allusion about Bloody Mary? is it true yes or no?
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No its not true. Bloody Mary was an English Queen who killed lots of innocent men. The myth about seeing her in the mirror came from followers of her who were later executed by her. Supposively you have to be a true follower in her cause to conjure up her image. Fortunately, unlike Hitler, noone remains who believe in executing men to show that women are superior. THANK GOD
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Does "Hail Mary Full of Grace" sound familiar?
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cdf-rom: You are a lunatic. No one is trying to sway people away from the faith. Seriously. If you honestly believe that is a real motive for anyone, anywhere in this whole Magdalene/DVC controversy, then you suffer from paranoid delusions and need to get your head checked. \n\nIt just seems weird to a lot of people, myself included, that so many Christians (not all, but a lot) went totally apesh*t over the mere suggestion of Jesus acting like a normal guy of his times.\n\nI really like Mary Magdalene, always have. Never cared much for the Madonna, though. What did she do, really? She had a kid, supposedly while a virgin (not actually true, see Hebrew version of Isaiah 7:14, definitely says young woman, not virgin). So, basically she had a kid. Which is what the "Church Fathers" believed was all women were really good for, anyway. So their number one female figure is a girl whose biggest accomplishment is getting knocked up.\n\nNow take a look at this passage from the Pistis Sophia, referring to Mary Magdalene:\nJesus, the compassionate, answered and said to Mariam:\n"Mariam, thou blessed one, whom I will complete in all the mysteries of the height, speak openly, thou art she whose heart is more directed to the Kingdom of Heaven than all thy brothers."\n\nYeah, she was bright, she got was Jesus was saying, apparently more than his other (male) disciples. And that's nothing compared to the Gospel of Mary (go look it up). So I figure, why not have the female co-star of Christianity be Jesus's wife instead of his mother? She was actually an intelligent woman, rather than just a pregnant one. Aren't we a little past the 'barefoot in the kitchen' era?
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I'm not british, but bloody is a slur of by our lady, meaning mary, from when england was still catholic - it is treated as a curse word because it used to be blasphemous, and like most other swears, lost all meaning but that over time and use.
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there's something about mary
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Seems that is still up for debate!\n\nFor Whom was the Baby Ruth Candy Bar Named?\n"Three explanations have since been offered concerning the origins of the "Baby Ruth" candy bar's name: \nThe bar was named after "Baby" Ruth Cleveland, the first-born daughter of President Grover Cleveland. \n\nThe bar was named after baseball slugger George Herman "Babe" Ruth. \n\nThe bar was named for a granddaughter of Mrs. George Williamson, Mrs. Williamson being the wife of the president of the Williamson Candy Company and one of the developers of the "Baby Ruth" bar formula. \nExplanation #1 is the "official" explanation that has been proffered by the Curtiss Candy Company since the 1920's. \n\nExplanation #2 is the "obvious" explanation; the one assumed by persons who have heard no explanations. \n\nExplanation #3 is an alternate explanation proferred by syndicated columnist L.M. Boyd that can be readily dismissed. The Williamson Candy Company, producer of the "Oh! Henry" bar, was a direct competitor of Curtiss' and would have been most unlikely to supply a product name and formula to a rival. Furthermore, the Curtiss Candy Company has never claimed this as an origin of their candy bar's name." \n\nRead on for more information at:\nhttp://www.snopes.com/business/names/babyruth.asp
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It sounds like a reference of the miracle of Fatima, Portugal, the "dancing" sun. I think there are only a few pics and no films of that though.\n\nA lot of people claimed to see the event, another bunch claimed to completely miss the event. Other accounts contradict and finally, some protestant minister claimed it was the work of satan, since claiming otherwise, it'd validate catholicism.
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"The age of martyrs also produced a great number of writers who wrote about Christianity and what they believe in order to dispel some of the myths about Christians (some said they were cannibals because they ate the “body and blood”) These writers became known as “The Apologists” and they were able to help clarify Christian theology to the pagans, leaving us with some of the greatest explanations of the Christian faith."\n\n\nWhat you teacher tells you is true.  Christians were deemed to be cannibals because of the whole blood host thing with communion and they were martyred by mass murders.\n\nThis is an important lesson in not taking the time to really learn about something and just assuming that rumors are true - like what you hear on TV - \n\nBig spin off in the Catholic religion when King Henry VIII of England wanted to divorce his wife and the Pope said NO.  So, Henry got out of the Catholic religion, made himself the King of Religion in his country and tried to make all the Catholics in England convert to the Church of England - a lot of people were murdered for not changing over as it was deemed treacherous not to obey Henry.\n\nThe irony of the whole protestant England thing was that in Germany a monk name Martin Luther was trying to lead reforms in the Catholic Church too.\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Luther\n\nIt is a strange thing that ofter two or more people will arrive at the same idea in different ways by different methods but almost simultaneously\n\nNow we have Protestants because a man wanted a divorce - which would have been better because Henry usually cut off their heads after that and his first wife was, in a way lucky to have got away with her head.\n\nYou have a very good teacher
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nobody knows what mary was really like. the church slandered her by calling her a prostitute, and sum say she was 12 years younger than jesus. she cud have been wealthy, and she could have been poor. we dont know, and there was no record of her being a poor woman, and just because sum1 says she was rich or poor doesnt make her rich or poor. and if she was, so wat? thats not that big a deal back then. now it wud be disgusting, because so many people are perverts, or just shallow, and cant accept that sum1 may love some1 else who is many years older than them...
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Their bloody doctrines are full of blood alright. There's hemoglobin everywhere. They must love the stuff. On the surface it's about being good and all that; below the surface it's all about blood. Blood this blood that. "Eat my flesh and drink my blood." From the start to the end it's mainly about blood. Who can bare such a thing? Perhaps they are made in the image of their god; that is, bloodthirsty? But they're not scary, amusing would be closer to the truth.
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Axe and ye shall receive. You see........rumor has it that when they beheaded Mary Queen of Scots, it took three tries before the axe could actually do the dirty deed. Mary had said, "You'll never get away with this!" So after the first unsuccessful chop, she had just enough breathe to let out a cool calculated laugh. The second made her give out a buffled giggle. And on the third chop.........her head was laughed right off. \n\nAnd that........is the rest of the story.
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No, here is the link:\nhttp://www.snopes.com/horrors/freakish/poprocks.htm
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I don't think everything he writes about is true, of course. The author himself admitted to this. The only thing that I'm starting to be sure of is Jesus' relationship with Mary Magdalene and her being present in Da Vinci's "The Last Supper". We shouldn't believe everything the book tells us, but we might be able to read between the lines.
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They should seem similar, Mary is just a dim copy of Brigid.\nBrigid was actually a goddess, and where we get the word "bride." She was transformed later into a saint when those who worshiped her wouldn't let go of her.
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It's a book that suggests all this "contoversial" stuff about the Catholic church and Christianity. One of the claims, is that Jesus had a romantic relationship with a woman (I think it's Mary Magdelin) and that she is depicted in DeVinci's painting of the last supper. One of the desciples is painted with more feminine features than the rest. It's a good but long read, and if you go to Rome or Paris you can take DaVinci Code tours to help you see what some of the art, places ect. in the book.
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It's a book that suggests all this "contoversial" stuff about the Catholic church and Christianity.  One of the claims, is that Jesus had a romantic relationship with a woman (I think it's Mary Magdelin) and that she is depicted in DeVinci's painting of the last supper.  One of the desciples is painted with more feminine features than the rest.  It's a good but long read, and if you go to Rome or Paris you can take DaVinci Code tours to help you see what some of the art, places ect. in the book.
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Primarily it is Protestant catholic bashers who believe this, though there is a tradition of this belief in the Greek Orthodox church.  A fameous, scandalous telling of the tale (titled "Pope Joan") was translated to English by Lawrence Durrell, who, as an author, excelled in scandalous tales of incest, etc.  \n\nThe tale persists without historical backup because anything that raises doubt about the validity of apostolic succession in the Roman Catholic church will delight someone who dislikes the RC church.\n\nOne of the reasons for believing it's probably not true is that the allegation of the event doesn't appear in the historical record until 4-500 years after it allegedly occurred.  It's hard to believe that a 'pope' giving birth during a procession would have gone unremarked for hundreds of years, and then conveniently been noticed along with the development of Protestantism.\n\nI'm not a Catholic myself, just someone who hates to see religious prejudice rear its ugly head in our world.