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Original Sin?
| May 22nd, 2020 at 6:07:20 PM permalink | |
| FrGamble Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 67 Posts: 7596 |
It is the scourge of Atheism, materialism, and secularism that we should pray hard to be completely eradicated. In the last century more people have died in wars fueled by an abandonment of God and faith then in all the previous centuries added together. The loss of faith in God is not helping us but destroying us. Society is fraying and their are more people in slavery due to sex and unfair labor than ever before in history. Secular and atheistic ideas and philosophies are anti-intellectual, tend towards violence and oppression, and due not respect the God given freedom and dignity of every human person. “It is with the smallest brushes that the artist paints the most exquisitely beautiful pictures.” ( |
| May 22nd, 2020 at 6:58:48 PM permalink | |
| aceofspades Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 83 Posts: 2019 |
I'd say more violence in the short history of the world has been done in the name of God than anything else |
| May 22nd, 2020 at 7:26:27 PM permalink | |
| FrGamble Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 67 Posts: 7596 | And you would be wrong. “It is with the smallest brushes that the artist paints the most exquisitely beautiful pictures.” ( |
| May 22nd, 2020 at 7:34:21 PM permalink | |
| aceofspades Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 83 Posts: 2019 |
Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight |
| May 22nd, 2020 at 10:26:17 PM permalink | |
| Evenbob Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 146 Posts: 25011 |
Not wrong at all. Wars in the name of god have gone on for millennia. You want to compare that to the recent wars that have high death counts due to modern tech advances. And as we have talked about before, Hitler was raised strictly Catholic in a Catholic family. He even wanted to attend seminary when he was young. He learned his hatred of Jews from a then Jew hating Vatican who, when Hitler was a boy, was terrified of the Jews regaining control of the Holy Land and spoke out frequently against them. According to the The Catholic World Report, Hitler was not a Xtian or an atheist. He was something twisted in between the two. He was a pantheist who believed god was in nature and nature was divine. If you take a risk, you may lose. If you never take a risk, you will always lose. |
| May 23rd, 2020 at 2:46:07 AM permalink | |
| FrGamble Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 67 Posts: 7596 | He believed that he was God or the State, either way he rejected God and as we have seen over and over in history when that happens bad things follow. “It is with the smallest brushes that the artist paints the most exquisitely beautiful pictures.” ( |
| May 23rd, 2020 at 6:52:20 AM permalink | |
| Mission146 Administrator Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 23 Posts: 4147 |
Because your prayers have worked so well before. Good luck. He ain't there, nobody's listening. I hope you pray out loud, because then at least one person will hear you. I refuse to dignify any of the specifics with a response; it would be beneath me, other than to say actually wanting to prove a theory is the opposite of anti-intellectual. That's how science and math work. "War is the remedy that our enemies have chosen..let us give them all they want." William T. Sherman |
| May 23rd, 2020 at 10:03:27 AM permalink | |
| Evenbob Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 146 Posts: 25011 |
It's something new, you didn't see this cloying need in the Church to prove all their off the wall ideas with science. They had actual faith, no need of proof. Joseph Campbell talks about that, how in the 30's and 40's no priest would ever argue about his beliefs. They just accepted on faith that they were true. And woe be to you if you were a priest and doubted them. Goodbye priesthood. If you take a risk, you may lose. If you never take a risk, you will always lose. |
| May 23rd, 2020 at 1:04:20 PM permalink | |
| FrGamble Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 67 Posts: 7596 |
Riiiiiiiiiight “It is with the smallest brushes that the artist paints the most exquisitely beautiful pictures.” ( |
| May 23rd, 2020 at 2:31:44 PM permalink | |
| Evenbob Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 146 Posts: 25011 |
You didn't take a vow of obedience when you became a priest? Part of which means you have to uphold the teachings and positions of the Church, you can't veer off into the weeds with your own theories and ignore the ones you were taught. So no matter what is said here, you will always always always take the Vatican position on everything because you swore to as part of your job. If you take a risk, you may lose. If you never take a risk, you will always lose. |