I said, "Die, heretic!" And I pushed him over.
Ah, Emo Phillips, you brilliant freak, you.
Or maybe you could just be Buffy, he'll see your amazing heart, and he'll fall in love with you.
Xander ,'Get It Done'
Spike's Bitches 43: Who am I kidding? I love to brag.
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
Miracleman - Jan 29, 2009 8:19:24 am PST #9515 of 10000
No, I don't think I will - me, quoting Captain Steve Rogers, to all of 2020
Trudy Booth - Jan 29, 2009 8:34:52 am PST #9516 of 10000
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
Oh, like Pierce Brosnan needed to be ANY MORE APPEALING [link]
Stephanie - Jan 29, 2009 8:40:22 am PST #9517 of 10000
Trust my rage
Trudy, that link took me to "Stars Ups and Downs"
Steph L. - Jan 29, 2009 8:50:02 am PST #9518 of 10000
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
Yeah, thinking about this led me to thinking about all the people who lived and died without hearing about Jesus
There's another branch too, that believes that those who never had the chance to accept Christ will have the opportunity to do so in the afterlife. Which leads to a conundrum when you're the same age as wee Catholic Glamcookie, something along the lines of, "then shouldn't we try to avoid proselytizing anyone because we surely will do a lousier job of it than Jesus, you know, in the actual afterlife?"
While I obviously don't know if it's existentially true, I love what C.S. Lewis said on this topic: "Is it not frightfully unfair that this new life should be confined to people who have heard of Christ and been able to believe in Him? But the truth is God has not told us what His arrangements about the other people are. We do know that no man can be saved except through Christ; we do not know that only those who know Him can be saved through Him."
erikaj - Jan 29, 2009 9:07:39 am PST #9519 of 10000
Always Anti-fascist!
It's too early for Coultergeist, y'all. Do you think she's like that all the time? Like, is that who the old gang from high school remembers too? Her calling the biology teacher a "liberal moron"? I don't know why I care...
Burrell - Jan 29, 2009 10:13:21 am PST #9520 of 10000
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
I'm not sure which branch of doctrine this belongs to, but apparently one purpose of Purgatory is for the righteous heathens, the ones like the Ancient Greeks who never had the chance to hear the gospel but who lived good lives. Or maybe it's the first circle of Hell in Dante.
My memory says this is the first circle of Hell in Dante, but memory is a shifty beast.
juliana - Jan 29, 2009 10:24:38 am PST #9521 of 10000
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…
My memory says this is the first circle of Hell in Dante, but memory is a shifty beast.
Your memory is correct. First Circle of Hell is Limbo, which is where the unbaptized & righteous pagans live. I don't know if Dante based it on any doctrine, but that's where he meets up with Virgil et al.
tommyrot - Jan 29, 2009 10:35:02 am PST #9522 of 10000
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
First Circle of Hell is Limbo, which is where the unbaptized & righteous pagans live.
So they're stuck there for all eternity?
juliana - Jan 29, 2009 10:39:10 am PST #9523 of 10000
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…
So they're stuck there for all eternity?
As far as I know, but Limbo is described as a pretty decent place. There's fields and a castle, and, um, other things....
(It's been a while since I read The Divine Comedy, I should re-read it.)
tommyrot - Jan 29, 2009 11:00:20 am PST #9524 of 10000
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
As far as I know, but Limbo is described as a pretty decent place. There's fields and a castle, and, um, other things....
Huh. Although that means when you die, you could end up in Heaven, Hell, or the place that's pretty decent.
So what do you have to do to be a Righteous Pagan? If you're exposed to the Gospel but reject Jesus anyway, do you lose the Righteous Pagan option?