Zone1 What with the rainbow flags on chruches?

[Polishprince]

Before abortion was even an issue, Pope Paul VI was praying over the decision about introducing birth control pills to the Catholic faith. In the Catholic faith, new life is seen as one of God's greatest gifts to mankind. Family life is also considered central to faith as it is our first example of community life and from there life in the Body of Christ. The Body of Christ are all those who believe in Christ--both the living and those who have passed on. This is our life centered around God.

Pope Paul prayed for guidance from the Holy Spirit. And what he saw was sex being taken from the context of family life into recreational sex outside of family life. (Fire in a fireplace good; wild fire, not so much.) But what he saw extended further. Sex would no longer be centered on new life, but recreational pleasure with no concern for life. And where there is no concern for life, comes dismissal of life, not only through abortion but with euthanasia as well. God is life. With the dismissal of life comes the dismissal of God who is life, who brings life.

With the breakdown of the family comes the breakdown of community, which brings fractures into the Church, into the Body of Christ.

The world has seen this before with the breakdown of Empires. The Roman Empire is a prime example. Worldly pleasures and recreation took priority over spiritual realities and kingdom living. Throughout Biblical history, what ultimately survives and what failure brings pain and suffering? People/communities of faith survive through times of famine and war. Worldly pleasures descend into a world of hurt.

That, while in prayer, is what Pope Paul VI envisioned, and so in good conscience could not approve birth control for Catholics. He envisioned a slippery slope that would not end well for the people.

Birth control was prohibited in the RCC long before Paul VI came around.

 

[zaangalewa]

I suppose it is nice as well as necessary, if the goal is to glorify Sodomy.

Hmmm ... from our German point of view the English culture is often "verklemmt" ... = "jammed" ... no idea whether this word makes any sense in your language.

I'm sure the churches in the ancient city of Sodom had them displayed.

And I am sure your brain plays with you continuously strange violent games because this is normal for your culture. For me is everything in this context much more simple. Everyone is welcome - however god made someone to be. And I think in general it is good to accept what god decided us to be and to fight what god not decided us to be. But this are very individual questions and I'm sure I have not all answers for all this questions. But I'm sure whoever has problems with sexuality - or no problem with sexuality - is welcome under god's rainbow. A rainbow always shines when the sky, the heaven, is weeping. Jesus said: "Come to me, all you who labor and are heavy laden."

I think it exist reasons why the so called "LGBTQ" (and whatever else letter) community asked god for help with the rainbow flag - whether to know this or not to know this. I for sure have no problems with anyone who seeks god and I'm ready to help if I am able to help. And every rainbow flag is for me a joyful and hopeful flag - independent from anything else than the rainbow of god. A rainbow flag in front of a church is a wonderful flag. All light colors together are pure white light.

 

[BreezeWood]

The libtard churches want to claim the rainbow flag for inclusion of gay people. But remember that God used a rainbow to say to Noah that he wouldn't flood the world again. The Noah version is the true meaning of the rainbow flag in my opinion.

all flags use the rainbow one way or another theirs is simply expressing unity for differing points of view - if you don't like unity, live on the moon.

 

[Meriweather]

Birth control was prohibited in the RCC long before Paul VI came around.

Artificial means, yes.

 

[zaangalewa]

Birth control was prohibited in the RCC long before Paul VI came around.

What's totally wrong. Birth control is also today not any problem for us Catholics and our church. Only some methods are a problem. Perhaps today the greater problem is that many Catholics have no or very few children. Who has children likes to see them grow in a nice hopeful world. Did we lose our optimism? I will not hope so.

 

[zaangalewa]

all flags use the rainbow one way or another theirs is simply expressing unity for differing points of view - if you don't like unity, live on the moon.

... ¿because you like unity?

 

[Zincwarrior]

I can understand that some churches approve of sodomy and no longer consider it a sin.

But why is it necessary to put a flag celebrating the practice on the front door of a church?

Churches who are ok with drinking and grass smoking, don't put flags celebrating those activities in front of their sanctuaries.

Why is the glorification of sodomy insisted on nowadays by the religious left, and acceptance isn't enough?

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A reminder, the rainbow is also the symbol of the covenant between God and Humanity.

 

[Polishprince]

A reminder, the rainbow is also the symbol of the covenant between God and Humanity.

Sure.

But the symbol has been hijacked in recent decades by the Booty Bandits. And now it means to please drop the soap in the shower.

 

[zaangalewa]

I will never understand a religions issue with contraception.

The problems are similar to the use of consciousness-altering drugs. Many people do what they indeed not really like to do or what's not good to do at all. Self-determination and self-control as well as health and life are very important goods.

 

[Zincwarrior]

Sure.

But the symbol has been hijacked in recent decades by the Booty Bandits. And now it means to please drop the soap in the shower.

You seem very afraid of the "booty bandits" as you call them. ANy other sins you post threads about?

 

[dblack]

Are you trying to make a point?
With dblack ,you asserted that God loves faggotry….I schooled you on it. Did I assert that God loves adultery?

I was just going by all the Jesus "love they neighbor" bullshit. Clearly, he doesn't know squat.

 

[Zincwarrior]

I was just going by all the Jesus "love they neighbor" bullshit. Clearly, he doesn't know squat.

I see what you did there.

 

[Unkotare]

That’s exactly what I’d try to believe if I were living the life of a piece of dogshit human being.

YOU would have to improve quite a bit to get up to that level.

 

[BrokeLoser]

YOU would have to improve quite a bit to get up to that level.

I see what you did there.

I was just going by all the Jesus "love they neighbor" bullshit. Clearly, he doesn't know squat.

Translation:
“I really miss those traditional hardcore Bible thumping ‘Conservatives’….the ones who didn’t conserve, preserve or protect anything, the ones with no ball-sack, the one’s that would polish the AR-15’s they’d never have the nuts to use, the foolish suckers we could easily bully, easily steer their way of thinking by throwing a Bible verse in their face…we could get those passive dumbass pussies to accept anything with a simple guilt trip. DAMNIT…The nutless bastards finally grew a pair of balls and now they won’t ignore us filthy, disgusting, immoral globalist degenerates as we run amok, trashing and transforming their nation into the no borders, no boundaries anything goes dark socialist foreign shithole we seek.”

 

[dblack]

Translation:
“I really miss those traditional hardcore Bible thumping ‘Conservatives’….the ones who didn’t conserve, preserve or protect anything, the ones with no ball-sack, the one’s that would polish the AR-15’s they’d never have the nuts to use, the foolish suckers we could easily bully, easily steer their way of thinking by throwing a Bible verse in their face…we could get those passive dumbass pussies to accept anything with a simple guilt trip. DAMNIT…The nutless bastards finally grew a pair of balls and now they won’t ignore us filthy, disgusting, immoral globalist degenerates as we run amok, trashing and transforming their nation into the no borders, no boundaries anything goes dark socialist foreign shithole we seek.”

Translation: "Goatse"

 

[Unkotare]

That the cowardly weakling brokeloser tries to talk like a tough guy is too funny.

 

[BrokeLoser]

That the cowardly weakling brokeloser tries to talk like a tough guy is too funny.

Funnier than a male teacher trying to act tough?

 

[BreezeWood]

... ¿because you like unity?

yes ...

united states of america - melting pot of the world ... bill of rights. secular nation.

* not just a bunch of desert dwellers - zaan.