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    Is Easter Pagan?

    Somewhat connected, I've seen people take the title of Jesus as 'Son of God' as 'proof' that Jesus began as a pagan solar deity. :facepalm: I don't bother arguing with anyone who can't see the obvious problem with that claim.
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    Just Mediaeval Things

    Said to be Aquinas' own handwriting.
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    Is Easter Pagan?

    They should collate all the OP's threads on the subject and pin it somewhere. It would save the OP from any need to post it again as people can just add to the pinned thread every Christmas and Easter.
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    No, ‘the Jews’ did not kill Jesus

    Even though the crucifixion was ordered and carried out by Roman authority, the narrative nonetheless paints the local Jewish leadership as the instigators of it. That does not justify antisemitism or the absurd charge that all Jews everywhere are for all time culpable for an unjust execution...
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    Noam Chomsky on NATO...

    This war is about blood and soil, not NATO. Putin denies the legitimacy of Ukrainian sovereignty because in his worldview Ukraine is Russian land; a province of 'Russkiy Mir' to be forced back into the imperial fold. This war is a temper tantrum thrown by Russia because it is no longer able to...
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    Do you believe alien abductions are real?

    Yes, I think it's real. And I may have experienced it myself. Many years ago I woke up late one night. Lying in bed, I noticed that the room was unusually illuminated with a white light which I assumed to be moonlight. The next thing I know an inhuman hand lands on my face. Screaming, I'm...
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    Pope Francis removes from Vatican doctrine office archbishop who is believed to have banned same-sex

    It's not my concern either. I don't care what people do in the privacy of their own homes. What I am concerned with is the integrity of Catholic teaching. I don't think the Church can change its teaching on this issue without defecting from the faith. I don't believe doctrine to be a Hegelian...
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    Pope Francis removes from Vatican doctrine office archbishop who is believed to have banned same-sex

    Yet, Scripture is clear that sexual sin disqualifies a person from salvation. So, if we actually believe in this Christianity thing, then we need to be honest about what it teaches. To be told that your sexual inclinations are disordered many hurt your feelings but Our Lord never said the truth...
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    Pope Francis removes from Vatican doctrine office archbishop who is believed to have banned same-sex

    Sexual orientation is a nineteenth century abstraction, not a fundamental truth by which we must understand the morality of our sexual actions. Which in the Christian tradition is the natural law. The teaching is that the good of spouses and the openness to the procreation of new human life are...
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    Pope Francis removes from Vatican doctrine office archbishop who is believed to have banned same-sex

    My contention is that the sinfulness of same-sex acts is in divine revelation. Thus it cannot change. There is no 'new' way to understand an explicit Scriptural prohibition. Sure, those who struggle with a homosexual inclination deserve to be treated with the same respect and dignity as...
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    Pope Francis removes from Vatican doctrine office archbishop who is believed to have banned same-sex

    Be patient. I only noticed your edit after I posted my previous reply to you. In a certain sense yes. Again look at the catechism in regards to homosexuality. It states that Scripture condemns same-sex acts as being particularity depraved. The Church teaches that such acts are not in accordance...
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    Pope Francis removes from Vatican doctrine office archbishop who is believed to have banned same-sex

    The claim that sins of the flesh have only ever been seen as venial is not true. Sexual sins are mortal. Saint Paul himself states as much in Corinthians. Now it is trivially true that some sins are more serious than others. Even sexual sins vary in seriousness. But it would be a poor defense to...
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    Pope Francis removes from Vatican doctrine office archbishop who is believed to have banned same-sex

    None of this is relevant. The question Metis is simple. Do you believe the Church has the authority to renounce its teaching on the intrinsic sinfulness of sodomy? My answer is an obvious no. Not because I deny any room for development or rearticulation of teaching depending on the needs of the...
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    Pope Francis removes from Vatican doctrine office archbishop who is believed to have banned same-sex

    What a non-sequitur. Vatican II has nothing to do with this discussion. What I do say is this. Should the Catholic Church renounce its teaching on the proper use of the sexual faculty in regards to the natural law, it would by logical necessity renounce its claim to indefectibility and prove...
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    Pope Francis removes from Vatican doctrine office archbishop who is believed to have banned same-sex

    Either the Church has a divine guarantee of indefectibility (which means it will last until the return of Christ) or it doesn't and it will eventually collapse. Either way the current state of affairs isn't surprising. But I'm not too worried. Scripture predicts a great falling away from the...
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    Pope Francis removes from Vatican doctrine office archbishop who is believed to have banned same-sex

    At this point it's hard to care about anything Pope Francis does as it's always just more of the same. He'll wink and nod to the modernists and liberals until the cows come home, but I'm sure even he knows that any actual move to change Church teaching on this issue would be impossible to defend...
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    Why the Worship of Ancient Greece and Rome?

    I don't denigrate the middle ages in the slightest. After all, those ignorant, superstitious, religious troglodytes only gave us the university, the hospital, the scholastic movement, the meticulous preservation of ancient texts, the gothic cathedral, the precursor to banking as we would...
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    Why the Worship of Ancient Greece and Rome?

    Pointing out that the ancient world was a brutal and often unjust place is to state the obvious. But that in no way detracts from our ability to appreciate the ancient genius that still informs how we think and do things to this very day.
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    More Random Thoughts

    Sometimes you just have to play the odds. It's kind of like people who fear flying yet think nothing of getting into their cars each day. The risks are real, but few things in life are without risk. Risking COVID (sans vaccine) because you fear an astronomically unlikely possibility of a serious...
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    More Random Thoughts

    Coronavirus Vaccine Hesitancy I have been double vaccinated since September last year. But I admit that prior to that point I had a degree of apprehension about the possibility of serious side effects. Nonetheless, I reasoned that the risks of COVID far outweighed the risks of the vaccine and...
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