A witch is not really a witch, and other catholic gems.
A witch is not really a witch, and other catholic gems.
I sometimes have a look at the Google adverts that adorn our articles, especially the religious ones. I am often amazed as to why they pay for the adverts but I'm sure they feel it is part of their mission. It is also amazing what complete and utter rubbish they are trying to sell but sadly there is no trade body for religious delusions.
So here is a little wisdom from The Meaning of Life (dot info).
"Q: Witches and sorcery are talked about in the Bible and the Catechism of the Catholic Church. So, how can witchcraft not be real? Doesn’t the devil really exist?
A: A “witch” is a person who believes that she is a witch. That does not say that these people really are witches, or that they really have any power. But the mere fact that they believe that they do makes them evil." But, but, but... OK, replace the word 'witch' with the word 'christian'.
"Q: Knowing that there are many interpretations of the Bible bothers me greatly. How can I have confidence in reading His "written Word"?
A: The basis of Protestant Christianity is that every individual has the right to interpret the words of the Bible for himself and arrive at whatever meaning he wishes, from whatever translation of a translation that anyone wrote from the original Greek and Hebrew words that were themselves translations of the Aramaic language that Christ and His followers spoke.
Yet the Bible is the one and only written Word of God, unchanging and absolute in its one truth. How can this be?
It can't. God would not and does not allow it. There is one and only one correct interpretation of the Bible. Not yours, not mine. Christ foresaw these difficulties with language and left us one and only one institution, which would endure down through the ages, from His time to ours, to resolve all differences of opinion about what the language words of the Bible mean, and just what the true Word of God is. Of course, that is the Church which St. Peter was authorized by Christ to start, the Catholic Church."
The sucker punch!!
""Why should I be Catholic? Can't I be a Christian just by believing in the Bible?
For the first thousand years after Christ, there was only one Church that believed in Him. If you were a Christian, you were a member of the church that was founded by Him and whose leaders were the direct successors to St. Peter. The word "catholic" means "all inclusive" or "universal.""
This last part is a complete lie and anybody with a grain of inquisitiveness about history can easily find out that the Church of Rome was not even the first christian church but soon became its most belligerent one.
The website meaning-of-life.info is registered to a Garrett Toren from Santa Cruz, CA, USA. Garrett also believes his grandfather sent a piano from heaven. Proof is indeed a slippery eel if you catch the wrong end of it.
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That was my biggest laugh. A
That was my biggest laugh.
A christian is just someone who believes they are a christian, it doesn't mean their beliefs have any power. But the mere fact that they believe they have the truth means they are evil.
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I must say...
Interesting read. The witch part is the best by far. gave me a chuckle.
I am a controversy.
MJ
the Devils of Loudun
hey MJ, nice new pic... but can't get a close-up!
I've met witches an wizards - nowhere near as scary as priests.
Oh, and an interesting book is the Devils of Loudun by Aldous Huxley. The film of the book is crap, but the book is very good, an analysis of hysterical religious fervour and sexual... erm... effervescence.
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Sounds interesting!
The book sounds interesting, I'll have to look that one up. I love to read!!
Thanks for the compliment on the pic. It is from my favorite art website: http://www.valkyrieart.com/home.html
I am a controversy.
MJ
leather and fractals
Yeah the abstracts and fractals are interesting...even if without the leather ;-)
My own pic is actually a cellular automata landscape - just maths, it's our imagination that makes it look like something else. Rather like the fideist website I was looking at.
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"I Don't Care" - How Catholics Combat the Curse of Linear-Time
I'll go into the specifics of how 'that last part' is NOT 'a complete lie,' but I feel I must first give away the Catholic secret ... the answer to every question--if you don't know it or know it's wrong--is 'I don't care.'
That way, you can go on knowing that whatever exists is "meant to be."
Now, about 'that last part': a 'church' IS NOT one congregation alone, but is the entire body of believers in the given philosophy. The original church that Jesus helped found was not the Roman one (you recall that Rome was actually the administration that KILLED Him).
Rome was a power of the earth, a power Christ's church adopted in name---just like a woman traditionally adopts a man's power by changing her name to his.
And I also think of today's witches ... not "Wiccans," but "gays"---just as 'witches' and 'Christians' are defined above, so are 'gays' simply 'gays' because they claim they are 'gays.'
---Uncle MythMan (http://www.geocities.com/jmythh2k5) & the Xombies Echo the Universe & GET MONEY for Discussing the Wonderful World Above & the Beauty Around Us!
mythman> by 'the last part'
mythman> by 'the last part' I meant that whole paragraph. I think you understood that, but that paragraph gives itself away in that the "leaders were the direct successors to St. Peter." This is the Roman Catholic church, not christianity in general. I think we both know all of this, however, as you say, believers don't care but anybody else who treads on that crap best clean their shoes after. What seems incredible is how many people enjoy the smell.
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