That's the onion, right @GasBandit?
Funny Pictures Thread. It begins again
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GasBandit
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The difference is, I only had to search the word "Huxley," no user limitation, and was presented with a very short list of possibilities.
GasBandit
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Lark News, which wishes it was the onion.
I was just making sure it was fake lol
This might be true, but I'll never know, because every time I start to read Atwood, I discover I'm tying myself a noose unconsciously.
Fixed.
"So tell me, where did you get so good at locks?"
"Yale"
"Interesting. And your name?"
"Yohnny Yohnson."
--Patrick
This hits close to home. I spent way to much time growing up having to explain to Baptists that Catholics are in fact Christians.
I twisted one Baptist's noodle at a Fellowship of Christian Athletes convention. We were in a small prayer group doing introductions. I tell the group that I am Catholic and then he said, "I was told that Catholics are not Christian." I replied "Who do you think wrote the book?"[DOUBLEPOST=1414791786,1414791547][/DOUBLEPOST]This college kid got a summer job with an oil field company. The Tool Pusher (boss) played the prank on him to go buy some striped paint. The kid hopped in his car and sped off. He did not return for the rest of the day.
But he did return on the first of September demanding his back pay for the three months, plus gas and expenses. "I looked all over and could not find any striped paint."
GasBandit
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When I worked in larger IT depts, I used to enjoy sending new guys to the supply dept for some more "I.D. 10 T" cables.
Anyway, here's the scariest costume, for adults.
6:45 pm call from the daycare center. Did you forget something today?
As I tech I used the ID 10 T form line countless times. Always entertaining.
My favorite however was instructing new trainees to return to truck and go get my metric crescent wrench.
I've met a number of Christians who have been taught that Catholics aren't Christian, primarily because they don't believe in the Resurrection (which... they do).
But as for that girl, being in grade eight and saying she identifies as Catholic instead of Christian really isn't that stupid... In fact, pretty much every time someone tells me about this "stupid" person they knew in high school, I am certain that they held a belief at least as ludicrous as the person they're making fun of. Teenagers are supposed to be ignorant and yet full of conviction.
One of the big issues is that most denominations of Christianity preach that they and only they are right and the other branches are heretics. You ask a Baptist, Episcopalian, or Lutheran if a Catholic is a Christian and most are going to say no, if only because we have a Pope.
To put it simply, they don't completely dismiss the other denominations completely and admit that it's possible for members of these faiths to find salvation through these churches, but that they are not "proper churches" because they are not descended from the apostles but rather break away groups that objected to one thing or another.The historical teaching of the Roman Catholic Church was "Extra Ecclesiam nulla salus" (Outside the church, there is no salvation). That is, for a person to be saved -- and avoid Hell -- it is absolutely necessary that they be subject to the Pope. All Muslims, Buddhists, Hindus, and followers of other non-Christian religions were destined for Hell. All members of Protestant, Anabaptist, Mormon, and other Christian denominations were headed there as well.
This position was moderated significantly by two documents written in the late 20th century:
The "Second Vatican Council's Declaration on the relation of the Church to non-Christian religions" issued in 1976
"Dominus Iesus" written by Pope Benedict XVI in the year 2000 when, as Cardinal Ratzinger, he was the Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.
These documents state that Jesus created only a single church, now comprising the Roman Catholic Church together with a number of other Churches that also share a valid Eucharist and Apostolic Succession: 1 [Apostolic succession is the belief held by some Christian denominations that their current bishops have spiritual and ecclesiastical authority that can be traced by an unbroken chain of proper ordinations back to the Apostles, and thus to Christ, in the first century CE.] Roman Catholics recognize the validity of the apostolic successions of their bishops, and therefore the rest of their clergy, as well as the clergy of the Eastern Orthodox Churches. Wikipedia also lists other churches whose apostolic succession is recognized by the Roman Catholic Church:
We are attempting to find a complete authoritative list.
- Oriental Orthodox,
- Assyrian,
- Old Catholic, and
- some Independent Catholic Churches. 2
The Roman Catholic Church teaches that all other Christian denominations to not feature Apostolic Succession, and thus are not "proper" churches; they are viewed as suffering from "defects." Religions other than Christianity are considered to be "gravely deficient." Their rituals can constitute "an obstacle to salvation" for their followers. Still, the Catholic Church now recognizes that it is possible for some individuals who are not members of churches that have maintained apostolic succession to attain Heaven. 3,4
