Comments for Keeping Lions as Pets at http://www.thecatholicthing.org , comment 1 to 8 out of 8 comments http://www.thecatholicthing.org Sun, 19 May 2013 20:16:37 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.3 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2009/keeping-lions-as-pets.html#comment-4158 This about sums it up. But now the righteousness of God apart from the law is revealed, being witnessed by the Law and the Prophets, even the righteousness of God, through faith in Jesus Christ, to all and on all who believe. For there is no difference;for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, being justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus whom God set forth as a propitiation by His blood, through faith, to demonstrate His righteousness... - Brandon Thu, 25 Feb 2010 12:53:05 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2009/keeping-lions-as-pets.html#comment-2179 In the so-called "swinging sixties," many of us felt a profound sense of sin that our government was engaged in a war that produced tens of thousands of civilian casualties as a result of our indiscriminate use of force, especially via air power. But I guess we don't feel any sense of sin because our predator drones kill only bad guys, and we're the good guys.... - Richard Walden Mon, 29 Jun 2009 07:19:44 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2009/keeping-lions-as-pets.html#comment-2203 Mr. Miner, while I agree with the substance of your arguments, I think that an important point has been missed in drawing such a brightline contrast between postmodern technocratic therapies and the reach of any sin dismissed. Physical illness can truly be the manifestation of spiritual diease bound in unreconciled sin. While our therapies can hope only to treat the symptoms seen and diagnosed, spiritual expiation is often the only real cure for what ails us, as individuals and as a culture. - Kurt Minson Sun, 28 Jun 2009 18:04:48 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2009/keeping-lions-as-pets.html#comment-2178 It never ceases to amaze me how arrogant we have become!! - Liz Mon, 22 Jun 2009 14:44:27 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2009/keeping-lions-as-pets.html#comment-2177 And, as G.K. Chesterton said, "The Catholic Church is the only thing that keeps a sin from being a secret!" A secret such as sin, is one which destroys from the inside. - Michael Francis James Lee Mon, 22 Jun 2009 12:38:37 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2009/keeping-lions-as-pets.html#comment-2175 I asked a friend this morning if she thought we had lost the sense of sin. She replied yes. I then asked her if she went to Mass yesterday. She said no. If I don't think it is wrong then it isn't wrong. Doesn't that just free us to do anything? Is there then no longer an culpability? Is evil a disease or a genetic defect? Does individual autonomy now trump the natural law. Long communion lines and short or absent confession lines tell us something. Are we courting chaos and nihilism? Indeed! - Willie Mon, 22 Jun 2009 11:42:30 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2009/keeping-lions-as-pets.html#comment-2176 yep. no sin. no evil. no problem. no devil. i'm ok. you're ok. no male. no female. just persons. absolutley no absolutes. no truth, no big deal. at the risk of sounding like a bumper sticker-- no Jesus, no peace. Know Jesus, Know Peace. so when do people start to become sick of this imitation of life? don't you feel like we are living in that Jim Carrey movie The Truman Show? was it always this way? isn't this why Jesus came to "set the captives FREE?" - debby Mon, 22 Jun 2009 11:08:30 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2009/keeping-lions-as-pets.html#comment-2174 We could have Utopia, here, now if people could follow ten EZ commandments, but they can't. So "practical" types have abolished the 10 rules -- most of them have been transformed into positive goods: The Mall flourishes on the Lord's Day, redistribution of thy neigbor's goods is equality, adultery a trapdoor to a more fulfilled life, babies are killed to preserve lifestyle, false witness is used to sell political programs and demonize political enemies. Blasphemy is freedom of speach. Shameless. - Joe Mon, 22 Jun 2009 11:07:18 +0100