The founder of the Domino’s Pizza chain is building the first town in the United States to be run on strict Catholic principles.Tom Monaghan says pharmacies in the new Florida town of Ave Maria will not be allowed to sell condoms or birth control pills, and the town’s cable television network will carry no X-rated channels, the Sunday Times of London reported.The town, being built 90 miles northwest of Miami, will be centered around the first Catholic university to be built in the United States in 40 years.The land on the western edge of the Everglades swamp will eventually house up to 30,000 people, with 5,000 students living on the university campus.Civil rights activists concerned about the separation of church and state are threatening lawsuits if Ave Maria attempts to enforce Catholic dogma, the newspaper said.(UPI)
Hey! What a great idea! Let’s use money to make a town where the Constitutional law need not apply — where the religious text rules everyone’s lives, believer or not! We can call it Iraq! No! Afghanistan! No! Domino-ville!Now, if only we could come up with a place where everyone could practice as they see fit, providing they don’t infringe on another’s right to do the same. Where church was literally separated from the state by some sort of secular law…
mxracer:
That sounds terribly odd.
“Aye, we’re ‘unting a wild pig w/a sheet of ploiwood. This is a stupid, stupid idea. Crikey! There ‘e is now!”
(apologies to any Australians out there who take offense: sorry!)
What is the name of that crazed Aussie who does all those scary feats w/dangerous animals, anyways.
LMAO! Never heard THAT 1 before.
Jaydave:
After that, do you ‘warsh the cah?’ Or is that another state?
Jaydave
I’m actually getting all messed up. I moved from NJ to NC and I’m now mixing it together. I’m saying things like “I might could do that” and “I need to get up with him” (NC stuff) and still saying “yestaday” and “cawfee” (obviously Jersey).
‘I look around me and I see the stars, the sun, the moon, and I marvel at how perfectly it is all made’ – InHisService
Oh no, not this tired old cliche again. Is this supposed to constitute evidence of ‘divine creation’ IHS?
When a state of perfection is reached, that which is perfect has no need to, and can in fact no longer, develop, grow and change. After all, it’s perfect! The ability to change would be redundant and meaningless.
However, change is a universal constant, we see it everywhere all the time. IHS, are you aware of the fact that stars, planets, moons and other celestial objects have what could be termed life cycles? That stars eventually die out? If they were perfect, wouldn’t they last forever?
You also state, ‘amazingly, God has always been at my side’. That’s quite a claim to make. Any evidence to back this up? Why should anyone believe you? Have you been hearing voices as well? Perhaps you should get this checked out, you might be suffering from the early stages of schizophrenia.
InHisName-
Hope you didn’t yell at that “Holy Spirit. Its been a while, but I think I remember reading in one of the M gospels that if you do so, eternal hellfire.
Don’t limit me to Christianity, I make fun of all of them except Islam. I value my life.
Nope. Mostly normal deaths for my family.
Actually, I changed in high school. In a dominant Christian community with no help from others. Take that!
Okay. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!
*_* REALLY WOW, someone loves me! So, when do we get hitched. Wait, first I must know if your rich. I promised myself that I would marry someone rich. I don’t mind Jesus either, threesomes are hot.
Well, I feel much better now.
Hi Y’all-
It has been a while since I checked in, but after a day surrounded by self-righteous people with smudges on their foreheads (one looked like Texas!), I needed some of your wit, humor, and intelligence! It is funny that there are still people who do this: and who the he__ would send their kids to a Catholic College in a Catholic town… think about it. It sounds like a sci fi horror flick.
inhisname,
god by your side all the time . . . yuk!
god the eternal voye*ur
god the peeping tom
god the creator of evil because if god didn?t create evil, then who did?
god the sadist, that?s the father
god the exhibitionistic masochist, that?s the son
god the criminal
god the psychopath
god the limiter of dreams
god the devourer of freedom
god the shithead, reduced to
god the shit
warsh the cah is more Boston but its close with the Northern NJ and NY accents !!!! We like to think of NJ as two states NORTH and SOUTH !!! so different if you travel the whole state !!! North is more NY city like , south is more Philly like !!! SO our accent is kinda south philly meets new york I guess !!!!! I still hate WOODER but I can not stop saying it
RA,
This is how it goes, cut a 12″ hole 12″ from the long edge of the plywood, in the center of the sheet, and paint it a dark color on one side. Next, you surround a pig with a few people, trapping it. The plywood is carried into the circle, painted side facing the center, with the long edge closest to the hole groundside. Close the circle tighter toward the pig, and it will run @ the plywood, thinking the hole is an escape route, except the hole isn’t big enough for it to fit through, and it gets momentarily stuck. Then you hit it over the head w/ a blunt object, thus preventing any injuries.
Steve Irwin I think.
Gotta ‘fess up about the Manson-Nixon line, it was from a Robin Williams stand-up show in late 70′s.
In his service
I for one do NOT wonder about where god is. I do not believe in such. I do not have a need to be subordinate to anything. I have no need to worship nor to find reason that is beyond this life.
What I do have is freedom. A freedom that can never be found in worship or servitude. A freedom that the founders of this nation were seeking when they seperated themselves from a people who believed in rulers and kings and subjugation of people. We live today closer to that freedom in spite of religions and their political allies. Because we choose freely without mental constraints.
Pray all you want , it does not work Love all you want it is good for YOU. Stop pretending you know what is good for us when your own religions are at war for no real reason.
In other words thank you for your well wishes but no thanks.
MX; so that’s how they make bacon
JIM
Mesoforte, mxracer Peach or anyone,
a simple 3 minute test.
http://www.alphadictionary.com/articles/yankeetest.html
Txatheist-
47% Dixie. Barely in Yankeedom.
My mom sent me this test a while back. Fun times.
Man was some of the answers weird, 24% Dixie, confirms my suspicions
Once again, here we are…
How can God be perfect?
If he was -perfect- before the creation of the world, then he’d be LESS after making this playground we live in.
Because if you take away from, or add to, perfection, you RUIN the perfection, itself.
Perfection can only be self-contained.
So, god can NEVER be more than a demi-urge version at MOST.
Interesting test. I was 61% Dixie.
The ghosts of Scarlett & Rhett will probably haunt me because I wasn’t 80% or more.
20% Dixie. But then again a Hoagie is not a po-boy and vice a versa. And subway doesn’t have hoagies either. They have sandwiches.
46% Dixie, which is really odd considering the fact that I was born in England and have lived in Australia since 1970. Oh well, it was multiple choice so I guess it was bound to happen.
I don’t suppose there are any tests like this that compare the differences between English-speaking countries (ex. Canada & New Zealand)?
24% Dixie. You are a Yankee Doodle Dandy.
whew!
“I’m a yankee doodle dandy, a yankee doodle do or die. A real live nephew of my uncle sam, born on the 4th of July.”
22% Dixie. You are a Yankee Doodle Dandy.
No surprise there.
34% Dixie. You are definitely a Yankee.
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