I always look at it this way - pants/trousers have waistbands, buttons and zippers. Anything you wear on the lower half that has a tie or elastic is nominally pants. Especially if they are worn out, stained or otherwise raggedy. If you are ashamed for your neighbors to see you get the mail or take out the trash in them, not pants.
And completely lose that integrity as soon as they rise in the ranks enough to have any influence. Sorry, no. As an institution, the Catholic church is vile and corrupt. If some people somehow manage to derive something good from being associated with it, that's to their credit, not its.
Catholicism is a major Christian sect with thousands of years of history and 1.2 billion members. Fuss if you feel you must but the point is you've made a broad general swipe at a faith group based on the lowest common denominator and that's unfair to the many, many Catholics--priests included--who strive to practice the tenets their faith with integrity and who find strength, community and connection through it. C'mon now.
Yes, I'm not religious at all, not a believer in the whole "organized" aspect of it. Oh fuck it, I hate assholes who don't understand the real world trying to tell me what to do. But that said, I can view them from an outside fresh perspective. Francis came from Argentina, and is not part of that cliquish inner circle. I cheered when he got rid of that asshole who set up the meeting with Kim Davis (the hater from the marriage license office), and had been trying to undermine the good things that were done.
I'm a brain-eating space bug that doesn't believe in any version of the Cosmic Super-Alpha Chimpanzee nonsense, and even I know that "the Catholic church" ≠ "Christianity".
This WALL doubles as a handy concrete form to cover Donnie's star, too. Win-win!
I always thought that "It's Money that Matters" was Newman's best song, followed closely by "Mama Told Me not to Come."
So are you saying that it's a wash and not worth bargaining for on either side?
I always look at it this way - pants/trousers have waistbands, buttons and zippers. Anything you wear on the lower half that has a tie or elastic is nominally pants. Especially if they are worn out, stained or otherwise raggedy. If you are ashamed for your neighbors to see you get the mail or take out the trash in them, not pants.
And completely lose that integrity as soon as they rise in the ranks enough to have any influence. Sorry, no. As an institution, the Catholic church is vile and corrupt. If some people somehow manage to derive something good from being associated with it, that's to their credit, not its.
Abyssinian kitty is adorkable, too.
Catholicism is a major Christian sect with thousands of years of history and 1.2 billion members. Fuss if you feel you must but the point is you've made a broad general swipe at a faith group based on the lowest common denominator and that's unfair to the many, many Catholics--priests included--who strive to practice the tenets their faith with integrity and who find strength, community and connection through it. C'mon now.
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Yes, I'm not religious at all, not a believer in the whole "organized" aspect of it. Oh fuck it, I hate assholes who don't understand the real world trying to tell me what to do. But that said, I can view them from an outside fresh perspective. Francis came from Argentina, and is not part of that cliquish inner circle. I cheered when he got rid of that asshole who set up the meeting with Kim Davis (the hater from the marriage license office), and had been trying to undermine the good things that were done.
Probably some, but not all of them, we will have to watch how they vote.
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It is a direct line to his Russian handler, how else would he know all the obscure Russian propaganda talking points (revised history).
This is science fact.
Kind of like the Magic 8 Ball?
I'm a brain-eating space bug that doesn't believe in any version of the Cosmic Super-Alpha Chimpanzee nonsense, and even I know that "the Catholic church" ≠ "Christianity".