Life / Is Poland a safe country for people of color? [241]

Very well put, enkidu. Most Poles are indifferent to things around them. They won't pester you unless they are drunks and you find such people in so many places in the world.

Oh, and even the drunks in Poland are not that persistent. I've never had a problem with gypsies either. They tend to go away quite quickly, unlike in Skopje (Macedonia). I was so close to giving a Crocop kick to the head to one there but he was young and I can't go about doing that. He harassed me enough though.

Poland is fairly safe if you avoid the skinheads.

News / GERMANS WANT TO GERMANIZE KOPERNIK (COPERNICUS)! OUTRAGE! [1016]

You want the truth? You can't handle the truth ;) :)

Let's say Copernicus was Scottish. Scotland, the land of the inventor :)

We'd've called him Coppie :)

News / What's the stupidest question asked about Poland? [414]

The Japanese are very insular so that doesn't come as a surprise.

What next, 'does Poland have a Parliament?', LOL

News / Crucifixes to stay in Polish schools [364]

No problems, it happens :) Christians forgive :) At least the ones that know why they are Christians and don't just slap on labels ;)

News / Crucifixes to stay in Polish schools [364]

Delph, they even signed an agreement to that effect. Google Kakadardevo Agreement. It was abandoned in light of subsequent developments.

Anyway, this is about crucifixes in Polish schools. Did you go to church in Scotland, delph? What Catholic schools were there in Aberdeen other than St Josephs? Are you religious?

News / Crucifixes to stay in Polish schools [364]

You completely missed the point, M-G. The Germans precipitated the Yugoslav War by expediting the independence of Croatia and Slovenia. The EU and NATO really made a mess in the Balkans.

Anyway, this is about Polish schools. I'm just against labels. I wish Catholics would just tell me that they are Christians as most of the ones I have asked don't even understand their 6 central tenets of Catholicism.

History / Polish hatred towards Jews... [1290]

Sorry but I applaud the brave efforts of Żegota and other families who took Jews under their wing. The Poles are generally indifferent now but what stand can they take? I saw a contingent of Jewish students here today and that was a nice touch.

Indifference was the natural response of the times. Attempt a salvage operation and you risked extermination yourself.

That's why I say that indifference is not hatred, they just don't think about the issue that much. Some do as they live in the Stone Ages.

News / Crucifixes to stay in Polish schools [364]

I can't believe the double standards I see in Europe. Well, knowing Europeans, maybe I can. White, Christian Europe is so beloved and treasured to us, is it? Well why Kosovo allowed to fall? Serbia, as an Orthodox country, lost much because of the EU. Hypocrites!!

Lesser, still waiting for your theological answers.

History / Polish hatred towards Jews... [1290]

That's different. We shouldn't remain indifferent to that which is completely inhumane. Regardless of what we may feel about Jewish people, they cannot be exterminated.

History / Polish hatred towards Jews... [1290]

Then you are showing a wider meaning of indifference. Indifference is often wrong but it not hatred. One is a neutral emotion, the other an extreme one.

I'm indifferent to what is going on in Outer Mongolia. Does that make me a hateful person?

News / Crucifixes to stay in Polish schools [364]

bibletruths.net/great%20truths/GT09.htm Lesser, there is plenty to sink your teeth into here.

Lesser, why is contrition, confession and satisfaction needed when Christ has already cleansed you by grace? (Romans 4 through 8) Expiation is unclear as you forever strive for justification under Trent whereas Protestants see it as one event through imputation and not a transforming event through infusion.

Trent made up a lot of stuff without a solid Biblical foundation. Yes, Protestants reformed key elements but they didn't gloss over and superimpose things which weren't there before.

Jesus forgives sin directly. Why would God stop the power to forgive sin by himself? Why should this function be vested in a priest? That's like playing God and Judaists stand by Protestants in that they can't countenance this position either.

News / Crucifixes to stay in Polish schools [364]

Lesser, how about what the Apostle Paul had to say with regards to Abraham's relationship with God? Abraham believed in God and justification was imputed to him in the absence of works.

Read Romans, lesser, it will give you all the Biblical support you need for the contention that imputation is what is needed. There are 6 roads to justification. Although you have a point in that the Apostle James contested this, declaring works to be needed.

News / Crucifixes to stay in Polish schools [364]

I have. Please elaborate with a provision. There are plenty to show that an intermediary was not intended by Christ at all.

Grace is, by definition and nature, unmerited. You believe in congruous merit, I'm sure. Protestants believe in no human merit as it is imputed by faith alone.

I did specify my question. Is the Council of Trent too much of an artificial construct?

News / Crucifixes to stay in Polish schools [364]

Lesser, where does it say in the Bible that there should be a conduit in the form of a priest? It expressly states otherwise. Jesus imputed his morality into man through his sacrifice.

Also, please explain God's grace to me (łaska Boga). Is it, by nature, merited or unmerited?

Before I go any further, let me show some amazing debates from the John Ankerberg show

They explore all manner of issues and they are enlightening. I tend to side with Dr Walter Martin.

Lesser, what value do you attach to the Council of Trent?

News / Crucifixes to stay in Polish schools [364]

Prayers before the start of classes??? Who gave themselves the right to make this compulsory? First I've heard of it, M-G.

News / Crucifixes to stay in Polish schools [364]

And where is the evident proof of Catholicism? I don't expect you to expand on the theological difference between imputation and infusion. What did your parents pass down to you? You made a choice and I respect that.

I am not here to convert anyone or even persuade. I just want you to tell me what you like about the Catechisms and why Catholicism is so compelling. We have separate schools for Catholics in Scotland and it's interesting to see such a separation.

Reincarnation gives us hope and, as Morgan Freeman tells us in Shawshank Redemption, hope is a good thing :)

Reincarnation strikes me more as a spiritual issue that goes to the core of the soul and not sth determined by a dogma.

News / Crucifixes to stay in Polish schools [364]

What did you learn? What beliefs did you form? What other religions were you exposed to and why didn't they convince you?

Not a victim at all. I'm just curious to see how you manifest your religious beliefs.

News / Crucifixes to stay in Polish schools [364]

Not at all, that's a silly thing to say, Gaa. An atheist doesn't believe in God but a Catholic believes in God. So does a Protestant. They believe in God but there are differences. Believing in sth is quite different from not believing.

Why Google when I have a Catholic here on a forum? ;) ;)

News / Crucifixes to stay in Polish schools [364]

Perhaps, lesser, perhaps. Why would you say that, though?

News / Crucifixes to stay in Polish schools [364]

Exactly, lesser. Inner spiritual faith, by its very innate nature, is a private internal matter as it goes into intrinsic motivation but that's not what we are talking about here.

We are talking about actual teachings of the Catechisms and raising people based on concrete values and standards. That's religion Vs spirituality. Gaa, why are you not a Protestant or other Christian denomination? What distinctly Catholic notions were instilled in you?

News / Crucifixes to stay in Polish schools [364]

Maybe the better choice of words would be devout Catholic. Fanatic smacks of sth evil and radical. Devout gives the idea of firmly committed.

News / Crucifixes to stay in Polish schools [364]

What were you brought up to believe, Gaa? Brought up is an active process so what did you learn from that process in the context of Catholicism?

I appreciate your right to privacy on this matter and it is also not forum etiquette to overly discuss it so please say only what you will.

I just would like some insights into what you value and how you see your religion as opposed to Protestantism.

News / Crucifixes to stay in Polish schools [364]

Please tell me, why are you a Catholic and not a Protestant? What ideological differences do you see? I assume that society pushed you into Catholicism as so many of my Polish friends tell me.

News / Crucifixes to stay in Polish schools [364]

It is enough if they believe in God, I agree. However, Catholicism places the emphasis on the priest as an intermediary whereas Protestant and Judaists don't accept this, saying that you can feel God all around you.

Please tell me some Catholic practices and good works, Gaa? Please describe justification, infusion and mass to me.

News / Crucifixes to stay in Polish schools [364]

95% claim to be Catholic is more to the point, of which 70% are said to be practising.

£ódz, what is a fake Christian? How can you tell?

News / GERMANS WANT TO GERMANIZE KOPERNIK (COPERNICUS)! OUTRAGE! [1016]

Not completely Polish, no ;) Fluent speakers of Polish need not be Polish ;)

Life / Which Polish product you can easily do without? [51]

I can eat it without balking but I can certainly do without it.

Life / Which Polish product you can easily do without? [51]

Lard, pig's knuckle and tripe

News / GERMANS WANT TO GERMANIZE KOPERNIK (COPERNICUS)! OUTRAGE! [1016]

Well, that's a failure for archiving ;)

Could he also have spoken German to them? ;) ;)

Have you heard of Gorol, Hanys and Kreuzberg? There is a kind of denial, trust me.

Genealogy / Red Hair - recessive gene from Poland? [108]

I have red hair and I am in Poland. I am Scottish though :)