Brain Fertilizer

Your statements hit home-I'm a baptized Catholic, but I believe "Jesus' said it all when he raised Lazarus-(Paraphrasing) He would have been with me in the NEXT life (not 'in paradise'), but your grief has made me bring him back-'I hope Lazarus' extra time in that life paid off"...

Nathan, have you ever read On Being Human or Heaven Is Not My Home: Learning to Live in God's Creation or New Way to Be Human : A Provocative Look at What It Means to Follow Jesus?

Let me know....

Rae,
Nope. I've mostly just read the Bible and most of C.S. Lewis' works, with a smattering of St. Augustine.

I have read all of those, as well :)

The ones that I listed are very intellectually spiritual reads. I came away thinking about more than a few things.....I don't know that everyone could read them, understand them, dissect them, but I do think that you could. And that you would write rather well about the content.

(Raises eyebrows) So......

On Wednesday, Swaggart said he has jokingly used the expression ''killing someone and telling God he died'' thousands of times, about all sorts of people. He said the expression is figurative and not meant to harm.

''It's a humorous statement that doesn't mean anything. You can't lie to God — it's ridiculous,'' Swaggart told The Associated Press. ''If it's an insult, I certainly didn't think it was, but if they are offended, then I certainly offer an apology.''

Swaggart was a popular television evangelist during the 1980s until a 1987 sex scandal involving a prostitute that he met in a seedy New Orleans motel. Swaggart never confessed to anything more than an unspecified sin. A few years later, he was stopped by police while driving in California with a suspected prostitute in his car.

Hypocrite? Idiot? Jerk? I vote for all three.

Hello!
He/she/you would like a lot to know news of Jimmy Swaggart
Very good to know of this link of information of great Evangelist and experts of the word of God, I know that Swaggart wandered a lot but Jesus came for the sinners and defective he didn't only come for the rights therefore I believe in the people's regret and Jimmy was a great Evangelist and preacher of GOD'S word.
Here in Brazil when still boy the about twenty years, it didn't lose if he/she wants a program of Television of Swaggart.
Please me of news regarding him!.

Gil Roberto Milacki.

Mr. Swaggart is so wrong yet again. After reading one of his books where he bashed Catholics, I simply spent a few hours in church and biblical history books to prove that Swaggart was wrong, mis-guided, and un-researched in his rants. Now he's done it again. A man this full of hate (and with his ignorance of the Holy Catholics, so arrogant and blind), he is in no position to preach his ignorant opinions to many people who may take his radical word as truth.