civilisationReview

God?  Oh God. Pregnancy is a gift from God. Every child is hope for humanity.  God wants you to take care of your child, love your child, nurture your child, etc, etc.     Well, i used to think so.   But not now.  Not as long as i have my commonsense intact.    There are many stillborns aren't there.  And there are others who die not too long after birth - like my mother, who lost, i think they were the first two or first and third - a Catherine and a Vincent shortly after birth.  Why?  God changed his mind?  And i had a dear chinese friend once, he got a son, loved his son lots, at the age of 6 or so, he died of Leukemia.  How does God expect humanity to nurture life when he treats it so carelessly?  So unless God's has a twisted sadistic sense of humour,  perhaps pregnancy, other than the immaculate conception, is just something that happens, and has fuck-all to do with God.  You can't call a chi...

Don :   Jesus was of Jewish descent, not black, hispanic, anglo, or American indian descent. ed :  Jesus was of Heavenly Descent, and one with the Father and the Holy Spirit. Hence, He isn't particularly or exclusively a Jew. And since All of us are made in the Image of God, all of us represent the Image of God. ed X

P erhaps Jesus had to come in the form of a Jew to continue the theological, philosophical, and prophetic line of the Judaic faith through another religion. He didn't want the faith to be confined to the Jews in the eyes of others. And Jesus was quite annoyed with the Pharisees and the 'Rabbis' as well, as seen here, "Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You shut the door of the kingdom of heaven in people’s faces. You yourselves do not enter, nor will you let those enter who are trying to." "Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You build tombs for the prophets and decorate the graves of the righteous. And you say, ‘If we had lived in the days of our ancestors, we would not have taken part with them in shedding the blood of the prophets.’ So you testify against yourselves that you are the descendants of those who murdered the prophets. Go ahead, then, and complete what your ancestors started!" "Jer...

"According to Vatican officials, there are no current plans to allow a change in the bread that is used as matter for the Eucharist. Controversy was afoot after 80-year-old Father Francisco Taborda, S.J., a Brazilian theologian, said in February while attending a seminar in Rome that a watershed debate regarding the Eucharist was a probable topic at the Synod of Bishops for the Pan-Amazonian region in October. Fr. Taborda suggested that wheaten bread could be substituted with yuca, a root common in Latin America in use as a staple food. Also known as manioc or cassava, it is the source of tapioca. The Catholic Church regards wheaten bread and wine as the only suitable matter to be used as species for confecting the Eucharist, the central mystery of the Catholic faith. Fr. Taborda told Crux last month that environmental conditions in the hot and damp climate of the Amazon make communion wafers unsuitably moist. Suggesting a departure from the norm inherited from the Gospel, the Jes...