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Originally Posted by Father Maurice Lester
It is this kind of propagandist and vitriolic attack on decency that has much of mankind fighting each other instead of behaving in the manner that out Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ would have us.
Shame on you 'Pastor' Zeke, especially at a time when Catholic and Baptist doctrine is in agreement on a number of issues from mistrust of Islam to the evils of Harry Potter!
Once again, I ask you and your ilk to kindly refrain from such spurious and specious assaults on The Church of Rome, God's Church.
Bless you, my hillbilly huckster,
Father Mo
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I notice you don't even try to actually refute any of his points. Even Thomas Martin does better than you, and he's pretty awful.
O Lord our God, help us to tear their soldiers to bloody shreds with our shells; help us to cover their smiling fields with the pale forms of their patriot dead; help us to drown the thunder of the guns with the shrieks of their wounded, writhing in pain; help us to lay waste their humble homes with a hurricane of fire; help us to wring the hearts of their unoffending widows with unavailing grief; help us to turn them out roofless with little children to wander unfriended the wastes of their desolated land in rags and hunger and thirst, sports of the sun flames of summer and the icy winds of winter, broken in spirit, worn with travail, imploring Thee for the refuge of the grave and denied it--for our sakes who adore Thee, Lord, blast their hopes, blight their lives, protract their bitter pilgrimage, make heavy their steps, water their way with their tears, stain the white snow with the blood of their wounded feet! We ask it, in the spirit of love, of Him Who is the Source of Love, and Who is the ever-faithful refuge and friend of all that are sore beset and seek His aid with humble and contrite hearts. Amen.
God being truth, justice, goodness, beauty, power, and life, man is falsehood, iniquity, evil, ugliness, impotence, and death. God being master, man is the slave. Incapable of finding justice, truth, and eternal life by his own effort, he can attain them only through a divine revelation... he who desires to worship God must harbor no childish illusions about the matter, but bravely renounce his liberty and humanity.