Comments on: It’s a good thing I’m Jewish

By: Bert

Bert — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 16:31:00 +0000

I’m glad I’m Christian Reformed.

By: The Doctor

The Doctor — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 13:01:44 +0000

According to legend, St. Augustine was once asked how he reconciled the concept of a just and merciful God with the doctrine of infant damnation. He replied “Sometimes God is called to do things in his official capacity that he personally deplores…”

By: Alex Bensky

Alex Bensky — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 12:20:16 +0000

Well, Jerry Falwell has said that the antichrist is a male Jew living now. I am a male Jew living now, if you can call this living. I’m not saying anything one way or the other, just pointing this out.

By: Michael Lonie

Michael Lonie — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 04:53:12 +0000

Is this here Miranda feller a lawyer? Prophecy says that the Antichrist will be a tort lawyer. And he has tgwo million followers? Riiiight.

By: Joseph T Major

Joseph T Major — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 01:04:43 +0000

Isaac Asimov [okay, Yitchak bar-Yisrael] once described a cartiin idea he had once had.

It is the office of the Devil himself. A fiendish subordinate is poking his head through the damned door, and saying in a Hellish way: “Boss, what do we do with all the Catholics who are down here for eating meat on Friday?”

By: Chris L.

Chris L. — Sun, 22 Apr 2007 23:17:24 +0000

I understand that limbo hasn’t been taken seriously among Catholics for many years and that very few believe that non-baptized children go to hell. It’s also a question that the pope has been addressing since the 1980s apparently. The belief that unbaptized children descend into hell seems limited to Augustine, who as the article points out, said that unbaptized children suffer only the “mildest condemnation” (whatever that is. A two-fingered eternal spanking perhaps?)

By: Bob

Bob — Sun, 22 Apr 2007 20:54:17 +0000

Now Meryl, it’s not nice to point to the frauds who claim they’re “Christian” as representative of the Faith – and yes, I did just call the Pope a fraud. Somehow I get the impression from the Christian Scriptures that Jesus wasn’t much into big mitred-hat pontification, big mega-church consumer marketing or big-haired televangelism. It seems to me G-d chooses the small things to show His greatness.

Yes, I must agree with you. You are indeed blessed to be among G-d’s Chosen People, but don’t let it go to your head. As the Christian Scriptures say: (1 Corinthians 1:26-29) For consider your calling, brethren, that there were not many wise according to the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble; but God has chosen the foolish things of the world to shame the wise, and God has chosen the weak things of the world to shame the things which are strong, and the base things of the world and the despised, God has chosen, the things that are not, that He might nullify the things that are, that no man should boast before God.

So call me a fool if you must – but flattery will get you nowhere.