Serena

Are you:

Pacifist?

A believer in Augustine's Just War theory?

Something else?

I am interested in the numbers of people in each group.

I just got back home.On the bus,I was sitting there listening to an old man,in about his late seventies.He was having a whinge about today's women.He said they they are too dominant in society,and it was better when they were basically barefoot and pregnant,and didn't have very many rights.He said that it was disgusting that women were ever allowed to have custody of children after divorce,and children belonged to the father.He thought that since the Bible said it was okay for parents to spank their child if he misbehaved,a husband should have the right to hit his wife if she wasn't being obedient or submissive enough.Do you get tired of these sorts of people hiding under the cloak of religion?

I just got a call from my mother.My younger sister has been admitted to hospital,and due to her condition as well as her medical history,the doctors are extremely concerned.Could you please keep her in your prayers?

A group of Islamic clergy in Saudi Arabia has condemned the letter "X” because of its similarity to a hated banned symbol – the cross.

The Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice, which has the ultimate say in all legal, civil and governance matters in the kingdom, issued a fatwa, or religious edict, against the "X.” .....

..."Experts who examined the English word ‘explorer’ were struck by how suspicious that ‘X’ appeared,” Youssef Ibrahim writes in the New York Sun.

"In a kingdom where Friday preachers routinely refer to Christians as pigs and infidel crusaders, even a twisted cross ranks as an abomination.”

Full story here: http://newsmax.com/archives/ic/2007/1/15/101803.sh... and

here: http://www.nysun.com/article/46707

Myth #2:He was considered a great traveling teacher and master.

Truth:There is no evidence of this in Mithraic literature.Even if there was,does it matter?

Myth #3:He had 12 companions or disciples.

Truth:The Iranian Mithras, had a single companion (Varuna), and the Roman Mithra had two helper/companions, tiny torch-bearing likenesses of himself, called Cautes and Cautopatres, that were meant to represent the sunrise and sunset,spring and autumn, the stars Albedaran and Antares ,or life and death.

Myth#4:Mithra's followers were promised immortality.

Truth:The only evidence of a "salvational" ideology is a piece of graffiti found in the Santa Prisca Mithraeum ,dated no earlier than 200 AD, that reads, "And us, too, you saved by spilling the eternal blood."(the blood of the bull Mithras slayed).

Some people have been asking questions regarding Mithra.There have been some myths spreading around,so let's get to the real story.

Myth #1 :Mithra was born of a virgin on December 25th in a cave, and his birth was attended by shepherds.

Truth:Mithra was not born of a virgin in a cave; he was born out of solid rock, which presumably left a cave behind.Here is how one Mithraic scholar describes the scene on Mithraic depictions: Mithra "wearing his Phrygian cap, issues forth from the rocky mass. As yet only his bare torso is visible. In each hand he raises aloft a lighted torch and, as an unusual detail, red flames shoot out all around him from the petra genetrix." [MS.173]

But the thing is that this scene, like nearly all Roman Mithraic evidence, dates at least a century after the time of the New Testament.

I didn't put these points out to humiliate anyone.But can you please lool at the actual story rather than believe Acharya S's claims and others' at face value?

What do you think of this photo of Pope John Paul II?

http://i110.photobucket.com/albums/n93/serenaacw/p...

Should he have done this,or is it compromising the Roman Catholic Church ?

After visiting a website with music,I left it and began to browse somewhere else.The music has kept playing for a few days now,and it still hasn't stopped.I didn't download anything.If I ever try and listen to other things on the internet,such as a podcast,the other music drowns it out.I've gone done Ctrl+Alt +Del and then Applications,but there is nothing on there other than what I'm actually doing.Does anyone know how to fix it?

Could someone tell me what extra books the Catholic Bible has compared to the Protestant Bible?

What is the biggest misconception about your faith that you want to set straight?

What do you think of this passage from the 1 Corinthians 11:2-16

Now I want you to realize that the head of every man is Christ, and the head of the woman is man, and the head of Christ is God. Every man who prays or prophesies with his head covered dishonors his head. And every woman who prays or prophesies with her head uncovered dishonors her head—it is just as though her head were shaved.If a woman does not cover her head, she should have her hair cut off; and if it is a disgrace for a woman to have her hair cut or shaved off, she should cover her head.A man ought not to cover his head,since he is the image and glory of God; but the woman is the glory of man.For man did not come from woman, but woman from man;neither was man created for woman, but woman for man.For this reason, and because of the angels, the woman ought to have a sign of authority on her head.

Do you think the covering refers to long hair,or a literal covering?I

My parents are both away,and I can't reach them on their mobile phones.Her foot is bleeding.