[Ludi]

Thankfully, the Church has changed its position about nonChristians going to hell. I assumed you were young enough to be after Vatican 2, Lokutus.

[Lokutus]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Ludi', 'T')hankfully, the Church has changed its position about nonChristians going to hell. I assumed you were young enough to be after Vatican 2, Lokutus.

[Lokutus]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Ludi', 'T')hankfully, the Church has changed its position about nonChristians going to hell. I assumed you were young enough to be after Vatican 2, Lokutus.

[Ludi]

Hmm, that doesnt sound familiar, Id have to look it up.

I certainly haven't read all the V2 documents.

[Loki]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Niagara', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Lokutus', '.')..please explain how Noah managed to save distant animals like Polar Bears, kangaroos, and eagles.

[Lokutus]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Loki', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Niagara', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Lokutus', '.')..please explain how Noah managed to save distant animals like Polar Bears, kangaroos, and eagles.

[shakespear1]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', '-12 years in a Catholic school')

Well I spent 5 years in a Catholic school and must say that the Sisters there did a great job on me. THEY were closer to the ideas of the institution then those theatrically dressed men in Rome. So on this front I will stick up for the Sisters.

However I have also moved on in terms of the Church and its ways. There are other ways to look at the question of existence.

Power corrupts and it corrupts absolutely. A good example of this is to be seen today in Poland (and earlier).

They are spending millions on cathedrals and other future places of pilgrimage for Nothing in my opinion. The country has other serious social problems where this money would be better spent. However this organization will always spend on itself before anything

[Niagara]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Lokutus', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Loki', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Niagara', '
')...

[Lokutus]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Niagara', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Lokutus', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Loki', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Niagara', '
')...

[TheDude]

Is there a Church of Lokutus? You could ritually smear peanut butter on your chest!
I think building/developing shrines is smart investment. Look at all those pilgrims that trekked over the centuries to Santiago de Compostela and the like. You should get to work on reliquaries of Billy Graham etc. as well. Maybe one of Larry Flynt while you're at it. God is fond of irony, if I'm not mistaken. In fact I'm right and I don't want to hear any irrefutable arguments!

[Rafa]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Lokutus', 'I') have some serious doubts about there being enough water in those trenches to submerge the Eurasian continent and the Himalaya.

[Lokutus]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('TheDude', 'I')s there a Church of Lokutus?

[Keith_McClary]

The Ark Before Noah: Decoding the Story of the Flood by Irving Finkel
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'T')he story of the ark, and animals 'two by two', is so much older than the Bible: why was the myth appropriated?
...
Three distinct Mesopotamian incarnations of the myth have now been identified, one recorded in Sumerian and two in Akkadian. It has become clear that the tale of a universal flood was widespread in Mesopotamia for an entire millennium and a half before the hapless Judaeans, defeated in the early 6th century BC by Nebuchadnezzar, were dragged away from their smoking cities into exile, there to weep beside the rivers of Babylon. Now, courtesy of Irving Finkel, the British Museum's eminence grise

of cuneiform studies, there comes a further clinching piece of evidence: a tablet that actually describes animals entering an ark "two by two". Not only that, but it offers startlingly precise specifications on how best to construct one. An ark, so the tablet instructs us, should properly be circular in shape, have an area of 3,600 metres, and be fashioned out of plant fibre. All those living in the Somerset Levels may wish to take note.
...
The Judaeans were not graduate students in some Ivy League college, but the bewildered and embittered victims of superpower aggression.

By plundering the heritage of Babylon, they were at once paying homage to its cultural prestige, and annexing it to their own ends. Just as Christians and Muslims would subsequently transform the biblical figure of Noah into a prefiguring of their own respective theodicies, so the Judaeans transformed the myths of their Babylonian overlords into something that would end up as Jewish.