[Mrs. Rogers]

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How exactly does one die a little bit?

By reading your posts, dear. It is a slow death, but murder nevertheless.

[Old Iron Crotch]

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By reading your posts, dear. It is a slow death, but murder nevertheless.

If you find them painful, don't read them.

[Mrs. Rogers]

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If you find them painful, don't read them.

Dear one, it is my True Christian™ duty to read them, as your every post cries of your need for Christ's love and forgiveness - especially His forgiveness - and I pray over every word you write; words sodden with secret tears, your distress is obvious to all but yourself.

Jesus is standing under your red light, knocking on your door; won't you let Him in?

[Old Iron Crotch]

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Dear one, it is my True Christian™ duty to read them, as your every post cries of your need for Christ's love and forgiveness - especially His forgiveness - and I pray over every word you write; words sodden with secret tears, your distress is obvious to all but yourself.

Jesus is standing under your red light, knocking on your door; won't you let Him in?

I hate to disappoint you, but the only time I use a red light is to develop film.

[Virginia Day Templeton]

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Yuck! We have no desire to read about—let alone see—your vulgar, fornication-drenched "film." If you even attempt to make good on your insinuation of posting pornography in our forum, you will be reported to both the FBI and the DOF.

[Old Iron Crotch]

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Yuck! We have no desire to read about—let alone see—your vulgar, fornication-drenched "film." If you even attempt to make good on your insinuation of posting pornography in our forum, you will be reported to both the FBI and the DOF.

Get your mind out of the gutter, Virgie. FYI, I spent many years as a radiology tech, and part of my job was developing x-rays. This was before the advent of automatic developing. That meant having to dip the film in developing fluid, then fixing fluid, and hang it up to dry. Until it had been through the fixing fluid, the red portion of the spectrum was the only light to which it could safely be exposed. Any other light would ruin the image. So we had a red filter on the light in the darkroom to provide sufficient illumination to be able to see to mount the film on frames and develop it.

[Brother Temperance]

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Get your mind out of the gutter, Virgie. FYI, I spent many years as a radiology tech, and part of my job was developing x-rays.

So is that why you can't have children now?

[Old Iron Crotch]

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So is that why you can't have children now?

For the umpteenth time, we DO NOT WANT to have children! Not everyone wants to be a parent. We enjoy our life together as it is. Why is that so hard for you to understand?

[Brother Temperance]

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DO NOT WANT

Women, look upon those words and beware. If you choose to work outside the home, God too might smite your ladyparts and turn you into a dried-up, pathologically resentful old hag wallowing in the depths of denial. Beware!

[Old Iron Crotch]

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Women, look upon those words and beware. If you choose to work outside the home, God too might smite your ladyparts and turn you into a dried-up, pathologically resentful old hag wallowing in the depths of denial. Beware!

I laughed at that one until my sides ached! With clowns like you, who needs Ringling Brothers?

[Pastor Ezekiel]

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In a move certain to further enrage Jesus, the antiChrist roman pope has re-instated the satanic Latin Mass, thus ensuring once again that thousands of mary-worshipers will have no idea whatsoever what their pedophile priests are jabbering about while they prance around in silk dresses and guzzle wine from golden goblets.

Plus the joos seem to be upset with this for some reason too. So what's new?

Pope's move on Latin mass 'a blow to Jews'

Jewish leaders and community groups criticised Pope Benedict XVI strongly yesterday after the head of the Roman Catholic Church formally removed restrictions on celebrating an old form of the Latin mass which includes prayers calling for the Jews to 'be delivered from their darkness' and converted to Catholicism.

The older rite's prayers calling on God to 'lift the veil from the eyes' of the Jews and to end 'the blindness of that people so that they may acknowledge the light of your truth, which is Christ' - used just once a year during the Good Friday service - have sparked outrage.

Yesterday the Anti-Defamation League, the American-based Jewish advocacy group, called the papal decision a 'body blow to Catholic-Jewish relations'.

'We are extremely disappointed and deeply offended that nearly 40 years after the Vatican rightly removed insulting anti-Jewish language from the Good Friday mass, it would now permit Catholics to utter such hurtful and insulting words by praying for Jews to be converted,' said Abraham Foxman, the group's national director, in Rome. 'It is the wrong decision at the wrong time. It appears the Vatican has chosen to satisfy a right-wing faction in the church that rejects change and reconciliation.'

Some bishops in France as well as liberal clergy and Catholics elsewhere have expressed concerns that allowing freer use of the Tridentine liturgy would imply a negation of Vatican II, the 1962-65 meetings that modernised the Roman Catholic Church. They also feared it could create divisions in parishes, since two different liturgies would be celebrated.

The liberal French Catholic magazine Temoignage Chretien published an editorial in Latin explaining that it was not concerned about the language in which the mass was celebrated but by 'the view of the outside world held by most supporters of the traditional rite ... of a church that sees itself as the sole holder of the truth. Forty years after the Second Vatican Council, this stand is untenable'.

Benedict was acting in a bid to reach out to the followers of an excommunicated French ultra-traditionalist, the late Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre, who split with the Vatican over the introduction of the new mass and other Vatican II reforms. The Vatican excommunicated him in 1988 after he consecrated four bishops without Rome's consent. The bishops were excommunicated as well.

Benedict has been keen to reach a reconciliation with Lefebvre's group, the Society of St Pius X, which has demanded freer use of the old mass as a precondition for normalising relations. It also demands the removal of the excommunication decrees. The group said in a statement that it rejoiced over the document and thanked the pope for it.

In one small village in western France, a church was recently occupied by Catholic traditionalists demanding a mass in Latin. A new priest, who succeeded a conservative who had served the community of 300 for 40 years, had been ordered by the local bishop to end the unauthorised but previously tolerated older rites, sparking a sit-in. Mathieu Mautin, 30, said that for him the older rite 'was very important in [his] life'.

'I want my children to enjoy it too,' Mautin said. 'The liturgy creates a universe that makes the mystery palpable. The fact that the priest faces the altar signifies for us that he is leading the people of God.'

Pope Benedict, who was elected in April 2005, has provoked emotional reaction from other faiths on a number of occasions. He apologised in September last year for offending Muslims after quoting a 14th-century Byzantine emperor who said: 'Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached.'

The Pope also sparked bewilderment when he made no mention of anti-Semitism, or the fact that the Nazis killed millions of people because they were Jewish, in a speech last year at Auschwitz. He also failed to acknowledge that there might be some degree of collective responsibility of the German people.

I say once again, with the full authority of Jesus Christ: Catlickers are NOT Christian.

[Dr. Ernest C. Ville, D.C.S.]

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Honestly I find this rather amusing: nothing like watching people squabble over what they think God wants when they know full-well that He hates them and plans to boot their sorry buggering heinies straight to hell the moment they keel over dead from AIDS. I don't understand why these people spend so much time bickering about Latin vs. English when they have God's very own proof right in front of them, the King James 1611 Bible! Some people will quibble over anything!

[Arethusa]

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I say once again, with the full authority of Jesus Christ: Catlickers are NOT Christian.

Pastor, I'm afraid that those Catholics would disagree with you.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20070710.wchurches0710/BNStory/International/home/

Non-Catholic churches 'wounded,' Vatican says


PHIL STEWART
Reuters
July 10, 2007 at 7:27 AM EDT



VATICAN CITY — The Vatican said Tuesday that Christian denominations outside the Roman Catholic Church are not full churches of Jesus Christ.
A 16-page document, prepared by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, which Pope Benedict used to head, described Christian Orthodox churches as true churches that suffer from a "wound" since they do not recognize the primacy of the Pope.


But the document said the "wound is still more profound" in the Protestant denominations – a view likely to further complicate relations with Protestants.


"Despite the fact that this teaching has created no little distress ... it is nevertheless difficult to see how the title of 'Church' could possibly be attributed to them," it said.

The Vatican text, which restates the controversial document Dominus Iesus issued by the then Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger in 2000, said the church wanted to stress this point because some Catholic theologians continue to misunderstand it.


Cardinal Ratzinger was elected Pope in April, 2005. The document is his second strong reaffirmation of Roman Catholic tradition in four days, following a decree on Saturday restoring the old Latin Mass alongside the modern liturgy.


The document stressed that dialogue with other Christians remained "one of the priorities of the Catholic Church."


Second Vatican Council

The document, issued by Pope Benedict's successor in doctrinal matters, Cardinal William Levada, complemented the Latin Mass decree in aiming to correct what it called "erroneous or ambiguous" interpretations of the Second Vatican Council, which took place from 1962 to 1965.


Church modernizers interpreted the Council as a break from the past while conservatives, such as Benedict, see it in continuity with 2,000 years of Catholic tradition.


The document said the Council's opening to other faiths recognized there were "many elements of sanctification and truth" in other Christian denominations, but stressed that only Catholicism has all the elements to be Christ's Church fully.


The text refers to "ecclesial communities originating from the Reformation," a term used to refer to Protestants and Anglicans.


Father Augustine Di Noia, Under-Secretary for the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, said the document did not alter the commitment for ecumenical dialogue, but aimed to assert Catholic identity in those talks.


"The Church is not backtracking on ecumenical commitment," Father Di Noia told Vatican radio.


"But, as you know, it is fundamental to any kind of dialogue that the participants are clear about their own identity. That is, dialogue cannot be an occasion to accommodate or soften what you actually understand yourself to be."

The best thing about this is that a few hours earlier the original Globe & Mail headline was something along the lines of "Roman Catholics are Better Christians, Vatican says". RCers in comments complained, saying this was a misleading headline, but I call bullshit. If you read Dominus Iesus Ratzinger clearly stated that only the RC church is a fully incorporated part of the body of Christ, it's the "Bride of Christ", achieved true "unicity" blah blah. The theologies of other denominations do, sometimes, reflect truth and, depending on whether they practise apostolic succession, the proper sort of Eucharist, and Baptism, they are at various levels of fulfilling Christ's vision and mission. But only the Catholic Church has fully realised it, starting with having a Pope, and is not simply one among many collective parts.

If that's not essentially saying they're better Christians, I don't know what is. But Catholics have always thought this so I don't know why it should come as any surprise.

[Sister of Sacred Suffering]

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Any "religion" that mandates it's male leaders and young boys to wear dresses has got to be full of homers. These cross dressing homers on are on the fast track to the anal tunnels of satan.

[Sister Noddy]

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From England..

Two altar boys from St. Andrews ages 17 and 21 imitated Darth Vader, and made light sabres from fluorescent light tubes. That's right, they opened them up, poured gasoline inside, and lit them. As one can imagine, a Star Wars sized explosion was not far behind. Darth Vader died, while his opponent survived to 'fess up to their creative, but stupid, reenactment. They were going to fight over the priest who was dressed as Barbarella.

This was almost certainly an Anglican church, Pastor Pistle, where properly ordained women are among the clergy ---

--- unless of course the 'priest' dressed as Barbarella happened to be a cathy-lick priest in drag.

As for 'acolytes' in the Anglican-Episcopal churches, they may be male or female, between the ages of eight and eighty.