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Originally posted by Kelly Alves:
Orfeo's right. Every last one of you has gone completely batshit insane.

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All we, like freaks
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Have gone IN-SA--AY-AY-ANE
have gone in-sa-ay-ay--ay-ay-ay-AY-ay-ay-ay-ane...
And the Ship hath laid on RooK the iniquity of us all.

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When other people walk into a church with a looming crucifix, how do they describe what they see?

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Noticing everybody on here was sane, rational and logical, I signed up.

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What is it, The Holiday that Dare Not Speak its Name?

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Originally posted by fletcher christian:
I was totally gutted that McD's didn't have a dawili burger and KFC didn't have a ramadam bucket. Boycotted them ever since.

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I wish someone would involve me in a masturbatory exercise.

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I've given up ridiculing Protestants for their solas for Advent.

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Originally posted by Orfeo
You say this as if the hunters all cruelly targeted the same poor little Bambi with their arrows.

Instead of Bambi strapping on a magnet the likes of which you've never seen, donning fluorescent orange pants and crying "IT'S ALL ABOUT ME" at the top of his lungs while prancing across the forest clearing.

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Once you get a canon you can start defining heretics.

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Originally posted by ToujoursDan:
Hijackers crash planes into buildings killing 3,000 Americans and this country changes air regulations,develops new screening technology, increases domestic and international intelligence and goes to the ends of the earth to try to prevent it from happening again. 12,000 Americans are murdered by guns annually and "There's nothing we can do. Someone will slip through the cracks and do it again. People are just bad."

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No! I am the Hetero-Overlord: all look at me and despair!

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Hey Mad Cat, I'm in love with me too, but it's not working out.

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to farting in bed

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And when these [understandings] are lacking, then we approach the Lion of Judah with "here, kitty, kitty, kitty, ..." on our lips.
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Originally posted by Organ Builder:
Perhaps it would be equally useful to ask why you would need to call a Scotsman "Jock", or refer to the Chinese restaurant as "Chinky's". I can't imagine it's meant as a term of affection. If you don't know an individual well enough to use their name, you don't know them well enough to refer to them by a term they would not find complimentary.

I've always found it a bit hard to fathom why anyone would want to "rescue" these words and make them more generally acceptable. You can accuse me of being "politically correct" if you wish, but there really isn't anything political about it--it's simple good manners. "Politically incorrect" is usually just a term to justify rudeness.

However, if I can have apple pie for breakfast every morning you are more than welcome to call me a Yankee.

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... and the Pharisee lifted his eyes to heaven (as he walked out of the Minster) saying, I thank thee O God that I am not like that sinner over there at the lecturn...

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'And verily the Gamaliel looked across at Brother Oscar and did lift his eyes unto heaven, saying, "I thank Thee oh Lord, that I am not a Pharisee like Brother Oscar."

Whereupon Major Mudfrog walked into the Minster and seeing Brother Gamaliel, Brother Oscar and all the other Pharisees there assembled did lift up his eyes even unto the heavens, saying, "I thank Thee oh Lord, that I am not a Pharisee like Brother Gamaliel and Brother Oscar ..."'

Whereupon yet another Shipmate didst come there into that place to pray and seeing Major Mudfrog, Brother Gamaliel and Brother Oscar giving their gifts upon the altar, lifted their own eyes unto heaven, saying ...'

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I prefer the occasion when a Shipmate didst come there into that place to pray and seeing Major Mudfrog, Brother Gamaliel and Brother Oscar giving their gifts upon the altar, lifted his eyes unto heaven, saying I thank thee Lord that we are all acceptable in thy sight through the merits of your Son our Lord, etc, and that, being recipients of grace - by various and diverse means - we are all brothers in the faith.

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Men put their penises into women's vaginas because that can result in offspring. If it couldn't, then they wouldn't. Really. Because they experience this as pleasurable or indeed as a bodily expression of their romantic love because it can result in offspring. If it couldn't, then they wouldn't.

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Turning God into the great Sexist in the Sky and choosing to believe that, doesn`t absolve all the little sexists. There are few attempts to treat some human beings as being more equal than others which haven`t been baptised at some point. Projecting the sexism onto the deity and then pretending your hands are tied and you no longer have to consider the justice or injustice of what you do is a cop-out, and the same one that the Pharisees took. "Don't bother me with all that shit about justice and treating others the same as myself, I've read the law, if God wanted those people treated decently he wouldn't have ordained them to be poor or Samaritan or whatever, they`d be nice middle class Jewish blokes like us who uphold tradition and then we could treat them nicely like ourselves!`

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Yeah He should have made us all the same. Duh.

We are always going to find ways to hate and fear women, black, gay, fat, ginger, Anglo Catholic, whatever. It is not about how different He made us but our wilful ability to not heed the Word made flesh.

Shame on your poor ill thought out theology.

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So what's the politically correct term for racist? "Racist" used to be a perfectly nice word, like faggot or pickaninny or feminazi, but now the uppity racists get all offended and hysterical when they are called racists. They would prefer to be called ... what would racists prefer to be called? Equality challenged? Empathically disordered? Can-dish-it-out-but-can't-take-it-ists? Privileged whiners?

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'The New English Bible is fit only for intellectual pigmies. Discuss.'

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Sorry folks, I just Doublethink


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Because nothing says "we love you and want to welcome you into our family" like kidnapping and surprise nonelective surgery to the nethers.

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Is it rational to believe Marvin the Martian

Can I reserve judgement on that one?

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<snip>, you've done a much better job communicating your passion than your point. I have absolutely no idea what you are talking about.

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There IS a challenge of how we get that message across - that people do need to respond to God's grace - without being too negative about where they are now. It is, of course, a problem of balance, but we can't just give up and pretend that Jesus doesn't require a response. Easy? Of course not. But dismissing all challenge to popular sins as 'judgemental' is unacceptable, especially when the right to continue to be judgemental towards the unfashionable is reserved.

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I think the problem is that you're looking at this backwards. You think that if we continually rail against sin such that we can convince (or force, if we manage to persuade enough politicians) everyone to stop sinning then everyone will automatically turn to Christ.

But that doesn't work. Nobody, but nobody, turns to Christ just because they stopped doing something else. So in salvation terms you haven't done anything for anybody.

What I advocate is showing people the love of Christ first. No judgmentalism, no condemnation, no lifestyle challenges. Just the love of Christ. Invite them in, welcome them, include them, serve them. When Christ is living within their hearts that will provide the impetus for them to change their lives to better suit His Will.

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... my higher self is on vacation just now and may not be back for some time.

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You want a baby sling for that grudge you're carrying?

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[tangent]

It is even available in book form!

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I wonder if that would go down well with my Spiritual Director.

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Honestly, it's like trying to have a discussion with a performing seal...

I know the origins of both halves of your demented sentence, okay? That doesn't automatically mean it makes a lick of sense when you mash the two together.

I'll sign off from this ridiculous exchange now with this thought: Blessed are the poor, for they a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.

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