa. Millions, daily, worldwide breath and are nourished and tended to in their infirmities thanks to that funny bunch of varied papists. 384506[/snapback] Oh, but they are only a bunch of statue worshiping weinie eaters. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Terry Tate Posted July 18, 2005 Share Posted July 18, 2005 Graduate of St. Francis High School. When I was young, I got in so much trouble my parents decided to send me away to board at St Francis. I had to work for the school after school and on weekends to pay for my tuition (cleaning, groundskeeping). They took me out to come back home and go to public school two years later. Didn't care for the situation much at first, but given a choice, I wanted to stay there through graduation. What a great school. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stuckincincy Posted July 18, 2005 Share Posted July 18, 2005 Oh, but they are only a bunch of statue worshiping weinie eaters. 384508[/snapback] So our core documents and beliefs are a joke? Without those "anachronisms", your life, mine, and the world's would have had an alternative fate. You own much to those weinie eaters. The natural resources and isolation of this nation sans that Christian guidance, with all it's warts, may well have enslaved the globe and presaged Orwell's "1984". It's nice to enjoy the luxury of biting the hand that feeds you, or your predecessors, isn't it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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