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16 years ago @ Big Hollywood - Honoring September 11t... · 6 replies · -4 points

Well, I cannot help but admire your admission of your racism. That is a very good beginning.

16 years ago @ Big Hollywood - Honoring September 11t... · 3 replies · -3 points

OK, specifically and objectively prove-ably, what in the content of his character?

16 years ago @ Big Hollywood - Honoring September 11t... · 4 replies · -3 points

Please help me understand what your use and capitalization of the word IDIOT adds to any discourse.

16 years ago @ Big Hollywood - Honoring September 11t... · 0 replies · -2 points

It certainly is very sad and depressing that 279 soldiers have been killed during President Obama"s administration. It is also very sad and depressing that 4,469 were killed during President Bush's administration.

16 years ago @ Big Hollywood - Honoring September 11t... · 0 replies · -3 points

Well, I am reading your comment, and it doesn't advance my understanding one bit. Show me the substance, please.

16 years ago @ Big Hollywood - LIES · 1 reply · -2 points

Chip on my shoulder? Maybe. I do resent that mudslinging and name calling have replaced civil discourse and honest debate. But I think mine is the mildest comment on the whole blog. I see no revealing of truth here--from either side. Rather, only name calling and vindictive. But perhaps there are comments that have truth rather than mere insult. If so, show them to me, please.

16 years ago @ Big Hollywood - LIES · 2 replies · +2 points

Please--give me three facts. Not opinions, facts.

16 years ago @ Big Hollywood - LIES · 3 replies · -2 points

The only thing I read in this blog and these comments, no matter the point of view of the writer, is meanness. Name calling and insult are the weapon of the factless. How can either convince anyone of anything aside from the meanness of the writer?

16 years ago @ Atheist Revolution - \"Then What Do You Bel... · 1 reply · +1 points

I was raised Catholic, and came to a point where absolutely everything was stripped away--possessions, beliefs, esteem, desire to survive--everything. I call it the electromagnetic theory of spiritual development. When we are born, the magnet is activated. Everything we experience, hear, are told, etc. indiscriminately clumps on to us. Then comes a time that by circumstance, illness, trauma, death of a loved one or such, the plug gets pulled. Everything drops off, and we see it all laid before us. Then we make choices. What will I reclaim? What can stay away? Who do I chose to be?

In my own process, I examined every aspect of the faith I had inherited. Much did not fit. Much did. I found that when it came to the bare essentials, I had little problem believing. When it got too fleshed out--that was a problem, but had nothing to do with the essentials, as expressed in various credal statements. I know that if it did not fit and did not appeal to reason, it would not be reclaimed. Also, I came to believe that many people had ben deeply hurt by Catholicism as they experienced it, and felt that I could help them heal as a priest. That's a start, i hope, to responding.

16 years ago @ Atheist Revolution - \"Then What Do You Bel... · 1 reply · +4 points

I trust you are joking!

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