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I wanted to make a ringtone from a short wav file I have. So I downloaded a ringtones-maker-for-dolts program and asked it to make a ringtone from the wav file. But it says it doesn't work with files shorter than five seconds. So, hey. Can I use some sort of sound editor to add silence to it to make it longer than five seconds?

Several people online here have made the claim that the Roman Catholic church was founded in 325 by Constantine. I would like to find a detailed, SCHOLARLY statement of this claim -- book length, with footnotes, the whole nine yards. Scholarly. Detailed. A graduate-level course bibliography would be a good answer to my question.

Please don't explain the claim here. Just bibliographic info, please.

Also, please don't refute the claim here. If you can point me to a detailed, scholarly, SPECIFIC refutation of the claim, fine. But I'm not interested in general histories of the early church that don't specifically address this claim -- I have several histories of the early church.

Did I mention I'm interested only in SCHOLARLY works? :-)

I know of a bunch of books by people coming into the Christian faith from outside or moving from one branch to another, but I don't know offhand of any books by people who fell away and came back. I'm interested in *stories*, not apologetics or stuff like that, so I'm looking for personal narratives, novels, or even movies. And I'm interested primarily but not only in stories from or by or about Catholics. Any time period.

This is a research project and not a personal quest, so no advice please. Just book names.

:-) Warning! If you post a rude or critical response I will cheerfully pray insipid positive prayers for you an unspecified number of times over an unspecified period of days! You have been warned! :-)

The book "The Al-Qaeda Reader" contains among other things a detailed response (2002?) by al-Qaeda to a public letter by Saudi intellectuals that was itself a response to a public letter by some Americans. The al-Qaeda response includes detailed criticism of the ways the Saudi intellectuals interpreted the Qur'an, ahadith, sunna. I would like to read any detailed responses to those al-Qaeda documents that critique *their* uses of the texts and the methods of proper interpretation. I can read English, French, or Arabic (very slowly!!). I'm not interested in (say) humanitarian counter arguments, as important as they are; but only in arguments that al-Qaeda's use of the Qur'an and ahadith did not meet the Islamic standards for correct selection and use.

The book also includes earlier pieces by Zawahiri about shari'a and other topics. Critiques of these would also be good.

Please don't post general flames about Bin Laden, Zawahiri, al-Qaeda, Bush, the Qur'an, etc., etc. Please. Okay?

This is a follow-up to my previous question:

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=ArqTu...

All good things can be tainted or turned. Now I'm asking about NT insight into the most likely ways that prayer for those who insult or harm us is particularly vulnerable to being tainted or turned. The passage that first comes to my mind is Luke 18:10-14 -- the story of the publican and the pharisee. It seems to me also that it is easy to become condescending towards the one being prayed for, but I don't have a reference for that. Anyhow, I continue to explore this topic and ask for help.

Recently I saw Aramaic Gospels mentioned someplace and I found some English translations on Amazon but I didn't find info about the their deep history. I know a bit about the Aramaic language, so my question is about the manuscript family, not about the language.

Christians are told to pray for their enemies, for those who persecute them, for those who slander them (for instance, Matthew 5:44 and Romans 12:14). There are examples, most notably Jesus on the cross (Lk 23:34) and Stephen (Acts 7:60). This is connected with forgiving but isn't identical to it I don't think. But this is all pretty general and maybe doesn't seem so clear in actual detailed circumstances. At least there are many times it's not clear to me.

By "guideline" I mean something like this: "Based on the New Testament, Christians should not pray to God asking Him to send to hell those who have harmed or insulted or persecuted them." That is, a guideline is a general statement of something that is or is not a good words to pray, based on the New Testament. And one ought to connect it to specific verses or examples from the New Testament.

Sample prayers of this kind would be cool. For all I know there is a web site or book filled with prayers of this kind.

I read an article about Mother Theresa and the article connected her with St. Theresa of Avila and with St. Therese of Lisieux (if I spelled that right). That is, Mother Theresa's name might be taken from either or both of the saints. So I'm curious. Is St. Therese's book available on line any place, in French or in English?