http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/deliver_...
This link is to a movie that shows in detail the shielding of known criminal activity within the Catholic Church. On a personal note I noticed that it recieved a 100% rating, that is something that you don't see too often on this site. I have not yet found a copy of this movie to watch but I'm keeping the local video store on the look out for it. I look forward to seeing how this turns out. I had not seen any previews on it prior to noticing the release on the Rotten Tomatoes website. If anyone has seen it, please post your thoughts. Thanks, Pam



Links
The Official Website for the Documentary
http://www.deliverusfromevilthemovie.com...
Map of known incidents
http://www.deliverusfromevilthemovie.com...
Latest blog regarding clerical abuse http://www.sexpriestsandsecretcodes.com/
-----------------------------Truth is stranger than fiction.
This Is A Pan-Christian Clergy Problem!
Pam
There is more sex in the name of Jesus in the Christian Church than most people can possibly immagine! So, let's look at the whole Christian Church and not just the Catholics. The Catholics got caught and I'm not defending them. But, they are just the tip of the iceberg!
Everybody knows that I hate religion , especially Christianity. But, what you don't know is that I learned to hate it doing research in Seminary, not Catholic, and I have a Seminary degree to prove it, M.Div. I have never served in any capacity in the Christian Church and I never will; because, there is No God! I'm a businessman and that is all that I will ever be.
What do you think?
cnnek
{You Can Teach People How To Think Or What To Think; But, You Can't Do Both! It Is Better To Teach People How To Think!!!}
Absolutely Correct
Dear Ken, I wholeheartedly agree with your comments. Like you, my aim was a Masters in Divinity, only I realized the politics and wickedness permeated the institution I attended. I quit, later the ones who were in some very shady goings on were caught and sentenced. That scenario was concerning Mississippi College in Clinton. It made the news headlines for quite awhile. At the time I was ambivalent about higher learning, I was rather torn up about the duplicity. I do understand your hate.
I deleted a portion of what I was going to say. Simply because this area of discussion could lead to a law suit. I'll leave it at that.
Love, Pam -----------------------------Truth is stranger than fiction.
Research Was The Reason I Didn't Quit!
Pam
I love research! The research that I could do in the guise of researching papers, reports, and other matters related to academia was the reason that I didn't quite. I did far more research than the seminary would have wanted me to do, and, on this occasion and a number of other occasions, the results of that research have shown-up in my comments on TDG.
What do you think?
cnnek
{You Can Teach People How To Think Or What To Think; But, You Can't Do Both! It Is Better To Teach People How To Think!!!}
Hey Pam,I checked out the
Hey Pam,
I checked out the website and am very keen to see the movie by Amy Berg. There was a brilliant movie made a few short years back called "the Magdalene Sisters" which explored Catholic abuses toward unwed mothers (shock! unwed mothers?) in the 1960's. If anyone hasn't seen that movie, I can highly recommend it. I'd be interested to know what Shadows thinks of that movie.
It seems the soundtrack of "Deliver Us from Evil" includes the Johnny Cash song "god's gonna cut you down" ...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpTLvVgr8...
On a slightly tangential note, cnnek, how're you going? Always good to come across a fellow travelin' ex-tian. Kierkegaard was my undoing (thanks Søren) ... his book "faith and reason" in particular helped me to find dis-salvation. If you don't mind me asking , where did you do your MDiv and what was the focus of your thesis?
How was your weekend anubis2?
I thought of you while I was jet-setting around Monaco for 3 days.
Yes I saw that movie and found it disturbing.It was amazing though how that behaviour continued by the church to the girls right into the 60s.
And yes the attitude of the nuns to the young women was exactly as violent as portrayed, unfortunately.
I often think how sad it is for so many people of my era to have their childhood memories filled with violence instead of love.
I have read novels where nuns have been portrayed as loving and good friends of the girls.
That honestly was not something I ever saw in all my life in the convent.
And the series Brides of Christ, made here in Oz was a joke,according to me anyway.
One of the strictest rules in any convent was that you must never make friends with anyone.
It was an unbreakable rule for the girls and even more so for the nuns.
Karen Armstrong who writes all the books about God has written a book about her years as a nun and it is very sad.She, after too many years suffering, left the convent and more or less left Christianity.
Another person who suffered as a result of the church was Morris West who wrote about his experiences in A View From the Ridge.I nearly cried for him when I read that book and he tells how he left the seminary and why.
There is a book out published in Qld about Nazareth House Orphanage as it was then where I lived for several years from when I was 2.
It was so scary for me because I began to remember stuff I thought and hoped had long gone.
I just realised that the only place I talk about this stuff is here on TDG I refuse to write a book about it as that would only be giving more of my life to them.
The book is called Sisters of Nazareth.I think, or maybe Daughters.
I haven't read Kierkegaard,my education is lacking.I will try to amend that.
Johnny Cash, now there's a man.I liked him.
shadows
Thank you for sharing
Dear shadows, Jet setting around Monaco eh? I'm impressed!
My sincere thanks for sharing your very personal comments, I have compassion for your ordeal and totally understand your reticence on not wanting to delve further.
On a personal note, my son did volunteer work for a retirement home for nuns in Louisiana. Now that was/is a sad ordeal. He was carrying a load of top soil and manure from our barn for a rose garden down to them when he blew up the engine in my truck. The woman he worked for was related to one of the women there. Our next door neighbor's sister was a Sister in one of the cloisters in Louisiana and that is how that all came about.
Do pick up a book by Kierkegaard, well worth the time to read and ponder.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kierkegaard
As for Johnny Cash, he is a southern icon in the country music world. My favorite song by him is "Burning Ring of Fire" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ring_of_Fir... and was the music they played at the rodeo/horse shows when I did my jumps through the fire hoop on my Palomino Quarter horse gelding by the name of Sham. It was the perfect musical theme for an accompaniment.
I suppose it is sychronicity at work again, for if it had not been for me having that horse I would not have been able to live through the childhood ordeals I experienced.
So in this conversation we have come full circle with a ring of fire, and me a triple Fire Sign! How funny.
Love, Pam
-----------------------------Truth is stranger than fiction.
Ring of Fire.
Hi Pam,
Fancy being able to tell your great grand kids that you once rode a palomino horse through a burning ring of fire.
The closest I can come to that is once many years ago I fell off the chair lift at Thredbo while attempting to land.
As my face skidded to a stop on the packed ice, the friend who was with us yelled at me,'Never mind the blood on the snow, get up and ski'.
So I did.
It was a perfect three-point landing.
I was so busy talking I forgot where I was and forgot to put my skis up, so they stuck in the ground and I plummeted forward on my face.
I still have the scars.
And that was probably the most interesting move I made all day.
Then there was my ice-skating......
My kids had horses but I have a morbid fear of them and can not approach closer than about 6 ft from a horse.
I am soooooo jealous of you.
What a memory to have!
love shadows
Hey Shadows
The Daily Grail without your posts is like a golden monkey with no balls to scratch. Seriously ... (it was something Pope Benedict referred to in one of his "I was on the way to the Vatican last Thursday, when this young priest stopped me" speech asides).
Kierkegaard's "Faith and Reason" is an easy read. I'll swap you and I'll read Morris West's "View from a Ridge." I need a good excuse to visit the library anyhow ... something other than to check out the librarian's buns (hair buns, you know the ones that go with the thin rectangular glasses, the six inch stilettos and the right index finger flipped to her lips warning all the naughty boys that this is "shush" territory.
[Librarians really are kinky you know (thank god for personal experience and fond reminiscence)].
BTW, Moreton was (as always) great and refreshing. I was thinking about you on the return journey, looking south from the MV to the Islands off Victoria Point. I imagined to myself that you were waving.
But you were off in Monaco.
Speaking of Michael Schumacher and thanks to those dedicated TDG bloggers, I've got my hands full with exciting research and reading explorations - there's cnnek on Schleiermacher, Pam on the scandal in Clinton Mississippi (haven't found a referential resource for that one yet) and the bitch-slapping-penguins of Nazareth House (still digging the dirt - or snow - on those cold birds).
Vive lung pentru TDG-ul !
That sort of makes me the monkey's balls I suppose.
That's the nicest thing you've ever said to me A2.
When I first met our floppy he was living at Victoria Point and I heard his sad sweet voice on the phone.The voice is still sweet but no longer so sad.
The head nun from NH went to NZ to escape all the publicity here but couldn't.
Strangely I was asked by a nun from there to provide a character reference for her.
I wondered if I should have said that when she locked me in the boot cupboard for 2 days and nights she did it thoroughly,that would have been a good reference.She did everything thoroughly, the strappings, the going to bed without dinner at night, the whole days we spent on our knees praying for our sins.
Yes I could have said some terrific things about her.
I'll get Kierkgaard and see how I go.Read Daughters of Nazareth too, its worth it.
shadows
... again, Shadows
horrible ... those all bloody penguins for Jesus. I ask myself ... what would GLT do ... if he were also wrapped in a newspaper outfit and forced to worship at the thighs of newly incumbent priests?
Scandal in Clinton - Mississippi College
Seems as if it's one of those deeply buried nasty secrets. Here is what I could dig up.
The part about Nobels In Cahoots (Lewis Nobels and the prostitution ring and pilfering of college funds) http://www.nationalist.org/alt/2002/jan/...
From the local newspaper library
http://www.jhlibrary.com/reference/cl_in...
Nobles, Lewis
5 women talk to grand jury about Nobles, 6/23/94, 1A
Accepted image hard to reconcile with accusations, 8/29/93, 1A
Accounts remain frozen, 11/28/93, 4B
Bought and sold stocks for Mississippi College, 8/1/94, 1A
Cartoon in student newspaper 'The Mississippi Collegian', 10/29/94, 1B
Case featured on 'A Current Affair', 10/27/94, 1B
Chosen top college leader, 11/25/86, 1B
Could face money-laundering charges, 5/14/94, 1B
Embezzled $3 MIllion, Mississippi College says, 8/10/93, 1A
FBI questions his escorts, purchase of stocks, 5/15/94, 1A
FBI says he spent $389,790 on women, 12/31/94, 1A
Federal and state officials join in investigation, 8/12/93, 1A
NOBLES, LEWIS
FEDERAL INDICTMENT ON 19 COUNTS
WHITE SLAVE LAW CITED, 9/22/94, 1A, 9A
Nobles, Lewis
Federal prosecutors want seizure of another stock account, 6/10/94, 4B
Friends soliciting funds for defense, 5/30/94, 1B
Grand jury questions potential witnesses, 5/25/94, 2B; 7/21/94, 1B
Judge delays order for handing over personal records, 8/14/93, 1B
MC students express shock at affair, 8/11/93, 7A
Mississippi College granted access to his mail, 8/11/93, 1A
Mississippi College president honored, 10/20/92, 1B
Mississippi College sues Omnibank over bank accounts, 9/8/93, 1A
OmniBank blameless, CEO Paul Aron says, 9/14/93, 1B
Ordered to testify in MC's civil lawsuit against Omnibank, 10/30/93, 1B
Pleads innocent to charges; ordered not to leave state, 9/23/94, 1A
Resigns as MC president amid investigation, 8/5/93, 1A; 8/6/93, 1B
Says missing funds actually used to help needy students, 10/23/93, 1A
Some of his assets are freed, 8/18/93, 1A
Subject of criminal probe, DA says, 8/13/93, 1A
Trustee John Rogers says safeguards will be set up at MC, 8/11/93, 1A
Nobles, Lewis SEE ALSO Mississippi College -----------------------------Truth is stranger than fiction.
Segregation in religion
Pam it is hard to credit that the Christian church once did its best to keep negros out of the church.
Can you please tell us how this church affected you and your family?
I am very interested in family stories of religion.
Another thing that happened with Catholics is that because former generations had been educated by nuns, there was no one in the family to stand up for a child abused by nuns.
My mother was terrified of them.
I have friends who tell the same story.Of being abused as a child by the nuns and the parents failing to take action.
We must not leave out the Christian Brothers whose cruelty was legendry.Not as finely honed as the nuns' cruelty of course, but just straight out brutality towards the little charges entrusted to them.
Many of the young boys died from neglect because what abusive violent man was going to care about their sensivities.
I truly believe that men are more sensitive than women and less able to handle this sort of treatment.
The cruelty of the nuns was in part caused by the cruelty shown to them by their superiors.
Some years ago I visited the scene where these crimes were committed against me and talked to another generation of nuns.
I learned that in my days in that institution nuns had died because the mother superior would not allow a male doctor into the convent to examine them.
At the age of 15 when I walked out of the convent for the last time I vowed never to return for any reason to the church, but I did return to the convents to ask why.
Why, when Christianity is based on love of our fellow man, did the church show such cruelty to so many people?
I didn't get an answer of course, but I did get an understanding to some degree that all people are human, we are not made in the image of God.
But this did not explain to me the Inquisition, nor the birth control crap that takes place to this day.
Nor the celibate priests......oh yes I know the reason, so that no family can claim church treasures.
Where is the love in Christianity?
God will withdraw his love for you if you do such and such.Holy Moley, that's a fine father for you!
I thought being a parent was about unconditional love.But all the love from God comes with conditions.
shadows
An Inside Look
Hi Anubis, I saw that movie, very disturbing and so true. It gave a view that was in stark contrast to what the public percieved.
By the way, the focus of my thesis was women in the early church and the part they contributed which was downplayed in the centuries following the First and Second Nicaea Council. (Also see Nicene Creed)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Counc...
Love, Pam -----------------------------Truth is stranger than fiction.
I Love Kierkegaard!
anubi S2
The focus of my Thesis was the Theology of Friedrich Ernst Schleiermacher as it related to his doctrine of God. I also did special studies of Paul Tillich's Theology, Miguel De Unamuno, and Friederich Nietzsche. As for the name of the Seminary, I'm sorry; but, that's private. I don't ever want my name associated with them.
What do you think?
cnnek
{You Can Teach People How To Think Or What To Think; But, You Can't Do Both! It Is Better To Teach People How To Think!!!}
Schleiermacher : but was he just as schlossed as Schlegel ?
Hey cnnek,
It's been 20 years (yet if thou mayest giveth or taketh 'haps nere a day or twitch,' though never wouldst one holy day be found amiss) since I seriously studied theology. Apart from Kierkegaard, I found soulical camaraderie in the likes of Paul Tillich, Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Karl Barth. As for references, I considered no term paper complete without referring to Keil & Delitsch and/or the New Catholic Encyclopedia.
In a protestant college, few were amused. Still ... fuck 'em .... I was looking for 'truth' not dogma.
I gave up on theology thanks to Kierkegaard.
Schleiermacher's Theology Has An Interesting Twist To It!
Anubis2
If you read Schleiermacher very carefully, you find out that he is not really a Trinitarian. He pays a little lip service to the Doctrine of the Trinity; but, he neither really argues for it nor really incorperates it into his theological perspective.
But, Anubis2 that was not the main reason that I picked Schleiermacher. I needed to write a Thesis in order to graduate. Schleiermacher's Doctrine of God was available.
So, I took it. Besides, the ole boy does have his points, not many though!
What do you think?
cnnek
{You Can Teach People How To Think Or What To Think; But, You Can't Do Both! It Is Better To Teach People How To Think!!!}
if you read Schleiermacher very carefully
I haven't read Schleiermacher very carefully ... but that's where you come in cnnek.
I once contemplated trinitarianism ... it sort of makes sense ... one man, one woman, have a good root and 'whalah!' ... one plus one equals three. It could have been a perfect theory if it weren't for the shamrock-folded soiled nappy (of soilant green variety) and the innocuously semi-spat-out rubberised dummy ( ... aka din diva de Paris von Hilton fame).
bleed the suckers
Hello,
I think that the reactions here, are too dismissive of christianity, this i feel has been the rc church purpose from the start, i agree that the catholic church bares all the hallmarks of having been run by satan(to put it in their context), but lets not confuse the message with the messenger. And there is a big difference with the protestants in so much as that misbehaviour there is individual sin, and not as with the roman catholics institutionalised evil, where the biggest demons have roamed at the top.
ps You might remember that Christ himself expressed his opposition towards priesthood as such. In fact this was at the core of his message, drop the intemediary.
A matter of choice;
Intimidation, corruption and lies, or serenity, sharing and sincerity.
cathodes and prototypes
born a catho, studied with protos ... same shit ... different day (oh thank you jesus, thank you, thank you jesus).
BTW, don't you go humpin' my dacshuund, biatch.
Welllllllll....your
dacshuund is safe with me(as long as it is ugly).
"Hell" I would of thought any religious debate was moot on TDG. Thank "God" I understood and rejected all religion when I was 6.
It's on the same par as UFO's....UFO's have been proven they exist, but everyone ignores this fact! Religion has proven to do the exact opposite as it preaches, but everyone ignores this fact....????????? Spending time on religion is on a par with writting my name in the snow, with a warm, yellowish liquid!
"While contemplating on their life, anyone who says they have no regrets and would do it all the same again, have not learn't anything."
LRF.
ogly daschuund
don't you eat that yellow snow.
Yeah...
...and watch out where those huskies go.
yer ol' pal,
Xibalba
(This post was brought to you by "Realm of the Dead")
I Agree; But,...
Floppy 1
I agree; but, this discussion isn't really about religion! It's about depravation, corruption, and covere-up inside the Christian that has hurt many innocent people, and will hurt very many more innocent people unless it can be exposed and dealt with. I hope that exposing this and a few other things can bring down the entire Christian Church and other religions, too! A world without Religion would be beautiful!
What do you think?
cnnek
{You Can Teach People How To Think Or What To Think; But, You Can't Do Both! It Is Better To Teach People How To Think!!!}
your right again cnnek
it's not about religion. It's about people doing very bad things and being protected by their higher authority. Christianity is precarious because it is built on lies. So any fault that is found could tip the scales. Cover up these faults is the first line of protection. Any structure built on wonky foundations will eventually collasp. All religions will eventually collasp. But the depravation will find new homes. The more people we have in the world, the more wonky all societies become. Until a complete collasp and then a solid foundation must be created. Until that time the world will be as it is, sad.
"While contemplating on their life, anyone who says they have no regrets and would do it all the same again, have not learn't anything."
LRF.
I Completely Agree!
Floppy
It couldn't have been said any better! Let's just hope that we don't destroy ourselves before before we have a chance to build a solid foundation.
What do you think?
cnnek
{You Can Teach People How To Think Or What To Think; But, You Can't Do Both! It Is Better To Teach People How To Think!!!}
You Mean The Edited Message?
Rho
The message of the Christian and Hebrew Scriptures was edited in the past to fit the purposes of the messenger. We can't prove that there was a historical Jesus. But, since Islamic tradition says that there was a Prophet by the name of Jesus, I'll give some creedance to the possibility that there might have been a Prophet by the name of Jesus. Even so, we do not know what this prophet's teachings might have been; because, there is no outside verification of what this prophet might have taught. But, we do know that both the Christian and Hebrew Scriptures have been edited in the past and you can ask any competent scholar in the field about that. Furthermore, the messenger knows more mind control techniques than you can imagine. I learned them in seminary too! Combined with the Behavioral Psychology that I learned on the undergraduate level getting my B.B.A., I have a respectable arsonal. A B.B.A. is between 70% and 80% Behavorial Psychology and a M.Div. is over 50% Psychology that focuses on mind control and manipulation. Much focus is put on making you make a distinction between the message and the messenger!
What do you think?
cnnek
{You Can Teach People How To Think Or What To Think; But, You Can't Do Both! It Is Better To Teach People How To Think!!!}
This is a very sad blog
Hi everyone,
I have been reading through the comments again and looking at the links.
So Pope Benedict XV1 is of homosexual orientation.You know I would never have thought of the sexual orientation of a pope had I not read it on one of those links.
This is a sad blog because you can see the tragedy of the lives affected by the Christian churches.
I saw a doco about Father John Geoghegan(sp?) of Boston and how he was protected by the Archbishop and ultimately I think the Cardinal.
The Jesuit who was dealing with the situation of abuse in the church told a gathering of clerics that he very well knew who was screwing whom and to leave the kids alone!!!!
They showed the gathering and the speech right there on the doco and I can vouch for it.
I was stunned!
Even at this stage of my life I am somehow always stunned when I see this sort of thing.
I believe that the Catholic Church actually instills some sort of abusive behaviour in the priests and brothers by this constant insistence on so much being sinful and then the necessity to confess it.
Can you imagine a priest sitting in a confessional listening for hours to 7 yr old kids confessing to impure thoughts.
The nuns told us that the lavatory was the Devil's house and that if we talked in there we would go to hell.
We were all confused about our bodies and hated them.In some convents the girls had to bathe themselves under a big shroud so they could not see their own bodies.
We went to sleep at night with our arms crossed for Jesus above the covers and God help you if you had one under the covers in the morning.
Whatever, it is a sick sort of society, just as sick as those who stone little girls to death for talking to boys.
No matter how far you go in your life, the memories of abuse are always with you.
YOu can try to dump the baggage but you can't.It is like victims of the church carry scars that never heal and remind them always that the institution that should have helped and protected them, instead sold them out for less than 40 pieces of silver.
shadows
he who is without sin, cast the 1st stone
from what I read here, I see folk reducing Jesus' creation of His Church to their level, and that definitely is unpardonable. Jesus stopped an adultress, sinner from being stoned, means to me, no human will ever be perfect. He told her to sin no more. He didn't condemn her.
If a seminary or religious institution condones illicit behavior they will be judged according to their deeds, we don't judge, Jesus does.
What puzzles me is what's the big deal about a strict religious order. Did they sexually abuse anybody themselves? Shadows should read what Catherine Emmerich went thru, She was the basis of inspiration for Mel Gibson to produce his Passion of Christ movie the gnostics and zionists ranted and raved vehemently against. There is the complete text of Catherine's ecstasy on the *Net to read.
These religious orders base their discipline upon Paul's view of purging out satanic influences in your life. If yer favorite sex partner is called Rosy Palm, that in itself is not damning, unless yer using yer rosy palm on some other person's spouse. Nun's were the spouse of Jesus, thereby making them sacred vessels. To have sex with a nun who took the vow of chastity with Jesus, is damnable on both parts. Luther broke his vow, his wife broke her vow. If a nun don't get dispensation from the Vatican to absolve her from her vow, she is still obligated to fulfill it. Shadows definitely knows that.
If a divinity school is not devine Paul told folks to get out of it, so what's wrong about seeing it for what it is, let Jesus mete out His divine justice and count yer lucky stars, To say you walked away from religion totally is an insult to Jesus, and you pay the consequences for that decision.
Kierkegaard is a typical scandinavian loser. He got sucked into the new trend of socialist communism and saw it as meeting his needs and he turned his back on Jesus. I read some stuff by protestant theolgian types who fall into the 'how many angels fit on to the tip of a needle' school of thought. Like Shania Twain song goes---that don't impress me much. I have yet to find a protestant theologian of the Thomas Acquinas variety. Martin Luther started out that way as an Augustinian monk, but he let money get in the way, you know the sale of indulgences thing.
What started out as a petty gripe on his part forced him to chose mammon over Jesus, why, 'cuz he got married to a drop-out nun. He didn't have the staying power to live up to his vow of poverty, chastity, obesity. He preferred to be pussy whipped.
Remember what Jesus said about His personal creation, His Church will last til the end of times and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. If folk drop out, there is no guarantee they'll get a chance to casually drop back in when the antichrists' 666 road show hits town.
I not only turned my back on Jesus...
....I turned my dog on him.
I don't want him comin' sniffin' round my place no more..
Catherine Emmerich......just another hysteric.Were you actually there jaako for all those 12 years when she ate nothing but the holy host and drank only water?
NO I thought not.
I wasn't a nun, jaako, I was an ORPHAN!Well not really, but I wasn't wanted at that time.
Thomas Aquinas.....he who said that women are vessels of excrement?Yes I can see that you would like him.
He set the stage for the Inquisition.
Mel Gibson.......a has-been who would be again but lets his alcohol and drug consumption and born-again 'ligious lunacy control him.
Or maybe its his mad father he is trying to out-do.
Divinity schools............ask around jaako, get someone to let the cat out of the bag.You might be surprised.
Sex in religion........see I can't even write the words without wanting to throw up.
Why does any religion decide it wants to control anyone's sex life? Just because it can.
How do you account for all the poverty in third world countries of which the Pope is head of religion?
He is now screaming at Dems in the US for wanting abortion.
I say to the Pope..........get your controlling papal hands off other people, and your controlling papal psyche out of their lives.
And who says priests don't have sex?
You do jaako?
Wrong again mate!
YOu remind me of my dear old cousin Matilda who died a while back aged 96.Each time we went to the cemetery she would say the same thing......
'Just imagine when Jesus comes back, all these people will push aside these enormous grave stones and rise and stand beside them, just as they were when they died'.
Here's some sad news for you jaako, no they won't.
sadly, shadows
whacko jaako
Jaako: “he who is without sin, cast the 1st stone. from what I read here, I see folk reducing Jesus' creation of His Church to their level, and that definitely is unpardonable. Jesus stopped an adulteress, sinner from being stoned, means to me, no human will ever be perfect. He told her to sin no more. He didn't condemn her. If a seminary or religious institution condones illicit behavior they will be judged according to their deeds, we don't judge, Jesus does. “
Thanks jaako, your post was interesting (hey, wait a minute! There's a scrap of beige carpet on the linoleum. Wow, that's phenomenal!) Anyway, here is why I find your post so interesting:
First you declare your definitive judgment as to what is “unpardonable.” As I read it, the main clause of the first sentence (after the title) declares that “I (that is, jaako) see folk ... and that definitely is unpardonable.” Can I recommend then, that you simply stop seeing folk? This would be particularly so for those folk who reduce Jesus' creation of his church to their level ... they seem to be your main vice in regard to seeing things. Maybe wear a blind fold or pull a beanie over your face.
Second, after passing your judgment (I hope you flushed), you then state that “we don't judge, Jesus does.” I can think of two possibilities here: (a) you believe you are jesus and in that capacity, have decided that judging is part of your legitimate repertoire; or (b) you believe that when you defined what is unpardonable you were not technically making a 'judgment' I'll go for (a) ... it's easier to believe.
Third, you leap your logic from “Jesus stopped an adulteress” to “(which) means to me, no human will ever be perfect.” How about a similar example: my granddad had corns on his feet, which means that the story of Paul Bunyan was only a myth to unbelievers and gnostics.
Fourth ... and this is the scary bit ... is it the intent of your post to suggest that the people of the grail should refrain from exposing religious predators?
I guess shadows had a bad gnosis day
I am quite adept at writing clear coherent sentences and still manage to inject ironic humor into sensitive subjects.
Shadows mis-read or felt under attack by my observations about the concept of free-will I should have spelt out in caps. I took for granted the gnostic thing going on here was that folk submitting were 'enlightened', something that should constitute a gnostic, a topic I submitted for everybody's reading enjoyment.
I did not use the words, my thread is about 'free-will', I see my mistake, the next time I contribute I'll come down to a 12 y.o level of sophistication instead of the statistical average of 13.
Some guy who tooted his horn about his degrees in behavioral psych knows 2/3s of humanity is functioning at the intellectual level they were at age 13, only over time do they become a somewhat more sophisticated 13 y.o. I use the same approach every newspaper in the world does, since they realize this fact as well.
My thread spelled out quite clearly, if folk see the decadence going on have the free-will to avoid it, not encourage it, not partake in it. If folk turn a blind eye to it they have to live with the consequences of their own decision. I am not into playing God with folks' lives, that's Gods' prerogative. If 1/10th of 1% of all ministers in the world sex abuse folk, do you think God is gonna turn a blind eye at their Judgement Day.
Just 'cuz gnostics don't believe in Jesus or Judgement don't change this reality or existence, it only reflects a gnostic opinion which can be analogously equated as follows...opinions are like yer nether eye sphincter, everybody has 1 and they are all backed up by a pile of--excrescence of yer choice, like diarrhea, etc.
Since Shadows has a negative opinion about a woman who like Padre Pio had the privilege of bearing stigmata and both sustain themselves only on Communion wafer and water sez more about their willingness to share their suffering on behalf on humanity than Shadows' cheapshot.
I wasn't aware the Pope can usurp the soverignty of any country he feels like if they abuse its citizens. The Pope is not elected leader of these countries, citizens have the right to rise in revolt just like they did in France, Russia, U.S to get rid of despotic rulers. There is mass poverty in U.S, China, Russia, India, is that the Pope's fault as well? What does being catholic mean if the political power is wielded by a fanatic like Castro for example.
Look at every country dominated by muslims or arabs, look at their mass poverty, is the Pope responsible for that too?
I mention Thomas Acquinas 'cuz mainstream scientists are quoting him in scientific papers. I can't imagine these scientists being concerned about Acquinas describing querulant, constipated women afflicted with PM living outside the walls of nunneries or convents. I take it Acquinas was politely saying the women's libbers of his day were no different than the Valerie Solanas' of today. Have you read Solanas' S.C.U.M manifesto, Acquinas' description aptly fits character of Solanas.
Shadows, when will we see you produce a controversial film of the magnitude Gibson did. I did not put Mel on a pedestal, I made a point of saying he beat the gnostics and zionists at their own game in succeeding in getting the film made and distributed. By the way what is the theme and title of your Opus Major that will shake the foundations of the world.
Shadows, imagine if you ended up abandoned in a ghetto gutter like India, Haiti, Indonesia, China, etc instead of a convent as you depict. Would you be alive today, would you have been forced into child prostitution and discarded like yesterdays garbage by age 20 if you were fortunate to live that long. How many diseases would you be afflicted by in the gutter. You gripe and groan like a spolied brat instead of sing praises of thanks somebody cared enough to shelter you from the other reality I just depicted.
Yer aunt had a better grip on reality than you, She saw the positives, you saw nothing, that is what I find to be sad.
Just loooove your post jaako.
I don't know where to start, its like having a 6 course meal placed in front of me and I'm starving.
So I'm going to eat it all at once.
Yes I suffer from spoiled brat syndrome.....I remember that insinuation when I was having my first baby whom I nearly lost due to medical incompetence.
'Do you think you're the only woman in the world having a baby at the moment?'
Sure made me feel heaps better!
If I had produced a film like Mel Gibson,that is about the passion of Christ whatever, I would be hiding under a bed right now like I bet he is doing( and you can see he is hiding in a bottle) because I would have revealed to the world MY passion for violence,and MY passion for showing violence, and MY passion for focusing on violence.
But I didn't.
Thank Zeus.
About shadows being unenlightened.......
I am very enlightened about religion.
But thanks for your concern.
If you think the people of TDG are unenlightened that's your prob, mate.
We know who we are and what we think.
Maybe the people on your other forum were impressed with you but my friends here are all tooooo smart to be taken in by your high-falutin' language and assertions.
As I said quite seriously, I think they are all employed.Its when you get the unemployed(like me) sitting around at their computers all day with nothing to do that you get that sort of interest in people who can type words in a sentence that looks cool but says nothing of any importance.
About the pope's contribution to poverty in third world countries you are obviously unaware that the Catholic Church insists on no sex between married couples unless it is to produce children.
It also denies people the right to use condoms.
In this age of AIDs, that is downright criminal.
I am referring to the mainly CATHOLIC countries jaako, not the Islamic ones.
I am interested in your take on Thomas Aquinas but only because you appear to know nothing about him.
I suggest if you want to take this conversation any further you get some education in your own religion.
I have been educated in the Catholic religion and am happy to debate you on points of dogma, but you don't seem to be able to produce any that prove to me you are on the right road to happiness.
Thank you for this opportunity to say what I think jaako.I feel sooooooooo good.I'm off to have a smoke!
shadows
oops, forgot my cheap shot
I forgot all about the holy Catherine, jaako, please pardon me.
Have you never heard of hysterics?
There are some who can will their bodies to carry stigmata.It is a known scientific fact.
Did you also know that counselling and medication can cause it to disappear?
Medication stronger than God?
Now I'll really go to Hell!
Actually I can see what Mel sees in all this crucifixion thing.I reckon they should bring back crucifixion.
For things like late return of library books.....not using indicators..........swimming outside the flags.......late utility payments...........dropping cigarette butts.......
can you think of any more A2?
Crucifixion is so dramatic.
They could line the main highways like they did the main roads of Rome with crufixes.
A few million of them around reminding you of your sins would make a big difference to society I think, and maybe relieve the Christians of their damn fixation with dead men on crosses, which is the most morbid and powerfully controlling image in the world.
Again jaako, sadly,shadows
and yer point is...
I wonder why the initator of this topic painted with broad sweeping strokes in such a definitive manner, that to suggest it is demeaning to all non-guilty members of the clergy is not possible, The scene here is reminiscent of how Gibson portrayed the trial the Pharisses conducted before Pilate,
By virtue of stating their opinion in the start of these threads, Christendom has been tried and condemned of everything the initiator declares. The follow on comments re-inforce this condemnation as if it is proven fact before a court of law. I see only a lynching party mentality going on. I witnessed this phenomenom on 100s of topics on The discovery channel Tomb forum.
Folk ain't as genteel or civilized as they pretend on this forum either. The gnostics are reinforcing their locked in concrete positions even to the point of preferring to go to hell for them,,well, guess what I ain't gonna try to stop ya. If ya already greased the skids of yer bobsled ride to hell, I shore ain't gonna play superman and rescue ya from plunging into the abyss, nosiree bob.
Acquinas said something else that is trendy besides his intelligent creation deposition, the science crowd is taking credit for coining. In answer to why is there evil in the world, why would God tolerate it, Acquinas said, evil is the absence of good. Just like Jesus said if you are not with Him you are against Him. That leaves satan as the only other act in town, and now you belong to that nasty devil, by yer own free will, don't that really make yer lil' ole' gnostic heart jump for Joy, only she(Joy) resents it 'cuz she don't want nobody jumping her bones, it ain't kosher... somebody's remark about long pork..
One thing I notice is all the folk going thru the motions as if they were auditioning as wanna be cheerleaders for Antichrist and his 666 show as I peruse the threads of these topics, I witnessed the very same, gotta get my gnostic mojo going, so I don't miss out on these antichrist cheerleader auditions on the Discovery Channel Tomb Forum, that forum is loaded with ding-bat gnostic dim-wits, go there and read it for yerself.
I even sense the bubba dubya enthusiam of his 'Bring'em on' bravado as he dumps more hapless troopies into Iraq and Afghanistan quicksand. This time its gnostics tooting their own horn, only question I have is where will ya find all these suckers, I mean gnostics to hop on yer bobsleds.
Now if somebody will please call me a UFO, not a taxi, I wanna get off the planet ASAP, its a bigger dungeon than 0z is.
Evil is the absence of good my arse!
You're not a deep thinker are you jaako,you make that obvious.The only thoughts you have are what the church and Mel 'Oh the delicious pain'Gibson told you to think.
Your hero Mel is another hysteric, watch for the stigmata about to appear on his palms.
He reminds me of the nuns who used to faint in ecstacy on Good Friday in front of the naked dying Christ on the cross.
About Satan..he was of course Lucifer.Now do you know the history of Lucifer before the Cathoholics got to him?I suggest you read Lynne Picknett's latest book on Lucifer.
It is available on Amazon.
About the absence of good being evil.I have read discussions on this, who is the most evil... Saddam or Hitler.
See Cliff Pickover's site for this.
IMHO absence of good is just that, a lack of good.Evil is of itself, another thing entirely.
There are evil people who performed good deeds so there was no absence of good.
I am sick of people analysing things until nothing is left.
Now, about debating....you can't use the words Bush used when he began the 'WAR ON TERROR'...'if you aren't with us you are against us', and then further down the thread bag him for sending troops to Iraq.
Don't criticise the people on this forum for what they think and write.Again IMHO they are almost all honest and straightforward and again...........being gainfully employed they don't need to spend time thinking up answers to drivel.
Oh, by the way, Jaako, I have not only greased the skids for my bobsled ride to hell, I carry always in my palm the penny for the ferryman.
With love, shadows
Alright, jaako, you're a UFO
You seem to have quite a problem with gnostics (especially gnostics that ride bobsleds). However, it might come as a surprise to you that many of the posters in this thread are not gnostics, let alone the dreaded bobsled riding gnostics that cause most of your problems.
funny stuff
Dear anubis2, That was so funny! I've never been on a bobsled either, life is tough and then you die. Bobsled or not. Love, Pam -----------------------------Truth is stranger than fiction.
Better with the bobsled
Hi Pam,
Yesterday I read in the SMH a wonderful article about a French philosopher called Michel Onfray.I was wondering as you are the researcher par exellence on this forum if you could post some links about him.
If I get the energy I will write a little about the article but here is something he said.
'Religions tell us we have to give up this life for another....give up our desires, passions,pleasures....what type of comfort is that?
Die while you are alive so you can be alive when you are dead?'
When he suffered a heart attack at 28 he was told to modify his diet and he said..
'I choose to die eating butter than to economise my existence with margarine'.
My sentiments exactly.
Thanks Pam, love shadows
Thanks Pam
Bobsledding probably does enhance the gnostic experience.
i'm going tangential here, folks
its nice to know irony is not dead yet, I be deeply upset if i ever discover I be the last person on the planet with a sense of humor.
Now to go tangential on yawl, the initiator's conspiracy, what happened to it, Did the Church get strapped down to the bobsled by mistake. I'm just musing out loud here. I would have never guesssed a true believer would jump into a toxic loaded topic like this. They be few and far between, to me gnostics are blazing away as fast as they can reload. Is anybody here called toeless 'cuz they couldn't wait to draw their pistol out of their holster?
Since Bush took a cheapshot at Jesus and posed as a messiah Bush has to take up that blasphemy with Jesus when he faces Judgement. That why I call him bubba dubya, that's a typical Bush shoot from the lip comment only a bubba would do. I describe gnostics as crypto, pseudo bubbas, by the off-the-wall talk past the topc at hand responses I read here.
Besides me having fun yanking yer chains, you give me tons of adlib humor to add to my collection. bubba. I dun thunk youz guys saw my drift and now you lost it. Ize gonna try to do a 12 y.o readability check on yawl, give ya sum bubba tawk, heah.
Duh, thanx fer calling me a UFO, where is it, I don't see it parked on my roof. Do ya mean you strapped the UFO ona bobsled as well? Well, like bubba sez, ya ken call me anything ya like, just don't call me late fer supper. yawl.heah.
My late husband used to talk like this......
.......and he died....
young.
Some people bring out the worst in others, which is what is happening here.
shadows
Your drift
Dear jaako, You would do well to meet our fellow poster Enigmni Freak. The two of you would truly complement one another quite well. Love, Pam -----------------------------Truth is stranger than fiction.
Brave words Pam, those are brave words.
Now watch me run for cover, still laughing and trying not to piddle.
love shadows
We shall see
I thought they would go together well. A new source of energy could come from it. It would bring a whole new meaning to 'getting your freak on' for both of them. Also it would give us all an entertaining show. Worthy adversaries one for the other. A perfect match. Two large masses of hot air. Should be quite an explosion. Batten down the hatches Greg, TDG may be rocked to it's foundations! -----------------------------Truth is stranger than fiction.
Pam and Shadows ..
You have just totally cracked me up!!! I can't wait for the 'meeting of the great minds'!! Bless you both.
Love, Kathrinn
ahhhh.....that Pam
she's like the sweet iceing on a bland cake!
"While contemplating on their life, anyone who says they have no regrets and would do it all the same again, have not learn't anything."
LRF.