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Politics : Should God be replaced? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Emile Vidrine who wrote (19940)	5/9/2005 12:20:19 PM
From: average joe	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 28931

You idiot... all sin starts with despair one gets from reading your posts. Do you know nothing of even your own Catholic faith? "Despair (Latin desperare, to be hopeless.) Despair, ethically regarded, is the voluntary and complete abandonment of all hope of saving one's soul and of having the means required for that end. It is not a passive state of mind: on the contrary it involves a positive act of the will by which a person deliberately gives over any expectation of ever reaching eternal life. There is presupposed an intervention of the intellect in virtue of which one comes to decide definitely that salvation is impossible. This last is motived by the persuasion either that the individual's sins are too great to be forgiven or that it is too hard for human nature to cooperate with the grace of God or that Almighty God is unwilling to aid the weakness or pardon the offenses of his creatures, etc. It is obvious that a mere anxiety, no matter how acute, as to the hereafter is not to be identified with despair. This excessive fear is usually a negative condition of soul and adequately discernible from the positive elements which clearly mark the vice which we call despair. The pusillanimous person has not so much relinquished trust in God as he is unduly terrified at the spectacle of his own shortcomings of incapacity. The sin of despair may sometimes, although not necessarily, contain the added malice of heresy in so far as it implies an assent to a proposition which is against faith, e.g. that God has no mind to supply us with what is needful for salvation. Despair as such and as distinguished from a certain difference, sinking of the heart, or overweening dread is always a mortal sin. The reason is that it contravenes with a special directness certain attributes of Almighty God, such as His goodness, mercy, and faith-keeping. To be sure despair is not the worst sin conceivable: that evil primacy is held by the direct and explicit hatred of God; neither is it as great as sins against faith like formal heresy or apostasy. Still its power for working harm in the human soul is fundamentally far greater than other sins inasmuch as it cuts off the way of escape and those who fall under its spell are frequently, as a matter of fact, found to surrender themselves unreservedly to all sorts of sinful indulgence." newadvent.org

To: Emile Vidrine who wrote (19940)	5/9/2005 7:37:06 PM
From: Cyprian	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 28931

A star is worn By Dea Hadar Dangling from belly buttons, earlobes and necklaces, tattooed on private parts and featured boldly on clothing, the six-pointed Star of David is a best-seller these days haaretzdaily.com "Whoever has a Star of David, raise your hand!" the rapper Subliminal shouts to the perspiring crowd. The dense mass of youngsters obediently wave their Stars of David, refracting the light back to the stage. Subliminal (Kobi Shimoni) skips from one side of the makeshift stage to the other. This is the yard of the Gymnasia Realit high school in Rishon Letzion; the performance took place last Wednesday as the culmination of a day devoted to the effort to eradicate drunken driving. He wore red hip-hop garb and had a thick chain around his neck from which hung a clumsy Star of David - or magen David in Hebrew, meaning "shield of David." Next to him was his partner, "the Shadow" (Yoav Eliasi); behind him, the deejay's space (manned by Ami Yehezkel) is draped with the Israeli flag. "My enemies are united, they want to annihilate me, we are nursing and arming those who hate us - enough!" he declaims-sings to the students who chant the ultranationalist lyrics word for word. Then they sing the chorus of "Divide and Rule": "Together we'll survive, alone we'll fall." One of those flashing his Star of David is Uri, a 16-year-old student in the school. He was one of the first 5,000 people to buy the latest CD released by the rapper, in August. Attached to the disc was a Star of David with the same kind of chain that soldiers use for their army dog-tags. Now Uri is waving his in the air. "For me, the Star of David is not some passing fashion - it symbolizes love for the state, and faith, and Zionism," says the teenager, whose bleached-blond hair is saturated with jell. "I will wear this for always." Another flash from a Star of David emanates from the direction of Shiran Sultan, 17, who recently bought her large, silver-plated pendant in Jerusalem. "This Star of David is everything for me. I feel a tremendous closeness to it," she says, kissing it and pressing it against her chest. "I know that everyone is wearing these now. For most of them, it's a beauty thing, but for me it's Judaism. And it brings me luck. Everything that happens to me is thanks to this Star of David. It will be on me for all time, even when it is not in fashion anymore. Even in another 70 years, I will still wear it." In the meantime, on the stage, Subliminal forges ahead relentlessly. "I won't give in today, won't ever give in, with a Star of David until my last day." (more....)