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  1. Re:Do Anglicans believe in transubstantiation? on SimChurch · · Score: 1

    No, transubstantiation was emphatically rejected by the Anglican church and it's offshoots. It was one of the core principles that defined the Reformation as it opposed that teaching.

    The Anglican Communion is Communion of people reenacting the last supper symbolically, not the Catholic Holy Communion of literal transubstantiation.

  2. Re:WJWD on SimChurch · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Actually, Jesus went to the synagogue just like everyone else but sometimes got booted out because he was trolling. I guess the holy cyber people will find a way of booting out the riff raff like they booted that trouble maker Jesus out too.

    Jesus went throughout Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, preaching the good news of the kingdom, and healing every disease and sickness among the people.
    Matthew 4:23(NIV)

    Coming to his hometown, he began teaching the people in their synagogue, and they were amazed. "Where did this man get this wisdom and these miraculous powers?" they asked.
    Matthew 13:54

    Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day. For my flesh is real food and my blood is real drink. Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood remains in me, and I in him. Just as the living Father sent me and I live because of the Father, so the one who feeds on me will live because of me. This is the bread that came down from heaven. Your forefathers ate manna and died, but he who feeds on this bread will live forever." He said this while teaching in the synagogue in Capernaum.
    John 6:54-59

    Every year his parents went to Jerusalem for the Feast of the Passover. When he was twelve years old, they went up to the Feast, according to the custom. After the Feast was over, while his parents were returning home, the boy Jesus stayed behind in Jerusalem, but they were unaware of it. Thinking he was in their company, they traveled on for a day. Then they began looking for him among their relatives and friends. When they did not find him, they went back to Jerusalem to look for him. After three days they found him in the temple courts, sitting among the teachers, listening to them and asking them questions. Everyone who heard him was amazed at his understanding and his answers.
    Luke 2:41-47

    He went to Nazareth, where he had been brought up, and on the Sabbath day he went into the synagogue, as was his custom. And he stood up to read. The scroll of the prophet Isaiah was handed to him. Unrolling it, he found the place where it is written: "The Spirit of the Lord is on me,because he has anointed me to preach good news to the poor.He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners and recovery of sight for the blind, to release the oppressed,to proclaim the year of the Lord's favor." Then he rolled up the scroll, gave it back to the attendant and sat down. The eyes of everyone in the synagogue were fastened on him,and he began by saying to them, "Today this scripture is fulfilled in your hearing." All spoke well of him and were amazed at the gracious words that came from his lips. "Isn't this Joseph's son?" they asked. Jesus said to them, "Surely you will quote this proverb to me: 'Physician, heal yourself! Do here in your hometown what we have heard that you did in Capernaum.' " "I tell you the truth," he continued, "no prophet is accepted in his hometown. I assure you that there were many widows in Israel in Elijah's time, when the sky was shut for three and a half years and there was a severe famine throughout the land. Yet Elijah was not sent to any of them, but to a widow in Zarephath in the region of Sidon.And there were many in Israel with leprosy in the time of Elisha the prophet, yet not one of them was cleansed--only Naaman the Syrian." All the people in the synagogue were furious when they heard this. They got up, drove him out of the town, and took him to the brow of the hill on which the town was built, in order to throw him down the cliff.But he walked right through the crowd and went on his way.
    Luke 4:16-30

    Q:"What would Jesus do?"
    A: He would go to the synagogue and occasionally be kicked out of it because the people there would be offended by his trolling. So I wonder have you been kicked out of Church lately? He certainly didn't appear to make friends there.

    Oh, and if you want to cite the "Last Supper", to support your idea, it was a "Passover Seder", and not a mass.

  3. Re:Catholicism on Mars Rock Supports Cross-Seeding Theory · · Score: 1

    Your family were apparently "open minded" enough for you to masquerade as a Catholic when you were in fact not one, in order to gain the benefits of a Catholic education. Perhaps you yourself were the source of the smell you encountered.

  4. Not Officially Approved on SimChurch · · Score: 1

    It's a terrible shame that the poster didn't actually read the article he cites. Michael writes that "the virtual church project has been approved by the church hierarchy."

    However, the BBC article in fact says: Although an unofficial move, the virtual church may well receive approval in the church hierarchy.

    So I imagine that even if he sat in the real or vitual church, he'd fall asleep anyway.

  5. Re:Which was first? on Mars Rock Supports Cross-Seeding Theory · · Score: 1

    I went to a Catholic De La Salle College, and we were taught the theory of evolution and Big Bang Theory etc. Most Catholics don't hold that Genesis is a literal truth, as to do so would really be terribly naive. Our geography and science teachers loved laughing about fundamentalist science theories.

    We were told that the Father God was the creator of the universe, and the actual scientific laws of the universe were a result of the actual act of creation.

    Fundamentalism was produced by the various Lutheran faiths, and so is not considered orthodoxy.

    In the same way, we were told that what Jesus called "demons" were most likely epilepsy or a mental condition. We were told that Jesus' view was merely that of a man of the time when it came to his view of the world. We were not taught that Jesus was omnipotent or anything like what some Christian faiths adhere to. In the same way, we were taught that the Bible was written by men inspired by God, but it wasn't the literal word of God at all, just a history of it.

    Catholic theologians have had a long time to accept Science and in my view, has embraced it. After all, despite it's problems with it at first, it has made some degree of effort to move with it.

  6. Re:Won't happen on Linux Advocacy in Ethiopia: A Traveller's Journal · · Score: 0

    Ethopia has in fact been Christian longer than the actual existence of England and the modern English people.

  7. Good stuff! on Linux Advocacy in Ethiopia: A Traveller's Journal · · Score: 1, Insightful

    I think that anything that makes access to technologies like the Internet easier can help underdeveloped countries tremendously. The internet for example can provide information on agricultural technology, medical technology, etc. Food security is only one readily apparent aspect of a multi-faceted problem. A sound technolgical/educational base can help provide the necessary support for the development of infrastructure. In many cases, third world economies when making the transition from subsistence farming, experience terrible difficulties because of companies like Microsoft. Their fragile developing economy becomes enmeshed with explotive super-capitalists like Microsoft, which leaves them dependant on overpriced monopoly products that they can ill afford. The alternative is usually then software piracy, which in turn creates "special interest groups" that are essentially paid mouth pieces for these companys to enforce their monopoly by means of getting the country's courts and jails to be tied up punishing their citizens for hardly important crime. Microsoft are doing this all over Asia as we speak. They fund companies that lobby for increased jail time and harsher penalties etc, etc to make sure that the country's laws wield a big stick ensure their markets. In between discounting and free samples, just like a drug pusher really. What these people appear to be doing is not at all trivial or irrelevant. It's big picture stuff, and to me that's what the Internet and Open Source is really all about. It's really not so simple as mere food subsistence.

  8. 1,200 years of cpu time! on ECC2-109 Winners Certified · · Score: 1, Funny

    "... the gross CPU time used to solve the challenge was roughly equivalent to an Athlon XP 3200+ working nonstop for 1,200 years."

    - Would that theoretical uptime be 1,200 years running Linux?

    If this computer is running Windows, I think it needs to be put back on the Area 51 shelf next to the perpetual motion machines, hen's teeth and Tesla weapons.

  9. The Israel Defence Force on Will Linux For Windows Change The World? · · Score: 0, Troll

    The article started "Looks like the Israel Defence Force may have done it again." I mistakenly assumed they murdered yet another enemy without a trial - silly me, it was just about Linux.

  10. D&D = rules minus plot on The Trouble With Using D&D Rules In Videogames? · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    I think it's a shame that D&D became synonymous with rules instead of plot. To me, D&D is a generally a recipe for a cliched game. The alignment system sucks and the classes are just plain dull. AD&D became a big complicated bore. In fact, I think it became so complicated just so it could sell those dull overpriced manuals with their generic rock album artwork throught them. Instead of an interesting game it boils down to healing potions, XP and levels. The PC versions like Baldurs Gate have much of the game picking up gold and arranging inventory - a trite mundane for a child of Baal.

  11. Only a matter of time.. on Microsoft Authorized Refurbishers · · Score: 2, Informative

    Microsoft can try to hedge every single bet from here on, and still I think it's only a matter of time before Linux beats them in every market.

  12. They're coming out soon too! on Smart Cars to Save Stupid Drivers? · · Score: 1

    All these new safety features are standard in the upcoming revived edition of the Pinto.

  13. Looks like.. on Mac OS X Trojan Horse Infects MP3s · · Score: 1

    Looks like they're another step towards being an actual computer. I joke!

  14. Re:An Garda Siochana on How To Catch A Scammer/Spammer · · Score: 1

    They are an organisation that performs policing duties, but they are not the police you pack of ignorant buffoons. After the atrocities that the former Irish police performed before Irish Independance, they were deliberately made distinct from police.

  15. Probably a CIA plot on U.S. Justice Department Prepares Assault on Pr0n · · Score: 1

    I think the CIA probably don't want the pornography industry to continue outperforming the weapons and drug trades that they spend so much time encouraging.

  16. Can't resist it on Sake Used to Make Wooden Speakers · · Score: 5, Funny

    So I guess the sound really does give you wood.

  17. Re:An Garda Siochana on How To Catch A Scammer/Spammer · · Score: 1

    No, they are not the cops in Ireland. They perform policing duties but they are not the cops or the police.

  18. Re:A translation on How To Catch A Scammer/Spammer · · Score: 1

    Join the club.

    "Cops" is American slang for police, but the Garda is not an literally equivalent term for either. If you're Irish, you should know and value the difference, unless perhaps your family were hiding under their beds whilst other people freed your country for you.

    The Garda Siochana are deliberately distinct from police as the previous Irish police slaughtered and oppressed the Irish people.

    My grandmother for instance recalled as a girl, the former "Irish police" executing people in the streets in front of their families.

    The new organisation was named differently than mere "cops" and "police" to make the point that they were distinct from the group that had so zealously and cruelly subjugated, tortured and murdered the Irish people.

    Guarda does not = police.