The Latin word nepos means descendant in general, not just nephew. Virgil in the Aeneid describes Ascanius as nepos Veneris, the descendant of Venus (he’s her grandson).
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That’s sort of how the Orthodox Church works. While priests can’t marry, married men can become priests - and in fact men considering the priesthood are encouraged to marry, as a married priest is considered more able to give pastoral advice to couples about their marriage. There’s a reason why the most common surname in Greece, Papadopoulos, means “son of the priest”.
On the other hand, members of the church hierarchy (bishops and up) must be monks, and therefore can’t be married. So an unmarried Orthodox priest probably has ambitions…
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Not surprising since the ultimate goal of creating humanity was to produce a gigantic army of people who do nothing but sing praises to this god eternally.
Isaiah 43:21 ESV /
The people whom I formed for myself that they might declare my praise.
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A quick Google search says that can be interpreted many ways which is why when I get to heaven I’m going to get a major time out because the first thing I’m asking God is why couldn’t he write a book that wasn’t so dang cryptic or open to interpretation.
That goes for all the scripture and all the books from all the religions. How hard is it make a law that’s easy to understand, you know, like congress. Oh wait, never mind.
With respect, they are simple words with a simple meaning. Professional religious types make a career out of obfuscating obvious stuff, especially stuff that makes their deity look really vain, a vicious brute or just peculiar. “Have you seen the cool warehouse where I store snow for when I feel like making Winter?” (Job)
“The deity directly says X” but he/she/it/they really means Y"
Reference god saying he is a jealous god who will punish sin for seven generations with Jseus saying “He, I mean me since I am god, said no such thing or if I did say it I didn’t mean it the way it sounds”.
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I do wonder how much we’re also all missing in terms of linguistic drift and translation issues, as well as cultural allusions that no one remembers that may have made interpretation easier early on.
I think the ancient world was more open about this being an issue. That’s why the Renaissance had polyglot bibles and the Hellenistic era Jewish population in Greece had the story of the Septuagint.
That said: I don’t think the pope’s words, did, or should, persuade anyone of anything they didn’t already believe. At least I hope not. The story reminds me that after my grandma had her third kid (in her late thirties) and told the priest she didn’t want any more, he told her she was no better than a prostitute. Needless to say, this did not change her mind.
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Proof: Those 007 villains with ominous pets in their laps. Evil. Sad.
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What an insecure ass. [The supposed God, that is.]
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Ah, this is one of those domini canes I’ve heard so much about.
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Hmmm.
That same attitude sounds vaguely familiar, somehow…
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I bet Pope Emeritus Benedict lets his cats roam around the Vatican just to spite Francis.
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Spock had a pet
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Just to be factual (as a vulcan would) this was never uttered by Spock in the film. It was in an earlier script for the film but not actually used. Roddenberry did turn that script eventually into a book called
“The God Thing”
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Data was a cat person.
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That’s true, I thought I’d grabbed the version of the picture that said as much, but picked the wrong one. Oops, and thanks for the correction!
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So did T’Pol:
(while being chased by a wild sehlat)
T’Pol: They are very persistent creatures. When I was a child, I had one as a pet.
Archer: You had one of those?
T’Pol: Domesticated. They were smaller, slightly.
Archer: How slightly?
T’pol: You have Porthos.
Archer: Porthos doesn’t try and eat me when I’m late with his dinner.
T’Pol: Vulcan children are never late with their sehlat’s dinner.
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