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**Fiesialenp** · 03-26-2010, 09:07 PM

Ninj, the Catholic Church (especially the Catholic Church) is also about austerity. It's the Church of the opulence of the Vatican and the austerity of a monestary. (It's very cool.)

As a cultural center and a reference to such, it really is extroadinary (been there done that!

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And in other cultures (like here in the Mediterranean where this all got started) pagentry and celebration whether it's for the pig slaugter or the Easter procession... it's how we live (thank God). We're not Calvinists.-- I am not saying we have to forego celebration, but we havea tendency to lose site of the real reasons behind the parade and focus on the floats....

I like celebration myself, I just find it odd what we celebrate, how and why. Sometimes we celebrate not for the event, but for the celebration itself. That is fine when you are having a party, but for Christ? Some of the very things he protested against the organized religious institutions of his day are being performed in his name today.....

Humanity keeps coming back to what it likes and is comfortable.

Isn't that right, Neo?

03-26-2010, 09:07 PM	#8
Fiesialenp Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 644 Senior Member	Ninj, the Catholic Church (especially the Catholic Church) is also about austerity. It's the Church of the opulence of the Vatican and the austerity of a monestary. (It's very cool.) As a cultural center and a reference to such, it really is extroadinary (been there done that! ) And in other cultures (like here in the Mediterranean where this all got started) pagentry and celebration whether it's for the pig slaugter or the Easter procession... it's how we live (thank God). We're not Calvinists.-- I am not saying we have to forego celebration, but we havea tendency to lose site of the real reasons behind the parade and focus on the floats.... I like celebration myself, I just find it odd what we celebrate, how and why. Sometimes we celebrate not for the event, but for the celebration itself. That is fine when you are having a party, but for Christ? Some of the very things he protested against the organized religious institutions of his day are being performed in his name today..... Humanity keeps coming back to what it likes and is comfortable. Isn't that right, Neo?
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