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After I suggested this GIf thing I remembered all the animated avatars around here. So.. oops.

I read a Jewish blog and the guy said jestfully that maybe it'd be better if the church went by the kosher laws in developing criteria for the host. But anyway, that's the thing about ritual. It starts out as a means of affirming faith and becomes a stumbling block. On a related note, there...

I hate admitting to my own ignorance, it weakens my appearance when I have to argue, but I can't find squat on the history of Hanifism. There probably simply isn't that much information. I know the four characters in the tradition of Islam -Waraqa Naufal, Ubaydullah Jahsh, Uthman Huwayrith, and...

Yeah, I agree. It cuts both ways, I feel. The criteria of the ritual is loopy and the mother's motivation is screwy. Like I said before, I read in another article about numerous diocese (I think that's the right word) that offered communion with a drop of wine, single drop. But she preferred the...

You sound particularly interesting. Weclome aboard. In my experience here the discussion is frequently slow, but when it takes place its almost always civil, intelligent and often enlightening. Check back often. The old threads are always worth checking.

Huh, be damned if I know. Have you made sure the avatar is the appropriate size? Other than that, there must be an internal error. I just googled it and it seems to be related specifically to avatars. Its the use of gifs, or non-support thereof I'm guessing. Try a jpeg.

LOL Yeah, I hate that most of all. A board will be dead, but then the second I'm booted suddenly the intellectualizing starts.

Re: The heart of Islam is not terror: Yeah, not just that but the IRA never got the media disclaimer of 'we're sure these are just extremists even though a good chunk of the middle east is dancing in the street'. That's not to say I don't think the KKK should be recognized as a Protestant...

Its not just that. The fact it's a rite that stands on falls on gluten. LOL Surely even Baal overlooked the blood of a virgin who got to second base. And I'm not just bashing Catholics here. I've defended Catholicism before. I just really hate dogmatic ritual.

This is an OOOOOOOOOOLD story, but I'm bored. Also, I thought nothing of it until I happened upon a rather big Catholic forum that slammed this poor little girl for not following their insane dogma. Truth be told, she could've just been given a drop of wine and been done with it and her mother...

Re: The heart of Islam is not terror: Moslems need to embrace their self-hating side like the Jews and Christians have. LOL

This might be better in politics. But anyway, I heard today that MAYBE (big big maybe) a couple of the terrorists stood up and objected to the raping and torturing of children and were executed by fellow terrorists. Might just be Stockholm Syndrome. Beslan is unique to Chechen terrorism, in that...

Good answer. By coincidence (hmmm?) I happened to be listening to Bob Dylan's Highway 61 Revisited just now. Oh God said to Abraham, "Kill me a son" Abe says, "Man, you must be puttin' me on" God say, "No." Abe say, "What?" God say, "You can do what you want Abe, but The next time you see me...

Well, I'm out of my place here, but don't JW believe that the 'end' will involve the faithful living immortally... Okay, I'm not even going to bother. But I think if the soul issue were laid aside its a solid argument for the 'Bosom of Abraham' being a metaphor.

No, no. I didn't mean those people. I meant Judaism as messianic, as opposed to, a pre-messianic or secular Judaism. 'Messianic Judaism' is something of an idiom, I guess, in relating to 'Joos fer Jezus'.

LOL Yeah, I dismissed it before as being probably a lost sect of Islam reimagined by American hippies, ala Kabbalah. Then I read this thing on mysticism that included a chapter on Sufism in passing, and rendered all the levels of significance on just one brief farsi parable, presently all the...

I'd love to meet someone who thought it was offensive. I haven't seen it in forever. It definitely changed my life. Python is like a philosophy unto itself.

I actually don't recognize that, so I can't say. Maybe I shouldn't post here. LOL I've been an idiot lately. Can't remember or reason for squat.

I've always had a feeling that messianic Judaism was a more modern conception. As far as I know, there's no theology in any holy writ. Banabrain knows that stuff. As an outsider looking in, I messianic expectation as brand of Jewish apologetics.

Rather than start another thread... I was just recently reading the sufi texts I could find online and.. well, first of all they f**king rock. Secondly, I was struck by how the tradition not only pre-dates Islam (which is impossible in Islamic doctrine, but true nonetheless), but goes as far...