[Ol Thumper]

Re: Book Clubs

Every time I try to post my address or phone number for someone to help me with matters on this forum, it gets automatically retracted because of JesOS it says. My Intro post is showing this. Perhaps does your church have one so that me and my wife can drive or fly down to visit? After doing research, it simply seems like a Christian paradise. I would consider it a pilgrimage for God!

[Mary Etheldreda]

Re: Book Clubs

Every time I try to post my address or phone number for someone to help me with matters on this forum, it gets automatically retracted because of JesOS it says. My Intro post is showing this. Perhaps does your church have one so that me and my wife can drive or fly down to visit? After doing research, it simply seems like a Christian paradise. I would consider it a pilgrimage for God!

Don't fret, dear. The DoF is already on the job.

[Romeo Rovagnati]

Re: Book Clubs

Actually, i think that bookclubs could be a good idea, as long they have those books only:

• The Bible (The Latin Vulgata version)
• Church Fathers writings
• True History (lacking any liberal lie)
• Fantasy books (as long they are written by Christians, such as Tolkien)
• Books written by the Popes and by the Catholic Clergy
• Political books (teaching kids to be right-winger)
• Lives of the Saints
• True Science books (that are completely lacking atheistic frauds like the Big Ben)
• Educative books, such as the series called "Vigilant Christian"
• Anti-LGBT books

And i think that all those books are as enough for a Christian Book Club.

[MitzaLizalor]

Re: Book Clubs

Actually, i think that bookclubs could be a good idea, as long they have those books only:

• The Bible (The Latin Vulgata version)
• Church Fathers writings
• True History (lacking any liberal lie)
• Fantasy books (as long they are written by Christians, such as Tolkien)
• Books written by the Popes and by the Catholic Clergy
• Political books (teaching kids to be right-winger)
• Lives of the Saints
• True Science books (that are completely lacking atheistic frauds like the Big Ben)
• Educative books, such as the series called "Vigilant Christian"
• Anti-LGBT books

And i think that all those books are as enough for a Christian Book Club.

The highlighting I've added represents a vast genre of heresy when contrasted with what God has vouchsafed for our edification. Although later inspiration may be possible, such as afforded to John on Patmos, in every case it will be consistent with what God had revealed thitherto.

I read your list.

Obviously no "church" having "fathers" is Christian v.i.
But something I'd like clarified is: what's your definition of a Saint?

Matthew 23:9 And call no man your father upon the earth: for one is your Father, which is in heaven.

[Romeo Rovagnati]

Re: Book Clubs

But something I'd like clarified is: what's your definition of a Saint

My definition of saint is the same of the whole Catholic Church: someone who gave the example of the Christian teachings and earned a special place in heaven, along with some devotion from Catholic believers.

[MitzaLizalor]

Re: Book Clubs

My definition of saint is the same of the whole Catholic Church: someone who gave the example of the Christian teachings and earned a special place in heaven, along with some devotion from Catholic believers.

You seem to be suggesting that there are degrees of bliss. By that standard I suppose Thomas More, virulent heretic extraordinaire, gets one of your better seats? But he opposed anyone's reading The Bible in a language they could understand and thus the elucidation of God's Will by the medium He (God) had chosen.

By announcing this ardent murderer to have been elevated in sanctity your amassed credibility plunges lower into the mire than any creed before it. What better example of Christian teachings could there be than Jesus Himself? Are some fruits of a lesser vine than others? Jesus explains it this way:

John 15:5 I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing

According to "Saint" Thomas More I should be murdered for presenting Christ's teaching like that.

[Jim C. Lombardo]

Re: Book Clubs

Latest on my book burning list: The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam


I should have been wary of this filthy tome by the Moorish sounding name, and lo and behold, this bit of pornographic litrotica is nothing short of the Kama Sutra. Not fit for women, kids or any respectable Christian, really.

[MitzaLizalor]

Re: Book Clubs

Omar Khayyam is not available around here to burn in the first place. Thank you for pointing out the dangers of heretical writings and especially poetry from the -stan regions such as Instanbul. Where people think that going 'round in circles until dizzy counts as inspiration when they could get the same effect by tazing themselves in the neck. Where declaiming this as art results in people watching it thinking they're being entertained. Where traditions are considered valid just because they're ancient. And once it's valid, postmodernist literarians get the urge for reinterpretation. The literature leads to the activity but what Christian would carry on like this?

The similarities are obvious, the angle of the head for instance, but there are differences too. Interpretations, they say. One way to pre-empt all this nonsense would be introducing a Municipal Regulation limiting the written word to a single alphabet. All this imported stuff accepted for the sake of "tradition" or "authenticity" grinds everyone back to the stone-age where it originated whether we want it or not.

Jesus came to set us free.