Where is FrG?

Quote: Nareed

I want to wish Fr Gamble a happy December 12th, which is a holiday for some reason.

What holiday is this? The 21st is the solstice, 25th Christmas, 26th Boxing Day.

It is the glorious feast day of Our Lady of Guadalupe! Thanks for your well wishes. I hope you had a good half day off.

Quote: FrGamble

I hope you had a good half day off.

I left around an hour before nominal quitting time, so i guess that was half a day off of sorts.

But there was no traffic going home, there's that.

Quote: FrGamble

It is the glorious feast day of Our Lady of Guadalupe!

Never heard of it but as anyone who beheld my waistline would know, I am all in favor of feast days. I think all religions have holidays around the solstice since this supposedly nasty brutish and short life without the Church seemed to allow a lot of time for astronomy and general contemplation. Just as the Jews elevated some minor Chanukah stuff and gave it a weird spelling the Blacks created a weirdly-spelled holiday but the Jews and the Blacks did it solely to dampen the 'Real People are Christians' movement and undermine the stance that this is a Christian country. Now we all know that when the British say they will have dinner courtesy of "The Indian" what they are probably referring to is the local Pakastani take out, but no one really cares about historical accuracy about these things.

Where is FrG, he was going to some horrid
3rd world country. I read about it and
Americans living there warned tourists
to stay away, the robbery rate is sky
high. Robbing American and EU tourists
is a cottage industry, apparently.

I would pray for FrG, but I don't believe
in prayer or the Easter Bunny.

Quote: Evenbob

Where is FrG,

In the Everglades, ministering to Burmese Pythons.

Oh no, look what I found in my office
up on a shelf. I must have bought
this in the 80's to resell and forgot
all about it.

It's an 1897 Priest's Sick Call Outfit.
They would take this the home of
the sick and dying and frighten
people to death with superstitious
mumbo jumbo. The glass bottle
says 'holy water, keep full at all times'.

It's pretty neat, I may keep it for
display.

Here's the question. Do you think
Allah is the same god as your god,
Yahweh? If not, does that mean you
think there are two gods?

And if you say your god is the only god,
does this mean you're an atheist as
far as Allah is concerned?

Quote: Evenbob

And if you say your god is the only god,
does this mean you're an atheist as
far as Allah is concerned?

My God is the only God but it does not mean that I am anything remotely close to an atheist. An atheist's illogical starting point is that there is no God. That dooms them to failure right at the start. A Muslim knows that there is a God and is searching to find God. While I think they are incorrect their instinct to search for God is the fundamental characteristic of humanity. So no I am always as far away from atheism as I can get.

Quote: FrGamble

My God is the only God

So where is Allah, then. If you say
he doesn't exist, for that god you
are an atheist.

Prove Allah does not exist.