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Show 54: Sacred Tradition, Part 2 · The Uncensored Catholic

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Y'all, welcome to today's show. Today we will continue discussing Saint Irenaeus's writings
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on sacred tradition. Very interesting, very good points. You know, the
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incredible blessings God has bestowed upon us through the Catholic Church to give us the
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fullness of the truth is something we should never take for granted. No other
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denomination, Christian, denomination, or religion on the face of the earth has
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what we so often take for granted. There's no Buddhists, there's no Muslim,
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there's no Hindu that has access to the fullness of the truth. Is
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provided to us through the Catholic Church, is guaranteed by Jesus Christ for the
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Holy Spirit. There's no Baptist, there's no Presbyterian, there's no Lutheran,
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there's no Anglican that has that. Yes, the Orthodox have it in part,
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but the issue has to do with authority, and eventually it's all going
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to get worked out. Okay, it's all going to get worked out eventually.
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We know that the words of the Blessed Virgin Mary, when she has
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appeared, such as said Fatima Taran, I can never remember I was Fatima
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or a magical orgy but it's said are several Marrian apparitions. She said all
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churches will come back into the Catholic Church, and that eventually all well meaning
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religions, all people with a genuine love of God and neighbor, will become
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Catholic before the end of the world. So we have that hope, and
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we know how the story ends, so we don't have to worry, you
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know. I mean, I end the show every day with pray, hope,
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and don't worry. In the words of Saint Padrick Pio, I mean
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it. Things are going to get bad. They're going to get worse.
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Jesus promised that, but we know how the story ends, and those who
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endure into the end will be saved. Our hope is in God, not
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in the political not in the political parties, or the happenings of day day
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to day, or in science or in medicine. No, our hope is
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in God. There is nothing that man can accomplish that will ever measure up
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to even the smallest thing God does for us. That's the bottom line.
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So before we get into all that, I wanted to tell you about my
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new project. As I've mentioned before on the show, I like to carve
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wood. I actually like to do a lot of woodcraft, as it's called.
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I like to make baskets. I like to make cordage, and make
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everything from nets and bags to hammocks, fishing nets, even all kinds of
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stuff. I like to do some you know, textiles with natural fibers,
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natural dyes. All this stuff is very interesting to me. Basic carpentry,
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make making furniture. I can make some you know, pretty pretty good greenwood
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outdoor style furniture. Maybe God willing, some day my skills get to the
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point where I could make like a genuine Windsor chair, which is a very
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old handmade style chair that's made out of greenwood as opposed to cured wood,
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dried wood that uses different tools. This is what our ancestors, especially are
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Welsh and Irish and English ancestors, and Swedish very much, the Norse and
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the Scandinavians and all that. Probably every culture, I know, the Germans
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there were big woodworkers too, but probably every culture that lived in woodlands as
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opposed to deserts made their furniture out of trees that were just cut or just
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knocked over by a storm. And the tools are ridiculously simple, deprimitive.
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A small axe, whether carving axe or a camp axe. You might call
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it a hatchet, you know. I sharpen it up razor sharp, and
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it's amazing what you can do with an axe, a saw, just a
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hand saw for swing a log in half and then you axe it down.
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And knives maybe sometimes a galger chisel, and you know when I'm finished.
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I like to carve a lot of spoons, but I carve a lot of
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things, and spoons especially you want a nice smooth feeling in the mouth,
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you know when you pick it up and eat with it. So I use
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sand paper. A lot of greenwood workers prefer not to use sand paper,
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especially in the Scandinavian tradition. They like to see the tool marks. Sometimes
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I leave some tool marks. Usually I will stand it smooth. Either way,
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I seal the spoon or a bowl or whatever I have to be carving
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with walnut oil. It's a rather expensive oil to use, but it actually
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polymerizes, which makes the item waterproof and helps it to last longer and gives
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it a nice kind of smooth, satiny map finish well. People have been
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asking me for a long time now, for quite a while, would I
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be willing to sell some of my work, thought about it, prayed about
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it, and today I have launched my woodcraft's store. I have just two
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spoons up on the site for sale right now. Okay, these are handmade
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aeroloom quality items that should be able to be passed down from generation generation.
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With each one, I'm missing a handwritten note, the number of the item
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and my signature, so it's an absolute collectible. I'll probably lists maybe three
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four of them for sale per week, and I'm not going to be pushy
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with it. I'm not gonna be promoting it in my shows. But if
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you would like to buy a piece of my woodcraft, please go today to
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Judson Carroll Woodcraft and the U r L is Judson Carol Woodcraft dot substack dot
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com. That's ju d s O n c A R R O L L
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w O O d c r A f T sub st ack dot com.
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Of course, no spaces. And I'm offering them when when if you knew
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the hours of work it actually takes to put into these, you would really
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wonder how I can offer them so cheap. I've also found the least expensive
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way to ship them, and so I'm offering basically free shipping, shipping included
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in the price, if you want to look at it that way, if
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you'd like to have one of my spoons, I'd love for you to have
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it. I really would. This is something I think people need, quality
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items, not this disposable junk that's made in China. And we need to
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spend more time with our family and enjoying meals because that really is the home
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church. And I call these unique utensils. They're all handmade and not eaten,
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no two alike. The very good. I hope they'll be very collectable.
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I mean, after all, I have written eleven books with many more
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books to go, and it would be really, I think, pretty cool
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if someday someone would say this spoon was made by the author Judson Carrol and
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that actually meant something. Well, you know, God willing, maybe I'll
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get to that point. And I'm not a prideful person, so if I
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never do, that's okay. I'd still for just like for you to have
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a nice, quality, handmade item to use. And I think I think
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you're actually pretty nice and I tend to have high standards. So if you
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cannot afford to buy one of my spoons, or you just choose not to.
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That's fine, just fine, I understand. Could you say a prayer
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for me? You know, I don't make a lot of money podcasting.
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I depend on book sales, and with the addition of woodcraft that should I'm
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hoping it will be a significant way to help me pay the bills, just
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to make a living. You know, I'm not trying to pour them out
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here, but this is a free market system. I make something of value.
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If you value, you buy it, and it helps us both.
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You have something you want. I have a little money in my pocket.
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So if you can't buy my products, or you choose not to, could
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you please say a prayer for me, Just say a prayer that this business
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will be successful, that people will buy my woodcraft. And if you could
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say a prayer to Saint Joseph. You know, Saint Joseph made wooden items.
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Seems he specifically made a lot of tools. Well, kitchen utensils are
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actually tools. So Saint Joseph is certainly the patron of this work, and
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I'm asking his intercession, and if you could do the same, I really
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appreciate it. You know, the economy is not great right now, so
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being a self employed person. I have to not put all my eggs in
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one basket, and I have to kind of diversify things because, I mean,
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last couple of months, I have not sold a lot of books really
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so, and also, if you could commend my podcast to other people,
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you know, everybody that listens. I make about a penny this month.
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I haven't even made enough to cover hosting for the podcast. Well it's early
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in the month, but I'm actually looking at the last thirty day period.
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I've got to get the listenership up or I'm going to be losing money on
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this. And I do think it's worthwhile. I think what I'm sharing with
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people is worth a penny at least. If you can subscribe to my subsect
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newsletter as a pay subscriber, that really helps me out big time. Eight
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bucks a month is not a month a lot out of your pocket. It
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may be for you, Okay, if it is, I'm sorry. I
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didn't mean to insult you. It has been for me in the past.
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I've been you know, I've had hard financial times and I've had good times.
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I know how it feels. I'm not denigrating anybody, but that eight
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bucks a month, that supports. My work is money I can count on
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for months a month, and actually, if you do like a longer term
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subscription, I'm probably going to send you a free book or a free spoon
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every now and then. You know, Actually the details I've already committed to
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doing that. The details are on the subscriber page. So anyway, let's
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get on with the content of today's show. Just remember that's Judgson Carroll Woodcraft
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dot substack dot com, and we are going to begin with a couple of
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questions and answers for radio replies. As usual the classic book, the questioner
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asked the priests, well, he actually states, it's not even a question.
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Man does not possess a soul. He is a soul. The Bible
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says that God breathe life into the body and it became a living soul.
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It's actually heretical, man, it's both body and soul. But let's see
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what they say. That breath of life was either a definite something or it
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was nothing. But you cannot tell me that nothing vitalized that body. It
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was a definite something, and that something was a created human, intelligent soul.
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Again, if man has not got a soul, then instead of being
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composed of body and soul. He is a body. And if that body
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is a soul, then the soul where's boots? However, you quote the
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Bible, the authority of which we shall consider later. Meanwhile, since you
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accept it, you will notice that Christ clearly shows the difference between the material
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body and the spiritual soul when he says, handle and see for a spirit,
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hath not flesh and bones, as you see me to have from the
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Gospel of Luke. A body of flesh and bone could never become a living
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soul. Man was but named after the superior element of his being. So,
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for instance, the Gnostics, which we've been talking about a lot late
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lately, believed that the material was evil and the spiritual was good. That
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man's body was bad and his soul was good, and that the soul was
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the higher nature of man, which of course it is. But the body
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was to rot away and not be resurrected. Whereas Jesus specifically said to the
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Pharisees and Sadducees that the resurrection of the body was real and showed us through
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the resurrection of his own body in his resurrection, and he promises we will
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all experience that one day, the person goes on to ask do the words
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spirit and soul mean the same thing? They answer. The word spirit can
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have a wide variety of meanings. It is derived from the Latin word spiritus,
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meaning breath. Then, because the soul of man is as invisible to
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bodily eyes as a breath, and also because its presence is manifested by breathing
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of a living body, the word spirit acquired a transferred sense, becoming a
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substitute for the word soul. If we intend by the word spirit the principle
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of life and a man, and the principle which enables him to live,
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to know, and to love, and to be happy or to be sorrowful,
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then the spirit is the soul. And in a further sense, because
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a man's disposition depends upon his soul, we use the word spirit for character,
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thus speaking of a man's spirit. But this is only a soul manifesting
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itself in man's external conduct. The soul, therefore is the living principle,
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which makes a difference between a living man and a corpse, a spirit and
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a soul. In this meaning, a spirit is a soul in this sense
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mean the same thing the person ask, is not the soul the breath of
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God? The answer no, for God is a spirit, a purely spiritual
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substance, and does not breathe. The expression is only a human way of
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putting things. The soul is a spirit, and it's called the breath of
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God merely because it was caused or created by God and it's spiritual or breath
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like nature. Another example of someone taking the Bible a little too literally.
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We have to remember language is limited by human capacity. Oftentimes our words are
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quite inaccurate. I think it's very interesting in Saint iron Aus's writings. I
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don't think I may briefly get to this today, but I don't think I
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will. It's somewhat germane to the topic. But he said that many people
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were misunderstanding the words of the Bible because for one reason this was this was
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really interesting. I had not thought of this. In the riots of Saint
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Paul's he had known people who knew Saint Paul. I mean, you know,
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it was that close to the living, earthly existence of Saint Paul.
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Apparently Saint Paul spoke very fast and very emphatically. You know, one might
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say, hey, was he was Jewish? What he expect right. I
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mean, have you ever met a religious, scholarly Jew who was not very
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fast talking and emphatic. It's it's actually one of their quality. I like
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very much about ethnic Jews, whether religious or not. I love listening to
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the cadence of their speech. My favorite comedian after always Jackie Mason. Jackie
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Mason talked so fast when he was younger, even I couldn't understand him,
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but he's hilarious. Passed away a few years ago, dearly missed my favorite
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comedian of all time. But yeah, I can totally imagine Saint Paul,
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who also was a little hot tempered to say the least, would have spoken
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very fast. And apparently, you know, his words were transcribed. He
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did not write himself. He spoke, and a scribe, I guess you
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would call it, wrote down what he said. And sometimes the punctuations a
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little off, and sometimes the sentences are a little out of order, because
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that's what happens when you're talking fast. And he said that people were getting
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confused by some of the writings of Saint Paul because they weren't reading him out
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loud, they weren't taking breaths between sentences. Interesting concept isn't how many of
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us have picked up the epistles of Saint Paul to the Corinthians or wherever and
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actually read it out loud. He said, the pause necessitated by the breath
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would actually help people to understand the writings of Saint Paul. Well, that's
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something I never considered. I mean, that's something I never heard. When
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I was at you know, a certain Baptist college. Among the seminarians,
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they weren't reading the Bible out loud a whole lot. Maybe they were encouraged
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to do so in some classes. I took oral interpretation, which is where
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you actually read books out loud. It's dramatic readings if you ever think of
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like a monologue, like when somebody does gkh Esterton. Well, I was
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really good at it. I actually got a higher grade in the class than
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any of the seminarians or people in the drama department. I have an act
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for accents. I have a knack for the flow of language. You know,
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I'm a writer, so I tend to read as a writer would write.
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And I aced the course. It was. It was great. Really
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made a lot of people mad at me who didn't think I was. They
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thought they were better actors or better speakers, or better debaters than me,
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And I just went and kind of cruise through it, ending great. It
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does make a whole lot of sense that you're going to get a whole lot
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more insight into the especially the Gospels and the letters of the Apostles, because
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they were all dictated. I mean, yeah, Saint Mark's Gospel, that
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Saint Mark dictated the words of Saint Peter, you know, who apparently was
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also a quite fast and forceful speaker. He was not one for flowery language.
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He was very direct, and if you read that gospel out loud,
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you get this full force and power, this almost like exhortation. It's telling
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you to get up and do and believe right now, because this is the
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moment to cease. Right. You don't get that if you just read it
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silently, you just notice it moves very quickly. It's often abbreviated as opposed
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to the other gospels. I think, yeah, I think there's a lot
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to be said for reading out loud and just breathing the words as Saint Ironaus
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would say it. And they also asked the soul exists before conception always a
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debate among people's Okay, those who believe in reincarnation say, of course it
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did. Christians, especially Orthodox Catholics, say no. What they say is
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no, God creates each soul as each body is generated. It is difficult
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to fix the exact moment. But the more general opinion is as soon as
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the embryo begins to exist. Now, if God creates the soul of the
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child, as soon as the embryo begins to exist. Of course, abortion
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is the gravest mortal sin, the murder of a fully living, endowed with
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a soul by God child, and it is the greatest evil there is.
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I mean, I guess the sin against the Holy Spirit, as Jesus said,
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the unforgivable sin attributing the works of God to the devil. Being so
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hardhearted you cannot accept the miracles of God right in front of you. That's
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unforgivable. Compose you've closed your heart and mind to it. Okay, but
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yeah, killing an innocent child, hurting an innocent child in any way,
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abusing an innocent child is about the worst thing a human being can do.
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I would actually go so far as to say it's worse than mass murder,
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because when someone sets off a bomb, Yeah, They kill a lot of
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people, but they've they've had a chance to live their lives. They've had
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a chance to get right with God, they've had a chance to accomplish things.
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They've had a chance to love and be loved. You kill an innocent
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child who's never had that chance. You're not just killing a child, You're
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killing the potential of that child, everything they might do in their lifetime.
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That could be the person who cured cancer. You know, everybody they love,
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You deprive them. I mean the child be loved by their parents,
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would love their parents, brothers and sisters, friends, wife, husband,
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whatever, children, grandchildren, nieces and nephews. Hundreds of lives touched by
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this one person you're just snuffed out. That isn't the most evil thing.
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I guess only to torture and then kill a child would be worse. And
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unfortunately that's happening quite a bit in this era of human trafficking facilitated by the
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Biden administration and yes, Catholic charities. Catholic Charities is attributing to human trafficking
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and the torture and rape and killing of children. Until our church purges itself
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with that scourge, not a penny for Catholic Charities. As I've said,
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put a note in the collection plate, not one penny until this is done.
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But right now, Catholic Charities is getting more money from the US government
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from your tax dollars it gets from our collection plates. So why would they
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listen to us? I mean, they literally have to be outlawed and banned
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and reformed by the Catholic Church. It's the only answer, all right.
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So let's let's see if we can finish up our section on Saint Irenaeus talking
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about sacred tradition. Remember, he is refuting the heretics. These specific heretics,
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being gnostics, are what led to the Nicene Creed. We believe in
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God, the Father, Almighty, creative, fair and earth. We had
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the Church had to set down its beliefs in a creed credo, coming from
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the Latin word c r e do, meaning I believe. It's an oath
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we take. We're actually saying, I adhere to these teachings every time we
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say the Creed. He says says, therefore we have such proofs it is
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not necessary to seek the truth, among others, which is easy to obtain
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from the Church. Sent to the apostles like a rich man depositing his money
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in a bank, lodged into her hands most copiously all things pertaining to the
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truth, so that every man, whosoever will, can draw from her the
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water of life. For she is the entrance to life. All others are
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thieves and robbers. On this account we are bound to avoid them, but
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to make choice of things pertaining to the Church with the utmost diligence, and
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to lay hold the tradition of the truth. For how stands the case suppose
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there arise dispute relative to some important question among us? Should we not have
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resource to the most ancient churches, with which the Apostles held constant intercourse,
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and learn from them what is certain and clear in regard to our present question.
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For how should it be if the Apostles themselves had not left us writings?
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Would it not be necessary in that case to follow the course of tradition
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which they handed down to those whom they did commit the churches? So what
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does he say there? He's saying the Apostles taught everything that was necessary for
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the faith for over a century, about two hundred years, about three almost
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three hundred years. Really, when you think longer than that actually when you
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think about it, because as I said, it took time for the Gospels
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to be written, for the epistles to be written for Acts, as was
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probably well, took time for Revelations. Revelations was probably the last book of
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the Bible to be written. Therefore said, the last book of the Bible.
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We know that Saint John lived quite a while, and his history of
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Ephesis shows us that decades passed between the founding of the Church and the time
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that even the books of the New Testament were available. It took many years
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for the Books of the New Testament to be assembled and compiled. It took
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years for the Church to decide which books belonged to the Bible, which were
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inspired by the Holy Spirit, and then every Bible had to be hand copied.
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It took years years. I mean, it took a decade just for
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one Bible to be copied from beginning to end. And then it was written
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mostly in Greek, mixed with Hebrew and Aramic. It wasn't until Saint Jerome
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began translating the Bible into Latin that most people could even read it. So
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centuries literally pass. A longer time passed between the Resurrection of Jesus Christ and
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the beginning of the Christian Church at Pentecost, to the time when pretty much
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anyone had a Bible as we would recognize it today. More time passed between
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those two events than the entire history of the United States. So when Protestants
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say the Bible alone as a sole authority, what did the first Christians do?
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They had no Bible? Were they not Christian? No, they listened
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to the teachings of the Apostles, which are actually the fullness of the truth.
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Without the Catholic Church, the Bible is a very hard book to interpret.
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If that were not the case, there would not be fifty thousand Protestant
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denominations, each of whom claimed to base what they believe on the Bible,
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and all of whom disagree with each other and the Catholic Church. Only the
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teaching authority of the Catholic Church gives us a proper interpretation of the Bible.
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And without the Catholic Church there is no Bible, none, none, whatsoever,
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because the Church wrote and compiled and published the Bible. He goes on
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to say, to which course, many nations of those barbarians who believe in
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Christ do assent, having salvation written in their hearts by the spirit, without
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paper or ink, and carefully preserving the ancient tradition, believing in one God,
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the creator of heaven and earth and all things therein, by means of
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Christ, Jesus, the Son of God, who, because of his surpassing
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love towards his creation, condescended to be born of the Virgin, He himself,
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uniting man, threw himself to God, and having suffered in a conscious
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pilot, and rising again, and having been received up in slender show coming
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glory, the savior of those who are saved, and the judge of those
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were judged, and sending it into eternal fire. Those who transform the truth
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and despise His Father and his advent. Those who, in the absence of
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written documents, have believed this faith are barbarians so far as in regards to
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our language, but as in regards to doctrine, manner, and tenor of
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life. They are because of this faith, very wise, indeed, and
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they do please God, ordering their conversations in all righteousness, chastity, and
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wisdom. If anyone were to preach to these men the inventions of the heretics,
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speaking to them in their own language, they would at once stop their
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ears and flee as far off as possible, not enduring even to listen to
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the blasphemous address. Thus, by means of the ancre, Thus, by
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the means of the ancient tradition of the apostles, they do not suffer their
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mind to conceive anything if the doctrines suggested by the portentous language of these teachers,
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among whom neither church nor doctrine has ever been established. Now think about
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this. We just talked about how, for longer than the history of the
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United States, the early Church had no Bible. You know, it had
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bits and pieces, an epistle here, one of the Gospels, from one
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of the apostles here and there. They weren't put together yet. The first
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church document was actually the dk which predates the writing of the Bible, the
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compilation of the Old Testament, the writing the publishing of the Bible. The
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DAK knows the teaching of the twelve, which was a short catechism. It
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said, this is what Christians believe. This is what day Christians go church.
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By the way, it's Sunday while you tour absorbent and seven day adventis
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to rail against me. The early Church went to church on Sunday because at
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the stage Jesus rose, and that's shown in the dak or the teachings of
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the Twelve Apostles, which predates survival, and how Christians were to pray,
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and how they were to receive the Eucharist, and what the priest was supposed
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to say. All that's wrapped up in them just like a very short,
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I mean, like you know, twenty page, twenty four page document called
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the dk Even so, after the Bible was published, you have to remember,
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as I said, not everybody spoke Greek or Hebrew or Aramaic. So
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not until Saint Jerome began to put in Latin, all those who didn't speak
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Latin were considered to be barbarians. Well, by the time of the Biblius
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Sacrivalgada, Saint Jerome's Bible in the common language, the Church had spread incredibly.
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The churches spread into Asia, the Church has spread through the Middle East.
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The Church were spreading into to Europe. The Church was spring into Africa.
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They were hundreds of different tribes of people that listened to the words of
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their preachers and became fully Christian, baptized, confirmed, receiving the Eucharist,
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fully Christian who could not understand the Latin language. For hundreds of years after
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that, as the Church spread from Rome up through Germany and Poland, into
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Russia and clear over to England and Ireland and eventually to the United States,
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the majority of people were illiterate. The only way they got to hear the
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words of the Bible was to go to Mass and have the Bible read to
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them. Giving them a Bible it was no better than giving them a brick.
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They couldn't read it. Only through Catholic education and the founding of schools
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did people eventually become literate. The Protestants say the Catholic Church to pride people
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or the Bible are absolutely full of it. The Catholic Church is not only
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the only reason you have the Bible. It's the only reason your ancestors became
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literate enough to read the Bible. People went to church. As I said,
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before the printing press, each Bible had to be hand copied. A
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copy of the Bible was worth more than ten thousand dollars up to fifty thousand,
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depending on how you ornately it was decorated and all that. It would
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be the most expensive thing, the most valuable thing in an entire town,
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so they would keep it chained and locked to the church so anyone who could
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read could come in and read it. You know, just like how we
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used to have phone books in a in a phone booth. They would be
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on a cable, so people couldn't just walk off with them. And you
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know, pagan lands of the Barbarian lands especially, this was true in Germany
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and the Black Forest regions in different places. Thieves would often come into a
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church and steal the Bible, and steal the chalice and the crucifix and sell
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them for money. So these things had to be locked up and protected.
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That was not keeping someone from having the Bible. It was ensuring that everyone
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had access to the Bible. But for hundreds of years, the average man.
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I mean, you think about how developed England was. Do you think
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of England as being this very sophisticated, posh place you got back to eighteen
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fifty nineteen hundred. You out of the countryside of England, outside the cities,
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most people were illiterate. They could not read. That doesn't mean they
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weren't good Christians. They did not need to be able to read the Bible
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to be good Christians. All they had to do is believe in Jesus and
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listen to the teachings passed down to their priest by the Apostles. They were
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better Christians than those who take the words of the Bible and in their own
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meanings. Whether it's the Gnostics that Ironaus was railing against, the Arians of
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the Five hundreds, or you know Martin Luther and the many Protestants who have
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followed, who say, the Holy Spirit guides me in all knowledge, and
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I believe the Bible means this. If you believe the Bible means something that
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disagrees with the Catholic Church, that means you believe something that the Bible says,
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something that the Apostles didn't teach. Because everything the Catholic Church believes is
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the sacred tradition passed down to it through the Apostles, as authorized by Jesus
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Christ. If you believe the Bible says something the Catholic Church doesn't teach,
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it means you disagree with the church that Christ found it, you disagree with
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his apostles, and you're in conflict with Jesus Christ himself. In other words,
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you're wrong and you're leading people astray. Only the Catholic Church is the
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fullness of the truth as guaranteed by Jesus Christ through the Holy Spirit, in
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words such as he who hears you hears me. He's rejects you, rejects
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him who sent me. I give to you the power to bind and loose.
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What you bind on earth will be bound in heaven. What you bind
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in, what you loose on earth, would be loosed in heaven. Forgive
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sins. Jesus said this to his apostles. He didn't say it to Bob
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Jones, or I didn't mean to say Bob Jones is specific. I mean
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he was a minister of founded a church in school in South Carolina. But
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I guarantee you didn't say it to Bob Jones, and he didn't say it
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to someone who calls themselves. You know. Apostle Frank, who opened a
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storefront church in an old strip mall down the street from you. He sent
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it to his chosen apostles and made very clear the authority he granted only to
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them. And if you want to see how much authority they had, well
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you could read the Book of Acts. Like you know, when someone lied
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to Saint Peter and they were struck dead, or you could read the words
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of the early church fathers from the first hundred years of the Church, and
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they say, specifically, listen to your priest, listen to your bishop.
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Their word is as as valid as the word of God, and they must
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be obeyed because God gave them that role. That's what the Church actually believe,
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the Church who wrote your Bible. So I think we have a very
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good understanding of how the early Church believed in terms of the authority of sacred
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tradition. Without sacred tradition, you have no Bible. You have no authority
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that says the Bible's true. You have no means of infallibly interpreting the Bible,
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you have no foundation for your faith. You have no reason to believe
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Jesus is God. Because the early Church, the Apostle, sacred tradition is
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what through all that was taught. There was no church other than the Catholic
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Church for the first thousand years, I mean, and only the Catholic and
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Orthodox until fourteen hundred and something. Only one church, no other, only
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one tradition, no other. You may believe that the Bible is true because
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your parents taught you, and your grandparents taught them but your grandparents, grandparents
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grandparents were faithful Catholics who only learned about the validity and truth of the Bible
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through the Catholic Church. There is no church that predates the Catholic Church,
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that is contemporary with the Catholic Church, that has the authority of the Catholic
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Church, that was established by Jesus Christ himself. And without the Catholic Church,
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there is no Bible and no way to know that Jesus is God.
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Nobody would have even written about him, and nobody would have told your ancestors
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that he even want the earth. You owe, whether Catholic or not,
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You owe your entire faith to the Catholic Church, whether you like it or
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not, whether you believe it or not, even if you swear by the
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King James Bible and reject all things Catholic, There's no King James Bible without
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the Catholic Church writing the Bible. The King James Bible is just a faulty
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translation of the Bible as written by the Catholic Church. You owe everything to
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the Catholic Church, and the closer you come into community with the Catholic Church,
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the closer you will follow Jesus commandments. When he said, if you
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love me, you will keep my commandments. The sure your path to heaven,
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the better off you will be. And if you're Catholic and you're listening
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to this, praise God and thank him for sacred tradition, unbroken, the
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oldest, the only human institution on earth that has existed for two thousand years.
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No kingdom has lasted that long unchanged. You know. Look, if
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you're English, you said, may raise your hands, say wait a minute,
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you know the kings of England But nope, nope, different families.
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Now, sorry, my ancestors were the House of Wessex. I'm directly descended
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from. Oh I can't even remember all their names, arowayth and Edward the
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Confessor and King Richard Lionheart and you know all them, the first kings of
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England who were Catholic, who were incredibly Catholic, several of them are saints.
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Now you have the House of Windsor, which is not. That's like
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two different governments. That's that's two different, completely different families, believing different
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things. Not not on the same page at all. No, the monarchy
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of England has not stood for two thousand years. Far from it. Two
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thousand years ago, the Monarchy of England didn't even exist. They were I
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mean barbarians and picks. I mean, you know, paint the sells blue
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and living in trees, and I mean, come on. The only institution
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that has been around unchanged for two thousand years is the Holy Catholic Church,
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the one Holy Catholic Apostolic Church, as founded by God, who guaranteed it
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would be a shining city set up honey Hill, visible to all ages.
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America has only been around here for a couple hundred years. I mean,
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the government of Italy has a new constitution I think he said on an average
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every sixteen years, completely different government. France has been through revolutions, Germany
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has had how many, I mean, from the monarchy to the no sees
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to you name it right, Japan's gone from the emperor to a democracy,
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China's had a communist revolution, Russia's had only the Catholic Church. Only the
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Catholic Church has been around, unchanged in unbroken succession for two thousand years,
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and only the Catholic Church will stand until our Lord comes again. I have
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no hope that America is going to be here in another two hundred years.
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We are destroying ourselves. Remember what alexis DETACTL said, America will be great
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always so along as America is good. When America is nowhere good, she
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will cease to be great. He also said a democracy can only exist until
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the people realize they can vote themselves money out of the treasury. We're a
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week immoral, decaying nation. I hope and pray Donald Trump gets reelected and
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can set some things right. But the rot is a fear endemic, mainly
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because America was founded mostly by members of the Masonic Order and as a Protestant
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nation. How can a Protestant nation ever last? Protestantism itself won't last.
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Eventually all churches will fade away except the Catholic Church, and therefore a Protestant
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nation is doom for failure. But I hope it doesn't happen in my lifetime
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or for the next couple hundred years. I hope we can can can once
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again become a force for good in the world, which we were at one
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point. Remember we have at won a war since Korea. We've done nothing
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but waste lives and spend money we used to save the world from the evils
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of Nazism and communism and etcetera, etcetera. Maybe we'll get back to that
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again. I you know, I had to bite my tongue the other day.
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I was in the grocery store and there was a you know, college
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kid. This lady was telling me needed to join the Air Force, and
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I was this closed to saying, you know, you might want to hold
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off. It looks like Biden's about to get us into World War three,
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picking fights with China and Russia, or letting them become so powerful that we're
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forced backs against the wall. I'm not sure if I'd want to fight for
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the Biden administration. And someone might say, well, you got to be
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patriotic. You're fighting for America after the BLM riots, looking at a nation
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that murders millions of babies annually. Yeah, it's the last best place on
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earth, but it's going downhill pretty quick. I'm not sure. Honestly,
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I'm not sure America's worth fighting and dying for anymore. We better change course.
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And you may get really angry at me for saying that. And my
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family's full of veterans. I mean my family, I have ancestors served in
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the American Revolution, in the War of eighteen twelve, all the world wars,
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you name it. I'd love to be very proud of my country,
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But I don't look at Washington, DC right now and see a whole lot
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to be proud of whatsoever. Nor do I look around me in the cities
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with a crime and the homelessness, and the drug overdoses, and the eroding
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of our freedoms, our freedom of speech, our freedom even to just question,
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just to ask a question, our freedom of religion. I don't know.
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I don't know. I remember to talk show host Neil Boort said,
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you always have to have a backdoor in case things get so bad, somewhere
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to go. I'm afraid after COVID and these vaccine passports are talking, there's
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not gonna be anywhere to go, and we're just gonna have to fight for
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survival if the time comes. But I'm hoping, like I said, it
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doesn't come in my lifetime or my children's lifetime or my grandchildren's lifetime. I'm
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hoping God will turn things around, especially through bold leaders like Donald Trump who
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can actually get things done. I hope, I hope, and the words
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of Saint Padre Pio pray, hope, and don't worry. At I'll talk
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to autemorrow.