Luke 22:

63 And the men that held Jesus mocked him, and smote him.

He went through these anguish - mental, physical and spiritual - for me so I am also inclined to suffer inn the same manner. The difference may be is that he did it for the whole world, whether or not we can see or/or admit to it.

aphrodisianus:

""What you're describing Narcissist personality disorder.""

I know about this disorder quite well; my sister suffers from it and that's the reason I don't see / talk to her in over 27 years.

"" It was Jesus... He made demands on his men not to be attracted to women.""

Isn't this behavior a strong sign of homosexuality?

Again no sense here. Someone dying for someone else in the act of heroism is heroic but dying to make a point really makes the point that he didn't value his own life. In other words, he committed suicide.

He had followers , not enough to crush religion , but enough to change religion ,

Jesus was the only divine being I have read about who died for us---

didn't ask us to die for him---

but wanted sacrifice done away with --Jesus sacrifice being the ONLY sacrifice needed for all time.

Why don't you give us the pope's whole sentence?

Salvation only comes by faith in Christ. If the Jews wish to be saved let them convert to Catholicism. We will welcome them with open arms.

On July 14, 1555, Pope Paul IV issued his bull “Cum nimis absurdum,” which subjected the Jews under his dominion to a long list of restrictions and humiliations, most notably the requirement that the Jews of Rome live within a closed area. This became the Rome Ghetto, the mandatory home of the city’s Jews until its abolishment in 1870.
Pope Paul IV (1476-1559) was an unusually rigid and intolerant pontiff. He had been the leading figure in the establishment of a Roman Inquisition in 1542 (the papal bull that created the Inquisition stated, “Even if my own father were a heretic, I would gather the wood to burn him…"), and had overseen the burning of the Talmud in Rome in 1553.
Less than two months after his ascent to the papacy on May 23, 1555, he issued “Cum nimis absurbum” – meaning literally, “Because it is completely senseless …” After those opening words, the proclamation continues: “…and inappropriate to be in a situation where Christian piety allows the Jews (whose guilt -- all of their own doing -- has condemned them to eternal slavery) access to our society and even to live among us…” before laying a long and detailed list of restrictions on Jewish life.
The first in the list of rules was one requiring all Jews in any given town to live in a single district, which was to be enclosed with a wall, and locked at night. The Jews were not allowed to own any property in the ghetto, and were permitted to have but a single synagogue for prayer. Any others that existed at the time of the promulgation of the bull were to be destroyed.
Jews were obligated to identify themselves with a yellow head-covering. Professionally, they were limited to the rag trade, unless they were trained physicians, in which case they were forbidden from tending to Christians. They were also prohibited from working on Sundays or on Christian feast days, among other restrictions.
The Roman Ghetto was established on the banks of the Tiber river, one of the least desirable sections of the city, if only because of its tendency to flood when the river’s waters rose. The Jews, who had their own dialect, called Giudeo-romanesco, had to finance its construction, which was designed by architect Giovanni Sallustio Peruzzi. Initially, it could be entered or departed by only two gates, although by the time the walls were demolished, in the 19th century, that number had increased to eight. Since the area of the ghetto could not expand, the only way to add living space was to build up, to as high as seven stories. This helped to block the sun, making the ghetto a dark space.
On the positive side, Christian landlords could not evict their Jewish tenants, nor could they raise rents. At the same time, the Jews were required to go through an annual ritual by which they requested permission to reside in the ghetto, a privilege for which they also had to pay a tax. Before that procedure was instituted, the Jews had to participate as performers in an annual carnival of humiliation.

Let me get this straight---because I said I believed in the equality of the races, I need a psychiatrist, and because I reported the very eadily verifiable fact that 80-90% of Filipinos are Catholics, and that a very large minority of Africans and Vietnamese are Catholics, I need a psychiatrist.

If you want to live forever , you believe in a god that can pull it off .

If you want your offspring , their offspring , and all offspring that follows , to live forever , you believe in a universe that doesn't give a damn what we want .

So whos ready to stop being selfish ?

Instead of making more utterances how about answering the questions I asked.

I cant help that your deaf . Sorry , I wish I could change that .

The ears can only sense vibration . Its the mind that has to pick it up .

I attack you , because you are an open door , what everyone says , passes straight through . Its like nothing was there to begin with .

In order to ascend to the highest realm of heaven. You must leave all the physical behind including regrets. Holding on to anything will prevent your from acceding to the highest realm. That means you must shed all your judgements of others and of your self, you must be reborn with the innocence of a child. And rid yourself of all the illusions you created in this material realm. Everything in life is a divine experience and you must except that the choices you made you were meant to make it was part of your divine plan. Something you needed to experience and learn from in order to grow and raise your consciousness. If you fail to grasp the lesson you keep repeating the same situations over and over until you do. You must be willing to remove the beam from your own eye. The is why the spiritual path is a inner journey or process, you need to work through your own psychology. An outer religion can not take you there, it can only start you on the path. And if you cling to the outer religion and and don't take the inner journey. There is a way that may seem right unto man, but in the end will lead to death. The gate is wide and many will enter through it, this is the outer path. The road to salvation is narrow and few will find it, this is the inner path.

Have you seen a monkey come out of the jungle and ask for direction? Yes, evolution has given man a body but that doesn't mean evolution is not part of God's creative plan. What separates man from the animal is mind, the ability to reason and make purposeful decisions with the inherent desire for increasing knowledge. Desire is the driving force of creation and desire in its purest form derives from a divine source that is love dominated.