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Recent content by Iacobus

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    Curious question

    I don't see anything wrong with a purly acadmic study of the Reaper image. I am a Catholic, as my profile says, and the Church is filled with people studying demons. Whole areas of theology are devoted to the questions of the nature of hell as well as, forgive my spelling I am pressed for time...
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    Is Religion a Behavior Modification Device?

    Religion is the opium for the masses or so Marx said. I am inclined to think that religion is a "behavior modification device," insofar as that it is a "social control." Religion puts values in me that impact how I act, much like any other part of society (i.e. law, family, goverment, etc) does.
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    Should women be ordained?

    If I am not mistaken it has to be grape wine. Rember, not you Trinity, that communion in the Catholic Church is the Body and Blood of Christ, thus they have specific rules about it. Christ used wheat bread and grape wine when he started the meal almost 2000 years ago, and thus we conuntie it...
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    Jesus - a sinner?

    If a child dies before being cleaned from original sin that doesn't mean he is damned. It was of no falut of the child that he was fallen and we must rely on the mercy of God to save his soul.
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    If God Loves Us All...

    God is prefectly just and prefectly mercyful. He loves us all that is why he gave us the chance to recivie grace from Him, but we also have free will and are able to not choose to take that grace.
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    Would God bless America?

    Why would he not? If America is the people that compose her, wouldn't saying "God Bless America" really be saying "God Bless you" to everyone? Moreover, it is like a prayer for proctection and gudience.
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    Has Jesus Evolved?

    If Christ were to have come today and not 2000 years ago what would be different? His message would be the same, everything he told us would be the same. The difference? Mass communication, different examples, etc, but he would be, in the most vital form, the same.
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    Should women be ordained?

    Pope? No. Cardinal? No. Priest? No. Bishop? No. But I ask why you stated all of those, they are all priests. Altar severs? Yes, now they can. I would write a longer, perchance clearer, explantion, but I am short on time and am rather cold right now, thus forgive my breivity. In...
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    Should women be ordained?

    As Trinity said the first shall be last and the last first. The priest is no greater than the layman, save the priest can hold mass, and we do recongize this. The role of the priest, the pope, the bishop is to tend to the members of His Church and not to give power and glory to himself. And...
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    Should women be ordained?

    The Catholic Church does not discriminate against women but not alonging them to be priests. There are many outlets in the Church for women to serve in, as Vicky pointed out. The Church needs the priests to function, but by the same token, cannot funtion without the religious sisters, the layity...
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    Does Confession Help Us?

    Recent studies have shown that Confession is good insofar as it makes us relize that we are responible for what we did. The mind betters grasps that after confession to anyone.
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    Should women be ordained?

    God calls people of all genders to religious life. Men are called to life as monks, friars, and priests. Women are called to life as religious as well, however, not to the role of priesthood. The roles of the religious are equal to the role played by a priest in most aspects. The biggest, and...
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    Are Catholics Christians?

    I think you misunderstood what Dave was seeking to convay. The Church is made up of two different elements, the Divine and the Human. The Divine element of the Church, guided by the Holy Spirit, cannot err on matters of faith and morals, however, the human element is not afford this luxuary of...
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    Should women be ordained?

    As a Roman Catholic my Church does not ordin women. I agree with this stance. The goal of this is not to place women on a lower level, nor estibilish and control a male domenated religion, but instead to adhere to the stadard set by Christ. St Paul says in his letters that women should be...
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