devil Report This Comment Date: October 17, 2004 03:29PM
he like to put his finger where you think!!! anyway i dont like him!
russell Report This Comment Date: December 21, 2004 03:13AM
That picture is rediculous! That is very disrespectful, and whoever put it up
will answer for it one day. Only one thing correct with that photo....JESUS
does love you
Anonymous Report This Comment Date: January 09, 2005 07:17AM
PEOPLE DON'T REALIAZE JUST HOW MUCH JESUS ACTUALLY LOVES THEM.
Black_Trans_Am Report This Comment Date: March 09, 2005 10:41PM
I wonder if was really a white guy with long hair? It is an interesting
interpretation. There does not appear to be many white folks from the Middle
East back then. Doesn't matter to me either way...just wondering.
Anonymous Report This Comment Date: May 18, 2005 11:02PM
Jesus loves us all, dispite the tings some poeple do, like putting peices of
shit like this on the internet!!!!
Anonymous Report This Comment Date: July 03, 2005 01:00AM
Glad I didn't post this mess. Someone has some splaining to do at the pearly
gates. May God have mercy on your soul.
Anonymous Report This Comment Date: April 21, 2006 08:43AM
The "Sin" of Pride
by Edwin A. Locke and Onkar Ghate (May 20, 2005)
Summary: The Catholic Church's 20th-century teachings undermine man's life.
[www.CapMag.com]
Despite worldwide adoration and attention focused on Pope John Paul II and his
successor, and now the Vatican's decision to expedite John Paul's possible
canonization, few have asked an obvious question: What does the Catholic Church
stand for today? If one examines this question closely, the answer does not give
cause for celebration.
Consider the Church's recent teachings in regard to the major areas of modern
life: rational thought, productive work, and sex.
The Scientific Revolution, begun in the 16th century, demonstrated to man that
reason, systematically employed, could unlock the world's mysteries. From the
orbits of the planets to the trajectory of a cannonball, from the atomic nature
of matter to the origins of life, from the power of electricity to the causes of
disease--everything was open to human understanding. By showing man that his
mind, properly used, possesses an unlimited power to grasp the universe, the
great scientists taught us a profound self-confidence.
In opposition, John Paul II argues in the encyclical "Fides et Ratio"
(on the relationship between Faith and Reason) for a return to the notion that
reason is "limited" and should be the handmaiden of faith. "There
exists a knowledge which is peculiar to faith," he writes, "surpassing
the knowledge proper to human reason." What should you do when the
conclusions of reason conflict with the dictates of "faith"--when,
say, "faith" declares that you are born with sin but reason teaches
you that your moral stature can only be a matter of the choices you make? You
must abandon the idea that you--your rational mind--can comprehend the matter.
You must bow your head, drop to your knees, and blindly submit to religious
authority.
The Scientific Revolution ushered in the Industrial Revolution and capitalism.
Armed with the power of scientific knowledge and protected from the machinations
of king and pope by the principle of individual rights, the producers appeared.
With the freedom to think and to profit from the results of their thinking,
individual inventors and innovators transformed every area of human life.
Businessmen flourished and created wealth on a heretofore undreamed of scale.
The West, and especially America, became the envy of the world. Each of us
learned to stand proudly erect, master of the requirements of human
survival.
Pope Paul VI's 20th-century encyclical "Populorum Progressio" (on the
Development of Peoples), however, is a manifesto against capitalism.
"Individual initiative alone and the interplay of competition," he
says, "will not ensure satisfactory development." Instead, the
individual thinker and producer must be shackled to the group, forced to abandon
the profit motive and minister to the needs of others. Quoting St. Ambrose, Paul
writes, "You are not making a gift of your possessions to the poor person.
You are handing over to him what is his." This is communism's vision (from
each according to his ability, to each according to his need), only with
different authorities in charge. The result therefore must be the same as
wherever communism was tried: back-breaking poverty. Why does the Church
advocate that which it supposedly opposes? In destroying the great producers and
chaining everyone together, you lose control over your own life--and lose the
self-esteem that comes from such control.
Now consider the consequences in the realm of sex. By holding reason as an
absolute and productive work as the meaning of life, an individual man or woman
reaches a state of earthly success, joy, happiness. He or she will seek to
express this profound state with a worthy partner--hence the widespread
appearance of romantic love in the freer, capitalist nations. In the appropriate
circumstances, sex becomes a celebration of your efficacy and love of life.
In "Humanae Vitae" (on the Regulation of Birth) Pope Paul VI
reiterated the Church's opposition to contraception. Observe the effects of such
a doctrine on sexual pleasure: it introduces fear of an endless stream of
unwanted children into the sex act and promotes sexual frustration. Sex is
stripped of its status as an end in itself, a celebration of life on earth, and
is instead turned into a wearisome duty to procreate.
The Church's teachings on reason, production, and sex are designed to make men
feel impotent, insignificant, and unworthy and unable of celebrating their own
lives. Its recent teachings stand united against a single evil--the sin of
pride. Why? Because only broken men will submit to the authority of the Church
in the hope that it will save them from their misery--the helpless misery
promoted by the Church's own doctrines.
If success on earth is one's goal, one needs a philosophy that advocates reason
as the only means to knowledge, that affirms each individual's right to his own
life and property, and that upholds happiness as an end in itself.
