Religious Quote: Joseph Ratzinger

A just laicism allows religious freedom. The state does not impose religion but rather gives space to religions with a responsibility toward civil society, and therefore it allows these religions to be factors in building up society.
Joseph Ratzinger

Not all moral issues have the same moral weight as abortion and euthanasia. There may be legitimate diversity of opinion even among Catholics about waging war and applying the death penalty, but not... with regard to abortion and euthanasia.
Joseph Ratzinger

Having a clear faith, based on the creed of the church is often labeled today as fundamentalism. Whereas relativism, which is letting oneself be tossed and swept along by every wind of teaching, look like the only attitude acceptable to today's standards.
Joseph Ratzinger

The wrath of God is a way of saying that I have been living in a way that is contrary to the love that is God. Anyone who begins to live and grow away from God, who lives away from what is good, is turning his life toward wrath.
Joseph Ratzinger

To me, its seems necessary to rediscover - and the energy to do so exists - that even the political and economic spheres need moral responsibility, a responsibility that is born in man's heart and, in the end, has to do with the presence or absence of God.
Joseph Ratzinger

The Cross is the approbation of our existence, not in words, but in an act so completely radical that it caused God to become flesh and pierced this flesh to the quick; that, to God, it was worth the death of his incarnate Son.
Joseph Ratzinger

We are moving toward a dictatorship of relativism which does not recognize anything as for certain and which has as its highest goal one's own ego and one's own desires.
Joseph Ratzinger

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Joseph Ratzinger

Monday, October 31, 2011

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Monday, October 24, 2011

"Are You Proud of Your Country?"

Author's Note: Are you proud of the way that your country has been running? People ask themselves that everyday. If you could change one thing or do something to make our country a safer place, what would you do?

What do you think if our country vicissitude every day or every week? Do you envisage our economy would be in shape if the whole country changed? That’s what people have been asking themselves for a long time. Presume about our troops and what they are doing. Do they like fighting and killing people to fight for our freedom? Our troops are in Afghanistan and Iraq, fighting for us, and for our freedom. Don’t you think that is a BIG honor to have? They are risking their lives for us and protecting us by not having the enemy come and kill us. Our troops should be proud of their country and proud of themselves. They should especially be proud of themselves for what they are doing.

Take the example of the new law where you can carrying around guns. When people possess around dangerous weapons such as guns, what if they use the guns to kill people for no apparent reason? That is not being safe. The United States supposed to be a safe and secure place. Not a country where you can carry around a gun. Isn’t that wrong? We should make the United States a safer place by NOT having guns being carried around. Protest! Speak up!

If you are not proud of your country, then what would you change? Sometimes changing the way your country is a good thing an sometimes, not so good. Whatever you change that isn’t good for everybody might cause some severe damage. What if you could protest about your country needing change? Would you do it? Are you proud of your country? That’s the question you need to ask yourself. Do you think of your country as a dump? Think of it as your home. Do you want to change it?

The people of the United States or any country should make clubs on keeping our country clean. People have been seeing so much garbage on the floor and that is not good for our wildlife and for our plants. It kills them. People just throw them on the floor because they are too lazy and carless to just get up and walk to a garbage can and throw it away. We need to make our country a cleaner and safer area. Sooner or later, this country is going to become a conflagration. Now, are you indubitably proud of your country?

Friday, October 7, 2011

J.K. Rowling: The Woman Who Created it All.

Author's Note: J.K. Rowling is a great author and some people don't even know her and what she has written. If you have heard of Harry Potter but never read the books, this story will change your mind. J.K. Rowling is fabulous at Harry Potter, lots of great adventures waiting for you.


Imagine being in a world of witches and wizards, wands and magic or Houses to stay in being sorted by a live sorting hat? Mysteries of all kinds are swiveling around you. This is what it might be like to live in the world of Harry Potter. Even if you have read the books or not, you would know that Harry Potter is the best novel series in the entire world!

Some people think that Harry Potter is the best series of novels and movies. Some people think that Harry Potter isn’t a very good series. Harry Potter is a fantastic series of novels and movies. J.K. Rowling is a really great author in Harry Potter. No one can be a better author than her. She has a real gift. J.K. Rowling has made 7 novels and 7 movies, and the last movie has 2 parts. How does she have all the time to make these?

When J.K. Rowling was writing her first book, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, she wrote it in the U.K. and then published it in October of 1998. It was then reviewed in March 1999. J.K. Rowling then made her first Harry Potter book. Her fans then became in love with the very first book, which then J.K. Rowling kept making such good novels. Later in her life, she then created another book which was Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. This book came out in November 15, 2002. J.K. Rowling then became the most famous author in the entire world.

After J.K. Rowling made her 7 novels, she sold over 8.3 million books! She made so much money. More money than you could imagine. She made over $77,000,000 in the 1st weekend of each movie! The total budget for all 7 movie premieres is over $2 Trillion! That is how much her fans love her movies and books.

As you can see, J.K. Rowling is VERY and I mean VERY famous. She makes a lot of money,more money than the comedian Jeff Dunham. J.K. Rowling has many fans that love her and want her to make more and more Harry Potter movies. I have a question for you. If you could make another movie and book with J.K. Rowling and direct the movie and everything, what would you call the 8th movie?

When J.K. Rowling made her first book, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, she sold over 28 million copies! The reason why J.K. Rowling sold so many copies is because there is a lot of description about where Harry is, who is with him and so much more. There is also a lot of vivid language. The adventures in these books are just so detailed. Especially in J.K. Rowling’s second book, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. When Harry is in the Chamber of Secrets and he is on the pathway with 10 snake heads on each side of the room. She put so much detail in the book that is not in the movie. The adventure in the movies and the books are just preeminent. All the magic and the friends, dances, romance and the Headmaster is like a father to Harry. That is why it makes Harry Potter the best series in the world is the adventure. That is my favorite part of all the Harry Potters is the adventure.

J.K. Rowling has such great talent in her writing that just makes her the best author in the world!

Thanks to J.K. Rowling, she has made the Harry Potter series the best series in the world! I encourage anyone who hasn’t read the Harry Potter series to read the series and let me tell you, you will enjoy it. A lot.

By: Allison Andes