I've been suspended !

[_Ray A]

What you state though is the reason that the Catholic church bears the title "Mother Whore of all the Earth". If there is a false teaching regarding worship of Christian diety, its source tends to be the Catholic Church. All false Christian Churches are break-offs of the Catholics.

Sigh.

I really don't know what else to say.

But our choices are ours, based on what we understand.

[_Gazelam]

Jersey,

Of course, you might have wished that we had never crossed paths to begin with, but I don't feel that way at all. You know, no matter what or who God is, we are all flying through space clinging to this rolling ball of a planet and I don't think it wise for us to mock the earnest beliefs of those with whom we are destined to share the ride.

How could I have possibly ever given you the impression that I would regret ever having known you?

I actually didn't even know you were catholic. I thought you were an evangelical. Not that either of those play any part into how I feel towards you.

I always find it facinating when some stray comment I made offhand gets blown up like this. I think this might be the third time this has happened. You'd think I would learn to mind my tounge.

[_Jersey Girl]

What you state though is the reason that the Catholic church bears the title "Mother Whore of all the Earth".

Okay, before I croak entirely here....bears the title given by whom?

[_why me]

I always find it facinating when some stray comment I made offhand gets blown up like this. I think this might be the third time this has happened. You'd think I would learn to mind my tounge.

And no one would have known if you would have kept your suspension a secret and not post it on this board. But we all make mistakes.

[_Gazelam]

I always find it facinating when some stray comment I made offhand gets blown up like this. I think this might be the third time this has happened. You'd think I would learn to mind my tounge.

And no one would have known if you would have kept your suspension a secret and not post it on this board. But we all make mistakes.

I carry no pretense

[_Gazelam]

What you state though is the reason that the Catholic church bears the title "Mother Whore of all the Earth".

Okay, before I croak entirely here....bears the title given by whom?

John or Christ or an angel. I haven tread revelations in a while.

[_Gazelam]

I have to say that Im actually torn in my views on the Catholic Church.

On the one hand, they are responsible for many false views in regards to God. Many of these being very important views.

On the other hand they were a tool used by God to spread the scriptures throughout the world so that a knowledge of Christ as recorded by the Apostles and ancient prophets could be spread far and wide throughout the world.

Both of these views are expressed in the scriptures. I guess this is another case of good and bad being mingled together.

[_Jersey Girl]

Jersey,

Of course, you might have wished that we had never crossed paths to begin with, but I don't feel that way at all. You know, no matter what or who God is, we are all flying through space clinging to this rolling ball of a planet and I don't think it wise for us to mock the earnest beliefs of those with whom we are destined to share the ride.

How could I have possibly ever given you the impression that I would regret ever having known you?

I actually didn't even know you were catholic. I thought you were an evangelical. Not that either of those play any part into how I feel towards you.

I always find it facinating when some stray comment I made offhand gets blown up like this. I think this might be the third time this has happened. You'd think I would learn to mind my tounge.

I'm not Catholic and I didn't state that I was. Re-read my post. What I am saying to you, Gaz, is that you have a habit of shooting off comments while forgetting that others are reading or that you might find yourself in the uncomfortable real life position of being unknowingly surrounded by Catholic's while making a mocking comment such as that or that someone like me might read them and that your words might make me lose confidence in you.

Gaz, I come with a family. My family is very diverse. Most of my family are life long Catholics and while I don't share their religious practices, I share their lives, their hopes, their dreams, and my children share their blood. When I read comments such as those you made regarding Mary, it makes me automatically want to rise to the defense of Catholics because in my life, the Catholics have names, faces and a relationship with me.

What is there to this life, Gaz, but the relationships you create with others? What do you leave behind you after you leave this world but the mark you have left on this world in the minds of those you came in contact with?

You tell me.

[_Jersey Girl]

Gaz,

I hope you realize by now that I often invest a long time trying to reach a point of understanding with you and that I don't do it just to give you a hard time.

I always find it facinating when some stray comment I made offhand gets blown up like this.

It gets blown up, Gaz, because it's out of line and extremely offensive. That's why people react the way they do.

[_Gazelam]

Jersey,

What is there to this life, Gaz, but the relationships you create with others? What do you leave behind you after you leave this world but the mark you have left on this world in the minds of those you came in contact with?

You tell me.

Excellent point.One of two things you take with you out of this world is your name, and your name. Our names are tied to the impression people have of us by the words and deeds we have left behind. Can our names be tied to Christs by our words and deeds? That questions going to be on the final exam.

Perhaps I should think more about Ammut before I speak in the future.