I know this is random but it is impossible for people to be good for the sake of being good. God is the only entity that can convince us to do good. Mainly because he is the only entity will unquestionable control. Thus that is also why Heaven and Hell exist, to motivate us to do good.
[In a thread about saying a prayer to God before having sex, one poster says that it would be a mood killer. Here is another poster's response to that.]
A mood killer? wow..... how bad do you think sex is?
God created it! He is a part of it! So much so that he creates more human beings with it!
It is so beautiful ... the closer that a married couple gets to God, the closer they get to each other (picture a triangle).
How much it could add to the spiritual/emotional side of sex...the utter beauty and elation.
Last night for the first time in a long time I had a wet dream. I know it isn't usually a sin, but I'm not sure about this time. I was having a lustful dream, and the next thing I knew, I was waking up to an orgasm. A couple of weeks ago, I confessed to masturbation, and since then, I have not once masturbated or even had the want to do so. I just want to know if this would be considered a mortal sin or not, because I'm starting to feel a little guilty, and I'm not sure why. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
I was talking with a friend about the current direction of our government (what Catholic, Christian, or conservative individual isn't) and asked their thoughts. The only thing they are planning (or thinking that may happen) is that they'll have to hide their dear pastor friend in their house if things become detrimental for religious. I was saying that I'm thinking of storing cash somewhere other than a bank in case we had to flee in the middle of the night. I know, crazy talk, right? Well, just curious if there are any other crazies out there (I know there are). What real plans are you making/preparing for?
[On why God gives some people mental illness.]
I'm hearing impaired. Yes, I'm aware it's not a mental illness. My belief i that God blessed me with it so that I would not hear the negative things that are said about me. I'm aware of it's negative drawbacks but pay no attention to them.
My theory is that God gave the mentally challenged a gift wrapped in a challenge which he knew that they would be strong enough to handle. In fact this challenge itself provides the opertunity to build up their strength and character. So is the knowledge that they can overcome anything, if they can over come their personal challeges.
Further more, to address the negative side (the curse), my theory is that they suffer. But their suffering allows them in a unique way to understand the suffering of Christ. They may better recieve Christ because they have suffered and overcame just as Christ has. It's a unique oppertunity, just like anyone else, to understand and have a relationship with Christ.
That's why he [God] gives people Mental Disorders.
So, I was wondering if buying used books online, like thru the used venders on Amazon.com, was bad, as in can books be cursed? I noticed alot of the vendors from Oregon or NY, and I know occult is big in lots of those areas. I checked other books some of the vendors had and they had many demon, occult, type of books sometimes. I take Jesus Christ as my Lord and Savior, so I know I have nothing to fear... but if I give some books (like Catholicism for Dummies) as a gift to someone who is not a believer yet, do they get harmed?
[In response to someone going on a juice fast for 40 days.]
You should NEVER go on such a votive fast without the blessing of your spiritual father.
Otherwise, you expose yourself to great spiritual danger. Our fasting should not be self-willed, but obedient.
Otherwise, it can bring us close to the demons, who never eat at all.
What degree of being unclothed around each other is permitted to spouses before it becomes a sin against marital chastity? Assume that spouses can be unclothed during the marital act, although I've never seen this in writing. But what about incidental situations not related to the marriage debt, such as changing clothes in front of each other, sleeping in skimpy nightwear (or none at all), or even showering together? I'm currently bed confined due to surgery, and my wife has been washing me, but I was wondering if morality required that we get a male home health aide, as bed baths require me to be unclothed not in the context of the marriage act.
Separation of Church and State is an error! It is not the ideal! The Church should guide the state, the Church law should have precedent over state law, the Bishops of the Church should be required to approve any laws proposed by lawmakers.
As for freedom of the press, error has no right! Even our modern Catechism says that law makers have the duty to make porn illegal, authentic Catholicism teaches that heresy, impurity all kinds of poison should not be freely available!
We are all Catholics first, members of that consecrated nation, that people set apart!
Imagine if all leaders made decisions based on the teachings of the Catholic Church, wouldn't the world be wonderful. I think the Pope should be the supreme leader of the world. Not in a political sense, like a president, but rather other politicians would listen to him. What are your thoughts?
[about Lance Armstrong]
Dave,
He got a divorce at that is wrong. Top it off he is an atheist too, he is so confused. sure he is a great athlete but, he will never win the race when God is his opponent.
no no no! an athiest can NOT be a good person for where did they get their values..from an aztec god who demanded human sacrifice..or a left wing nazi god who blamed the jews for every wrong,or a commie leader who demanded all concessions as in Yalta thus placing some 750million innocent christians in the tender hands of good ole Joe (thats whay FDR called him) hands and thus some 43 million were murdered! no..one who believes in only ones self cannot be deemed ..good...only like a bachelor who has no wife and children..what does he know about life anyway?..there is no goodness in a athiestic culture...cuba,china etc..please I am double parked and this is pure nonsense....only Jesus brought goodness into this stupid bleak cruel world....Let us all pray that this marxist anti-semitic muslim coming into the white house will live for his entire first term,,to prove once and for all that marxism is nonsense..just a gang exploiting people..let us pray that he lives and changes to see the light...signals are being sent that ..well...again please join me in prayer for this young man and for America..and of course for humanity..Nino
[In response to a Catholic using birth control.]
Saying "The world is overpopulated enough" is a pure excuse and alame one. You lack the facts. One main reason there are so many problems in the world is because there are not enough younger people- there is an entire gemeration of people who shoudl be here but aren't! These people could have solved the problems we have today....instead the older people are more in abundance than us younger people and it is getting worse because WE ARE NOT HAVING ENOUGH CHILDREN!!! Do you realize that the muslim nations will take over the world soon if we do not start having more children? You need to wake up- I suggest you call your Diocese immediately so you can be re-schooled in the Catholic Faith.
[This is a Roman Catholic Board]
A woman cannot becoem a priest in a similar manner that a man cannot become pregnant. A woman attempting to become a priest would be an attempt at a homosexual marriage.
Priests are married to the Bride of Christ...not the groom of Christ.
A priest stands in Persona Christi. Similarly it would be like a woman playing the role of Clark Kent in the Superman (woman) movie.
Fact: Gays spread AIDS to each other
Fact: Heterosexual woman get AIDS from bi-sexual men
Fact: AIDS was spread by homosexuality
Conclusion: It's all their fault
[[Eucharisted posted a link to TIME Magazine's 'What Happens If You're on Gay Rights' 'Enemies List'' with the following comment:
Read the rest here.
Folks, if this isn't a sign that the gay movement is out to harm individuals and shun those whom it consideres "anti-gay", than I don't know what is.]]
Let them bring it on. This just shows the world who these people are. I'm surprised they haven't started forcibly sodomizing religious leaders and proponents of Prop 8 yet to make their 'point'. i.e. homosexualist terrorism.
[Army promotes first woman to four-star general]
I find this saddening. Women have been masculinated enough these days because of things like feminism and modernism. By god given nature and law, women are to be humble, quiet, meek, proper, submissive and not try to emit authority over their husbands or others. These types of jobs go against everything in a womans God given maternal instinct and nature and suppresses them unnaturally.
If life does not begin at conception why does Planned Parenthood hand out so many condoms?
[Thread title: California Top Court: Doctors Cannot Withhold Care From Gays]
Another criminal attack against religion by the powers in California
[On the Supreme Court of California ruling that doctors cannot withhold medical treatment from homosexuals]
California is more of a theocracy than it was last week. Only the religion involved is atheism, who are usually the most militant of religious fanatics. These lesbians could have much easier found another clinic, but chose instead to force their religious beliefs on these doctors using the court system in a crazy state. California is the most intolerant state in the country while preaching tolerance to others. That is the real hypocracy.
(On why one-piece swimsuits are appropriate but a two-piece is not)
I heard Jason Evert speak once and he explained that the belly button is the "window to the womb", a most sacred part of a woman's body, and therefore should be protected. He also drew an analogy between the "veil" that protects the Body of Christ in the tabernacle and clothing as a veil for the belly button.
It is our right and duty to disobey "Positive Law" (including judicial rulings) that go against God's Natural law. You may not like it, but it is the truth.
In raising the dead, Jesus proved that evolution is not responsible for all of life on earth. This refutes Darwinian theory. I don't know how Catholics can give such unqualified support for evolution, myself.
Answering the New Atheism is really good. They discuss the flying spaghetti monster, the microscopic orbiting teapot, etc. It focuses on Dawkins worship of chance and how it would be mathematically impossible for random chance to lead to the creation of the universe, planets, suns, life, humans. He doesn't use religious arguments, but logical and scientific ones. He shows that Dawkins worships a god called Chance, and that his worship has no logical basis.
He also shows that, if Random Chance is the creative force in the universe, there is no morality possible. For true atheists, there is no basis upon which to construct a morality other than what is beneficial to you at the moment, or maybe what is beneficial to your tribe or species at the moment.
If his holiness would like to crusade the middle east, he would first need to wage war against liberalism, as the cursed EU wouldn't support a new crusade. We would need to reinvent feudalism and righteous monarchies. The holy inquisition would need to be reestablished.
[On Professor PZ Myers' threat to abuse crackers]
Absolutely sickening. I hope he loses his job.....although somehow I doubt that'll happen. I can only imagine if he had gone on a similiar tirade to offend blacks or homosexuals
[Why is non-religious "gay marriage" not ok?]
The union of two members of the same sex is simply not marriage. To say that it is, leaves the union that marriage has always been without a word to identify it.
If we begin to assign the word “cat” to dogs, we are left without a word to describe that small feline that people have for pets.
Further, changing the name of a thing does not change the nature of what that thing is. A rose by any other name is still a rose. The relationship of two people of the same sex will always be that—regardless of what one calls it. It will never ever be the union of two persons whose individual sexualities complement and complete each other in every way. Only marriage is that. We are talking honesty here. To say that two different things are the same is simply not the truth!
Bush's problem is that he is too respectful of the Constitution.
His predecessors have used Executive Orders to really mess things up. Taking coal deposits out of development and production, for example.
Bush could have, on day two, ordered drilling for oil and gas.
And reveresed the previous executive orders banning coal.
And ordered surplus military bases used for refinery locations.
And issued additional operating licenses for new nuclear electric generating facilities.
AND mandated that all railroads switch to electric power instead of using diesel power.
He could have done those things.
Instead he allowed the Liberal Democrats and Liberal Republicans to tie up the economy in bureaucratic knots.
One of the Ten Commandments forbids stealing and another of the Ten Commandments forbids coveting (envy). Bush allowed the Liberals to use legal manipulations to steal from the people and to get away with envy of people who are productive and produce the things that we all need for our daily existence.
[On Fred Phelps, the famous anti-homosexual activist who protests at funerals]
He doesn't label himself democrat, he VOTES democrat, he DONATES to democrats, he even participates in democrat funding events.
He is not a Christian conservative, he is a homophile coddling liberal democrat pretending to be a Christian conservative.
Catholics should start to go on the offensive, the best way to protect free speech is to demand for the criminalization of all sexual acts outside of marriage, especially sodomy.
Once sodomism and homophilia are criminalized, no one can accuse anyone who opposes homophilia and sodomism of "hate crimes". And these sickos will no longer be able to force their filth on school children.
Homophilia should be criminalized.
I believe it's the rhythms that do it. Rock originates from black areas of America, which originated from tribal beats used in guess what? The stuff of Psalms 95: witchcraft.
We can't blame the black people for those sounds, but that's what they were used for, originally. It got lost in time.
Art moves people. Some move people in very immodest ways. The way the Africans and African-Americans dance is, sorry to say, immodest, but no more immodest than pagan-style dancing of the West or any pre-Christian civilization. Being moved to move as such are the fruits of demonic entertainment. Gregorian chant is the most modest. Classical music is beautiful, but still too immodest for worship as it inspires the wrong sentiments, for lack of a better word, in people.
There's a psychology of music that Satan, and those oppressed understand and the Christian world, and those misguided by the world, has forgotten. Rock stirs up the passions and it's not for the passion of Christ.
Like I said, though, I can't get it out of my system. It does not inspire godly thoughts and movements of the soul and is thus, disruptive to it. That makes it unhealthy. It's nice if young people are fired up for the Pope and the Church but is it because it was made hip? Is it the lite version of rock? Is it yet another compromise with the way of the world? If the glitz was taken away and Catholics were put into camps, will there be any real substance in their souls when it's not fun to be Catholic? I wonder.
There is no beauty in rock itself. God is the creator of beauty; not ugliness, and thus...well, you can guess. Sometimes Alice Cooper can feel like a good stress reducer, but I only feel comforted by beautiful, innocent-sounding sounds like JMT's light stuff, Gregorian chant and Enya.
Well, I guess, being that she has some songs that would seem to be pagan like "Pax Deorum (I think the song is called, which is like "peace of the gods")", beauty can be deceptive, as used also by Satan (as he was beautiful as an angel and can fake it to deceive), but the point is that God creates beauty and not ugliness and so ugly sounds that move the base passions come from guess who?
It must be faced. This is why the stripping of beauty from our churches and from the designs for new ones was far more serious that should not be overlooked as being not a disaster in that it's still tradition with a small "t" and not a heresy. The devil is smarter than us and finds loopholes. I think he found it with rock bands playing Mass music but Christian rock may, in itself, be a Satanic device and confusion for the soul at even papal visits.
Yeah, you guys can leave here if you don't want to be challenged. You could think objectively, though.
[In response to a post arguing for the rationality of atheism]
I would have to disagree with almost everything you have said. First, the Atheist position is self refuting because it has to assume that the universe comes from nothing. This is contrary to reason. It cannot be self existant because the universe passes through time or is in time. This being the case, if the universe (or multiverse) always existed, it would have to pass through an infinite number of "days" to reach this point in time. But you cannot pass through an infinite number of days. No, nature has to have a begining and cannot come from either itself or nothing.
Second, Atheism is not the simpler position. To actually believe that self aware beings came from billions of completely random processes is less simple than the idea that an intelligent being has order the universe and brought self aware beings into existence.
Third, I believe that Atheism creates many more objections than the theistic poistion. I await your response.
I couldn't agree more. I often say that it is more likely that a unicorn is dancing on a rainbow outside of my window than that God does not exist. At least is is rationally possible that such a unicorne exists but that I cannot see him. But it is rationally impossible that God does not exist.
I told my confirmation students that in order to be an honest atheist, one has to remove one's brain, pour it into a blender, turn on the blender, pour it on the ground, let a dog comsume it and barf it up, then pour it back in to his or her head.
[In a thread about why atheists think Christianity is illogical]
Why ask atheists when you can read Hebrews 11:1 and have it from Paul himself?
Don't think 'illogical' is a slur. Not caring about logic is one of Christianity's greatest strengths, and one of the worst things one can do for the faith is to try to justify it through logic.
[[Dee Dee on Native Americans, and why colonization was A-OK while brown people moving north and having babies isn't]]
they didn't have any written language. they didn't even invent the wheel. they didn't have horses or iron or bronze. they were ignorant savages by definition. as were my european ancestors before either rome invaded or they were baptized. they were also human beings who had equal dignity with their european counterparts.
more advanced cultures and religions always win in the end. europeans had the duty to civilize and evangelize ignorant savages as did the apostles when they went to baptize all nations.
[Quote: Since you're so keen on dismissing the original Americans as 'pagans' and therefore somehow unworthy of land rights and properly replaced by God's chosen people the Caucasians, you should be ecstatic that there's an influx of Latino immigrants. They'll Catholic the place right up!]
they didn't have any concept of land ownership because they were nomadic. i hope the mexican immigrants bring their catholicism with them.
[[On the recent controversy in which it was revealed that the movie 'Expelled' contains numerous unlicensed uses of intellectual property, among other plagiaristic exploits. Lennon's 'Imagine' among them. Yeah, Yoko's PISSED.]]
"Flat earth" controversy was a hoax invented by elitist atheists in the 19 th century, i watched that on the ewtn show about the Catholic Church and western civilation.
These "expelled" attackers don't even know their history.
Evolution is similarly a godless ideology being peddled as science, by atheists and secularists who hate God and His Holy Word.
The fossil record alone disproved evolution, and the darwinists are trying to stifle any and all discussion that is detrimental to darwinism/evolution.
Discimination may be good in many instances, i certainly agree, but in this instace it is not because it strifles discussion about the truth, the truth about the fake science that is darwinism.
Now, about the so-called plagerism, let leave that up to the courts, unless of course we can see first hand any evidence of wrongdoing.
But still we should not let any accusations of plagerism distract us from the truth that "expelled" has exposed, the truth that the darwinists are using stalinist tactics in order to cover up the truth and stifle discussion that is destrimental to their phoney science.
Even if you remove all those disputed "animations" the message of expelled is NOT diminished one bit.
My husband and I are very protective of our daughter, I admit that. Last night, she came to me and insisted she wanted to talk to me about our rules. A few she brought up:
1) She isn't allowed to lock the bathroom door. She can close it, and we knock before coming in, but it isn't safe to lock doors.
2) She isn't allowed to go over to her friends' houses. I am just not comfortable letting her go. Who knows who we live around? However, her friends are allowed coming over, and she can have one stay the night.
3) No boys are allowed. She is allowed to have male friends, but they aren't to be at the house, even when my husband and I are home. I know how teenage boys are.
4) She doesn't know her own password to her internet account. She's only to be online when my husband and I are at home, so we can keep watch over what she's doing.
5) She isn't allowed to watch/listen to movies or music unless we check it out beforehand. Even anything rated G. I no longer trust the MPAA.
6) We drive her to school, and we pick her up. She wishes to drive.
7) There is no door to her bedroom. She has a walk in closet, so she dresses in there.
8) No piercings, jewelry, or tattoos, of course! Also, no painted nails.
[[on 'Our Lady of Weight Loss']]
I agree - the anti-Catholic sentiment is getting stronger. But what this tells me is that our Faith and the Church is getting strong and Satan is striking harder. He will never attack what he does not see as a threat. He's not going to attack Joel Olsteen, for example, because good ol' Joel just helps his cause. No - Satan will strike at what is his greatest threat, and that can only be the Bride of Christ - the Catholic Church.
So while it is infuriating, frustrating, and sad on the one hand, I find it encouraging that we are totally pissing off Satan. I say bring it on, you evil bastard, bring it on. Because the gates of hell will not prevail against her, and you will just burn yourself out trying in her glory.
I know it is convenient for an Atheist to claim all sorts of things until they are pinned down intellectually. Then they switch and deny all responsibility. Clearly, Hitler, Stalin, and Mao were Atheists. There has never been a more bloodthirsty trio in history. Before them one must go back to the original modern Atheists and to the end of the eighteenth century and to France. Clearly the twentieth century is the bloodiest century in history and clearly Atheism must take the bulk of the blame for that. That century produced more Christian martyrs than any century in history
I can't even come close to relating to atheism. To accept such a religion I'd be an awfully dangerous man. Nothing would stop me from taking out a few persons....first I'd do the world a favor and behind the scenes be elevated to hero in some cases. The others would just be for gratification and who knows how many children with different mothers I'd have. Steeling...no problem ...someone else claims things to be theirs so why not me....you stuff is mine...don't get in my way or ...well I'll illiminate you....Murder is some manmade word... a thing made up by the haves and the scared. ...you know weak people. It's every man for himself.... and philosophy...fooy on that that's another man made thing that doesn't fit in with the picuture. I'd illiminate them too. Why fear prison...kill them or be killed.
Man a whole new standard of living is developing in me... I better go back to believing in my God or those athiests are going to have to be illiminated. Better back off of that.... The above is rewally true if I fell into that heresy. It's the Father of Lies that convinces those to not believe in God.... Even Satan believes in God.
[[citing the Kaiser study on the efficacy of virginity pledges (http://www.kaisernetwork.org/daily_reports/rep_index.cfm?DR_ID=22603)
99% of teenagers who do not pledge to remain virgins until marriage end up having premarital sex.
88% of teenagers who do pledge to remain virgins until marriage end up having premarital sex.]]
I just have to admit that I think those statistics are at least a little bit wrong. For instance, there is me, and then I can think of at least a dozen or so friends who won't have sex until marriage, and then at least a dozen or so friends who didn't have sex until they got married. Maybe I just hang out with a really obscure group of people? Maybe I happen to be friends with everybody who isn't one of those percent! Scary .
Probably closer to 90% kids who have premarital sex these days. At my school, probably more like 25%, but that's only because we're a really smart private school.
[[OP walked in on his roommate masturbating and wonders what to do about the situation from a Catholic perspective]]
Put up a picture of Jesus in his room, that will definitely get him uneasy, guaranteed.
After saying: "Nobody is required to have gay sex. (In fact, it's difficult to think of a more pointless waste of time.)"
I mean that not only can they not procreate, but what they do has got to be painful and totally not-fun. I think even Torquemada would have rejected such activities in his torture chamber for being "too much."
[Wealthy San Diego hotel owner (and Catholic) Doug Manchester is funding an California ballot initiative to ban same-sex marriage]
If this man is the strong Catholic he claims to be, then he would not offer the shelter of his hotels to same-sex couples and provide an environment in which to accomplish their evil. Therefore, the threatened boycott of these establishments by those with same-sex attractions is very much an empty threat. I, for one, say that such individuals are welcome to move their acts of lewd depravity to the gutter where they belong.
Hey be glad I'm not Pope, if I were, I'd call for a general crusade and then when we'd won, I'd ban Mormonism, and JWism, burn down their meeting halls and execute their leaders
What would be the point of sleeping naked? I can see no point in it at all. And no, I don't think it appropriate. It is immodest as well as undignified. Out of respect for God, one should be properly clothed at all times.
If there was no God, there would be no Atheists.
It's rather interesting, don't you think, that one proof of God's existence are those that deny it?
[[embryos created with DNA from three people]]
Like i said before, these secularist homophile coddling baby-killers are getting more and more demonic every day.
First contraception then abortion then homophilia, then in vitro, then ESCR , after that its making sperm from women and eggs from men, now this.
Its getting more and more demonic every day.
We're all getting a glimpse of what hell is really like.
I've come to the conclusion that there are mainly two types of so-called atheists.
On believes there is God but is just in so much denial that he is hardened to it and fights to keep convincing himself and everyone else that there is none.
The other certainly believes there is God but is simply lying about lack of belief to deceive on behalf of working for Satan.
So I take what they say about their atheism with a big grain of salt.
The point is, people might have thought twice before coming up with garbage if there was some kind of deterrent to heretical nonsense.
Like a hot poker.