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Mother Terisa gets there at last

The Big Dog said:
The problem would appear to be that you are reading the wrong stuff.
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I'm fairly certain I'm not the first person whose reading material you wish to censor. It's too bad you are not Chinese. They have many openings in the censorship field.

Saying "You are reading the wrong stuff" makes you a bad guy. I live in the USA. We read crazy stuff that may even demonize your sainted Mother Theresa. Post in some commie chat room if you wish other posters to be unknowledgeable. We know about Mother Theresa here.
 
Senex said:
I'm fairly certain I'm not the first person whose reading material you wish to censor. It's too bad you are not Chinese. They have many openings in the censorship field.

Saying "You are reading the wrong stuff" makes you a bad guy. I live in the USA. We read crazy stuff that may even demonize your sainted Mother Theresa. Post in some commie chat room if you wish other posters to be unknowledgeable. We know about Mother Theresa here.
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what an eccentric post! No one ever said you COULD not read the wrong stuff, just that you did read the wrong stuff, but as we say in my country about books:

Hey, whatever blows your hair back.

-G.W. Hunting
 
The Big Dog said:
obviously not
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From what I've read, Mother T was less familiar with certainty than you are. I'm sure she thought her lack of certainty was a weakness, although I would disagree. Do you think her lack of certainty was a strength or a weakness?

AP Story
The writings address numerous topics, but the ones most likely to create a stir are what Doubleday called the "dark letters."

"Please pray specially for me that I may not spoil His work and that Our Lord may show Himself -- for there is such terrible darkness within me, as if everything was dead," she wrote in 1953. "It has been like this more or less from the time I started 'the work.'"

Then in 1956: "Such deep longing for God -- and ... repulsed -- empty -- no faith -- no love -- no zeal. (Saving) souls holds no attraction -- Heaven means nothing -- pray for me please that I keep smiling at Him in spite of everything."

And then in 1959: "If there be no God -- there can be no soul -- if there is no Soul then Jesus -- You also are not true."

At times she also found it hard to pray.

"I utter words of community prayers -- and try my utmost to get out of every word the sweetness it has to give -- but my prayer of union is not there any longer -- I no longer pray."
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Dr. Keith said:
From what I've read, Mother T was less familiar with certainty than you are. I'm sure she thought her lack of certainty was a weakness, although I would disagree. Do you think her lack of certainty was a strength or a weakness?

AP Story
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well she was not responding to posts on the iSkeps
 
aleCcowaN said:
Please, I'd like to learn more about that :popcorn1
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Well aleCcowaN i am embarrassed to admit you caught me out there.

I recall reading something not that long ago about how the Catholic Church is destined to be centrally located in South America or Africa in the future because of the greater Catholic population in those places. I made a wrong assumption.:o

Growth in Christianity is highest in places like China and a lot of Arab counties it would seem.

https://discipleallnations.wordpres...es-where-christianity-is-growing-the-fastest/
 
Dr. Keith said:
From what I've read, Mother T was less familiar with certainty than you are. I'm sure she thought her lack of certainty was a weakness, although I would disagree. Do you think her lack of certainty was a strength or a weakness?

AP Story
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So she continued to ensure that the poor suffered while under her care and had lost faith.
 
Craig4 said:
So she continued to ensure that the poor suffered while under her care and had lost faith.
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It is odd how people will repeat grossly incorrect claims long after they have been decimated.

Oh well....
 
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The Big Dog said:
If you have nothing on topic to say, please just say nothing.
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I clearly had to say on the topic. That was why I asked you to confirm what you wanted to say through that botched expression. I even consulted here to give you an even better explanation.

If you are not happy when you are asked, just ignore the posts and avoid behaving like a bully.
 
The Big Dog said:
Oh man, is it 71 BC all over again?

Like the fraudulent claims against Saint Teresa, this silly argument has too been "decimated"
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I like how the author separates the tithe meaning from the punishment meaning, but in effect they both mean "to take a tenth". Clearly the word historically has meant to take a tenth, in either a tithing or punishment sense.

And therefore decimate does not mean to destroy a tenth.

This logic is consistent with other writings linked to in this thread.
 
Dr. Keith said:
I like how the author separates the tithe meaning from the punishment meaning, but in effect they both mean "to take a tenth". Clearly the word historically has meant to take a tenth, in either a tithing or punishment sense.

And therefore decimate does not mean to destroy a tenth.

This logic is consistent with other writings linked to in this thread.
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So we agree. Progress!
 
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