The whole thing was bizarre. I mean the woman started out being unreasonable but not crazy unreasonable. Until she got into how everyone hates the Catholic Church because it's the Truth and the Light and being hated on makes them right. Then she started attacking a commenter for being Jewish because all Jewish people hate the Catholic Church for (I'm not even sure what the reasons were). But she supports Israel! And it started to get really ugly with that commenter.
All this with her real name and real information available on Facebook. She didn't really have privacy settings.
Which I guess goes against the argument that when people use their real names they will be polite and nice and not spew crazy hate.
because the loss of money and property would impede Catholics from worshiping.
Hmm, I seem to remember something about where two or three are gathered in [God's] name, He is among them. i.e., doesn't take a building to make a church.
Vortex, what are you, some kind of Lutheran?
That pesky Bible ruins everything.
Next thing you know you'll be expecting people to keep their prayers in private and not make a spectacle of their righteousness.
Or sell all they have and follow Jesus.
I thought it was sell all you have and tithe it to Jesus. Oh, it's all so confusing!
My son asked if we could go to church today. So now I have to find a good service to go to. That Pasadena church was good, maybe there.
The wikipedia entry on The Princess Bride book doesn't mention the bit of the book that wasn't read to the kid. So weird. I had to break someone's heart, I think.
Also, what is this and why is it popping up all over the place?
Let me tell you a little story about the garter snake. Common garter snakes live further north than any other snake (save possibly the European adder). During the winter, they go dormant in a process akin to hibernation. They mate en masse when the Spring wakes them up, with a single female potentially attracting 25 males in a writhing mating ball (picture Fleetwood Mac at Clinton's inauguration).
The males wake first, warm themselves up, and then have at any females that emerge. However, as is the way of things, some males always wake up late. This puts them behind the curve - not only do the other males have a headstart in chasing the snakey wimminz, but they're not even yet warm enough to do anything about it (being ectothermic and all).
Fortunately, they have an ace to play. They start emitting female pheromones. The males use the pheromones to find the emerging females; and are easily duped into chasing pretty much any snake that's wearing the right perfume. They engulf the cross-dresser, both pulling them off the pursuit of a genuine female, and also allowing the late riser to use their body heat to warm his own self (termed kleptothermy. I just like that they actually have a name for it.)
I'm pretty easy-going about Christians selling all they have and such; but I really want to see them taking a stab at being wise as serpents.
