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RE: What's the most face-palm-worthy statement you have ever heard from a priest/preacher
August 25, 2015 at 8:00 am
(August 24, 2015 at 11:41 pm)Lemonvariable72 Wrote: (August 24, 2015 at 9:51 pm)Randy Carson Wrote: How many people live in Canada?
How much money does Canada spend on its national defense every year?
Do Canadians benefit from living under the blanket of protection provided by the world's leading military superpower without paying a dime for it?
Has it really been 22 years since a Canadian team won that hockey trophy cup thingie?
If you think Canadians don't pay at all for American military your wrong. We are the source of nearly all of your: Uranium, Nickel, potash, and home heating oil. All those nukes you have? Uranium was Canadian. With a little from the Colorado river. I would not be surprised if even some of the gold in fort Knox was Canadian. So do say we get your help without paying a dime.
To answer your other questions. 34 million, the federal defense budget is at 1% of GDP ( a bit low. I feel it should be around 2-3%) and actually but around half of the total players in the NHL are canadian (I think)
That puts you at #12 on this list in terms of GDP but far behind the US in terms of dollars because your economy is much smaller. We spent $571 Billion in 2014.
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RE: What's the most face-palm-worthy statement you have ever heard from a priest/preacher
August 25, 2015 at 10:15 am
(August 25, 2015 at 8:00 am)Randy Carson Wrote: (August 24, 2015 at 11:41 pm)Lemonvariable72 Wrote: If you think Canadians don't pay at all for American military your wrong. We are the source of nearly all of your: Uranium, Nickel, potash, and home heating oil. All those nukes you have? Uranium was Canadian. With a little from the Colorado river. I would not be surprised if even some of the gold in fort Knox was Canadian. So do say we get your help without paying a dime.
To answer your other questions. 34 million, the federal defense budget is at 1% of GDP ( a bit low. I feel it should be around 2-3%) and actually but around half of the total players in the NHL are canadian (I think)
That puts you at #12 on this list in terms of GDP but far behind the US in terms of dollars because your economy is much smaller. We spent $571 Billion in 2014.
Sleep well.
Yeah you guys have the opposite problem to us. Where we need to spend more, especially on the Navy, your guys spending is simply out of control and needs to be reigned in a little. Of course simply changing your foreign policy to something less aggressive and getting rid of all the foreign bases except Korea and Afghanistan would go along way in that direction.
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RE: What's the most face-palm-worthy statement you have ever heard from a priest/preacher
August 25, 2015 at 10:25 am
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Let me get this straight:
# According to God,if he decides to select a person should enter priesthood he would give them '"the calling".
# Christians know they should practice priesthood if and only if they get "the calling".
# Some Christians,even after knowing this,practice priesthood because of other reasons.
Wouldn't it be fair to say that these Christians are dishonest Christians? Or is there a categorization of priests that did get "the calling" and those of them that didn't get "the calling"?
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RE: What's the most face-palm-worthy statement you have ever heard from a priest/preacher
August 25, 2015 at 12:34 pm
(August 25, 2015 at 10:25 am)pool Wrote: Let me get this straight:
# According to God,if he decides to select a person should enter priesthood he would give them '"the calling".
# Christians know they should practice priesthood if and only if they get "the calling".
# Some Christians,even after knowing this,practice priesthood because of other reasons.
Wouldn't it be fair to say that these Christians are dishonest Christians? Or is there a categorization of priests that did get "the calling" and those of them that didn't get "the calling"?
1. I guess to a follower they would believe were chosen so yes.
2. If they think they got the "calling" then yes.
3. Tv evangelists would say otherwise  you know money and such. After all a "christian" con artist is out of jail now after serving his time and
guess what fucker didn't learn his lesson.
It seems like a legitimate thing to say yes they are dishonest. Think about all the catholic priests who get the "calling". 
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RE: What's the most face-palm-worthy statement you have ever heard from a priest/preacher
August 25, 2015 at 1:32 pm
A question for the Christians
# How can you be sure that there are fake priests? After all,you are making blatant assumptions about a person,aren't you?Has any priest specifically,actually told you that they didn't get "the calling" and are in fact a faker/impostor? If not,how can you actually,honestly,clearly know?
What if you are making blatant assumptions on a real priest and God is getting angry at you as every minute passes by?
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RE: What's the most face-palm-worthy statement you have ever heard from a priest/preacher
August 25, 2015 at 1:35 pm
(August 20, 2015 at 7:19 am)Stimbo Wrote: Re: "smaller per capita percentage of Catholic priests who have violated that trust"
It's not much of a selling point, to be honest. "The Catholic Church - fewer child rapists than you might expect."
The point is that in an organisation that preaches against sin and the corruption of modern society, there shouldn't be any.
And even if there are a few, the Catholic Church shouldn't be hiding them. But they do.
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RE: What's the most face-palm-worthy statement you have ever heard from a priest/preacher
August 28, 2015 at 9:33 pm
(August 25, 2015 at 10:25 am)pool Wrote: Let me get this straight:
# According to God,if he decides to select a person should enter priesthood he would give them '"the calling".
# Christians know they should practice priesthood if and only if they get "the calling".
# Some Christians,even after knowing this,practice priesthood because of other reasons.
Wouldn't it be fair to say that these Christians are dishonest Christians? Or is there a categorization of priests that did get "the calling" and those of them that didn't get "the calling"?
Wouldn't it be more fair to say that people can be mistaken in their belief that they have a vocation without realizing the ACTUAL reason(s) that may be motivating them to consider the priesthood?
I was a candidate at a Trappist monastery for five years. I was not sure that I had a vocation, but I was seriously interested in the monastic life. In the end, I gave it a try, discerned that I was not called to that life, and moved on.
Your post implies duplicity and dishonesty which I don't believe are present in most men who desire the priesthood.
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RE: What's the most face-palm-worthy statement you have ever heard from a priest/preacher
August 28, 2015 at 9:37 pm
(August 25, 2015 at 1:32 pm)pool Wrote: A question for the Christians
# How can you be sure that there are fake priests? After all,you are making blatant assumptions about a person,aren't you?Has any priest specifically,actually told you that they didn't get "the calling" and are in fact a faker/impostor? If not,how can you actually,honestly,clearly know?
What if you are making blatant assumptions on a real priest and God is getting angry at you as every minute passes by?
There are no fake priests. Once a man has been ordained, the sacrament leaves an "indelible mark" on the soul of the person who is forevermore a priest.
However, I suspect that there are men who did not have genuine vocations, attended seminary and got ordained. Some of them leave the priesthood, others struggle, and some may do quite well.
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RE: What's the most face-palm-worthy statement you have ever heard from a priest/preacher
August 28, 2015 at 9:50 pm
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(August 28, 2015 at 9:37 pm)Randy Carson Wrote: There are no fake priests. Once a man has been ordained, the sacrament leaves an "indelible mark" on the soul of the person who is forevermore a priest.
So what does that mark do? If he fails the requirements of his vocation. You see, you're making a supernatural claim. Without going into the discussion about pedophile priests again, since there are many ways to fail what catholics call a vocation. What does it do, besides being a claim? What are the real life conseuquences of failing?
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RE: What's the most face-palm-worthy statement you have ever heard from a priest/preacher
August 28, 2015 at 11:36 pm
(August 28, 2015 at 9:37 pm)Randy Carson Wrote: (August 25, 2015 at 1:32 pm)pool Wrote: A question for the Christians
# How can you be sure that there are fake priests? After all,you are making blatant assumptions about a person,aren't you?Has any priest specifically,actually told you that they didn't get "the calling" and are in fact a faker/impostor? If not,how can you actually,honestly,clearly know?
What if you are making blatant assumptions on a real priest and God is getting angry at you as every minute passes by?
There are no fake priests. Once a man has been ordained, the sacrament leaves an "indelible mark" on the soul of the person who is forevermore a priest.
However, I suspect that there are men who did not have genuine vocations, attended seminary and got ordained. Some of them leave the priesthood, others struggle, and some may do quite well.
How many priests you know have told you that they entered priesthood without receiving The Calling?
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