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What I'm doing instead of writing: Reading Chick tracks.
This one's kind of rubbing me the wrong way, because taking back an abusive man unless he's actually gone through therapy? Bad idea, no matter how saved he claims to be.
This one, on the other hand, is just plain hilarious. Yo, Jack, easy on the metaphors, man.
COMMUNISM = TEH DEVl!!11111!!!1!
And WTF is with the fundamentalists in the States (I don't recall ever seeing this anywhere else) and their hatred against the Catholic Church? Not that I don't sympathise, but oi.
Edit: Rock and Roll will SEND YOU TO HELL!!!
Right, so I'm 1) not baptised, 2) gay, 3) semi-communist, and 4) a fan of rock 'n roll. So I might as well be a pervy child fancier, because I'm already on the way to hell at quadruple speed.
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Of course, I was watching The 700 Club last Thursday because it was Halloween and I just wanted to confirm that I was, in fact, going to hell.
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The 700 Club?
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(1) Most of the original settlers were Protestants, not Catholics. Therefore, most of the Catholics were immigrants. In fact, there was a whole political party (http://dmoz.org/Society/History/By_Region/North_America/United_States/Political_Parties/Know-Nothings/) bsed on being anti-immigrant as well as anti-Catholic in the nineteenth century.
(2) In fact, a question raised about JFK was if his loyalty to the Pope would prevent him from being a good president.
(3) Most Protestants have a really fucked up view of what Catholicism is. They tend to be taught that we [a] will never go against something the Pope says, [b] worship the saints like gods, [c] worship Mary as a goddess.
Much on this same subject is a really odd thing I've noticed which is that I was always taught that Protestants believe that it's belief in Jesus not good works that gets one into heaven, whilst Catholics believe it's good works and belief. My Presbyterian friend was taught the other way. This amuses me to no end.
Basically, it seems to be a "it's foreign to us, so it's wrong" thing.
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Which, oddly enough, seems to be what Mr Chick says, too. Hrm. Am confused. Now you know why I haven't joined an organised religion yet ...
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I don't know what it is with U.S. fundamentalists and Catholics. I do know that when I taught Spanish (at a fundamentalist Christian school, no less) I had to spend a significant portion of the "culture" lessons explaining that yes, Catholics are Christians, so yes, they celebrate Christmas... and no, they don't eat babies, and no, they don't practice human sacrifice... (I kid you not.)
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(Catholics do, however, assume that unbaptised babies will be buried in the garden by their parents, "like dogs". Or at least the pastor of the twon where I was born assumed so, and told my mother as much when he came to harass her over the fact that I wasn't baptised.)
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*eats babies*
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*does*
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That was the best thing about the Charismatics. Being told to convert Protestants to Catholicism. "Convert Christians to Christianity!!!!"
Of course, now I firmly believe all four major patriarchial monotheistic religions are basically branches of the same damn thing.
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On a more random note, likely to be online later? I have an offer for you. ::waggles eyebrows:: Possibly less exciting than it sounds, which is saying something.
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Offer? Oooh! I shall be on in about ... An hour and a half, possibly two hours, if that's all right?
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::blinks:: OK, time is passing way too fast today. I'm losing whole hours.
Anyway, yeah. I'll be around all evening, I suspect.
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One of the craziest things though was when my mother, who was raised Catholic, said that my aunt's family were "Catholics, not Christians." I just sorta blinked because I'd never been to a church in my life, and I knew that Catholics were Christians, but apparently she didn't. *shakes head* Craziness.
I though unbaptized babies went to Limbo? Or is Limbo in hell? I just read this last week, dammit.....
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Christened - Protestant, nursery run by Catholic Nuns, and non-aligned Christian, with the occasional islamic leaning ever since.
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Protestant Americans seem to be distrustful of Catholics for political reasons first, and by now it's come to be a religious thing rather than a political one, but the distrust remains.
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a) He was only in jail for less than two weeks for beating his wife? Oh, typical.
b) It took him less than a week to completely change his personality? Man, Jesus works fast. Pharmaceutical companies should look into this! "When you want to feel better FAST, try a little JesusTM! "
c) I like how once he's converted, he started shaving and combing his hair regularly. Because heathens have poor personal hygiene, but those who walk with the Lord get salvation and free toiletries for life! Who knew?
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I did. But I was hoping I could keep that a secret. Shh! ^^
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yo, get online that i might chat with you for a moment or two before eating breakist.
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