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Haole Girl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-27-08 07:22 PM Original message |
So I went to church tonight... |
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bigwillq (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-27-08 07:22 PM Response to Original message |
1. Church sucks. |
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Haole Girl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-27-08 07:24 PM Response to Reply #1 |
3. It was one of the worst things I've ever heard in church |
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hobbit709 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-27-08 07:23 PM Response to Original message |
2. Didn't Martin Luther nail a paper to a door with something about that? |
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Haole Girl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-27-08 07:25 PM Response to Reply #2 |
4. Guess I just don't know my bible stories |
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hobbit709 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-27-08 07:31 PM Response to Reply #4 |
9. One of his beefs was the selling of "indulgences" |
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Haole Girl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-27-08 07:35 PM Response to Reply #9 |
10. Yes... I'm reading some about it now |
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Left Is Write (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-27-08 08:56 PM Response to Reply #2 |
28. He did. |
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YellowRubberDuckie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-27-08 07:28 PM Response to Original message |
5. It's a gimick to get people to give money to the church. |
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Haole Girl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-27-08 07:30 PM Response to Reply #5 |
7. Well, helping others yes... but in the churches I grew up in... |
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YellowRubberDuckie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-27-08 07:36 PM Response to Reply #7 |
11. It has gotten even worse during the last century with America's ME FIRST mentality... |
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GreenPartyVoter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-27-08 07:29 PM Response to Original message |
6. I try not to think of it as a get out of jail free card but more like a way to |
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Haole Girl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-27-08 07:31 PM Response to Reply #6 |
8. Right... since the post above I've been reading more about Martin Luther |
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GreenPartyVoter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-27-08 07:40 PM Response to Reply #8 |
12. Yes, Luther was bigoted, esp at the end of his life. |
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Critters2 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-27-08 08:02 PM Response to Original message |
13. This is Aquinas' fault. He--and other scholastics of his day--believed grace could be quantified. |
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Haole Girl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-27-08 08:10 PM Response to Reply #13 |
17. Thank you for the thorough explanation |
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Critters2 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-27-08 08:13 PM Response to Reply #17 |
23. You're welcome. You'd be surprised to learn how many Catholics don't really understand |
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Inchworm (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-27-08 08:05 PM Response to Original message |
14. At least it wasn't 10% |
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Haole Girl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-27-08 08:11 PM Response to Reply #14 |
19. Oh, well, yeah... |
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DarkTirade (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-27-08 08:07 PM Response to Original message |
15. Are you kidding? That's the oldest money-grubbing scheme the church had. |
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Critters2 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-27-08 08:10 PM Response to Reply #15 |
18. Me, I don't use schemes. My pitch goes like this..."You want the church to be here next weeK? |
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DarkTirade (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-27-08 08:11 PM Response to Reply #18 |
20. Honesty? |
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Critters2 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-27-08 08:17 PM Response to Reply #20 |
24. Indeed. I really have been known to preach that we give both because being generous is good for us |
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Haole Girl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-27-08 08:11 PM Response to Reply #18 |
21. Ha-ha! |
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Danger Mouse (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-27-08 08:09 PM Response to Original message |
16. Dark-sided! |
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Haole Girl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-27-08 08:13 PM Response to Reply #16 |
22. Hey, who are you calling dark-sided? |
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Danger Mouse (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-27-08 08:17 PM Response to Reply #22 |
25. You're ALL dark-sided. |
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Haole Girl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-27-08 08:20 PM Response to Reply #25 |
26. You are probably right |
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TroglodyteScholar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-27-08 08:22 PM Response to Original message |
27. The church believes in karma |
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snailly (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-27-08 09:14 PM Response to Original message |
29. Why were you there? |
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