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.
Wesley: We're going to bring Angelus in alive. Connor: No we're not. Gunn: I thought you said capturing him wasn't an option. Wesley: Changed my mind. Connor: Change it back.
'Why We Fight'
Natter 69: Practically names itself.
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Vortex - Feb 07, 2012 7:21:22 pm PST #20862 of 30001
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
DebetEsse - Feb 07, 2012 7:30:34 pm PST #20863 of 30001
Woe to the fucking wicked.
Vortex, what are you, some kind of Lutheran?
Connie Neil - Feb 07, 2012 7:31:32 pm PST #20864 of 30001
brillig
Commie hippie.
Ginger - Feb 07, 2012 7:37:33 pm PST #20865 of 30001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
That pesky Bible ruins everything.
Connie Neil - Feb 07, 2012 7:38:56 pm PST #20866 of 30001
brillig
Next thing you know you'll be expecting people to keep their prayers in private and not make a spectacle of their righteousness.
Ginger - Feb 07, 2012 7:46:48 pm PST #20867 of 30001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Or sell all they have and follow Jesus.
Burrell - Feb 07, 2012 7:56:32 pm PST #20868 of 30001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
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.
§ ita § - Feb 07, 2012 8:03:46 pm PST #20869 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
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?
billytea - Feb 07, 2012 8:04:44 pm PST #20870 of 30001
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
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.
Consuela - Feb 07, 2012 8:11:43 pm PST #20871 of 30001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Kleptothermy!
Oh, that's just marvelous. There has to be a story in that.