I just got confused with a Catholic Priest by a fellow DUer

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

Very interesting

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=779157&mesg_id=779157&page=

[Chovexani]

1. I thought you were a priest

Of the Church of Coltrane. ;)

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

2. Indeed my child!

Have you been saved by the Tenor....the Alto...the Soprano...or all the above in one song?

[Chovexani]

3. Hehe

I'm not the world's biggest jazz aficionado, but I can appreciate his work.

My half-brother would probably be a deacon in the church though, LOL. :)

[tigereye]

4. "if you were a priest"

per one of my fave Robyn Hitchcock songs...

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

5. Nice!

You always show up when I most need a mental hug!

:hug:
You know - I probably never should have brought my faith (read my spirituality) into the public forum - but I feel it is my faith that makes me a liberal. I guess as a Liberal Catholic I should get used to it!

Thanks TE - I wish you and your family 'nuff love!

[Chovexani]

6. Don't let it get to you.

You're one of my favorite DUers 'cause you always have something interesting to say (unlike me, LOL). I was really ignorant about the Venezuela situation and learned so much from your posts.

I'll always have your back. Besides us anime geeks have to stick together. ;)

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

9. Thanks!

I get blindsided by stuff like this. I know where it comes from but - I feel so stable here 'mongst the righteous that I get frazzled when snubbed - plus us anime peeps we DO have to stick together to promote the ONE TRUE ART! :)

Thanks :yourock:

[tigereye]

7. well the lyrics are a little uh, silly and absurd

it is Robyn after all. Why, are you having a rough time? :hug: back at cha

I was raised Catholic, too; my uncle was a "radical priest" in Korea and was tortured by one of the evil regimes there. He was very liberal and I was proud to be related to him. It is important to have liberal Catholics - when I was a kid, Catholics were pretty liberal.. we believed in peace and justice! I always thought of Christ as the first socialist, in a way.

Thanks C. good vibes to you as well.

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

13. Well I'm a Catholic in the Catholic Worker, Dorothy Day, socialist style

Acts of the Apostles stuff - communal living and charity - but this is rarely seen in the public image that the anti-Catholic media has pushed. Plus this ultra conservative Vatican ain't helpin' much!

Thanks for the love TE!

:)

[tigereye]

16. I figured you were

that is very cool. DO you read Merton as well? There is a very vocal Merton Center here... if you know who Molly Rush is... she was and is very active in it. She was involved in pouring blood on missiles years ago and was arrested quite a bit.

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

21. I've read Seven Storey Mountain twice and have recently started

Seeds of Contemplation. I also enjoy St john of the Cross and St Theresa of Avilla.

My favorite saint (whom I also love to read) is St Therese of Lisieux. As I look back on my life its eery how many times she has been close to me in one form or another.

I'm getting married on her feast day.

i don't talk about these things on the boards too much for fear of seeming really weird.

[tigereye]

40. there are many beautiful aspects to Catholicism

that tend to be overshadowed by some of the problematic politics of the pope's views on women/the American church, etc., misguided protection of abusers, and the role of women in general. The Dorothy Day/Merton school, and the views that influenced my uncle are very different.

I have many positive memories of my time at Catholic school, the choir, and the power of the services. Everyone in my family is named for saints. The story of the Little Flower is very beautiful as well. Many of my great- aunts were nuns and two of my uncles were Seminarians.

[Beware the Beast Man]

8. I hear you, Padre!

I just lock all the religious threads anymore. Last time I responded to one I got into a lengthy flamefest :grr:

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

10. My furry friend - I think the problem is I invite them

I actively engage in the "I'm Catholic and proud" and find myself looking like a Vatican stooge - when I feel like a Catholic DESPITE the Vatican. When I try to just "report" what the Vatican teaches I sound like FOX - "we report you decide"

I admit it - that's what it sounds like. I know the peeps here who have come to know me know thats not how I am but....I don't know - I should go to bed.

Hey BTW - I got the whole Cornell 77 - better still - a newbie DUer showed me something AWESOME - a site with free downloadable shows. I'll PM you with the link.

Thanks Brother!
- Peace

[Chovexani]

11. I try to ignore them.

I'm not Christian but I'm not an atheist either...quite the opposite actually, member of a highly disorganized polytheistic religion (and we LIKE it that way :P). I always feel caught in the middle in those arguments so I try to leave them alone.

It always feels like one big circle jerk.

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

12. Rock on!

I appreciate Vedanta philosophy which states that all religions (or spiritualities) have the same goal.

[JohnKleeb]

14. Oh lord

Happens to all of us. Thats pretty funny though no offense and it has happened to me, I got mistaken for a girl, don't ask me why it was last year and someone got mistaken for me last week.

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

20. i usually get mistaken for being black

I think its me avatar, i do

[JohnKleeb]

22. I thought you were Latino until you said you had Lithuian blood

no offense.

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

23. None taken - its the name

I did get mistaken for a woman once - what a compliment

[JohnKleeb]

38. hah

yeah the name is why. Ive always thought I would make an ugly woman though.

[GOPisEvil]

15. Bless me Father, for I have sinned...

...I hope you're not busy or anything. We might as well get this done now, eh?

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

19. E nomine Patre, E Filli, E spiritu sancti.

step into my confesional son.....

[terrya]

17. Whoa! A hunky Catholic priest!

The BEST kind. :-)

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

18. Dominum Verbiscum....

:)

[XNASA]

26. Et cum spiritu tuo

[redqueen]

24. That's disturbing.

Is it just me... or is this assumption of 100% acceptance of church doctrine on the part of the clergy a new thing?

I always knew they had their own minds and were free to use them... nowadays it seems people think they're like robots.

[XNASA]

25. Just because you get into the Church wine now and then.......

it doesn't make you a Priest.

Sheesh.

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

29. exactly!

:)

[Beer Snob-50]

27. bless me father for i have sinned

i have coveted, lied, done drugs, covtted, yeah heavy on the covet father.

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

30. You covet my ice cream bar!!!

[Beer Snob-50]

33. Yes Father.

I also covet many of the ladies here on du and want to break commandment #6 (i think that is correct)

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

35. Who do you want to kill, my son?

[Beer Snob-50]

36. Sorry I think I meant 5??

and to think i teach religious education also!!

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

37. That'll be 3 Hail Marys and 4 Our Fathers

[UrbScotty]

28. In nomine Poppy, et Dubya, et Spirotu Agnew. Amen

Hail, Ronald, Full of Greed,
Caspar Weinberger is with thee.
Overrated art thou among Presidents, and
Overrated is the Son of Thy Vice President, Dubya.
Holy Ronald, Father of the GOP,
Help us pay for your sinning,
Now and at the hour Dubya leaves office. Amen.

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

31. bravo bravo!

Molto Bene!

[UrbScotty]

42. Yeah, it's been getting many rave reviews on DU.

:D

[jukes]

32. i don't know what your 'rents told you

but you *ARE* a black/latino catholic priest, w/ a predilection for esoterica, exotica & eclectic knowledge.


BTW, we're starting to dowt the SO story again; after all, any1 can stage 1 appearence...

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

34. You know I said that to her last night

RandomKoolzip can attest to her existence - though he hasn't met her in the flesh

I'll tell her to say Hi tonight!

[jukes]

39. K&tG!

:bounce: i'll be here; nothin' else to do.

[DemBones DemBones]

41. Well, I used to get taken for a "him" by

an ex-priest who used to post anti-Catholic rants here. I always stood up to him and it made him furious. JohnKleeb will remember. Many mistakes of identity are made here!