Is there such a thing as a Catholic Christian?

In the past few weeks I’ve stumbled onto a couple of debates asking “are Catholics Christians?” On the face of it, it may seem like an odd question to ask. Catholics go to church, they celebrate Christmas and Easter. They generally are into the whole “God” thing.

If you were to dig a bit deeper and ask if the Catholic Christian exists, you may agree with me that the correct answer to the question is “no, they do not.”

My comments may seem outlandish to the practicing Catholic, but as someone who left legalized religion and knows many “recovering Catholics” as my brother-in-law calls himself, I believe I am speaking, well writing actually, Biblical truth.

This post is not written to start an argument or meant from me to be judgemental. I hope to open an honest conversation and answer some questions. I think you will find though that the Roman Church has added to the scope of Christian doctrine and is misleading the flock.

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NOTE: I did not get this published before the fact, but wanted to get the details out there none-the-less. I back dated it to make sense chronologically.

Our youngest son of three boys will be 3 on the 20th. Tomorrow afternoon (Monday, the 15th) he is going into surgery to remove a growth/tumor on his left parotid gland. This gland is located on the face below the ear and next to the cheek.

What ever it is in there is also causing his lymph nodes in his neck to swell up.

It could be a laundry list of items causing this, but of course we pray it isn’t cancer.

The surgery starts around 3:00 PM CST and will last for at least two hours. If you could pray specifically the God guides the doctors, we have a good outcome, and that my wife has some peace through this I would be very grateful.

Sincerely,
Chris

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I knew this day was coming. In fact, I’ve known this day was coming for at least eight months. This afternoon, we had to euthanise our beloved pure bred female black Labrador Retriever, Alex. (Kennel Name Alexandria Lexxus).

Our dog Alex suns herself of a warm day.

Our dog Alex suns herself of a warm day.

Alexandria Lexxus was the best dog I’ve ever had. Period.

She had cancer. The reality is, she was otherwise healthy. Her hips were good, she was as playful as ever, she was still the same goofball today as she was when we adopted her as a two-year-old pup in March of 1998. Unfortunately, the cancer caused too many complications that there wasn’t anything else we could do. It’s not without trying though.

About 18 months ago, she had a mastectomy to remove the cancer from her breast. We knew the Doctor might not be able to get all the cancer out. When another tumor appeared about eight or nine months ago, we knew that was the beginning of the end. About eight weeks ago that tumor broke the skin on her stomach and began weeping. Four weeks later when she couldn’t keep her food down we knew the end was near. I’ve always called her “Daddy’s girl.” Now Daddy’s girl was sick and we couldn’t do anything to help her.

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Sun Dial

Scheduling Down Time

This may seem like an odd blog post, but I’ve been thinking about this for a while. Are you a work-a-holic? Do you need to spend less time in front of the computer and more time walking the beach? How often do you break from your routine? If you answered yes, yes and rarely, than welcome to the club. You need a break as bad as I do. But I hear what you’re saying, “So what. Why does it matter?”

Burning the Midnight Candle

I tend to work way too many hours. I’m usually in the office late into the night after the wife and kids are off to bed. I know my sleep might suffer a bit, especially when Read the rest of this entry »

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Remove nofollow from WordPress comments

It had to be done. I did it and now you can too.

What am I talking about? Getting rid of that nofollow tag on your blog or Web site, that’s what.

From now on, any Web site link in the comments of this blog will no longer have the nofollow attribute. Because of the plugin I decided to use, links within comments, will still have the nofollow attribute. We’ll see if this remains the case, but for now, your link will not be in the comments section.

The way I see it if you have something to say, and you’re not a spambot, I’ll reward you with a crawlable link.

No more nofollow.

You post. I’ll link. That’s really what the Web is about anyways.

If anyone wants to use the same plug-in I did without rolling your own code, it’s easy to install with zero worries.

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