<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2242763243286368825</id><updated>2012-01-04T03:19:26.080-08:00</updated><category term='christianity symbols'/><category term='founder of christianity'/><category term='ancient cathedrals'/><category term='christianity today'/><category term='judaism'/><category term='discomfitingchristianity'/><category term='christianity beliefs'/><category term='christianity origin'/><category term='christianity history'/><category term='christianity facts'/><category term='cathedral interior'/><category term='cathedrals'/><title type='text'>discomfitingchristianity</title><subtitle type='html'></subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://discomfitingchristianity.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2242763243286368825/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://discomfitingchristianity.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>xl</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03648459391094573308</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>11</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2242763243286368825.post-1950252928917866493</id><published>2012-01-04T03:19:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2012-01-04T03:19:26.090-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='cathedral interior'/><title type='text'>Originally Cathedral Interior</title><summary type='text'>It is alone in the aftermost brace of centuries that abiding pews and moveable chairs, about fabricated from atramentous ablaze arresting aphotic amber wood, accept abounding abbey naves in Europe.  Originally anybody stood, and these different covered spaces were additionally acclimated for added activities such as markets.  Here is a attenuate (2007) attending at a arresting chairless medieval </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2242763243286368825/posts/default/1950252928917866493'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2242763243286368825/posts/default/1950252928917866493'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://discomfitingchristianity.blogspot.com/2012/01/originally-cathedral-interior.html' title='Originally Cathedral Interior'/><author><name>xl</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03648459391094573308</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ZwBOrZKYhjY/TwQzBpnQUSI/AAAAAAAAAZo/xlv63lVILBQ/s72-c/cathedral+interior_Winchester-Cathedral-interiorDSC00066.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2242763243286368825.post-5898109640409314489</id><published>2011-12-03T07:23:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-12-03T07:23:10.383-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ancient cathedrals'/><title type='text'>Ancient cathedrals are civilization in the coursework of the Hellenistic</title><summary type='text'>The Pontians are an ancient Greek individuals who can be traced back to the mid-eighth century B.C. Xenophon mentions their preliminary settlements
between Trapezous &amp; Sinope, before the emergence of the Mithridatid Dynasty &amp; Pontian Kingdom controlling the North coast of Asia Minor.
Philosophers &amp; historians such as Diogenes, Diodorus, &amp; Strabon make part of the past of this region. The </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2242763243286368825/posts/default/5898109640409314489'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2242763243286368825/posts/default/5898109640409314489'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://discomfitingchristianity.blogspot.com/2011/12/ancient-cathedrals-are-civilization-in.html' title='Ancient cathedrals are civilization in the coursework of the Hellenistic'/><author><name>xl</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03648459391094573308</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5258/5489677070_25ec57c63d_t.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2242763243286368825.post-1509622427210983083</id><published>2011-12-03T07:13:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-12-03T07:13:10.642-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ancient cathedrals'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='cathedrals'/><title type='text'>Reaching their height of magnificence at Cologne Cathedral</title><summary type='text'>In the Western European custom, there's often paired towers framing the facade. These towers have their origin in a custom practised at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem. In the coursework of Holy Week the faithful would method along the Way of the Cross, leading to the Basilica, which in Early Christian times consisted of a domed shrine over the site of the tomb, &amp; a "porch" which </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2242763243286368825/posts/default/1509622427210983083'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2242763243286368825/posts/default/1509622427210983083'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://discomfitingchristianity.blogspot.com/2011/12/reaching-their-height-of-magnificence.html' title='Reaching their height of magnificence at Cologne Cathedral'/><author><name>xl</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03648459391094573308</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1139/1271424080_529301c9d9_t.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2242763243286368825.post-6331189461084607139</id><published>2011-12-03T07:08:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-12-03T07:08:30.747-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ancient cathedrals'/><title type='text'>Most cathedrals and great church buildings have a cruciform groundplan</title><summary type='text'>Plenty of of the earliest church buildings of Byzantium have a longitudinal plan. At Hagia Sophia, Istanbul, there is a central dome, frame on axis by high semi-domes and on the other by low rectangular transept arms, the general plan being square. This large church was to influence the building of plenty of later church buildings, even in to the 21st century. A square plan in which the nave, </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2242763243286368825/posts/default/6331189461084607139'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2242763243286368825/posts/default/6331189461084607139'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://discomfitingchristianity.blogspot.com/2011/12/most-cathedrals-and-great-church.html' title='Most cathedrals and great church buildings have a cruciform groundplan'/><author><name>xl</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03648459391094573308</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-PHJr1On3a0A/ThK7qoH6QDI/AAAAAAAAAJQ/kiMS4Jns72Y/s72-c/268509_1376467849610_1169250844_30879915_5971061_n.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2242763243286368825.post-4262527290441783418</id><published>2011-12-03T07:04:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-12-03T07:04:43.736-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ancient cathedrals'/><title type='text'>Ancient cathedrals are  a giant vaulted building with a high roof</title><summary type='text'>Early church architecture did not draw its form from Roman temples, as the latter did not have giant internal spaces where worshipping congregations could meet. It was the Roman basilica, used for meetings, markets and courts of law that provided a model for the giant Christian church and that gave its name to the Christian basilica. Both Roman basilicas and Roman bath houses had at their core a </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2242763243286368825/posts/default/4262527290441783418'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2242763243286368825/posts/default/4262527290441783418'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://discomfitingchristianity.blogspot.com/2011/12/ancient-cathedrals-are-giant-vaulted.html' title='Ancient cathedrals are  a giant vaulted building with a high roof'/><author><name>xl</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03648459391094573308</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2242763243286368825.post-4212537949340512271</id><published>2011-12-03T06:59:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-12-03T06:59:40.728-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ancient cathedrals'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='cathedrals'/><title type='text'>Ancient cathedrals was historically</title><summary type='text'>In lots of parts of the world, abbey church buildings often served the local community as well as the monastic community. In regions such as England where the monastic communities were dissolved, the abbey church buildings, where located in a town, have continued to serve as a parish church. In lots of areas of Asia &amp; South The united states, the abbeys are the earliest established church </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2242763243286368825/posts/default/4212537949340512271'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2242763243286368825/posts/default/4212537949340512271'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://discomfitingchristianity.blogspot.com/2011/12/ancient-cathedrals-was-historically.html' title='Ancient cathedrals was historically'/><author><name>xl</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03648459391094573308</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_D-QBVtRZu50/TKYK-F2dF9I/AAAAAAAAAxw/ncsMX2ujTGI/s72-c/Edinburgh+Visit+September+2010+005.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2242763243286368825.post-4647193953108545946</id><published>2011-12-03T06:54:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-12-03T06:54:21.482-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ancient cathedrals'/><title type='text'>The Basilica Structures of Ancient Rome</title><summary type='text'># The cathedral was created to the Glory of God. It was seen as appropriate that it ought to be as grand &amp; as beautiful as wealth &amp; skill could make it.[5]
# As the stool of a Bishop, the Cathedral was the location for sure liturgical rites, such as the Ordination of Priests, which brought together giant numbers of clergy &amp; people.


# It functioned as an ecclesiastical &amp; social meeting-place for</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2242763243286368825/posts/default/4647193953108545946'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2242763243286368825/posts/default/4647193953108545946'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://discomfitingchristianity.blogspot.com/2011/12/basilica-structures-of-ancient-rome.html' title='The Basilica Structures of Ancient Rome'/><author><name>xl</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03648459391094573308</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_D-QBVtRZu50/SctlKPIZ-rI/AAAAAAAAAXY/Iv7SGdMERhM/s72-c/Picture+030.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2242763243286368825.post-485330766692868791</id><published>2011-12-03T06:46:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-12-03T06:46:54.649-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ancient cathedrals'/><title type='text'>Ancient cathedrals a higher level of contemporary architectural style</title><summary type='text'>Cathedrals in particular, as well as plenty of abbey church buildings and basilicas, have positive complex structural forms that are found less often in parish church buildings. They also tend to display a higher level of contemporary architectural style and the work of accomplished craftsmen, and occupy a status both ecclesiastical and social that an ordinary parish church does not have. Such a </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2242763243286368825/posts/default/485330766692868791'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2242763243286368825/posts/default/485330766692868791'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://discomfitingchristianity.blogspot.com/2011/12/ancient-cathedrals-higher-level-of.html' title='Ancient cathedrals a higher level of contemporary architectural style'/><author><name>xl</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03648459391094573308</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3363/3310170364_640a2370dc_t.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2242763243286368825.post-2730684908565321619</id><published>2011-11-14T08:54:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-11-14T08:54:40.887-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='judaism'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='christianity history'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='christianity symbols'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='christianity origin'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='christianity facts'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='founder of christianity'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='christianity today'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='christianity beliefs'/><title type='text'>Christians suffered most from the hands of the Crusaders</title><summary type='text'>that crossed the history of Christianity 'has been very influential in Europe and around the world. Was eradicated many Christians for nearly two centuries and directly affected the lives of Christians survivors. The history of the Christian Crusades "had eradicated an estimated of 6,000,000 Christians during his reign.'ll Actually estimates of 2 million to 6 million based on various estimates </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2242763243286368825/posts/default/2730684908565321619'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2242763243286368825/posts/default/2730684908565321619'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://discomfitingchristianity.blogspot.com/2011/11/christians-suffered-most-from-hands-of.html' title='Christians suffered most from the hands of the Crusaders'/><author><name>xl</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03648459391094573308</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_E5ox707-ekY/TDekGGm37yI/AAAAAAAAFLI/9dKd-_CGOvg/s72-c/cross.gif' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2242763243286368825.post-7040970865194838462</id><published>2011-11-14T08:50:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-11-14T08:50:27.551-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='judaism'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='christianity history'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='christianity symbols'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='christianity origin'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='christianity facts'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='founder of christianity'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='christianity today'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='christianity beliefs'/><title type='text'>A member of a church that shows Christianity as its foundation</title><summary type='text'>Mark Twain is quoted as saying, ". If Christ were here now there is one thing that would not be - a Christian" The sad truth is the way many people who claim to be Christians today live their lives, Mr. Twain would be correct. A Christian, by definition, is a person who believes and strives to live as Jesus Christ alive. Christianity is not an organized religion, not a given name, is a way of </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2242763243286368825/posts/default/7040970865194838462'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2242763243286368825/posts/default/7040970865194838462'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://discomfitingchristianity.blogspot.com/2011/11/member-of-church-that-shows.html' title='A member of a church that shows Christianity as its foundation'/><author><name>xl</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03648459391094573308</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_mZYNIME37DQ/TJZgCKdGmsI/AAAAAAAAAC4/4IOmhiJnNHE/s72-c/christianity-cross.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2242763243286368825.post-6481508947327627191</id><published>2011-11-14T07:48:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2011-11-14T07:48:06.746-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='discomfitingchristianity'/><title type='text'>discomfitingchristianity</title><summary type='text'>discomfitingchristianity</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2242763243286368825/posts/default/6481508947327627191'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2242763243286368825/posts/default/6481508947327627191'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://discomfitingchristianity.blogspot.com/2011/11/discomfitingchristianity.html' title='discomfitingchristianity'/><author><name>xl</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03648459391094573308</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry></feed>
