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 Pope Francis delivers a prayer from the window of his apartment at the Vatican on November 17.
December 5th, 2013
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Vatican unveils commission to combat sexual abuseBy Hada Messia, CNN Rome (CNN)–Pope Francis is creating a commission to prevent the abuse of minors and to support victims of abuse, Cardinal Sean Patrick O'Malley announced Thursday in Rome. The new commission is expected to tell church officials to collaborate with civil authorities and report cases of abuse, O'Malley said. But he also said that the church has focused on the judicial aspect of sexual abuse in the past, and that Pope Francis now wants to focus on the pastoral side, and caring for victims. FULL STORY
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Prayer changes things,
God wasn't healthy for all the children he KILLED in the flood. Same for MILLIONS of "other living things".
Oooops.
... and in related news, the foxes are forming a commission to discuss protection of chickens.
Everyone is welcome to visit ...
http://www.thetreasureofzion.com
Prelatures with no accountability or oversight foster and cultivate a spirit within the Church that allows this sort of thing to happen.
Well it does not look like the change is coming soon !
ACLU Sues, Claiming Catholic Hospitals Put Women At Risk
by
December 02, 2013 4:42 PM
http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2013/12/02/248243411/aclu-sues-u-s-bishops-says-catholic-hospital-rules-put-women-at-risk
And an entire conversation – where no one violated the TOS – disappears. It would be interesting to know why.
Agree
Vatican refuses to give UN panel full details of clerical se-x abuse cases
Holy See angers campaigners by not disclosing information requested by UN committee on the rights of the child
Lizzy Davies in Rome
theguardian.com, Wednesday 4 December 2013 19.29 GMT
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/04/vatican-refuses-un-panel-details-clerical-se-x-abuse-cases?CMP=twt_fd
I guess douglas and devin couldn't handle the questions.
The simple math was to much for Douglas maybe or the LIST of pedo prests set Douglas off ?
No telling exactly what will trigger a delusional to suddenly vanish – the holes in their belief system are numerous and large.
The brain sometimes I wounder if douglas can use it ?
Open Access Peer-Reviewed
Research Article
MicroRNA-Driven Developmental Remodeling in the Brain Distinguishes Humans from Other Primates
http://www.plosbiology.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pbio.1001214
Again, money wasted as the "vomit-inducing" ped-ophilia and coverup will simply hasten the decline of all religions as they finally go extinct from their own absurdity.. It is time to replace all religions with a few rules like "Do No Harm" and convert all houses of "worthless worship" to recreation facilities and parks.
And for the new members:
Putting the kibosh on all religion in less than ten seconds: Priceless !!!
• As far as one knows or can tell, there was no Abraham i.e. the foundations of Judaism, Christianity and Islam are non-existent.
• As far as one knows or can tell, there was no Moses i.e the pillars of Judaism, Christianity and Islam have no strength of purpose.
• There was no Gabriel i.e. Islam fails as a religion. Christianity partially fails.
• There was no Easter i.e. Christianity completely fails as a religion.
• There was no Moroni i.e. Mormonism is nothing more than a business cult.
• Sacred/revered cows, monkey gods, castes, reincarnations and therefore Hinduism fails as a religion.
• Fat Buddhas here, skinny Buddhas there, reincarnated/reborn Buddhas everywhere makes for a no on Buddhism.
• A constant cycle of reincarnation until enlightenment is reached and belief that various beings (angels?, tinkerbells? etc.) exist that we, as mortals, cannot comprehend makes for a no on Sikhism.
Added details available upon written request.
Again, money wasted as the "vomit-inducing" ped-ophilia and coverup will simply hasten the decline of all religions as they finally go extinct from their own absurdity.. It is time to replace all religions with a few rules like "Do No Harm" and convert all houses of "worthless worship" to recreation facilities and parks.
your muse is with you this evening Apple. 🙂
It is my bunny Daisy.
Learn more about bunnies at: http://www.wikipoops.com
Aww, come on, J-Dub – get some spirit in your belly!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95LVthJfDzY
Stupid religion but a very competent choir.
For contrast, a slow number. The man directing in this one I believe is Mack Wilberg who has arranged pieces for years now for the 360-member choir and the 110-member orchestra – both completely volunteer.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_B1cRa6O2o8
Wouldn’t it be a miracle if one day, perhaps in my lifetime, humans turned their back on the past and became the one incarnation of the species Homo sapiens to accept that there is no god and pour their intelligence and resources into the discovery of reality? If a miracle like that happened I would thank…...oh shit.
@ Apple Bush: I do enjoy the honest irony of this comment, AB.
Worthy of consideration on this notion: Ernest Becker's pulitzer prize winning book "The Denial of Death" – about how we are the first society in history to attempt to derive all of our meaning in this life (a functional lack of belief in the afterlife)... placing a weight on life too heavy to bear.
I have not read that book. It will be my next read, thanks.
Jesus has been disabled since he rose from the dead carrying with him the burden of the sins of every human soul, past, present and future. Sins that He, indeed, created to begin with and must have been pondering the wisdom of that choice about the time the miserable world he created was becoming all he would ever know. For he had sacrificed himself and accepted this unfortunate fate.
There is a reverse side to reality; I can see it in my feverish dreams
The power of the anti-world is as frightening to me as a gun to my temple; exciting and dangerous
So many possibilities yet so few people willing to climb out from the tall grass to embrace the magnificence of being conscious
Hiding behind fantasies rather than breathing in the thick air of strangeness
I believe that two universes collided in the big bang. It wasn’t the creation of a new universe, it was the explosion of two universes touching one another. That is why there are Christians. They come from another, less intelligent universe that mingles with ours.
Strangely, many have mistaken the soul "entering" the body with that of the soul "leaving" the body. Ensoulment takes place at death when you are made into a god part. You see, God is a collective. Many soulganisms are entwined to create a powerful deity.
The Pope drops a hand grenade into a sea of Catholics and then watches their dead bodies float to the surface. A sturdy net gathers in today’s catch and dinner is assured. Once we have the wine (both a red and a white) we can eat. A good chef can cook on a hot plate.
The gravy is red and viscous with a sickening sweet aroma that arouses the Pope and his cronies. Mouths watering at the ready, the meal is prepared and the nightly feast of the masses can begin, but first a prayer...
Why does god need human beings to spread his word? This is a being that can simultaneously watch, hear or ignore any number of a quadrillion trillion trillion living or inanimate things throughout the universe. This is the all-powerful creator who provided every rule under which we understand our universe. All technology flows from him, yet he can't tell us himself to behave?
Welcome to the disturbing memories of one pope, he of the triple chin and the great gatherer of people in the light of the spirit. He who dreams of fire and damnation yet smiles a happy smile and embraces the physically deformed with his own special brand of charisma and caring.
Touch his robes and cry into them, soiling them with the true nature of your heart and begging for forgiveness from he who cannot be flawed. Do this with all of your being and say unto yourself save me Lord. Help me Franny.
Do not however touch the tip of the tip top of his pointy tip top hat or ask to bum a cigarette from the Pope. Even a bar bouncer frowns on such behavior and the confessional can be used for many things.
Mary is the mother of God. God is the father of God. Mary therefore had incest with her own son before he was born.
God sits at the right hand of himself.
God created sin, and then died for our sins so we could go to heaven. If God did not create sin, the rest of the bizarre story would not exist as there would be no sin to be concerned about. So this begs the question, why did God saddle unborn babies with sin that He invented in the first place? Then die for those sins even though God can't die?
Christians are weird.
"God sits at the right hand of himself. "
That must be awful, being completely alone.
Not at all, he is the son of himself plus he has a ghost to keep him company.
No true Scotsman: proving religion is divisive as hell.
I am a true Scotsman.
Ah, but you are not a true religionite.
Is "religionite" a word?
Not officially, no. I use that and goddite.
It's all good.
Gotcha. Good words.