Flag priorities....

[mapuc]

Maybe not the right place

Yesterday on the news-Danish, I saw a clip from a official building in USA where this flag was taken down. About 2-3 minutes later it was the sports news-Albania was given 3 points and they showed some clip from this "famous match" between Albania and Serbia.

I saw a drone with a flag and some football player trying to..do something..then all went in chaos, players was fighting a.s.o

Then I thought- It's incredible what flag can do to people.

Markus

[vienna]

My apologies. I don't keep records on people, all I have to go on is the way you write and it has led me to the assumption that you were an Atheist. If you say that's not true then it's not but you should know you come off as one in your posts, at least the way it looks to me.

Well, you know what they say about assumptions...


<O>

[vienna]

Originally Posted by Betonov

When I was in sunday school, the same question arose. And about still born babies.
Our priest answered that God opens the heavenly door to all those that lived pure even if for only 5min and that the Bible has loopholes and contradictions that God himself sorts out.
He also pointed out there are non-christians more christian than some christians and that we should beware using the name of the Lord for doing sins.

It's a strange day on Earth when the Catholics talk more sense than anyone else.

From what I recall, Slovenia has a large Catholic population. (A young lady I worked with, though born in the US, had family in Slovenia and always spoke highly of the country and it beauty). When I went to Catholic school, it was from the mid 50s to 1966. The Church was just getting into the whole Ecumenical Council reforms abut the time I graduated. Up to then, it was a very old style school, very hard and regimented. Our teachers, mainly nuns, didn't really tolerate very much questioning and most of the time the answer to a potentially unanswerable or uncomfortable question would be "Because it is God's will"...

It sounds like your priest was a Jesuit. You were lucky to have such a good teacher. I still, myself, choose to just try to follow the "Golden Rule" and try to avoid being locked into any particular flavor of religion or faith...

One point to be made about the topic at hand: all references to God (I n God we trust, under God, etc.) could be removed from all branches of the US government tomorrow and nothing would change and nothing would be materially damaged; the currency would be just as strong, the flag would still fly as always; the only difference would be that those who would impose their views and wills on other under the guise of faith would have to find something else to occupy their time. You know, like try to obey the Commandments...

BTW, if anyone would wish to give examples of any harm possibly done by actually separating church and state, I demand actual, tangible, material examples and not rhetoric or platitudes...


<O>

[Betonov]

Predominantly catholic nation, very low actuall practice.
Even the atheists mostly declare themselves catholic here.
Cultural grounds mostly.

We had that one priest for 30 years, he had me from baptism to confirmation.
After confirmation I left the Church, soon we had another priest who was even more chilled than the previous one. He believed that one can pray in his heart and do good and so his mass was a 20min affair. It didn't stant good in the whole ''look like a good christian'' crowd. The sunday mass was something the klero hypocrits used as the only excuse to make themselves look like good christians and a short mass made them feel disconected from God.
He was booted out and replaced by one of those old school tyrants. A true inquisitor. Beloved by the Sunday klero hypocrits. Can't stand him.

[Wolferz]

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/see...dsXB?ocid=iehp

KKK flag protester aided by black police officer. Photo goes viral.

It's all black and white.

[Sailor Steve]

Gotta love it!

[Jimbuna]

Poetic justice