Good Friday For a Barbeque

[CollegeStinks]

So at our cafeteria every table had a charming little advertisement for the Center of Inquiry’s annual “Good Friday for a Barbeque”. I felt like expelling the already disgusting cafeteria food from my stomach all over the evil little table tents. Things like this just tick me off to no end. They even had a photoshopped image of Christ holding a cheeseburger in his hands.

They hold this barbeque on Good Friday to try to get as many students to eat meat as possible purely to defame the holiness of the day. They advertise their group as being some intellectual secular organization seeking honest answers. Their motto is “question everything.” It’s on the back of their shirts that they wear. Yeah, I wish I could take a permanent marker and underneath it write in parentheses, “everything except us, darwinism, climate change, secularism, sexual liberation, radical feminism, tolerance, and any other derivative of liberalism, most especially hedonism.” Their events are just digs at Christianity. There’s nothing else to it. There’s no honest discussion, it’s just blatant insults and desecrations of Christian symbols. God forbid they defame a Hindu or Jewish symbol, the University would tear them apart if they did. Some 90% of the student body would cry “INTOLERANCE!” Here’s the mantra of tolerance: “Tolerate all but those who disagree with us, and certainly not Christians.”

They think they’re somehow smarter and less blind than us, but their obedience to their own indoctrination is the blindest I’ve ever seen.

The funny thing is, their viewpoints are the majority opinion on this campus. It takes absolutely no individualism, character, or initiative to go against Christianity on this campus. The Christians however, they are the rebels, the wolves, the non-conformists, the ones hiding in the shadows seeking something greater than what can be found blending in.

Two more weeks, and then two more years… and then I get to go through it all over again in dental school.

 

[Bookcat]

I had a teacher in a community college I went to before Steubenville…

Who told the class" Question everything!!"

So I spoke up and asked: “Should we not then question those who say to question everything??” She was not so amused…but later she told me that she was impress that in various things I stood up in the face of not only basically the whole class…but even the Professor…

Here is Good reading…

“The words “adult faith” in recent decades have formed a widespread slogan. It is often meant in the sense of the attitude of those who no longer listen to the Church and her Pastors but autonomously choose what they want to believe and not to believe hence a do-it-yourself faith. And it is presented as a “courageous” form of self-expression against the Magisterium of the Church. In fact, however, no courage is needed for this because one may always be certain of public applause. Rather, courage is needed to adhere to the Church’s faith, even if this contradicts the “logic” of the contemporary world. This is the non-conformism of faith which Paul calls an “adult faith”. It is the faith that he desires. On the other hand, he describes chasing the winds and trends of the time as infantile.”–Pope Benedict XVI (read the whole thing)

vatican.va/holy_father/benedict_xvi/homilies/2009/documents/hf_ben-xvi_hom_20090628_chius-anno-paolino_en.html

Let us keep always in mind what our Master tells us…love your enemies…and pray for those who persecute you…as they treated me so they will you…take heart I have overcome the world…

I know it can be difficult…but seek to do as Peter and John did…rejoice to be worthy to suffer for the name

Take heart!

 

[Holly3278]

I see nothing wrong with questioning so long as that questioning leads you to the Truth that the Catholic Church teaches.

 

[odile53]

On a purely practical level, do you know other Christians/Catholics who might be able to join with you in filing a complaint with the university’s human rights office?

I’m in agreement with you that Catholics seem to be targeted by this “center for inquiry,” and while Muslims and Hindus might be similarly offended by a barbecue (pork and beef, you know,) the link with Good Friday seems that Catholics are squarely in the crosshairs.

Heck, now that I think of it, how about mobilizing the Muslims and Hindus as well?

Sure, pray for this group. But I’d explore the possibility of taking up a petition and filing a formal complaint. There’s a difference between honest inquiry, and harassment.

I’m tired of every other group in this country screaming “discrimination” and “harassment,” and the results seem to be “go take a poke at the local Catholics.” Human rights are human rights, and the last time I checked, we are just as entitled to practice our faith without interference as any other group.

Maybe “defending the faith” might include a couple of formal complaints or even lawsuits, as well as our more traditional weapons of prayer and apologetics.

These people aren’t interested in “inquiry.” They’d be on the internet googling “Catholic church,” or at a RCIA class if they were “inquiring.”

They’re interested in mockery, and spreading their own agenda.

There’s a tremendous difference between honest inquiry, and harassment.

 

[crystal_waters]

So at our cafeteria every table had a charming little advertisement for the Center of Inquiry’s annual “Good Friday for a Barbeque”. I felt like expelling the already disgusting cafeteria food from my stomach all over the evil little table tents. Things like this just tick me off to no end. They even had a photoshopped image of Christ holding a cheeseburger in his hands.

They hold this barbeque on Good Friday to try to get as many students to eat meat as possible purely to defame the holiness of the day. They advertise their group as being some intellectual secular organization seeking honest answers. Their motto is “question everything.” It’s on the back of their shirts that they wear. Yeah, I wish I could take a permanent marker and underneath it write in parentheses, “everything except us, darwinism, climate change, secularism, sexual liberation, radical feminism, tolerance, and any other derivative of liberalism, most especially hedonism.” Their events are just digs at Christianity. There’s nothing else to it. There’s no honest discussion, it’s just blatant insults and desecrations of Christian symbols. God forbid they defame a Hindu or Jewish symbol, the University would tear them apart if they did. Some 90% of the student body would cry “INTOLERANCE!” Here’s the mantra of tolerance: “Tolerate all but those who disagree with us, and certainly not Christians.”

They think they’re somehow smarter and less blind than us, but their obedience to their own indoctrination is the blindest I’ve ever seen.

The funny thing is, their viewpoints are the majority opinion on this campus. It takes absolutely no individualism, character, or initiative to go against Christianity on this campus. The Christians however, they are the rebels, the wolves, the non-conformists, the ones hiding in the shadows seeking something greater than what can be found blending in.

Two more weeks, and then two more years… and then I get to go through it all over again in dental school.

isnt there somebody in uhtority you can speak to about this? its offensive

the people who are doing this and encouraging others to join them may think they are big, cool, clever, popular etc now…but one day whether they believe in god or not …they WILL have to stand before god and be judged on doing that and leading others in to doing it too…and they WILL have to explain to god why…and god WILL give his judgement…whether he gives them punishment or mercy is known only to him