David Ancell / Tuesday, December 03, 2002 / Comments(0)
I see that the Supreme Court is to hear a sodomy case. Methinks the author of this article is sympathetic to a constitutional right to sodomy.
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David Ancell / Tuesday, December 03, 2002 / Comments(0)
I think I mentioned some time ago that I was to be the webmaster of the Frassati Society, a young adults group at my church. Well, tonight, the page is officially live. You can find it at:
http://www.frassatimemphis.org/
There is even a blog. Of course, I will continue this blog.
If you are using Netscape 4, the site might not look too pretty. I made it using a technique known as Cascading Style Sheets, and Netscape 4 is very buggy in its support of them.
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David Ancell / Tuesday, December 03, 2002 / Comments(0)
Well, it looks like I have to retract my statement about Muslims not worshiping the same God. I won’t even bother to delete them, but I will post a Trackback on each one. The reference from the CCC is at this link. Of course, I’m not saying that Islam has the same claim to the truth as the Catholic Church.
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David Ancell / Monday, December 02, 2002 / Comments(0)
It seems I finally have a bit of a controversy. Maybe I’m exaggerating, but a reader (Michelle) has respectfully disagreed with my post on whether Muslims worship the same God.
It’s true that a limited understanding does not mean that one does not worship the true God. However, at some point a line must be drawn at which one is no longer worshiping the same God. Otherwise, it would be just as well to say that all religions are really just different understandings of the same God. The people in Biblical times who sacrificed their children to Molech would then be worshiping the same God as the Isrealites. This example is a bit extreme, and a more reasonable conclusion would be that Michelle draws the line at a different point than I would.
The Jews received an incomplete revelation from God, but they nonetheless received a revelation from the true God. Everything they received is authentic and remains so. In Jesus Christ, we have received a deeper revelation. We do not and will not ever know everything about God, but we receive our revelation from God himself. In the case of Islam, their revelation was received from one who claimed to be a prophet and who rejected prior revelation from God.
Is this to say that Muslims are bad people? I do not think so. Of course, there are Muslims who are evil. Needless to say, Christianity has its share of evil people as well. The point is that Islam’s origins may have implications for the identity of the God whom they worship. If someone shows me an authoritative Church teaching that says otherwise, I will retract my opinion.
LATER NOTE: See the TrackBack. I indeed retracted.
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David Ancell / Monday, December 02, 2002 / Comments(0)
In this much-secularized season of Christmas, here’s a way to radically display Catholic faith this Advent:
Don’t put up a single decoration until right before Christmas. Then, leave the decorations up until the end of the Christmas season. Better yet, if you can find some Advent decorations, put them up.
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David Ancell / Monday, December 02, 2002 / Comments(0)
I wonder if anyone is collecting donations to get more ultrasound machines in crisis pregnancy centers. Who knows how many babies could be saved?
A thought occurred to me. Maybe legislation requiring an ultrasound before an abortion could greatly reduce the number of abortions and serve as an interim step to the outlaw of abortion. Of course, pro-aborts would fight this saying it “interferes with the ‘right to choose’.” If they were just a tad more honest, they’d say it interferes with the “right to be protected from any information that might make them decide against abortion.”
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David Ancell / Monday, December 02, 2002 / Comments(0)
I don’t know about you, but I wouldn’t want to be greeted anywhere with an 8-foot condom. This is when we see that the world’s solutions to our problems simply won’t work. Please pray for Bill Gates.
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