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Deteriorata posted:Faith is not a purely intellectual enterprise. You cannot learn or reason your way into faith. You can learn a lot about religion, but faith itself is something you have to feel. "That's the thing about faith. If you don't have it, you can't understand it. And if you do, no explanation is necessary." -Kira Nerys
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zonohedron posted:A little of column A, a little of column B, some things that are yet to happen, and some things that have already happened - the woman whose son was caught up to Heaven, who fled into the desert, was Mary (and is the Church), for example. My favorite way to deliberately misinterpret Revelation is asserting that the woman with "with the moon under her feet" is obviously an astronaut on the lunar surface, so we don't need to worry about any of these events coming to pass until we have a good-sized moon base and someone gives birth up there.
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Oh yeah? Well I'm a direct female-line descendant of Mitochondrial Eve, a line going back some 200,000 years.  (Oh course, so is absolutely everyone, since that's kind of how the term is defined, but hey, I'll take my braggadocio where I can get it.)
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It seems a Catholic priest in Arizona has been making an error in doctrinal form, and accidentally performing invalid baptisms for 20 years. It hit the news last night: Oopsie. Full story: https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/14/us/pastor-invalid-baptisms-resignation/index.html FAQ by the Diocese of Phoenix about the situation: https://dphx.org/valid-baptisms/#FAQ
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Cyrano4747 posted:Bolding is in the original, they really want you to know that your confirmations and marriages are also null. And let's not even discuss all those deceased loved ones, who have now been retconned to have died "unbaptized".
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D34THROW posted:
If this sort of thing is a genuine concern, then you'd think that somewhere near the end of the ordination process, they'd quickly re-apply all these previous steps. Belt and suspenders, just to cover their sacramental butts in case of an undetected error somewhere years ago. Or hey, maybe even encourage laypeople to get another coat of baptismal waters applied, just in case.
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Feb 15, 2022 18:46
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Cyrano4747 posted:I've known a couple who still abide by the caffeine issue, and rationalize it as being a stimulant. Same way they don't like tobacco. Don't let them find out about caffeinated water! 
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Keromaru5 posted:I am very much in favor of DS9 talk in this thread. I'm in the process of watching the other 1990s space station show for the first time. And I have to say, Babylon 5 has even more to say on the topic of religion than Deep Space Nine does. Here, have a discussion on faith between a couple of Minbari and a Catholic monk, from the episode Passing Through Gethsemane: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJfbSPZ9wu4
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Apr 18, 2022 23:19
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Arsenic Lupin posted:a community that is focused on "fast* all the time Instructions unclear, ended up postulated to the Order of St. Sonic. 
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A religious discussion (particularly among those of us who grew up Catholic and those who are curious about what it was like) has sprung up in an unlikely place: the newspaper comic strip thread in BSS. It began here:Haifisch posted:Mexikid Stories The discussion might be interesting to readers of this thread, and there may even be some questions coming here from there. The conclusion to the comic's storyline should be coming tomorrow.
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