ufoinvestigations - so are you a fan of Pope Francis? 

Pope Francis on Tuesday said "mere tolerance" toward migrants and asylum seekers is not enough and he called for a "globalisation of charity" towards those fleeing warzones and poverty.

"It is necessary to respond to the globalisation of migration with the globalisation of charity and cooperation, in such a way as to make the conditions of migrants more humane," the pontiff said in a message to mark the World Day of Migrants and Refugees next January.

"Large numbers of people are leaving their homelands, with a suitcase full of fears and desires, to undertake a hopeful and dangerous trip in search of more humane living conditions," he said in the text of an address he will give January 18.

"Often, however, such migration gives rise to suspicion and hostility, even in ecclesiastical communities, prior to any knowledge of the migrants' lives or their stories of persecution and destitution," he said.

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so true, but my point was that there is a history of blood thirsty conversion attempts from most  religions

But my point was really that it's the religion that gets blamed, when really it's the groups of people (majority male as a rule, if that sounds sexist, bad luck in a way, it is majority males that lead these conversion missions) and they are not true to their respective faiths. They have hijacked the true religion and they wield it like a sword to gain power.  And they can do it because they have cherry picked quotes from the religious doctrine that suit thier agenda so everyone believes that they are "religious fanatics"  but imo the religion in essence has very little to do with their actions.  They have no restraint, respect or any of those things they should have according to the doctrine.  They actually behave more like animals...

yes, I agree. Unfortunately there are extremists in just about every religion

and as we're currently seeing, many people blame all muslims for the ISIS extremists

These people represent true christianity to me, not those who spread hatred and bigotry, support war in Gods name or turn a blind eye 

Religious leaders arrested for protesting inside shadow immigration minister's Geelong offices

Several religious leaders have been arrested while staging a sit-in protest inside the Geelong offices of a federal Labor frontbencher over the party's stance on children in immigration detention centres.

Police arrested the protesters - from Christian groups including the Salvation Army and the Uniting, Baptist and Catholic churches - on Monday night after when they refused to leave the electorate office of Shadow Immigration Minister and Corio MP Richard Marles.

Read more: http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/religious-leaders-arrested-for-protesting-inside-shadow-immigratio...

ufo wrote:"Roman Catholic

For the Bible version go to the vatican website."

Roman Catholic? well, there's a surprise.

But, which version of the Bible do you use? I use whichever version is available.

Thanks for that link. I read it and it sums up by saying 2 things which I think are opposing views?

"and suggest using the Revised Standard Version- Catholic Edition".

and

"So, which Bible is the best? Perhaps the best answer is this: The one you’ll read."

They do not place much emphasis on the MAJOR differences -
- ie the extra 7 books in the Catholic version (or the 7 missing books in the other version however you want to look at it) - except that
the RSV-Catholic Edition contains those 7 books.. 1 and 2 Maccabees, Sirach, Wisdom, Baruch, Tobit, and Judith, and parts of two others, Daniel and Esther.

So, I am still confused? Ufo - do you use the 'extra books' version or the standard version?

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@*julia*2010 wrote:

from that link - it looks to me that

catholics are free to read whatever

bibles they want - cant argue with that LOL

 

are other denominations more strict?

 

 

 

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couldn't say - as I said I use whatever is available - actually on-line I use Bible Gateway which has heaps of translations.