To speak to all those Christians in Latin America. Duh.
Perfect? Then how will I recognize it? My soul will spend eternity wandering Heaven’s parking lot, wishing it weren’t open 24-7 so I could hop into the last empty body.
OMG Ma Ferguson has come back from the grave! Just when I thought Texas couldn’t get any more bizarro.
And one question - if this show is aimed at fundies, why is it on Wednesday nights, when many of them are in church?
And FTR the Lutheran church encourages organ donation, but leaves the decision up to the individual Christian. Any demonination that forbids it is making things up, as the Bible never addresses the situation.
They are, however, firmly against euthanasia. I personally don’t see pulling the plug on a PVS patient as euthanasia though, and the church’s website doesn’t say anything specific about that type of situation that I can find, so I don’t know what the “official” word is.
(*note: I lead a Wednesday night meeting for our youth group - but I’m not a “fundie”… I hope) :eek:
Heh. At some point (around the 9th century) it was taught that as part of this “perfection” process, all women would be resurrected as men.
The RCC permits the removal of heart and/or lung machines (and posiibly machines working for other critical organs–I don’t have and exhaustive list handy) for a person in a PVS. It has actually had this policy explicitly since the early 1950s. It does not support the removal of feeding tubes from persons whose hearts and lungs will continue to function without the support of a ventilator or other equipment–hence the Franciscan brothers hanging out with Ms. Schiavo’s parents in her last days. (Rants and disputes with this policy should be taken up in another thread. I’m just noting the specific position to keep this thread from further divergences.)
I watched it. I was bored, and the paper had given it a good write-up.
It was typical psuedo-religious garbage, but not any worse than any of the other crap about “the end of times”.
I’m surprised no one has mentioned yet that girl in the PVT was in… FLORIDA!! How conVENient…
The Latin thing was pretty funny. You have to wonder, why couldn’t they have used Greek or Aramaic? Afther Mel’s movie, everyone at least knows about Aramaic now. If they used Greek, they could have thrown in a little educational 2 liner:
Skeptical Doctor: Why is she speaking Greek and not Latin?
Wise, in-the-know Nun: Most people think the NT was written in Latin, but it was actually written in Greek and only later translated in Latin.
I did think the murderer guy was kind of an interesting character. I’ll probably watch another episode or two just to find out what happens to him.
Sheesh. PVT should have been PVS (persistant vegetative state). Or was it PMS? I always get those acronyms mixed up. 
Oh, so this “Book of Joel” is in the Old Testament. Thought they said it was in the Bible.
“Come thou unto me, Virginia. Don’t let me wait.
Ye Catholic girls start much too late…”
I was actually planning on writing them a letter about the freaking organ donation thing. It was so damn ridiculous. Generally it wouldn’t have upset me so much but recent happenings make me realise that some people actually store up this type of information as fact.
I thought it was a good show well produced and acted. I don’t think that it pretended to be from a strictly Catholic perspective. The bottom line is that if you hate religion then you will probably not like the show.
Very likely. If you hate religion and love Jesus, it will really piss you off.
And clearly if you don’t like the show, then you must hate religion.
You’re from Texas originally, right? Figures. 
Q.E.D.
Woah woah woah, hold on there, Poindexter! Nobody told me there was gonna be learning! I’ll thank you to keep your egghead buzzkills out of my entertainment, sir.
Last night I was kidnapped, tied up and forced to watch that show… oh well, I just had 40 minutes to kill before the newest episody of L&O started and I decided to waste almost an hour on my life on that show.
You guys already mentioned all the things that bugged me about that show, specially the not-so-subttle exploitation of the Schiavo case, but I was even more miffed at them for portraying somebody pissed off at god as an atheist. Atheists are not pissed at god, we don’t believe there is a god.
The acting sucks too. And so did that episode of L&O. I want those two hours of my life back.
Saints are note really looked at like that, they are not demigods or special in that way. Instead they are regarded as people who lived the way we all should, and are honored for that. Also, we do not really pray to saints. It’s more like asking them to do you a favor and put a good word in with Da Big Boss. It’s silly, but some people do it. I like the bit about St. Jude (patron of hopeless causes). I wonder. Think he can help my Mets? (grin)
ROFL. I can just imagine that, all the dead folks in heaven, getting reaquainted.
“Hey Jack! Come on over and say hi to my wife Mike and my daughter Ralph” :eek:
But that’s the problem–from a fundie POV exalting certain people as examples of holiness is idolatry because (in their view) the only example of virtue we should look to is Jesus and noone else.
Ahem, it’s still prayer. I was raised Catholic and I was taught to say prayers to certain saints for particular favors (although I’m sure that had to have changed over the past 40 years). Some Catholics still pray to saints:
It may only be intercessionary prayer, but from a Protestant POV any attention paid to any supernatural entity other than Jesus is sinful. IMO, I’m guessing that the practice of praying to saints is a survival of pagan Roman religion in which Romans prayed to a host of household gods and minor deities for help in life’s daily troubles.