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09-09-2007, 06:51 PM | #1 |
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09-09-2007, 08:36 PM | #8 |
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09-09-2007, 09:48 PM | #10 |
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The opus dei is the new catholic elite, the old catholic elite used to be the jesuits (funny how both jesuits and opus dei were created in Spain)
Opus dei has universities, people with a lot of money, their christianity is closer to protestant work ethic, they teach people that they can live holy lives thru their normal work, that they dont need to be priests or nuns to be holy, that a lawyer or an accountant can be holy. Opus dei economists are quite right wing and libertarian, of the austrian type, in comparison jesuits, who also are quite intellectual, have universities, are seen as leftist, supporters of commie-catholicism liberation theology, decadent and prone to heresy and relativism etc |
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09-10-2007, 12:29 AM | #11 |
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Originally posted by Aivo˝so
On the topic of Christian cults... I'm currently serving in the Finnish Defence Forces and during my basic training period I shared my room with a guy who was a member of some Christian sect with origins in the US Midwest, some Identity Ministries blahblah. I've previously read a lot of stuff by similar people on the Internet but this was the first time I saw one of these guys live. My first impression of the guy was that he seemed to be pretty nice, polite and helpful, a person that anyone could get well along with. Then, gradually, he started exposing his religious and social views which included not only denial of evolution, but also extermination of the Jews (who, according to him, are the seeds of Satan), the Muslims who he thought were attempting to destroy our culture from the inside and the usual jazz, and gays, because he thought the Bible said that homosexuality was wrong. According to him, black people could be spared if they first would be "corrected". He had with him a lot of American-published books about biblical explanations of race differences and crap like that by nutjobs with "doctoral degrees" from some American joke universities. Every now and then he would start trying to convert the rest of the people in our room to his beliefs. I had, and still have, a hard time believing he was being serious even though I saw this with my own eyes. Considering that he otherwise seemed to be such a sympathetic person, his views seemed like a mental straitjacket that he willingly had accepted to wear. Religious idiocy like this should definitely be placed under a worldwide ban. I think it's hilarious yet sad that you finish off your condemnation of intolerance with a call to silence a whole group of people. |
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09-10-2007, 12:43 AM | #13 |
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09-10-2007, 01:51 AM | #17 |
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