(May 19, 2012 at 11:55 pm)Phil Wrote: I know I asked you this on another forum at another time but have you read your fucking bible? You display (and every post of yours drips with it) an unparalleled ignorance of your own bible not to mention your arrogance and condescending attitude. You do know if there was a Jesus he would vomit lots in his mouth whenever he reads your stupidity.
Have -you- read the entire Bible?
Yes I have read the entire Bible many times (Catholic Bibles too and we have more books than some of the translations I often see on here), as well as the entire CCC and many other pious works by early Christians, Church Fathers/Doctors and religious. I read the books of the Orthodox Deuterocanon as well.
I am genuinely sorry if I sound condescending (I am! ), but um, Jesus himself explicitly rebukes the whole idea of justice being purely about retribution. The parable of the workers in the vineyard fits in well here, and if you mean the "eye for an eye" stuff, well just read Matthew 5 already. I know you already know the one line from it.
I mean, everything I wrote in that post is so straightforward and simple I don't even know what your problem with it is.
Mary Immaculate, star of the morning
Chosen before the creation began
Chosen to bring for your bridal adorning
Woe to the serpent and rescue to man.
Sinners, we honor your sinless perfection;
Fallen and weak, for your pity we plead;
Grand us the shield of your sovereign protection,
Measure your aid by the depth of our need.
Bend from your throne at the voice of our crying,
Bend to this earth which your footsteps have trod;
Stretch out your arms to us, living and dying,
Mary Immaculate, Mother of God.
Chosen before the creation began
Chosen to bring for your bridal adorning
Woe to the serpent and rescue to man.
Sinners, we honor your sinless perfection;
Fallen and weak, for your pity we plead;
Grand us the shield of your sovereign protection,
Measure your aid by the depth of our need.
Bend from your throne at the voice of our crying,
Bend to this earth which your footsteps have trod;
Stretch out your arms to us, living and dying,
Mary Immaculate, Mother of God.
