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    Is halloween _pagan

    At some point in my life I need to spend an entire year in the northern hemisphere just to experience the major liturgical feasts in their proper season.
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    Is halloween _pagan

    No. Halloween is the first day of the Allhallowtide triduum.
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    @SomeRandom Has Passed Away

    I'm sorry to hear that. My condolences to her friends and family.
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    What's the point of adverts?

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    Does God Love Everyone Equally?

    Although weakened humanity is predisposed towards sin we nonetheless retain our free will. (No matter how fashionable it is to deny human agency). We do not sin 'by nature' but because we consent to evil. (If Christianity is true) God has provided us the means to overcome our sinful...
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    Does God Love Everyone Equally?

    The struggle is literally the point of this life. Virtue is a narrow path that is painful to tread. The Gospel never promises a happy or easy life. Some crosses are heavier to bear than others, but no one is denied the grace necessary to please God. No environment excuses us from our...
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    Does God Love Everyone Equally?

    If you really believed in eternity, in life after death, then you would not resent the transitory sufferings of this world to the point of cursing your own existence. I used to hate my life as well. Then I realized that the hatred of life was but mere pusillanimity. I endeavor to cherish life...
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    Does God Love Everyone Equally?

    The designs of an omniscient intelligence are never arbitrary. Even by human standards a world of utter equality would be stupid.
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    Does God Love Everyone Equally?

    It is no injustice in my view that God wills for some to achieve greater things than what he wills for me to achieve. That I exist at all is amazing gift on its own; yet alone that he invites me (all of us) to the beatific vision. God does not owe us utter equality in the gifts he bestows on...
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    Does God Love Everyone Equally?

    This discussion reminds me of an episode of the Simpsons. A new girl named Allison enters into Lisa's life. Lisa rather than being happy that she now has someone on her own level to befriend, instead grows to fear Allison's marginal superiority in intellect and talent. As if no longer being the...
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    Does God Love Everyone Equally?

    St. Paul taught that being Jewish does not alone confer good standing before God. Anyone who approaches God though faith in Christ becomes an adopted child of God regardless of their race, sex or position in this world. That does not imply an absolute equivalence of each and every soul. Some...
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    Does God Love Everyone Equally?

    https://www.religiousforums.com/threads/is-it-possible-to-be-a-pagan.272611/ Many people are under the impression that Christianity teaches an absolute equality between all individuals. That God loves everyone equally. That in the eyes of God every soul is interchangeable in value. But that is...
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    My Current Thinking on the Church, Religion and Sexual Morality

    Temple worship ceased when the Romans destroyed the Temple in 70CE. In any case, your reply is a non sequitur. The coddling refers to Rome's duplicity concerning the rejection of Church teachings by liberal factions within the Church. That Rome, especially under Francis, has tolerated and even...
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    My Current Thinking on the Church, Religion and Sexual Morality

    Christianity conquered an empire that sought to destroy it. And after that empire fell, it forged a better civilization in its place. By that same vein I have a respect for Islam in that it accomplished a similar feat in building a great civilization of its own.
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    My Current Thinking on the Church, Religion and Sexual Morality

    Catholicism possesses an ancient continuity that stretches back to the early Church. It is the ancient Christianity that conquered the Roman Empire and civilized barbarian Europe. To embrace the Roman Rite is to embrace the heritage that built of great cathedrals and invented the university. It...
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    Russia May Have Just Given Ukraine Terms for Ending War

    "We'll end the war if you promise not to join any military alliances. Because we may need to invade you again at some future point." It's not as if Russia hasn't promised to never invade Ukraine before. :rolleyes:
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    My Current Thinking on the Church, Religion and Sexual Morality

    That said, I think women's ordination is exceedingly unlikely even under Francis. I think it's far more likely they will seek to open the priesthood to married men at least in certain parts of the world. Allowing for married priests would not only bring the Latin Church more in line with the...
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    My Current Thinking on the Church, Religion and Sexual Morality

    The conservatives are right. Liberal Catholics are heretics. It would be catastrophic for the Church if Francis signs off on women's ordination and or a reformulation of the Church's teaching on sexual morality along liberal lines. If Francis thinks the Africans yet alone the trads and...
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    My Current Thinking on the Church, Religion and Sexual Morality

    I remember listening to an online trad sermon which talked about how in traditional society boys were expected to be ready for the responsibilities of marriage by eighteen. (Sixteen for girls). Christianity's demand for abstinence before marriage would not have been that much of an imposition...
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    My Current Thinking on the Church, Religion and Sexual Morality

    The Catholic faith teaches that any consent to sexual desire (in act or thought) outside of married coitus open to procreation constitutes a mortal sin. Confession removes the guilt of mortal sin but should you die in mortal sin without having gone to confession you will go to Hell save for an...
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