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Politics : The Environmentalist Thread -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: average joe who wrote (21938)	6/11/2008 9:26:47 AM
From: maceng2	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 36917

fyi about 12% of English folks are Catholics, and I happen to be one of them. What's the "source"?

To: average joe who wrote (21938)	6/13/2008 7:50:54 AM
From: Wharf Rat	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 36917

And a Jew like me will question God, which is why the 12 Mil of us run the entire world; or so "they" say. When you have been around Him as long as we have, you'll develop a more familiar relationship. One of my favorite characters is Tevye in "Fiddler on the Roof." He knows how to communicate with God as he runs His race, as he persevered with the unknowns of life. He is good example of a loyal child of God even as he is able to share even his anger with God at the in equitableness of life. Tevye is a man who is comfortable with His God. He might not understand everything about this God, he might not understand why he does things for this God, but he is comfortable with God. We find Tevye talking to God. Listen to the honest, forthright statements Tevye makes to God. Imagine the relationship he has with God. Tevye is speaking: "Today I am a horse. Dear God, did you have to make my poor old horse lose his shoe just before the Sabbath? That wasn't nice. It's enough you pick on me, Tevye, bless me with 5 daughters, a life of poverty. What have You got against my horse? Sometimes I think when thing are too quiet up there,You say to Yourself:'Let's see, what kind of mischief can I play on my friend, Tevye'? Tevye pulls his cart farther down the lane, silently, looking toward heaven and continues talking, "As the Good Book says, Heal us, O Lord, and we shall be healed. In other words, send us the cure, we've got the sickness already. I'm not really complaining---after all, with Your help, I'm starving to death. You made many, many poor people. I realize, of course, that it's no shame to be poor, but it's no great honor either. So what would have been so terrible if I had a small fortune?" You can tell Tevye has a relationship with God which allows him to be honest and share his inner most feelings with God as he goes through life. I think this is what the author of Hebrews had in mind when he spoke of faithfulness as he says: "Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen." dodgenet.com