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I was planning to write something similar based on this story:
Police Arrest Peace Movement Protester Who Slapped Woman Journalist
- but you did a good job of it.
Many of them think they are so civilized, but they are far from it.
They are like a cat that walked through a spider web and sits there looking haughty, not realizing it is covered in cobwebs and dirt.
Thanks NewsBlaze, i will be writing about that very topic tomorrow and will make sure to link to the Newsblaze piece.
Hypothetical: If I had been there, the "blood" on the one punk would have been real. It would have been his after I thrashed him severly about the head and shoulders.
I know. They are very lucky that the people there were not harsher, then again, in a church, many wouldn't have resorted to their level.
some one should ask these fools what it would be like if someone did this in a mosque, the blood would have been real and theres do doubt.
I'd like to what liberal schools these punks go to.That way Ican make sure my daughter doesn't go there
If there were to be justice, one needs to balance the five (+++) years of discomfort experienced by the people of Iraq against the discomfort of a small congregation at Sunday mass. While I deplore causing discomfort to Cathedral worshipers, I do not agree with the statement of the archdiocese on this matter. www.archchicago.org
Each of us must worship God out of the truth of our being. This fifth anniversary of war is at least as horrendous as selling pigeons in the temple when Jesus voiced protest and performed guerilla actions.
These young people should not be condemned by all people of faith and good will. Freedom to worship God should be inviolable. Their actions to honor a God of Peace for all people in Iraq and elsewhere needs to be upheld.
Their charges need to be reduced to misdemeanor and their fund-raising events for legal fees supported.
I am saddened that the officials of the archdiocese cannot support their own church's teachings on this unjust war. Had they been more visibly involved in the local anti-war efforts, they might have been spared this momentary annoyance while the people of Iraq are occupied by troops funded with their monies and the lives of their own young people.
should not be censured for worshiping a life giving God
The problem Zelda is just because your "opinion" that it is an unjust war" is as such, does not make it so.
The church is taking the appropriate action and who are you to tell them how they are to act?
May I politely respond.
On the Vatican website I read
"War is never just another means that one can choose to employ for settling differences between nations. As the Charter of the United Nations Organization and international law itself remind us, war cannot be decided upon, even when it is a matter of ensuring the common good, except as the very last option and in accordance with very strict conditions, without ignoring the consequences for the civilian population both during and after the military operations" (Address of Pope John Paul II to the Diplomatic Corps, 13 January 2003).
When you say the church is taking appropriate action I am curious how you define church. Canon Law speaks of the church being the people of God. I believe that the role of the people of God is to remind the institutional officials of the behaviors of Jesus.
Thanks for such an engaging and thoughtful conversation.
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