Lent

[Deleted User 14935]

It’s all what you want to and need to believe in, But don’t say or make a claim that all Catholics are phonies, Turkey you’re a Canadian, I could say all Canadians are phonies but I don’t. There are many who are great people my Wife is from Windsor, So for you to say in your statement that you will dab some shoe polish on your forehead to be like us Catholic phonies is just Stupid Talk.

[stopnswop2]

That's a shame

A shame? You said yourself it's all BS.

I said the Catholic Church is, not religion itself.


But when I say Religion, I mean the word of the Hebrew Bible.
Not what the church's say is religion

[Deleted User 14935]

Sam, I do know what you’re saying and do understand. But do you know what I’m trying to get across to Turkey in his statement.

[Deleted User 14935]

I’m not offended by that!

[Deleted User 14935]

I’m Black just so you know. And am not a racist. Not 100 percent Black but here’s the family tree LL 101, My Father was Irish, My Mother was African-American hence the fact that we were and still are a Catholic Family, So why would I be a racist. So there you go, You never know what comes out of your mouth LL101. And that’s why I said I was not offended by the earlier remark.

[zzand]

Hey twatwaffle, I have an idea, why don't you give up the Buzzboard for Lent. Oh shit, another one for the Cyber Bully tally.....Gotcha on that one didn't I twatwaffle

[Turkeytop]

I was raised Catholic too but I've been of the belief for the past 25+ years that the church is full of shit. Only time I set foot in Mass anymore is if someone is getting married or buried.

That's me too. Whenever I do enter a church, I half expert lightning to strike the spire.

I'm betting that you don't, one day a year, go around with a smudge of dirt on your forehead as a badge of piety.

With today's technology it should be possible to develop and mass produce halos. There would be a market for them.

[Motown322]

I know too many "Christians" (of all religions) that spend an hour a week in church playing the devoted disciple of Jesus and then spend the other 167 hours being the shittiest, most hateful people around. That's not for me.

I'm betting that you don't, one day a year, go around with a smudge of dirt on your forehead as a badge of piety.

Hahahaaaaaa... I sure don't. AND I ate chicken for dinner too on this holiest of days.

[Deleted User 4520]

Although I do believe, I find organized religion to be "cult like" and I prefer not to be bound by a certain set of rules or direction set forth by the church. I don't observe things like Lent or Ash Wednesday. I don't even go to church...as another said, only for a wedding or funeral. Things are very ritualistic with the chanting, incense, and the funny looking hats & robes, seems creepy to me.

[audiophile]

TT just needs to learn that God runs the biggest union.

[Deleted User 14935]

TT doesn’t believe in God remember.

[screen glare]

Blessed a year ago for Palm Sunday, and now dry (although still a Sacramental) palm fronds are burned - to create the ashes used to mark the foreheads of the faithful in an image of the cross on Ash Wednesday. No shoe polish. No dirt. No smudge.

Those who allow themselves to be so marked during an Ash Wednesday mass are showing whoever may see that they are weak sinners who desire to repent, or have repented - and believe the promises of Christ. Especially that they will have eternal life.

People who outwardly deem themselves pious often do not recognize how very sinful they are. And hypocrites usually think of themselves as “basically good people.” Also - the majority of humanity is better at pinpointing the faults of others while remaining blind to our own sins. A good example of all of this would be the various leadership hierarchies of the major world religions.

[Turkeytop]

TT just needs to learn that God runs the biggest union.

The members run the Union.

[kager]

TT just needs to learn that God runs the biggest union.

The members run the Union.

Sounds like a sentence from one of those pamphlets that are required reading at the 'education center' on Black Lake...

Everybody's gotta believe in sumpthin'.