ext_6933 ([identity profile] sophia-sadek.livejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] talkpolitics2011-09-12 08:39 am
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Restore Flat-Earthistan

All of the problems that the world faces today can be traced to the abandonment of the material Creator of the flat and immobile Earth. What is needed is a return to traditional flat-Earth values such as slavery, wife beating, and bludgeoning homosexuals.

Liberals have no faith in the great Lord of Flat-Earthistan. They must be taught a lesson that will bend them at the knee and bow their collective head in servility to the Almighty. I present to you the movement with the message:



What did you learn in Sunday school as a child? What will you do to restore the junk car of Flat-Earthistan?

Re: One of our...

[identity profile] paedraggaidin.livejournal.com 2011-09-12 10:41 pm (UTC)(link)
I think there are good arguments for either case. For communion (and Confirmation) at the "age of reason" (that's what we Catholics called it back when I had my First Communion, at any rate) there's the argument that by a certain age, a person is able to understand (basically, at least) the significance of and spiritual meaning behind the sacrament. For infant communion, it really boils down to why deny infants any of the sacraments of initiation?

for me, I like Confirmation being at a later age (I think most folks receive it during high school these days) because it's more of a passage into ecclesiastical adulthood, and I think Communion is good at either.