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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
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 Posted - 12/01/2008 : 04:31:29
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Same old, same old, really: "If you voted for Obama, you gotta 'fess up and do some sort of silly penance or Mary & her delinquent kid are gonna be pissed!" Or something like that. A California pastor told his parishioners to attend confessional if they had voted for President-elect Barack Obama because of his stance on abortion, the McClatchy Tribune reported.
The Rev. Joseph Illo, pastor of St. Joseph Catholic Church in Modesto, Calif., said voting for a pro-choice candidate amounted to a punishable sin.
“If you are one of the 54 percent of Catholics who voted for a pro-abortion candidate, you were clear on his position and you knew the gravity of the question, I urge you to go to confession before receiving communion. Don't risk losing your state of grace by receiving sacrilegiously,” Illo wrote in a letter dated Nov. 21.
Illo sent the letter to more than 15,000 members of his parish, one of 34 parishes in the Stockton diocese.
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No! Can not has jebus cracker! 
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"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude
Brother Boot Knife of Warm Humanitarianism,
and Crypto-Communist! 
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Simon
SFN Regular
USA
1992 Posts |
Posted - 12/01/2008 : 09:59:33 [Permalink]
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| It is funny, because it is a purely American phenomenon. People outside the borders, and that include the majority of the Catholic hierarchy, supported the candidate... |
Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there – on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
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River Otter
Skeptic Friend
USA
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Posted - 12/20/2008 : 20:09:54 [Permalink]
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| Awwh, poor American Catholic loosers. The are having to resort to punishing there followers for the "Freewill" their god gave them. Not to mention the good sense that comes natural. I hate religion. |
I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know. -Cicero
Brother, You say there is but one way to worship and serve the Great Spirit. If there is but one religion, why do you white people differ so much about it? Why not all agree, as you can all read the book. -Sagoyewatha,(Red Jacket) - Chief and great orator of the six nations. |
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H. Humbert
SFN Die Hard
USA
4574 Posts |
 Posted - 12/20/2008 : 20:50:12 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by River Otter
Awwh, poor American Catholic loosers. The are having to resort to punishing there followers for the "Freewill" their god gave them. Not to mention the good sense that comes natural. I hate religion.
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 River Otter, I think I like you already. Welcome to SFN.
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"A man is his own easiest dupe, for what he wishes to be true he generally believes to be true." --Demosthenes
"The first principle is that you must not fool yourself - and you are the easiest person to fool." --Richard P. Feynman
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Simon
SFN Regular
USA
1992 Posts |
Posted - 12/21/2008 : 07:40:54 [Permalink]
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| Indeed, welcome! |
Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there – on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
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tomk80
SFN Regular
Netherlands
1278 Posts |
Posted - 12/22/2008 : 01:58:10 [Permalink]
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| Does that mean that voters for Bush also have to attend confessional if they voted for Bush, given the Vaticans opposition against the Irak war? |
Tom
`Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, `if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic.'
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Hittman
Skeptic Friend
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Posted - 12/22/2008 : 11:37:22 [Permalink]
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| It would be more appropriate if voters for Bush had to attend a fundy service where they'd be handed a poisonous snake, and then have to go quail hunting with Cheany. |
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
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Posted - 12/22/2008 : 13:24:05 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by tomk80
Does that mean that voters for Bush also have to attend confessional if they voted for Bush, given the Vaticans opposition against the Irak war?
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Ah, but Iraq's merely a war with hundreds of thousands of men, women, and children slaughtered and maimed. That's a minor sin, like priestly pedophilia, worth a passing homily, no more. Nothing much compared the horrid sin of a woman not taking a fetus to term. The Vatican has our moral priorities all sorted out for us.
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“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
Here's a link to Moonscape News, and one to its Archive. |
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Another Catholic horse's ass... There are so many!
