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- wholesum, on 11/15/2008, -1/+12George Carlin had it right: "if the Church wants to weigh in on politics and policy--Let 'em pay taxes like the rest of us".
- thepoliticalcat, on 11/15/2008, -1/+8Good. It's about time all churches began repudiating the hate-filled statements that are emerging from their godbags.
- NinaOdell, on 11/15/2008, -1/+7What are the odds that all the folks who commented on the original thread comment on this one?
I'll give $700 billion to one...
There have been some truly great Catholics in history (the Berrigan Brothers come to mind), but Reverend Newman is not one of them. - wakethefockup, on 11/15/2008, -2/+7GOOD.
The idea is to bring people back to our church, not drive them away from it. - sarahlee, on 11/16/2008, -0/+3True. The wingers are always calling for Muslims to repudiate Islamic hate mongers - would be nice if Christians lead the way.
- Christianptriot, on 11/16/2008, -0/+2folks, you are all confusing the issue of communion with salvation. You do NOT take communion to get salvation. If that was all there was to it, everyone would be saved forever and there would be no need for missions, outreach, the continued teaching of Jesus Christ, etc.
Communion is the symbolic taking in of the body and blood of Jesus Christ AFTER you have committed yourself to his teachings and God's word. According to scripture, if you are NOT in line with God's word, and you do NOT repent of the things that you have done (sins) that are contrary to God's word, then you literally take that damnation upon yourself when you partake of communion.
That priest is 100% correct in his original statement. if he willingly gives communion to those who are in known, unrepentant sin, he is contributing to their damnation - and that is something that we believers are NOT supposed to do either, according to scripture.
Everyone is casting their own judgment upon the priest, and out of the other side of their mouth's they are telling the church and religious folks to NOT judge others.
This is not this priest judging those people - from what I understand of scripture and communion, he is telling them the truth - and that is the one thing that seems to send the ultra-liberal obamaniac farther into orbit than just about anything else....except that pesky question about the non-existent birth certificate.... - scottknick, on 11/15/2008, -0/+2Actually, the Berrigans were great Catholics. I remember staying up most of the night one night in Minneapolis listening to Phillip debate some evangelical hothead who sounds a lot like some of the posters here on Digg. Never lost his cool or compassion, but never lost his passion either. Alas, however, the institutional Church seems hell-bent on driving that sort of Catholic out of the pews.
- mikesoba, on 11/16/2008, -0/+2And you're man wages an unjust war that has resulted in the loss of tens of thousands of innocent lives.
But hey . . .they ain't Americans, so who cares, right?? - revslaughter, on 11/16/2008, -0/+2Denying communion makes no sense at all.
If there's anyone who needs God more, it's the people who aren't in stride with God, right?
I'm just trying to follow the logic here, but it is religion after all. - 80hd, on 11/16/2008, -0/+1Religion is all about love, when you're on their side.
- Christianptriot, on 11/16/2008, -1/+1This is not a political argument - it is a matter of scripture, and the choice that some have made to choose to go AGAINST scripture.
- HankHill00, on 11/16/2008, -2/+1Apologizing? there is nothing interesting about that!
- inactive, on 11/16/2008, -4/+2Why would any self respecting adult be part of a Communion anyways? Might as well ride to the Communion ceremony on a Unicorn.
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