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04 Jul 2020, 9:15 pm

Can we at least agree that Jesus would have been a Socialist.

He disliked people hoarding wealth, he thought that everyone should be looked after, that you welcome immigrants and so on. His entire mythos is sacrificing himself for others that never even asked him to.

But I mostly think that as he exist now is just an idea that has been created over 2000 years.


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04 Jul 2020, 9:26 pm

The only ists that come to mind about Jesus are extremist and terrorist


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04 Jul 2020, 10:06 pm

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Interesting; A Painting Expresses (Exposes) So Much More Than Words Alone.
'Here' We Have A Portrait of So-Called Mary; God Yes, So-Called Mother of Jesus; So
European, Fair And Estrogen Dripping Lovely; in Other Words, Epitome of Womanly Fertility;
Fully Equipped, Ready to Nurture LoVE iN All Her Children; Sending Them Out Into the World
to Cooperate In Kindness; WoRKinG ToGeTHeR, Surviving, Thriving, With Helping Hands Of Love
And My God
in 'Pure Evil'
The Artist
Has turned
Another Truly
Lovely Mother of Love
Into A Fire Breathing Dragon;
'Jesus F in Christ' What A 'HeLLuVA Statue'
'Here', Slaying All Her Enemies Into A Tortuous
Hell of Death Forever Then That only A True Sadist,
Psychopathic, With No Human Feelings at All could ever Fathom
Doing to Another Human Being; Where Vengeance Becomes
The Only Blood of Fear and Hate; And the Blood Of Love Is
Dead of Real Victory; The Blood
Of Love
Is Dead
Forevermore
NoW iN Fear And Hate...
It'S UNderStandable MaKinG
A Symbol Like 'Trump' into A God
of Fear And Hate; but i'm Sorry This
Painting IS ALL A Lie for A Woman Fair
As this Would Never Become the Devil
Incarnate Or Any Son Raised With The Spirit of Love;
What God, Do You Love;
What God, Do You Love;
What God, Do You Love;
Do You See
the Problem
With Answering
This Rhetorical Question
For Real With A God That is
Only A Dragon With A Serpent
Fire Destroying All That is Great, Life As LOVE;
ONCE AGAIN, MY FRiEND, LOVE CLASS: LOVE NEVER
FORCES WORSHIP; LOVE ALWAYS FORGIVES AS THE
LAST CHANCE IS ALWAYS FIRST; LOVE BREATHeS ETeRNaLLY NoW
OR LOVE DOES NOT;
THere is No Love
In 'This Painting';
Only Vengeance
oF Fear And
Hate;
The Artist
Killed The God
Of Love No Different
Than Parts of Both
The Old Testament;
Yes, That Older Newer Testament too;
Guess What, Love Still Breathes; It'S HEaVeN
Now But Only When Real, When Living Within
To Give And Share Free to All With Least Harm to Breathe;
Do You See the Problem Here; Your Mistake is Believing Everything
Folks Tell You Is True; You have Yet to Discern Breath, Love Eternal Now
or Death Living Now Forever; This Painting Tells A Story of A God You BeLiEVE iN Most;
Hint:
IT Ain't Love Related;
It's More Like What You
Find In a Stephen King Movie In the Gutter;
Love Is the Child Who Always Forgives; Love
Is the Child Who Always Loves; When God
Does NOT Meet The Standard of the Love
Of A Child, God Is No Greater Than
Living Dead; Zombie
Apocalypse Real
For Living
Dead
Eternally Now
in Fear And Hate
to Harm Others Away From Love.

But You See my FRiEnD; i See ReaLiTY
Through The Eyes of Love; If God
Is Love So Are My Eyes;
What Eyes Do
You Want
to See Reality As;
Eternal Torturing Enemies;
Or Eternal Loving Enemies;
Which So-Called 'JeSuS' Do You BeLiVE iN NoW And Forever;
Or Are You Too Weak of Love to Love An Enemy Forever Now;
If so, THere iS At Least One JeSuS in 'The Story' YOU DO NOT BELIEVE iN.
CLUE:
THeRE IS A GOOD
COP AND BAD COP
JeSuS IN THE BIBLE;
Both Characters Are Written
in by Innumerable Ghost Authors;
Some of those Ghost Authors And
Or Editors 'Smell' More Like 'Trump';
I. E. STiNK, STaNK, STuNK, FeaR HaTE;
Most all of us have a potential
to BE Either Cop; Choose the
Good Cop Forever Now; If You Will And You Do; Then,
Your Life Will Be Light Over Darkness, Smelling More Like Heaven.

Nothing Personal: Just Reviewing 'Your Painting'.

Have A Nice Day; Smell A Flower; BE A Real Man
And Wear FLoWeRS More Than THoRNS If You Rise As Rose;

Any Being That Will Send Any Being
To Eternal Torture Is THE REAL DEVIL;
i Understand the Ignorance and Even Have Sympathy For 'Trumps';
Hehe; Perhaps i am A Bringer oF LiGHT; Perhaps i Am A 'Statue too'..;)

Would Explain
My Birthday on 6660,
If You BeLiVE iN Karma..;)

OnlY A ReaL DeViL
And Angel Sees Both Sides of (JaNuS)

JusT ANoTHeR HuMaN ArcHeType; 'They' End,
'They' STaRT; We CoME AgAiNoW aS LoVE AGaiN

The beings Our Lady is casting down aren't human souls, they're spirits. Specifically they're the old Roman gods, the painting shown above is a modified version of painting that shows the triumph of Christianity over Pagan Rome; the artist modified it to show the Triumph of the Immaculate Heart of Mary over the "New Paganism" of the Modern West, as Our Lady of Fatima prophesied and promised.

A mother is merciful and forgiving to her children and innocent strangers, but a mother must also be strong and protect her children from those who would cause them harm. But when it comes to Our Lady and the Devil, it actually goes much further, you see, because Satan used Eve, the woman, to bring about the Fall of humanity, God ordained that it would be the New Eve who would cause Satan's ultimate demise:

"I will put enmities between thee and the woman, and thy seed and her seed: she shall crush thy head, and thou shalt lie in wait for her heel." Genesis 3:15 DR

The original Hebrew used in "she shall crush thy head, and thou shalt lie in wait for her heel" is gender neutral and thus, many translations render it as "he shall crush thy head..." but Philo and Josephus, two contemporary of Christ, as well as the well-renowned medieval Jewish apologist Moses Maimonides, all testify that the correct understanding of that is "she shall crush thy head..."
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I don't believe everything Pope Francis says, but when he canonized Junipero Serra, that canonization was infallible. A lot of Rad Trads have objected to the canonizations Pope John XXIII, Pope Paul VI, and Pope John Paul II, but it's been well-proven that canonizations are infallible, they cannot be rejected. Yes, some of the critiques of the three Popes by the Rad Trads are legit, yes, I would rather that St. Junipero Serra did not authorize corporal punishment on the Missions and yes, St. Thomas Aquinas erroneously rejected the Immaculate Conception; but as I mentioned above, when a person gets canonized as a Saint, that doesn't mean that that person is perfect, only Jesus and Mary are perfect. Catholics are free to question and discern a lot of things both inside and outside the Church, there is a lot that watch very carefully before making a judgement. (Especially in regards to politics) But when it comes to Sacred Tradition, Sacred Scripture, and the Teaching Magisterium, there I and other Catholics are bound to obey, because those three things are infallible. And when one trusts in those infallible authorities, a lot of things become clear that one would otherwise miss:


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04 Jul 2020, 10:44 pm

^^^
Smiles; It's Up to You of Course; but i Suggest You do a little Divinity School Level
University Study on the Bible, to See the Origins of the Text We Read Now.

I've Mentioned it before; but it is most definitely Written By Innumerable
Ghost Authors, And Copied By Scribes over Centuries, With Both Innocent
Mistakes that will of course happen; And Intentional Changes too; As God yes,
of course We Are Talking About Humans writing all the Words; Some of Which are
Inspired by Love; And some that are no Greater than what Trump Says on Twitter.

This is Human Nature, Dark and Light; Come to Understand who the Real Heroes
And Villains Are Then And Now; And there won't be any Need to Crush Any Heads;
And You Won't Ever Think or Feel An Innocent Child Born Before Baptized Is Any Less than
Worthy; Male And or Female of Course; As Nature Does the In Between of that as Natural God Breath too.

According to 'Jesus', You Find Heaven And God
By Looking Within; Without Even Any CuLTuRaL Clothes At all;

'He' Also Says Turn The Other Cheek; Love And Forgive Your Enemy As Your Neighbor;

And Turns Around With A Gaslit Lie that Says He'll Judge Ya, if Ya Misbehave, And Send
Ya to Torture of Hell Forever.

Common Sense my Friend; If you can't See the 'Personality
Disorder' For Anyone Who Demands Worship As Love in Penalty
of Eternal Torture; You Obviously, Can't See A Devil You
Already Read About IN the Bible;

If there was ever an 'Anti-Christ'
Away From Love It's Clearly
the No Forgiving Eternal Damning Version of Jesus and Or God;
Seen Too Many Examples of Demagogues in History And Present
Not to See through the Obvious Lies of whoever Wrote that Part of that Old Bible.
Hey; You are trusting your Soul to an Organization that Protected Pedophiles And
only Stopped Because they got Caught.

You Are Dealing With Humans; All
Capable of Devil and Angel Stuff Now;
Safest way to Go is Look Within And find
Your own Savior That only You Will Depend on.

Obviously That is What The Essence of the Story of 'Jesus' did too.

Gotta Get through the Chaff to Find the Wheat Wherever You Go in Life.

The Greatest Gold is What You Are already Born to Do; Love; And in the Study of
Theology; the Evolution of Love Takes you Eventually to Agape Love for ALL and that's IT;

If You Get That Far;

Some Folks do it Early;

Some Folks Do it on their Death Bed.

Others Never See Heaven WiTHiN to Give And Share FREE iN This Entire existence Now.

Sadly, Abrahamic Religion are mostly Counter Productive to reach Heaven Now, For Real.

The Message is still in the Bible; but only if you find The Force of Heaven Love Within to Actually 'See' It;

For Lots of folks; It just doesn't make Sense until they Actually Experience this Agape Love of Heaven Within.

After that:

Aha, Now i get (Heaven) IT.

If You haven't Arrived; Ya got the rest of Your
Breath at least to get Here Eternally Now; It's As Impossible
To Measure Heaven Within as it is to Fully Empirically Measure
Love Within; And God The Same; but of course God Is Love, if You
Really Believe that Part of the Bible.

That Much of It i see as True;
i understand the Nature of
Any Organization That Works
to Give Folks Status And Power;
It Always Attracts the Villains
Among Us and Heroes
too..

Know
the Difference;
Better Yet, Intuit (FeeL) the
Difference With Eyes (HeART) Who 'Sees' the Difference..:)


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04 Jul 2020, 10:51 pm

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Can we at least agree that Jesus would have been a Socialist.

He disliked people hoarding wealth, he thought that everyone should be looked after, that you welcome immigrants and so on. His entire mythos is sacrificing himself for others that never even asked him to.

But I mostly think that as he exist now is just an idea that has been created over 2000 years.

I don't know much about pre-Marxist socialism, but Jesus certainly wasn't a Marxist Socialist. Marxism, (and this is my biggest problem with Marxism and the various forms of Marxist politics) is a materialistic philosophy due to the fact that it's atheistic. Our Lord claimed to be God incarnate and preached a lot of spiritual things, and even His preaching against greed and hoarding wealth are actually contrary to Marxist Socialism on a philosophical level. Because Marxism is a materialistic philosophy, Marxists view human society and humanity itself, purely through economics, everything stems from economics for a Marxist. Even the origins of humanity was viewed by the early Marxists through an economic lens, they held to a pre-darwinian evolutionary view that humanity evolved, not through the chance of having bigger brains, but rather through the behaviour of using tools and the developing of economics through the use and presence of tools.

On a moral level, Christ's preaching on giving goods to the poor and helping the marginalized were meant to be actions willfully taken by individuals, not acts compelled by a state or outside authority. The word charity (from the Latin caritas) means Love of God, and love of neighbour, and the exact definition of charity/love is "willing the good of another;" the reason that services that help the poor are called "charities" is because the people who work for or support them, are engaging in acts of charity towards the poor. In the instance where the rich man asked Our Lord what must he do to be saved, before Our Lord told the rich man to give everything he owned to the poor, He actually asked him if he kept all the Commandments; in the Catholic Spiritual life, not sinning is not the end of the path to Sanctification, it's actually only the beginning; it's only after one stops sinning that one is called on to do bigger, more heroic things for God.


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04 Jul 2020, 10:56 pm

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The ancestors of almost all of the mesitzo population in Latin America owe their lives to catholic priests who through conversion to Catholicism and education in Spanish language protected them from excessive exploitation and genocide.

However, for modern native Americans the perception of priests were also that they were agents of genocide who worked with the Spanish crown. No amount of prayer or preaching will change their attitude about cultural genocide.

Well then let's ask the 7 Thousand dollar question, is Evangelization good a thing? Is Evangelization a form of cultural genocide or culturally genocidal?


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04 Jul 2020, 11:17 pm

Greatshield17 wrote:
Well then let's ask the 7 Thousand dollar question, is Evangelization good a thing? Is Evangelization a form of cultural genocide or culturally genocidal?


One of my parent's oldest and closest friends is a German catholic lady who also follows an evangelical version of Catholicism. She had a remarkable life surviving the allied blitz in Cologne in WWII as a child. She came as a war refugee to Australia and she found solace in evangelical catholicism (I understand her mother was converted to this during the war). We respected her a lot given the hardships went through and never questioned her personal beliefs.

Over time her children drifted from catholicism and neither practice, her husband was also a German war refugee (now passed) was catholic but never shared her passion or zeal.

As she got older she told us she began to receive wisdom through annual trips she took to Medjugorje (she believed in saints and miracles). The wisdom was to accept that there were some things she would not change, specifically saving her children and husband's souls. It was a big step for her. This did not stop her from praying for them (she also prayed for us Anglican/protestants as well :lol: ).

What I am trying to say is you can be a good person and close to god without needing to evangelize.

Were the catholic priests who evangalized many millions of indigenous people around the world responsible for genocide? I think in their minds they thought they were doing god's work. So I personally don't blame them.



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04 Jul 2020, 11:40 pm

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I am curious Greatshield, what would be your opinion if there were literally statues to the devil up that displayed how good of a guy he was? Would you understand why people with your faith might feel compelled to tear them down?

We'd show up with Rosaries and banners and icons of Our Lady and St. Michael and pray for the conversion of the people.


And what if doing that had no impact? More people would pass by and think that Satan is a cool dude, and maybe he has a pretty good reason for why he did what he had done. At this point in time this statue of Satan is being considered a part culture. And people are actually getting annoyed that people keep saying bad things about him.

Well sometimes human beings can have a lot of patience and hold-out for quite a long time. The Jews managed for centuries without their own state, and I don't know of any incidences of Jews burning down churches or mosques, or destroying any other sacred monuments in their host nations. Granted, they did write some very blasphemous things about Jesus and Mary in the Talmud which, long story short, is one of the reasons why Catholics are now engaging in ongoing Rosary Rallies around an important monument in St. Louis Missouri; I guess in this scenario, statues and icons of Our Lady crushing Satan's, and the Hail Mary full of grace, punch the Devil in the face meme, would be very popular among Catholics.


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04 Jul 2020, 11:48 pm

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Greatshield17 wrote:
Well then let's ask the 7 Thousand dollar question, is Evangelization good a thing? Is Evangelization a form of cultural genocide or culturally genocidal?


One of my parent's oldest and closest friends is a German catholic lady who also follows an evangelical version of Catholicism. She had a remarkable life surviving the allied blitz in Cologne in WWII as a child. She came as a war refugee to Australia and she found solace in evangelical catholicism (I understand her mother was converted to this during the war). We respected her a lot given the hardships went through and never questioned her personal beliefs.

Over time her children drifted from catholicism and neither practice, her husband was also a German war refugee (now passed) was catholic but never shared her passion or zeal.

As she got older she told us she began to receive wisdom through annual trips she took to Medjugorje (she believed in saints and miracles). The wisdom was to accept that there were some things she would not change, specifically saving her children and husband's souls. It was a big step for her. This did not stop her from praying for them (she also prayed for us Anglican/protestants as well :lol: ).

What I am trying to say is you can be a good person and close to god without needing to evangelize.

Were the catholic priests who evangalized many millions of indigenous people around the world responsible for genocide? I think in their minds they thought they were doing god's work. So I personally don't blame them.

I see then.

Just is a quick side-note, it's interesting that you mention Medjugorje now, after I have been bringing up what's called the Protoevangelium, the prophecy that Our Lady will crush Satan's head. I find it interesting because in the Medjugorje apparitions, Our Lady's feet aren't visible; but I won't go into a huge digress on that now, I'll go back to the subject at hand.


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04 Jul 2020, 11:52 pm

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Activist calls for white Jesus statues to be taken down.

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Fortunately, it does look like the escalation is slowing down now. Although last time I checked, the controversy involving the statue in St. Louis, Missouri is still ongoing.


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05 Jul 2020, 12:05 am

Actually now that I think of it...the german lady I was speaking about would also be unhappy about the demolition of statues of canonised saints. I see her perspective and through that I also see your perspective greatshields.

Who would have thought! I am the one learning wisdom 8O



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I don't know much about pre-Marxist socialism, but Jesus certainly wasn't a Marxist Socialist. Marxism, (and this is my biggest problem with Marxism and the various forms of Marxist politics) is a materialistic philosophy due to the fact that it's atheistic. Our Lord claimed to be God incarnate and preached a lot of spiritual things, and even His preaching against greed and hoarding wealth are actually contrary to Marxist Socialism on a philosophical level. Because Marxism is a materialistic philosophy, Marxists view human society and humanity itself, purely through economics, everything stems from economics for a Marxist. Even the origins of humanity was viewed by the early Marxists through an economic lens, they held to a pre-darwinian evolutionary view that humanity evolved, not through the chance of having bigger brains, but rather through the behaviour of using tools and the developing of economics through the use and presence of tools.

On a moral level, Christ's preaching on giving goods to the poor and helping the marginalized were meant to be actions willfully taken by individuals, not acts compelled by a state or outside authority. The word charity (from the Latin caritas) means Love of God, and love of neighbour, and the exact definition of charity/love is "willing the good of another;" the reason that services that help the poor are called "charities" is because the people who work for or support them, are engaging in acts of charity towards the poor. In the instance where the rich man asked Our Lord what must he do to be saved, before Our Lord told the rich man to give everything he owned to the poor, He actually asked him if he kept all the Commandments; in the Catholic Spiritual life, not sinning is not the end of the path to Sanctification, it's actually only the beginning; it's only after one stops sinning that one is called on to do bigger, more heroic things for God.


A system that requires the need of charity to help the needy is a system that cares more about people feeling good about maybe giving enough to meet peoples' needs at what a person says they are willing to give, than it does being willing to ensure that everyone has their needs met without expecting some cosmic reward in return. The truly selfless act is not to give to the poor because it will get you into heaven or make your church group think that you are such a wonderful person because you donated to help that kid with cancer, it is supporting a system that everyone has help regardless anyone thinking you are wonderful or that the cause has an attractive appearance.

If you think that the lens of economics is a material one, then that is on you. For me seeing a problem through economics is one where you can identify everyone's needs, manage the creation of and expenditure of resources, and distribute them out so people can live without torment to the best of our ability. It is about making and working towards heaven here on Earth, regardless of one's personal beliefs. And it is not without ethicise too, in fact one of my favourite aspects of economics and accounting is ethics in placing some level of quantification on moral goods and encouraging people to themselves make the world better. Economics is not just seeing the world through a materialistic lens, it is seeing the materialistic world through an ethical lens to want to help everyone, especially under socialism.

I don't want to at all say that one is like Jesus because they follow these lines of thinking, I know how touchy organised religion people can be about that sort of thing. But I think that these are much more in line with your messiah's lessons than mega churches that have their preachers that use his name to convince the poor members to donate their money so the preacher can buy a personal jet. Or the building of other extravagant temples of faith to virtue signal how devoted they are to a man who threw out the money changers and to give their possessions to the needy. Did Jesus really ask people to worship him over washing the feet of a leper and feeding the hungry?


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Further Away Now
One is From Religion
Easier It
Is To ‘See’
A Message...
A ‘Messenger’
Is Rarely ‘Seen‘
In Walls of Ornate
Temples, Statues,
Golden Chalices,
And Even Words...
Buildings Fall
While
Trees Grow
Where Will We Go...
Do i Have to Show
You How To ‘Breathe’?


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Bradleigh wrote:
A system that requires the need of charity to help the needy is a system that cares more about people feeling good about maybe giving enough to meet peoples' needs at what a person says they are willing to give, than it does being willing to ensure that everyone has their needs met without expecting some cosmic reward in return. The truly selfless act is not to give to the poor because it will get you into heaven or make your church group think that you are such a wonderful person because you donated to help that kid with cancer, it is supporting a system that everyone has help regardless anyone thinking you are wonderful or that the cause has an attractive appearance.

If you think that the lens of economics is a material one, then that is on you. For me seeing a problem through economics is one where you can identify everyone's needs, manage the creation of and expenditure of resources, and distribute them out so people can live without torment to the best of our ability. It is about making and working towards heaven here on Earth, regardless of one's personal beliefs. And it is not without ethicise too, in fact one of my favourite aspects of economics and accounting is ethics in placing some level of quantification on moral goods and encouraging people to themselves make the world better. Economics is not just seeing the world through a materialistic lens, it is seeing the materialistic world through an ethical lens to want to help everyone, especially under socialism.

I don't want to at all say that one is like Jesus because they follow these lines of thinking, I know how touchy organised religion people can be about that sort of thing. But I think that these are much more in line with your messiah's lessons than mega churches that have their preachers that use his name to convince the poor members to donate their money so the preacher can buy a personal jet. Or the building of other extravagant temples of faith to virtue signal how devoted they are to a man who threw out the money changers and to give their possessions to the needy. Did Jesus really ask people to worship him over washing the feet of a leper and feeding the hungry?

You describe society as a "system" what do you mean by that? Yes society is a "system," but it's more than that, it's many systems, many overlapping societies, communities and ultimately, relationships. An individual's needs are best met by his or her family and local community, as oppose to a large, distant government or bureaucracy which will obviously not know an individual as well as his or her family and friends. Now yes, there are exceptions to this rule, but these exceptions are often extreme and tragic, like child abuse or natural disasters, and thus they prove the rule by the fact that they are so extreme and tragic. This by the way, is why the Catholic Church has never promoted Theocracy, She has promoted Confessional States yes, but never Theocracies. One is supposed to be raised in the Faith by one's parents and parish priest, not the state. Albeit there is a slight-bit of an exception in Andorra, which has a Sacerdotal Government; (fascinating country by the way) apparently it was established as a way to settle a dispute between the Bishop and a local Nobleman, now it's ruled by the Bishop, and Emmanuel Macron of France, yes he's also a prince thanks to this old arrangement!

Now you talk about wanting to quantify morality, I find that hard to believe unless you mean it in the sense of quantifying the number of people who are moral. For a Catholic, morality isn't something one does, it's something one is, when a person has virtues such as mercy, justice, courage, or prudence, those aren't behaviours a person has, (although he or she did have to habitualize them first) they are aspects of his or her character.

Our Lord became incarnate in the womb of Mary Most Holy so that, by becoming fully human, while at the same time, still being fully divine, He could sanctify our nature. Likewise we, by imitating Christ, allow ourselves to be sanctified by Him and be united with Him, and thus be united with Him for all eternity. This is why the Church has Sacraments, we participate in the Life of Christ through those Sacraments, and thus be united with Life Himself. Engaging in moral acts is not about hoping to gain a reward from Christ, it's about being united with Him through imitating Him; that, and the simple truth that we please God by treating our fellow-human beings well, and recognize the infinite value God has endowed all human beings with.


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05 Jul 2020, 10:21 pm

cyberdad wrote:
Actually now that I think of it...the german lady I was speaking about would also be unhappy about the demolition of statues of canonised saints. I see her perspective and through that I also see your perspective greatshields.

Who would have thought! I am the one learning wisdom 8O

Very interesting.

I haven't forgotten your article by the way, I'm still going through the points in it. I thought about taking a break from it for today, but I took a closer look at one of the more interesting and difficult points, and may type-up a response later this evening if I have the time.


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Don't bother with me, I'm just a narrow-minded bigot who does nothing but "proselytize" not because I actually love the Faith, because no one loves the Faith, we're just "using it to justify our bigotry." If you see any thread by me on here that isn't "proselytizing," I can't explain that because that's obviously impossible; because again, all I've ever done on here is "proselytize."

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05 Jul 2020, 10:32 pm

funeralxempire wrote:
Greatshield17 wrote:
...my problem, as I mentioned in my originally post, is that the actions committed, were done in a violent and extrajudicial manner. If the statues were civilly removed by the authorities, I would disagree with it and feel anger, but I would've respected the civility of such actions and have not spoken-up.


It would be preferable for things to not reach this point, but just like with statues of Confederate heroes the grievance has existed for generations but when it's raised the concern is ignored.

How long would you be polite and wait for me to act voluntarily, or wait for help to arrive if I stuck my finger in your eye? Even if at first you were willing to be polite at some point you're going to slap my hand away and say 'keep your finger out of my eye'. If I use that action to start complaining how rude or violent you were I'm missing the point. Maybe you shouldn't have slapped my hand, but regardless I was in the wrong.

I can understand that on an emotional level.

Can I ask you what your philosophy of ethics are? I mean, judging by the posts you've made both here and in the past on these forums, you obviously don't base your morality off of anything Theological, so what for you determines what is right and wrong? I'm not talking about in terms of genocide, colonization, or even Evangelization, we can get to those later if you like; I'm talking about the rule of law, the right to rebellion, and the authority of government, what does your philosophy of ethics say about those things?


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Don't bother with me, I'm just a narrow-minded bigot who does nothing but "proselytize" not because I actually love the Faith, because no one loves the Faith, we're just "using it to justify our bigotry." If you see any thread by me on here that isn't "proselytizing," I can't explain that because that's obviously impossible; because again, all I've ever done on here is "proselytize."

WP is the 2nd worst forum site I have ever been on.