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CF has always been a site that welcomes people from different backgrounds and beliefs to participate in discussion and even debate. That is the nature of its ministry. In view of recent events emotions are running very high. We need to remind people of some basic principles in debating on this site. We need to be civil when we express differences in opinion. No personal attacks. Avoid you, your statements. Don't characterize an entire political party with comparisons to Fascism or Communism or other extreme movements that committed atrocities. CF is not the place for broad brush or blanket statements about groups and political parties. Put the broad brushes and blankets away when you come to CF, better yet, put them in the incinerator. Debate had no place for them. We need to remember that people that commit acts of violence represent themselves or a small extreme faction.
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LIVE UPDATES: Shooting at Annunciation Catholic School in Minneapolis
- By RileyG
- One Bread, One Body - Catholic
- 27 Replies
May God grant the children who were killed eternal rest. May God comfort their families in his love. May Mary wrap all the children in her mantle. May St. Joseph wrap all the children in his cloak.Two children were killed and multiple victims injured in a shooting during an opening school year Mass at Annunciation Catholic Church in Minneapolis on Wednesday.
In times of tragedy, the Church turns to prayer. The Catholic Church believes that prayer can effect real change — not just in the heart of the person praying but in the world. The Catechism of the Catholic Church states: “Prayer and Christian life are inseparable” (CCC, 2745) and that prayer is a “vital necessity” (CCC, 2743).
The popular global prayer app Hallow haslaunched a prayer campaign for “healing for the injured, comfort for students, staff, and families, and the peace of Christ to be with all who were present.”
The Church also calls on the prayers of Mary and the saints to intercede for us. Below is a litany written specifically to be prayed after a school shooting.
Continued below.
United in prayer: A litany to be prayed after a school shooting
In times of tragedy, the Church turns to prayer. Here is a litany written specifically to be prayed after a school shooting.www.catholicnewsagency.com
Lord, in your mercy, hear our prayer!
Amen!
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What evidence is there for the historical events of Exodus, David, or Solomon?
- By Semper-Fi
- Congregation-specific Ethics
- 24 Replies
Lack of evidence does not always make something false.
When reading about a new archaeological discovery, we cannot casually
accept the media’s interpretation, especially if it discredits the Bible.
"Don’t take for granted that the experts are always right.
Always check the actual facts, and consider them
objectively alongside a thorough reading of the biblical text.
When we take this approach, we will often be surprised to
learn that many of the discoveries that supposedly
“disprove the Bible” actually do the opposite."
Case in point, some top archaeological discoveries in 2021
Top Discoveries of 2021 Held as Evidence Against the Bible—Except They're Not
An overview of 2021's most egregious (and occasionally hilarious) claims of archaeology 'disproving' the Bible
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I love the science of biblical Archaeology, and I think it is false to say that there is
"No" evidence on these subjects. Many articles on these subjects here. below.
Abraham
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The AIBA is a nonprofit, academic and education institution headquartered in Jerusalem, Israel. It sponsors and participates in archaeological excavations to promote Israel’s biblical archaeology.
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"Israel" - not in Egypt?
Armstrong Institute of Biblical Archaeology
The AIBA is a nonprofit, academic and education institution headquartered in Jerusalem, Israel. It sponsors and participates in archaeological excavations to promote Israel’s biblical archaeology.
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Armstrong Institute of Biblical Archaeology
The AIBA is a nonprofit, academic and education institution headquartered in Jerusalem, Israel. It sponsors and participates in archaeological excavations to promote Israel’s biblical archaeology.
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Moses
Armstrong Institute of Biblical Archaeology
The AIBA is a nonprofit, academic and education institution headquartered in Jerusalem, Israel. It sponsors and participates in archaeological excavations to promote Israel’s biblical archaeology.
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Exodus
Armstrong Institute of Biblical Archaeology
The AIBA is a nonprofit, academic and education institution headquartered in Jerusalem, Israel. It sponsors and participates in archaeological excavations to promote Israel’s biblical archaeology.
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Jerusalem
Armstrong Institute of Biblical Archaeology
The AIBA is a nonprofit, academic and education institution headquartered in Jerusalem, Israel. It sponsors and participates in archaeological excavations to promote Israel’s biblical archaeology.
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Uncovering the Bible’s Buried Cities: Jerusalem
How archaeological discoveries from Israel’s capital city correspond with biblical history.
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Armstrong Institute of Biblical Archaeology
The AIBA is a nonprofit, academic and education institution headquartered in Jerusalem, Israel. It sponsors and participates in archaeological excavations to promote Israel’s biblical archaeology.
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King David
Armstrong Institute of Biblical Archaeology
The AIBA is a nonprofit, academic and education institution headquartered in Jerusalem, Israel. It sponsors and participates in archaeological excavations to promote Israel’s biblical archaeology.
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King Solomon
Armstrong Institute of Biblical Archaeology
The AIBA is a nonprofit, academic and education institution headquartered in Jerusalem, Israel. It sponsors and participates in archaeological excavations to promote Israel’s biblical archaeology.
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the historical accuracy of the bible, not discrediting it.
“For thy servants take pleasure in her stones,
and favor the dust thereof” (Psalm 102:14).
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LIVE UPDATES: Shooting at Annunciation Catholic School in Minneapolis
- By RileyG
- One Bread, One Body - Catholic
- 27 Replies
Very well said, sir!I am not trying to trivialize the tragedy of this horrible situation, but it didn't take long for the extreme left wing to "not let this tragedy go to waste" and to start caterwauling for more gun control:
Klobuchar Calls for a National 'Assault Weapons' Ban in Wake of Minneapolis Shooting
Wednesday on MSNBC's "Ana Cabrera Reports," Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) said there needs to be a national ban on "assault weapons" when reacting to a Catholic school shooting in Minnesota. | Clipswww.breitbart.com
But the thing is, even if they had already confiscated every last firearm in the country, would it have made a difference?
No.
Because the problem is not access to guns. Timothy McVeigh killed 168 people with fertilizer and fuel oil. The 9/11 jihadists killed 2,996 people with airplanes. In New York City, 87 people were killed by arson when a guy set a building on fire with $1.00 worth of gasoline. In Japan, terrorists killed 13 people with sarin gas released into the subways. In China, a mass stabbing attack with knives left 33 people dead and 143 more injured. 84 people were killed in Nice, France, when a guy ran over a crowd pf people with a truck.
The choice of weapon is irrelevant, because it's not the problem. The problem is that we have no standards of moral restraint left in this country any more. 60 years ago, people had guns, too, but nobody went out and shot up schools and churches. Now why was that?
Because 60 years ago, we still had a standard of Judeo-Christian morality in America. The Left removed that, and along with it, the fear of eternal consequences. There is no fear of eternal punishment after death in our culture. People grow up with no knowledge of God, and what little they do know, they mock. They think that after you die, it's oblivion. So, they have no qualms about doing things like this, because they have no concept of consequences. In the past, when we still had a Judeo-Christian moral structure in our society, people were dissuaded from doing horrific acts like this out of a dread of everlasting hellfire. But they no longer believe in hell; or in a devil; or even in the existence of evil. And until our culture reverses that trend, stuff like this will continue. It's a cultural and ethical problem, not a weapon problem. Blaming guns for school shootings is like blaming forks for obesity.
And then, there is also the aspect that at least five of the mass shooters over the last ten years or so (including the Minneapolis shooter) were transgender....and an even larger number of them had some kind of mental aberration or condition, or had a history of being bullied, or were reclusive in some way, existing on the fringes of society. Again: 60 years ago, most of those people would have been in institutions, off the streets, and receiving some sort of care. But from the early 1960s up to the present time, facilities that would have treated people like this have been shut down: resident occupants of psychiatric institutions have fallen by 93% since 1955. The "halfway houses" or "community-based treatment" ideas never developed, with the result that a lot of mentally ill people ended up on the streets, and newer patients that came along had no place to go, either. Some of those people became shooters.
The conclusion is that blaming the gun will not solve the problem, because the gun is not at the root of the problem. Spiritual nihilism, lack of a moral compass, mental illness, and societal problems like school bullying, domestic abuse, alcoholism, and drug abuse are.
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LIVE UPDATES: Shooting at Annunciation Catholic School in Minneapolis
- By RileyG
- One Bread, One Body - Catholic
- 27 Replies
Not surprising, sadly
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Mass Shooting at Annunciation Catholic Church/School in Minneapolis
- By RileyG
- News & Current Events (Articles Required)
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He was a young man with a serious mental illness. That's a fact.
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