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Recent content by Oleaster

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    I’m a Pro-choice Catholic

    I'm literally LOL at this. (No offense. Sincerely. God bless you.) If you are interested, please read my last post (quoted below), or at least the brief discussion of Tolkien's political thought linked in it... and linked here, just for you. Perhaps there is clarity. I'm done with this...
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    I’m a Pro-choice Catholic

    Thanks. This has been a hilarious exercise in futility. I have laughed a great deal. It’s quite funny to me that someone (not myself) introduced the term “strategy” into this thread, and it has reappeared a time or two, yet no one seems to have grasped my true strategy, which is not political...
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    I’m a Pro-choice Catholic

    If pro-choice means “in favor of women choosing to murder children,” then yes, I suppose so. But if pro-choice is interpreted as I have repurposed it here, to mean literally what it says, “in favor of choices,” then it means only that I am for personal freedom and responsibility. The label...
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    I’m a Pro-choice Catholic

    You didn’t come off snotty or dude. Or if you did, I am too dead to notice. :) I hope I am not coming off like that either. I’m just talking. Catholic social teaching urges us all to get involved, but it doesn’t make a lot of concrete demands as to political means. Many Catholics seem...
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    I’m a Pro-choice Catholic

    Ah. That’s cool. We needn’t agree. Gubmint gonna keep gubminting. Sinners gonna keep sinning. This Catholic’s gonna keep praying. :oldthumbsup:
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    What's wrong with Communion in the hand?

    A History of Communion on the Hand The True Story of Communion in the Hand Revealed
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    I’m a Pro-choice Catholic

    Here is one person the government does not need to protect: me. I literally don’t need it. God protects me. And if it is His will that I be defrauded or attacked, so be it. You know how many times I have called the police in my life? Never. Not that I haven’t suffered all kinds of...
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    I’m a Pro-choice Catholic

    Heh. I too have managed to avoid murder (thus far). But even if murder were legal, I wouldn’t seriously consider it. For one thing, murder is ugly and turns my stomach. For another, I have God’s law, which shall never be annulled. It is curious though that the murder rate, while fluctuating...
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    I’m a Pro-choice Catholic

    What I’m actually saying is that I don’t believe that this particular government’s making abortion illegal will turn out good. Maybe it’ll happen though, and we’ll see how it goes. I offer no moral support for abortion. I also offer no moral support for this tyrannical government. I don’t...
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    I’m a Pro-choice Catholic

    Okay, Pope. I recant. J/K. You misunderstand me. I am not convinced of error. I think my views align with the Church’s social teaching, particularly as articulated by Dorothy Day, who is currently up for sainthood. But if I am in error, please convince me. We are indeed in a constant...
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    I’m a Pro-choice Catholic

    It’s not about law. You misread me. I literally don’t care what imperial laws you manage to pass or revoke. Have at it, if you can. (I don’t think you can actually pass or revoke any law, by the way. I think you, like me, shall have laws passed for you by those in power who claim to...
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    I’m a Pro-choice Catholic

    I’m not offended by anyone... ever. From my perspective, truth is an offense, but truth is not an offense to me. I love truth. Anything besides truth is not my concern. As far as force, everyone is free to use all the force they want. Forceful people don’t offend me in the least. I’m dead...
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    I’m a Pro-choice Catholic

    Indeed, I make myself vulnerable. That is something Christ has done for me, convinced me to abandon myself entirely. That is an assumption. I have not opined on your rights nor on those of Christians in the main. When it comes to politics, I myself am more interested in duties than in...
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    I’m a Pro-choice Catholic

    I thought I answered directly. When you ask “Should we expect,” I don’t know to whom you refer as we. I speak for myself, which is of course why I needn’t elect any so-called representative to “re-present” me somewhere that I have never been present, much less presume to speak for me there...
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    I’m a Pro-choice Catholic

    I have spoken and declared abortion to be murder and discouraged every mother from getting one. To “give warning” is a lot different from coercing someone. Agreed. But Christ makes us free to do what we ought, as per John 8:36. Unbelievers are not so free. I declare to unbelievers and...