Hmmmmm. I think if he were a Shi'ite, he'd probably fit right in with life in Iran. Very rightwing, very authoritarian, very oppressive, very intrusive, very intolerant, etc.
76% of Canadians believe in the Bible
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Oh now...come on...we all have something snippy we can say about eachother...just take it easy there, big guy.Well, self-appointed preacher is here. There went the conversation. :roll:
Hey, maybe we should make chocolate bibles. Then we could all be filled with the word of "the lord".Course, we'd have to get a bigger rabbit to deliver them. Or get more rabbits.
But, MAN could I go for some chocolate!
Doesn't anyone else prefer the chocolate and peanut butter eggs? There are times I could kill for one of them. I'd even return to the Church if they served them at mass.
I went through the public system up until grade 12, when a move meant I got the chance to switch to a seperate school system. I was a 90%+ student, often pulling down 97's in the sciences. When I hit Catholic school, I was in for a serious lesson. I was one of the dumbest people there. It was a much more intensive course structure. The students were focused. They were there to learn, unlike my class mates in highschool, who could have cared less about half of their classes. It was nearer to a college environment than public highschool was.
Why it is the way it is, is probably due to a number of reasons. The biggest, as I see it, is parental involvement. Parents who choose to put their kids into seperate school, or home schools, are involved to begin with, and are held to a higher standard of involvement by the system they've joined. You can't simply ignore a problem your child is having as so many in public school can. If your child is misbehaving or not learning, you are expected to work with the school to fix it, or find somewhere else for your child. Public school on the other hand, has no real choice but to keep those sorts of children in class, barring severe infractions. Thus, in public school your child's class is going to be ten times more disrupted, and more dumbed down. Public school seems at times to be all about meeting expectations and shoveling kids through, versus exceeding education standards, and focusing on each child, as I've seen in the seperate schools.
Don't get me wrong, there can be some incredible public schools out there too. And within public, there are occasionally programs you can get into which will give a child a more focused program if they need it. But, by far, seperate school does a better job of providing that.
Frankly, I'm excited for my kids' start into the seperate school system, because we haven't been able to get the tailored attention that my son needs, resulting in him being one of those kids who are disrupting class and causing problems. I'm looking forward to our move, and his chance to get into a more suitable program.
That really is an inviting thought, and I can just picture the line ups waiting to get in, and
orders being taken for different flavours, etc.
You would have to open up branches all over the country, and your product would expand to
several different types of choc. eggs, and expand to other items as well.
And your congregation would expand too, from eating too much chocolate. I am salivating just
thinking about it, as, like most women, I LOVE chocolate.
orders being taken for different flavours, etc.
You would have to open up branches all over the country, and your product would expand to
several different types of choc. eggs, and expand to other items as well.
And your congregation would expand too, from eating too much chocolate. I am salivating just
thinking about it, as, like most women, I LOVE chocolate.
If I couldn't invite anyone to church for the love of God, then why bother to come?
One can already have as much chocolate coated anything in the world as one could stand without ever going to church.
But, if God were the object of our affections, then His chocolate coated things would be heavenly.
But guess what? God wants us to invite Him into our temple so that we may worship Him.
That temple, or church is our hearts.
Peace>>>AJ:love9:
I think the idea is, if you can get people to come, maybe they'll listen to the message, and come back. The hard part is getting people in the doors the first time, then it's easier to get them to come back.
Why not just invite them to come and listen to the word of God, rather than bribe them for all the wrong reasons?
Tell them up front why the gift of chocolates so as to give them a chance to deny it based on the fact that the intention is deceive them into coming to church.
Let the chips fall where they may, if the heart is not in it, forget it.
The truth is always best.
That's my feelings.
Peace>>>AJ:love9:
the movie "dogma". It was a gimmick released by the catholic church, known as the "buddy christ", as one of many measures taken to get people more interested in the church. Another was to have a ceremony (i dont remember the name) where anyone passing through a specific set of doors was totally absolved of all sin. Two renegade angels decide to try and pass through, although if they succeed, unbeknown to themselves, it would set up a paradox, in that God is infallible and God's word on earth is given out by the vatican, yet if they passed through the doors God's word would have to be upheld in that their sins would be absolved, allowing them to re-enter heaven, thus breaking God's banishment of the angels from heaven, thus negating the whole structureof reality.
Fortunately for the world there's a couple of stoners known as Jay and Silent Bob.
In that case, you don't need to do anything. I would venture to say that the vast majority of people know that they can hear "the word of God" (or, more accurately, the word of some particular proponent of some particular religion) in a Church, and that people are staying away in droves.
So your idea is to forget about it. I take it you're happy with the way things are now.
That's Buddy Christ from the movie Dogma. Brilliant movie, albiet appropriately crude. George Carlin's a bishop. Take it from there.
ON EDIT: sorry Herm. my timing with you is off by a mile today.
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