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Aug. 11th, 2003 11:41 amHeeeeeeeeeeeh, my superhero name would be The Cavalier Architect! Or The Infinite Fencer, alternatively. I like that!
Aug. 11th, 2003
*seethes* Okay, okay, I know I shouldn't read LJ communities where religious nuts interact, especially Catholic religious nuts, but I did and now I feel my stomach jump and turn in an effort not to post a reply to these totally uneducated posts and tell them what I think of them!
Just some corkers in response to that whole business with a gay Episcopal Bishop: [my comments in brackets]
"I find myself spending far more time worrying about things like helping the poor and feeding children, than judging or worrying about homosexuality. That's up to God, not Pilar. I just think of that phrase, "whatever you do to the least of my people, you do to me."" [Erm, my dictionary says Pilar means "Of, relating to, or covered with hair". Did I miss something?]
"Best way to help homosexuals is not to ignore them, but realize they have a problem. Have the guts to admit that its a problem, and try to find ways to help them." [and sometimes even methadone is said to help! Oh wait, that's the wrong problem...]
Found here
My favorite guy is the one who's a "formally bi-sexual man" but has "been delivered from the lusts that used to plague [him]". He's also the same guy who writes in his Userinfo that he's "very open minded", but he also says "I'm conservative. I was once liberal. I am not anymore. The Green Party annoys me. PETA really irritates me. One day, I shall lead a meat-eating protest in front of one of their offices. I wouldn't eat animals if God didn't fill them full of meat." So, he did not only get cured of homosexuality, but also liberalism and evil vegetarianism. That sure is one lucky guy....
Oh well, I was gonna quote and rant more, but this is wearing me out. Sherlock Holmes is waiting. Read the rest here.
Just some corkers in response to that whole business with a gay Episcopal Bishop: [my comments in brackets]
"I find myself spending far more time worrying about things like helping the poor and feeding children, than judging or worrying about homosexuality. That's up to God, not Pilar. I just think of that phrase, "whatever you do to the least of my people, you do to me."" [Erm, my dictionary says Pilar means "Of, relating to, or covered with hair". Did I miss something?]
"Best way to help homosexuals is not to ignore them, but realize they have a problem. Have the guts to admit that its a problem, and try to find ways to help them." [and sometimes even methadone is said to help! Oh wait, that's the wrong problem...]
Found here
My favorite guy is the one who's a "formally bi-sexual man" but has "been delivered from the lusts that used to plague [him]". He's also the same guy who writes in his Userinfo that he's "very open minded", but he also says "I'm conservative. I was once liberal. I am not anymore. The Green Party annoys me. PETA really irritates me. One day, I shall lead a meat-eating protest in front of one of their offices. I wouldn't eat animals if God didn't fill them full of meat." So, he did not only get cured of homosexuality, but also liberalism and evil vegetarianism. That sure is one lucky guy....
Oh well, I was gonna quote and rant more, but this is wearing me out. Sherlock Holmes is waiting. Read the rest here.
Sherlock quotes!
Aug. 11th, 2003 01:06 pm"What a lovely thing a rose is!"
He walked past the couch to the open window and held up the drooping stalk of a moss-rose, looking down at the dainty blend of crimson and green. It was a new phase of his character to me, for I had never before seen him show any keen interest in natural objects.
"There is nothing in which deduction is so necessary as in religion," said he, leaning with his back against the shutters. "It can be built up as an exact science by the reasoner. Our highest assurance of the goodness of Providence seems to me to rest in the flowers. All other things, our powers, our desires, our food, are all really necessary for our existence in the first instance. But this rose is an extra. Its smell and its colour are an embellishment of life, not a condition of it. It is only goodness which gives extras, and so I say again that we have much to hope from the flowers."
He walked past the couch to the open window and held up the drooping stalk of a moss-rose, looking down at the dainty blend of crimson and green. It was a new phase of his character to me, for I had never before seen him show any keen interest in natural objects.
"There is nothing in which deduction is so necessary as in religion," said he, leaning with his back against the shutters. "It can be built up as an exact science by the reasoner. Our highest assurance of the goodness of Providence seems to me to rest in the flowers. All other things, our powers, our desires, our food, are all really necessary for our existence in the first instance. But this rose is an extra. Its smell and its colour are an embellishment of life, not a condition of it. It is only goodness which gives extras, and so I say again that we have much to hope from the flowers."
Sherlock Holmes in The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, "The Naval Treaty"