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Hey, there have been some hot words exchanged around here around these parts. That's fine, I do enjoy a lively debate. However, there are limits, and I'm posting this to make them known: lets not get personal. I do my best not to make person attacks, and by that same token, I won't receive them either. From this point on, let two things be known:
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On the note of personal experiences, we do have kids in our Catholic school who aren't Catholic. I was sitting with a class of 7th-graders, who are naturally obnoxious. We had one particularly obnoxious non-Catholic kid in class. (Not that his being obnoxious was due to his not being Catholic.) But he wasn't going to go up for Communion during Mass, and we have our schoolkids all go up anyway and if they don't want to take the host, they cross their arms across their chest to receive a blessing. He said (in a very obnoxious way), "I'm not Catholic, I don't have to go up." So I told him, "Yeah but you need all the special blessings you can get," and made him go up. So here is a reverse example of "exclusion," by means of "forced inclusion." ;)
BTW Allan, if you ever find yourself in that situation again, you can go up and cross your arms over your chest, which is the official symbol for "give me a blessing instead of the host." So you're being included without disrespecting the Church by taking the host when you don't believe that it is the transubstantiated Body of Christ.
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Although I'm pretty sure it would only empower Allan's ability to make puns. Punning is a blessing, a gift, after all.
Think of it Allan, don't you want blessed punning +3?
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