you're
right the church probably will be there long after any of us cease to exist but it stands to reason that it is going down... as more people come to the realization that the belief in a deity is not necessary to live, the less need there will be for a church to exist.
Not exact matches
Even if you believe God is vanishingly unlikely to exist, the consequence of being wrong (Hell) is so great, and the benefits of being
right (not having to go to
church on Sundays) so comparatively miniscule, that you should
probably just believe in God to be on the safe side.
Fishon, you are
probably right about the numbers of
churches that specifically ban gay people.
He was
probably right, but I couldn't help thinking that perhaps he also only felt so strongly about the issue because of the kind of
church he grew up in.
The idea of a smaller more focused
church is
probably the
right move.
The Magi were
probably Babylonian astrologers, and the
church has been
right in reading this story as one concerning the relevance of Jesus to the Gentile world as well as to the Jewish world.
If they are totally closed to getting
right with God, then I would tell them they
probably should stop their sinful behavior, and that if they want to come to your
church, that they need to lay off the public display because it could corrupt the people in the
church.
At seminary, I talk with students and ask them where they are going to
church and why, and so far, I have only met two other students — and I've
probably asked fifty students so far — I've only met two other students who are looking for a
church that is
right on the gospel and preaches the Word.
(I called out the cliques in the
church...
probably not in the
right manner, but my inexperience did not negate the truth).
I was not aware of this history of the word, and you are
probably right that it has led to people viewing
church as an institution.
Right now, there are
probably lots of abusers out there in the world hiding and being protected by the catholic
church.
how does fair, unbiased CNN, AKA ACNN (Anderson Cooper News Network) pick and choose stories as noteworthy... a comment is made by a very elderly priest,
probably not quoted properly, and is «front page news» on CNN's website... this same man (priest) has written many great books, done a lot of great charity work in the poorer parts of New York and nothing is ever posted on the website... but something is said incorrectly and its published... is this fair, is it
right, is it unbiased or is the motivation to make an entire
Church lokk bad and let the anti-Catholic screwballs have their heyday in hateful posts... I didn't see this wonderful netwrok post anything about the disgusting, bigoted and hateful attacks, written by the liberal left wing media elites, like Maureen Dowd, against Rep. Paul Ryan and his Catholic faith... it's all acceptable to you liberal HYPOCRITES!
Again and again I have stressed: We are
probably all murderers, thieves and sadists, but we have done little or nothing to stop the evil, and beyond all, we, that is the
Church, have failed, for we knew the wrong and the
right path, but we did not warn the people and allowed them to rush forward to their doom.
We are
probably all murderers, thieves and sadists, but we have done little or nothing to stop the evil, and beyond all, we, that is the
Church, have failed, for we knew the wrong and the
right path, but we did not warn the people and allowed them to rush forward to their doom.
They are
probably within their legal
rights, but the story is the likelihood that this will just pile on reasons why young people will turn away from not only the
churches but their educational insti «tutions.
A little later my dad came in and sat down on the edge of the bed and said quietly that we should have a conversation about Sunday Mass, and
probably I was now old enough to make my own decisions about attending Mass, that he and my mother did not think it
right or fair to force that decision on us children, that we needed to find our own ways spiritually, and that while he and our mother very much hoped that we would walk in the many rewarding paths of the
Church, the final decision there would be ours alone, each obeying his own conscience; that was only
right and fair, and to decree attendance now would perhaps actually force us away from the very thing that he and my mother found to be the most nutritious spiritual food; so perhaps you and I and your mother can sit and discuss this later this afternoon, he said, and come to some amicable agreement.
Most ConservativeHome readers
probably don't agree with the decision of the
Church of England not to allow women bishops, but will will think the
Church has the
right to organise and make decisions about its own affairs without interference from politicians.
Named la Iglesia (the
Church) by the Spanish,
probably because it was located
right next to the Nunnery, this temple is one of the oldest buildings at Chichén Itzá.