Poetmom: I won't be engaging you in debate because for the most part we agree. I just thought I'd clarify this... I've always been taught that we are born free from sin, and that we don't reach the age of accountability till 12.... I think this is one of the key differences in Catholicism and
hurt me because she's got a shitty thing going on in her life and she wants someone else, anyone else to feel just as bad. I don't know what to do any more, actually. Nic, Is this the sister who lost everything in the flood? That might explain the lashing out bit--that typically female solution to prob
$7 million should just about cover room and board for life at one of the state's lovely criminal institutions...too bad the government can't force him to fork it over! Time to revise the law..."From this day forth, criminals are illegible for the lotto." Or maybe the 60 year old he attempted to rape should take him to civil court...$7 million in restitution doesn't sound so bad.
But what the voters have said is that the citizens do not want to provide incentives and benefits for others to enter into same-sex unions. So what you are saying is the voters sanctioned discrimation based on a religious conviction. Good on ya, you should be proud of yourself! (note the sarcasm). S
So if people were born gay and God thinks it's so bad then why would he make them be born gay?? That's my whole POINT, Ashley. Are we going to say now that God created people He finds offensive? WHY would he do that? If God finds them offensive, then wouldn't He make sure no one was ever born that way? And yet He does
shades, Gaelic Footbal sounds a lot like Australian (Aussie) Rules football I'm not sure, I've never seen Aussie Rules, I'll have to check it out. The Quarter Finals for the All Ireland GAA title are going on now. There were two games over the weekend and two more next weekend...so if you are interest
How would it incorporate "born again virgins'? You know, when someone goes for years without ANY--two years or more and you should be back at ZERO. Great article, Vanessa!"
"For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life" I've always wondered about this verse. It's an "if/then" clause. It's possible that the negative doesn't hold tru
There is something truly heartwarming about receiving an apology that you didn't ask for and didn't even hint at. About a month ago, I had a nonverbal falling out with one of my friends. He did something really stupid, and then the next time I saw him, he made a point of ignoring me (I'm sure in his head it was much easier than dealing with the consequence
Jill you are certainly not a bad mom as everyone else has said. When my brother was 10 he went to Boy Scout camp and one day, half way through the week, my parent got a call that they needed to go to the camp immediately because my brother was lost. The camp was in full panic mode. There were search teams scouring the woods, drivers were performing searches in the lake, everyone was looking for him. My mother went to the campsite where he w
Nice pun, shades. I wish it was a case of me being clever rather than a case of thinking faster than my little fingers can type! Oh well!
Carebear, There are two sides to every story. The only comments that you have responded to on that thread are the ones were people are taking a shot at Christianity. I know I took a lot of time to construct two comments, both of which were holy ignored. You can't flame fires and then cry foul when you get burned. Second, Capt's "joke" was made in leiu of actually responding to a well-thought out post by citahellion. If you put tim
As you can tell by my name I am all about the grey areas and being able to see that what is "right" for me, isn't necessarily "right" for someone else. I find the more I learn about an issue, the more shades of grey appear. That's not to say I don't hold stances on issues, I do. It is just that they rely heavily on conditions and caveats. As for what has higher education done for me...it introduced me to multitude of people who think and pr
I don't usually simply cut and paste forwards into my blog. But this one was just funny. Today, for some reason, I have taken up the national hobby of "French bashing." It's not my typical style, but its provided me with a couple hearty chuckles! Hope you enjoy! ********************************************************** AP and UPI r
Well if it's mine and Capt.'s OPINION to think that people are not born gay. Then it makes it your OPINION that you think people are born gay, right? Yes, as citahellion says, it's an opinoin. However, unlike Capt, we never stated that it was FACT. <TABLE cellpadding=8 width="95%" align=center
Actually at the stage of six months a "Prostagladin Chemical Abortion" can take place. This form of abortion uses chemicals developed by the Upjohn Pharmaceutical Co., which cause the uterus to contract (to push) intensely, pushing out the developing baby. The contractions are more violent than normal, natural contractions, so th
For those of you who are pro-choice or pro-abortion, do you really think that the fetus isn't a living, breathing being? Yes, I do, and no I am not mis-informed. Sarah, if you really want to try to encourage people to see your point of view, it
I'm at a loss. However, I think I'd be much like you, breaking glass. I'm not sure about here, but I know that in my hometown, if you saw an animal locked in a car on a hot day and called the police they would immediately come and break the windows and free the animal (I'm pretty sure in extenuating circumstances they would give the person calling in permission to break the windows before they arrived)...and that was just for an ANIMAL. I wou
Have you seen the picture? Maybe I'm just naive, but to me the famous tongue-sticking out incident appeared to be done in humor rather than in the anger that the VP and Therea Heinz Kerry's comments were made. I didn't have a problem with it at all!
Though you may not go along with the facts, you are NOT born gay. You are born straight and later on decide to involve yourself with the same sex or both. When you find the purpose in your life that God gives you you realize that the choice you have made is wrong and that you should change your ways. C
Ditto on what everyone else said...and also, So whoever says we're a bunch of bullcrap liers needs to shut their mouth before I have to come and do it for them. Trust me, it won't be pretty. More than anyone else, you (should) understand that one of your "friends" hurt a lot of people around he
Suppose customer is so poor he can't pay much more than price of going out to eat? That happens to me very often, when I get 10 or even $5 dollars for fun that month. If you can't afford to tip, you can't afford to eat out. There are plenty of places where
Dear World: I would like to suggest that you reserve rain for weekdays between the hours of 9am and 5 pm when I am sitting at my desk. Weekends should be reserved for sunshine...it should not be the other way around, and I think recently you have forgotten this. I hope you don't mind this friendly reminder. (sorry, mig, that was a bit of a selffish request...more idealistic requests will come later!)
Dharma--I thought you were just trying to be suspenseful about your statement....still waiting for the end!
you can pretty easily acknowledge it’s the US constitution or whatever that allows for litigation after people show extreme signs of moronic behaviour. I thought I just told you it wasn't in the Constitution??? Boy, you need to learn to listen! <img src="../images/smiles/smile.gif" border=0 ALIGN="abs
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