:right: ..but the takeaway is that the church is subservient to jesus, as a wife is subservient to her husband. So much for celebrating the feminine.

By the way, can you guess who wrote this:

i wish it was me, but the "peace be upon ...." blessing suggests to me that it was a muslim.

I'd heard that Ahmadinejad wrote a Christmas message, and this sounds a lot like his letter to W.

Google confirms:

http://www.president.ir/eng/ahmadine...02/index-e.htm

UT ftw, good one Pie.

UT got it.
Phil, you wackadoo -- you stay away from my rights and merits! Thank you for illustrating that all groups have their crazy emmer-effers.

The Bride of Christ citatation would appear to be from the Catholic Catechism, which is scarcely an independent source of historical data. :)

The quote about Christian treatment of women coming from a Muslim is actually pretty damn funny, considering the status of women as property in most of the Muslim world.

maybe he meant?
 

Yes, that is how I read it.
Oh! perhaps he was suggesting that JC was against women's rights... Okay, I invite clarification from Phil.

Doh! Yup, I misread it. It is a perfectly normal comment, once you read it right. Normal for a patriarchal, bass-ackwards philosophy, that is.

All I gotta say is if the Virgin Mary is the role model for all women---you boys better get to know Rosy and her five friends a lot better.


/muses/ I wonder if Amandinejad's mother managed to accomplish Virgin Birth? /muses/

well ... i was right about it being a muslim! :p
and i do wish i had faith and wasnt a total atheist, so that i could delude myself that there is a god, and an afterlife, but i dont, and there it is.

Clarififcation : JC intended his church / message to be carried on through his most beloved and dedicated disciple, Mary Magdalene.

Hey, wait a minute....phil...Philistine:worried: ....Arrrhhhh clopclopclopclop..slam...pitter patter pitter patter...slam... pant pant pant

suits me sir. :p

Naw, you ain't scary....sorry. :D