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Show 74: Man's relationship to God part 3 · The Uncensored Catholic

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Hey, y'all, welcome to today's show. Today, I want to wrap
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up our readings this week from Saint Irenaeus about well, I'd say, sort
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of wide ranging, isn't I mean? He starts out talking about why God
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made man and what man's duty is to God, and then yesterday he was
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getting into the nature the purpose for the Torah or mosaic law and how it
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is fulfilled and of course we are freed from the law in Christ. I'm
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going to wrap that up today, hopefully God willing. But first we'll turn
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to radio replies and the questioner goes on to ask the priests or actually just
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a state deposits. We shall say there are many intelligent people who do not
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bother about religion. They answer, in what way are they intelligent? And
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club? Some are clever in mathematics, others in law, but they may
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be very ignorant in the science of religion. A Catholic school child could teach
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many of them quite a lot in this matter. Your argument might have some
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value if they were well instructed in the truths of religion, but it is
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very little use saying I know very clever, very clever doctor, and he
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has never studied music, so I did not see the use of music.
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The doctor's medical knowledge is no argument against music, and not all the learning
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of your friends in mathematics and science, physics or astronomy can be an argument
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against religion. Their knowledge of these things does not make Heaven the least bit
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less worth having, nor Hell one jot more comfortable, one jot more comfortable.
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Let us serve God before whom all the wisdom of men is childish prattle,
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and who, in his infinite wisdom, declares that religion is necessary not
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only in honesty and goodness, but in order to be honest and good.
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I think it's very gosh, how relevant is this today? A friend of
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mine also writes for Mizzio Day, you know an internet for him. We've
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never met in person. Dave Debay wrote a great article today from Missio Day,
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and it was about his conversion essentially from atheism to becoming Catholic Christian.
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And it's interesting because he quotes well, I wouldn't say he references. He
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explains a lot of modernists or postmodernist positions that I wouldn't say lead people to
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become atheists, but that atheists used to defend their belief and it's you know,
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and he makes a very good point that they don't like faith. They
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just don't have faith in God. They don't like belief. They just don't
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have faith in or belief in God. They have faith and belief in themselves
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and in their peers and in people they deemed to be wise. Well,
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you know, you could bring up so many, oh so many very wealthy,
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very intelligent people, very you know, high IQ's that have been atheist
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or agnostic or whatever, and you cannot deny certainly that they are intelligent,
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educated people. But this makes this answer from where your prise makes a very
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good point in what field are they educated? You know, I grew up
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around doctors and hospitals in such my mom was a medical professoral hospital administrators,
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psychologists, the whole pit, and so our circle of friends, or her
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for circle friends really when I was a child, you know, surgeons and
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diagnosticians, diagnosticians, and plenty of nurses and people in various fields, pharmacists
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and all kinds of people, imminent psychologists and writers and all that very very
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educated. But you know what was very clear to me even from a very
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early age, was there were very very educated in their specialty in their specification,
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their one field, and they may know nothing about anything else. I
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can think of many people who whom I've known, who are college professors,
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imminent writers, experts in their field, who wouldn't know how to change the
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oil in their own vehicle, right. I mean, this guy may have
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written ten books and taught classes for twenty years and be considered to be the
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expert in the field of you know, of I don't know architecture or something
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right, or a great scientist or whatever does not know the basics of things
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that you know, kid that grew up in a farm knows about soil health
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or taking care of livestock, or like I said, changing the oil and
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a vehicle or a flat tire, or plumbing, general house repair things.
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You know. They would say, well, I studied my field, that's
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up to the plumber to learn plumbing. Well yeah, that's great, absolutely,
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but you also have to acknowledge that person could learn basic plumbing if they
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wanted to. They could learn basic autominence. They make the choice not to.
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Oftentimes they will disparage someone who is in what they would call the trades
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as being ignorant because they didn't go to you know, some prestigious college to
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study architecture or whatever, or mathematics or you name it right, But no,
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it's not the case at all. They're just as ignorant. The college
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professor is just as ignorant of those skills that the plumber or the mechanic has
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who took time to learn, as the plumber mechanic may be of mathematics and
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architecture, and you may be surprised the plumber mechanic may know a little bit
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more than you think. Often people who have to work with their hands have
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a little more knowledge in various fields than those who specialize in academic or professional
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pursuits. We often quote the old trade a jack of all trade. The
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quote we often quote the old saying a jack of all trades and master of
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none, But the full quote is actually a jack of all trades and master
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of none is often better than a master of one. Those who actually have
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to rely on practical knowledge use math more than most professional people. Often use
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architecture, design, physics, have an understanding of science, metals, and
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chemicals, And I mean you would be very surprised what an ignorant farmer so
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called it actually knows. My grandfather was such a man absolutely brilliant in probably
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thirty or forty different fields, could literally do everything, and had barely a
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high school education. But he could build houses. He was a carpenter,
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brick mason. He was a farmer. He was a cattleman. He built
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and ran his own sawmill. He was a real estate developer. He did
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historic preservation for the state. He could fix anything on the farm, including
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cars, vehicles. He could fabricate anything that was needed in his workshop from
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wood to metal. He built furniture, He built a living history museum.
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He was a politician, a justice of the peace, a park ranger.
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I could go down. I could go on and on about everything that man
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could do. He even designed his own nuclear fallout shelter in the nineteen fifties,
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with its own air filtration, water system, electric and everything of his
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own design. The man was absolutely brilliant and capable and had no formal education
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beyond high school. When we think about people who say, you know,
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they make these really grand assumptions about religion, you really do have to ask
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how educated is this person in religion? How much time have they actually spent
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reading the great works of philosophy and religion from various cultures, the early Christian
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writers, the doctors of the church. Have they read Augustine, have they
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read a Quietness? Have they really thought and been instructed, because remember,
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you have to be instructed in the faith. Or have they just made the
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assumption that often based upon the views of their peers in college and in professional
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life, that they are educated elites and they don't believe in God. That's
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just for the uneducated masses. Well, that's what's been taught in colleges at
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least since the late eighteen hundreds. You know, the Marxists belief that religion
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is the opiate of the masses and that the elites, the educated, have
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no need of Christianity. Well, you know, their knowledge may be very
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deep in one subject, but it may be very shallow in others. And
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unfortunately, the natural arrogance of man, the natural pride of man, can
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make that a very insulated or insular position, and they don't allow conflicting information
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in. They don't step outside of their comfort zone. And oftentimes, the
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more educated, the more successful, et cetera, a man is, the
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less likely he will be to humble himself in seeking education or instruction from people
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he deems to be inferior, and that's a very dangerous thing. That's what
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we'll lead to eugenics and like Nazis exterminating people, and you know, elite
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in the bureaucracy, what we might call a deep state. They have their
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own little fiefdom and they have their own little hold on power, and they're
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not interested in what other people believe. And that's in terms of eternity,
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that may be probably the most dangerous position for any man. You know,
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a poor, uneducated person who's humble, who's very open to learning, has
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a far better chance of getting to heaven than one who has a ton of
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education and the arrogance it often goes along with it. So the man goes
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on and says, you keep hinting that God not only demand's religious worship,
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but that he has actually specified the way in which men must offer such homage.
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Do you mean that God has actually told men of his demand explaining its
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condition? And they answer, yes. God has told man very clearly why
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he created man, what is the destiny of man, and what man must
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do in order to obtain that destiny. He sent the prophets to teach men
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his will. After that, he sent the prophets to teach men his will.
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After that he sent his own divine son, Jesus Christ. And Christ
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sent the Catholic Church, a church still teaching with the infallible authority of God
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in our very midst. And that, my friends, it brings us back
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to Saint Irenaeus, saying, ironeus and yes, today's message explained why the
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law was given to the Jews. And I don't think I actually gave you
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the title of this chapter. It is. At first God deemed it sufficient
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to inscribe the natural law or the Decalogue, upon the hearts of men.
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But afterwards he found it necessary to bridle with the yoke of the Mosaic law
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the desires of the Jews who were abusing their liberty, and even to add
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some special commandments because of the hardness of their hearts. And today's chapter we
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will wrap this up, is chapter sixteen from the fourth Book of Against Heresy,
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entitled perfect righteousness was conferred neither by a circumcision nor by any other legal
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ceremonies. The Decalogue, however, was not canceled by Christ, but is
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always in force. Men were never released from its commandments. He begins.
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Moreover, we learned from scripture itself that God gave circumcisim not as a completer
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of righteousness, but as a sign that the race of Abraham might continue recognizable,
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For it declares God said into Abraham, every male among you shall be
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circumcised, and ye shall circumcise the flesh of your foreskins, as a token
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of the covenant between me and you. This same does Ezekiel the Prophet say,
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with regard to the Sabbaths, also I gave them my Sabbath to be
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a signed between me and them, that they might know that I am the
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Lord that sanctify them. Very important that iron Airs makes a very profound point
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that the circumcision that was demanded God demanded of the Jews of Abraham and his
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descendants is very much like the Jewish Sabbath. Essentially, the Jewish Sabbath is
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a sign. You would almost call it a circumcision of time. Kind of
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an interesting concept. But also it was exclusively for the Jewish people, the
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descendants of Abraham, and does not apply to Christians. Neither does the circumcision
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of the flesh. It is very very unfortunate in my opinion that culturally,
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thanks to our Protestant heritage. Here in America, parents are encouraged to have
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their sons circumcised. There's no medical reason for it, and actually can be
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quite damaging, quite damaging. The circumcision demanded of Abraham by God was specifically
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for the descendants of Abraham, as explained in the Old Testament, and the
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Jewish Sabbath was also specifically for the Jewish people, as explained again in the
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Old Testament. Iron As goes on in Exodus, God says to Moses,
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and ye shall observed by sabbaths, for it shall be a sign between me
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and you for your generations, for your generations, the generations of Moses.
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That means specifically, people who are of the heritage of Moses. These things
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then were given for a sign. But the signs were not unsymbolical. That
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it is neither unmeaning nor to no purpose, inasmuch as they were given by
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a wise artist. But the circumcision after the flesh typified that that after the
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spirit. For we say, the apostles have been circumcised, with the circumcision
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made without hands, and the prophet declare circumcised the hardness of your hearts.
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But the Sabbaths taught that we should continue day by day in God's service,
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For we have been counted, says the apostle Paul, all the day long
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as sheep for the slaughter that is consecrated to God, and ministering continually to
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our faith, and preserving it in it, and abstaining from all avarice,
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and not acquiring or possessing treasures upon earth. Moreover, the Sabbath of God,
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that is the Kingdom, was as it were indicated by created things,
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in which the Kingdom, the man who shall have preserved and serving God,
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shall in a state of rest or take of God's table. This is a
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very important teaching of Saint Iron, as the Sabbath is the rest of God,
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God's rest, that is also the Kingdom of God. Now, what
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did Jesus say to the man who asked him? Well, to the holy
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young man who he was ascribe, who answered correctly essentially what God demanded of
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man, and he basically summed up the same thing. You know that Jesus
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would say when ask the same question, Love God, love your neighbor.
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Right, And Jesus said, you are not far from the Kingdom of God.
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Jesus also said in his earthly ministry, the Kingdom of God is near,
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or the Kingdom of God is at hand. Jesus is the Kingdom of
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God. When he came to earth, he brought the Kingdom of God.
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The Kingdom of God is here with us. As Christians. We are in
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effect in the rest of God. We are in the Sabbath of God.
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As Christians. No longer was the Sabbath of God this day, when one
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could do no work. We live in it. Ere every day is consecrated
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as it were to God. And the worship that is due was due to
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God. Or the Sabbath is the worship we give to God every single day.
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As I have said so many times, people ask where is heaven.
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Well, heaven is where God is. Whereas God, God is within your
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heart. Therefore Heaven is within your heart. Where is the Kingdom of God?
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Well, the Kingdom of God is within your heart. And where is
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the Sabbath of God. The Sabbath of God is within your heart. Ironeus
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goes on and that man was not justified by these things, but that they
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are given as a sign to the people. This fact shows that Abraham himself,
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without circumcision and without observance of sabbaths, believed in God. And it
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was imputed unto him for righteousness, and he was called the Friend of God.
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Then again a lot without circumcision was brought out of Sodom, receiving salvation
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from God. So also did Noah, pleasing God, although he was uncircumcised,
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received the dimensions of the ark of the world of the second race of
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men en It too, pleasing God without circumcision, discharge the office of God's
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legate legate to the angels, although he was a man and was translated,
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and is preserved until now as a witness of the just judgment of God.
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Because the angels, when they had to transgressed, fell to the earth for
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judgment, but the man who pleased God was translated for salvation. Moreover all,
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the rest of the multitude, of those righteous men who lived before Abraham
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and of those patriarchs who preceded Moses, were justified independently of the things above
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mentioned and without the law of Moses. As also Moses himself says to the
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people in Deuteronomy, the Lord thy God formed a covenant in Horeb. The
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Lord formed not this covenant with your fathers, but for you. Why then
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did the Lord not form the covenant for the fathers, because the law was
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not established for righteous men. But the righteous fathers had the meaning of the
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Decalogue written in their hearts and souls, that is, they loved the God
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who made them, and did no injury to nighbor. There was therefore no
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occasion that they should be cautioned by prohibitory mandates, because they had the righteousness
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of the Law in themselves. But when this righteousness and love of God had
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passed into oblivion and became extinct in Egypt, God did, necessarily, because
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of his great good will to men, reveal himself by a voice, and
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led the people with power out of Egypt, in order that man might again
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become the disciple and follower of God. And he afflicted those who were disobedient
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that they should not condemn, contemn, have contempt toward I guess their creator.
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And he fed them with manna that they might receive food for their souls,
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as also Moseses and Deuteronomy, and fed thee with manna, which thy
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fathers did not know, that thou mightest know that man doth not live by
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bread alone, but by every word of God proceeding out of his mouth,
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doth man lived, and it enjoined love to God and taught just dealings toward
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our neighbor, that we should neither be unjust nor unworthy of God, who
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prepared men for his friendship through the medium of the Decalogue, and likewise for
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an agreement with his neighbor matters which did certainly prophet man himself, God,
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however, standing in no need of anything from man. In other words,
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the entire law of Moses was to restore the Hebrew people to the state of
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Abraham and Noah. And who well else did he mentioned, you know,
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the prophets of Elijah, Alicia, Enich that was who it was, Enik,
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who was you know, actually taken up from Earth and didn't die.
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They had fallen into such grave error and servitude in Egypt. You have to
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remember in the Bible and the Old Testament, God did not want the people
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of Egypt. I mean, God did not want the people of Israel to
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have a king. He wanted them to live simply by His word and his
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precepts. What are his word and his precepts? Love God with all your
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heart, and love your neighbors yourself. He said, if they did,
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he'd protect him. He'd go out and battle before them. And as long
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as they were loyal to his word. They did. He warned them strongly,
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do not if you have a king, He's essentially going to make slaves
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out of you. And they said, we want a king, We want
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to be like every other nature, every other nation. And whenever they fell
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so far into sin through idol worship, he would have them defeated and taken
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into slavery by another nation. Essentially, they had come to appreciate the security
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of slavery over the freedom of God. Therefore God gave them a law that
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enslaved them. To these statutes, we make an tremendous mistake, or anyone
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who believes this makes a tremendous mistake when they try to apply toward a law
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to Christians, because I mean, pick up your Bible, go to the
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New Testament, read through the acts and the letters of Saint Paul, read
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the plain words of Jesus, and you will see that we are free,
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We are no longer under the law. We are not slaves, but we're
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heirs. The New Testament is full of explanations of why Christians no longer need
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to be circumcised, and if physical circumcision was no longer necessary circumcision of time,
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which is what the Sabbath is, was also done away with. When
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ask what was necessary, Jesus did not mention and observe the Sabbath. He
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only said love God with all your heart, love your neighbor, don't steal,
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don't commit adultry, etc. He didn't say a word about the Sabbath.
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And in fact, the Christian Christianity has recognized Sunday the new day of
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the new Man set free free from the law, the day the Lord rose
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from the dead, after having borne the whole the entire penalty, you know,
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the wages of center death. He bore it and he raised up anew.
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You can go back to the Dak, which was written before the Bible
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was completed, as I always say, if you want to know what Christians
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actually thought in the early Church, what their actual words were when they said,
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this is how, when, how we worship, when we worship,
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why we worship, and what we do. It's in the Dak or the
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teachings of the Twelve. But to try to impose circumcision Jewish Sabbath's dietary laws,
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etc. A lot of people think that you have to speak Hebrew or
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call Jesus the Hebrew name of Joshua Yeshua. In order to be a good
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Christian is pure heresy, well meaning, well intended people, full of faith,
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but very misguided and not in accord with the word of God, not
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in accord with the will of God. And you know, frankly, we
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as Catholics need to know how to defend our faith because in so doing we're
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correcting error, and that's something we're charged to do by God. But we
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can also help people draw closer to the will of God by being able to
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answer these questions. And you know, here was Saint irony Us writing against
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heresy in I mean before three I'm not sure exactly the exact date. And
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you know, if people just would read this today, but it wouldn't be
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a question. People wouldn't be casting about wandering in the dark thinking they found
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some secret. You know, I read to day about some cult leader who
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calls himself Jesus, who boasts that he has like fifteen hundred sex slaves on
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some island somewhere. How do you think people got on that island with him?
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They were given false information and not given the truth. I mean,
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you know, yeah, we could talk about jonestown We could talk about the
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branch Dividians. We can talk about the Pilgrims. Do you want to talk
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about a crazy cult group? You know, I had an ancestor of the
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Mayflower. I can say this. They were a lunatic cult group, the
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Pilgrims that landed, you know, on the Mayflower and the Speedwell and all
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that up at Plymouth Rock. What would happen today if, say, in
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your next town, you had a group of people and if they cooked food
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or made a hot cup of tea on Sunday they were dragged the other house,
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putting the stocks and beaten with whips. I think you know, child
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services would be going in there pretty quickly to pull the kids out, and
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they would be named a cult. Right. But the Pilgrims that we all
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celebrate on Thanksgiving as the founders of our nation, which is ridiculous, they
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had nothing to do with the founding of our nation. They were a lunatic,
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fringe Protestant cult group. I can tell you my ancestor, who was
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quite devout, would have probably given anything to have been given the truth.
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But he thought he was following the truth by going into that cult group,
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as presumably do those you know those people on that island with whatever this crazy
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cult leader is. Now we have a duty to our fellow man to set
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this right. By the way, I have nothing against the Pilgrims. A
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lot of their writings were quite good, and I'm sure they were quite good
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people. But it's a fall. So that's taught in schools that America began
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on the grounds of religious liberty through the Pilgrims. First of all, America
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did not have religious liberty. The Pilgrims came here to escape the English,
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who were persecuting those who didn't belong to the Anglican Church. Well into the
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late eighteen hundreds, it was illegal to be Catholic in North Carolina and in
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many states. Religious freedom is an absolute myth in terms of the founding of
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America. Our ancestors mainly came here well, some to escape persecution for one
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reason or another. That it also includes a lot of Irish and who just
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wanted to get away from the English who were enslaving their nation and starving them
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to death. But mainly people came here for land. In Europe, the
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wealthy, the lords, and the gentry owned the land, and you didn't
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have a lot of opportunity, because land is the true source of wealth.
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You could maybe have had a little just enough to have a garden to feed
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your family, and that was it. You couldn't buy land to raise a
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bunch of crops and actually become wealthy or you know secure. People wanted land
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to hunt, they wanted land to farm, they wanted waters to fish,
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they wanted land to trap. Our country was very much pioneered by trappers.
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They wanted land to cut timber. You know, you can't build houses without
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timber and stone. You don't have timber and stone, or that's what they
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had back then. You know, you didn't build a house. So those
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who owned the land controlled everything. Our ancestors mainly came here for economic opportunity.
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The myth of Thanksgiving was propagated after the Civil War as a means of
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trying to reunify the country under really a false narrative, because in truth,
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America began in the South, Jamestown, you know, the first colonies and
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are Walter, Raleigh and such historic Williamsburg. You know, this is where
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America actually began. And our first what five seven presidents were all Southern,
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mostly from Virginia. The Declaration of Independence was written by Virginia, and the
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Constitution was written by a couple of Virginians. You know, even at that
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time, you could have argued that Philadelphia was much more of a Southern city
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than it was northern. As it was considered by the time of the Civil
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War, the South is the birth of America. But see, after the
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Civil War they had to undo that. You know, we say the victor's
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right the history, so in our history books say pretty much relegated the actual
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founding of America, the actual founding fathers, the actual founding documents to the
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dustbin of history, and came up with this fanciful narrative that these pilgrims came
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over for religious freedom, which you know, trust me, they didn't come
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here to be Catholic, I can tell you that much. They were basically
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a fringe cult group, originally socialist until they most of them, starved to
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death and then had to figure out that capitalism works and socialism doesn't. And
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they came here and they lived in peace and harmony with the Indians and had
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a big feast. You know, they're part true and a lot false,
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but it has really nothing to do with the founding of our nation at all.
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But that's you know, the crap you're taught in school. And like
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I said, the victors right, the history. You want to know how
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America was really founded, well start with our founding documents and see you know
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what influenced Thomas Jefferson and James Madison and all that. And you know,
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I was very pleased to find out the other day that George Washington actually converted
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to Catholicism at the very end of his life. He had been a member
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of the Masonic Order. He was actually the head guy of the Masonic lodges,
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and he converted to Catholicism through the intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary at
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the end of his life. That should be taught in school. Well,
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why should it be taught in school, because you know that actually matters what
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some people with funny hats, some big buckles on their shoes had a meal
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with some Indians really doesn't affect your life or mine whatsoever, does it.
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Even though one of my ancestors, fitz Randolph, what was among them.
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I'm very proud of that. But trust me, you and I would not
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have wanted to live in Pilgrim Protestant New England. I mean they just pull
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you out of your house and beat you and put you in the stocks and
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throw things at you if you even had a fire in your fireplace on Sunday.
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They did not allow the celebration of Christmas or Easter. They were really
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not I would go so far as say, not sane, but probably a
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lot more in common with the fringe groups like the Seven day Adventist and the
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tour Observant Christians and the Jehovah's Witnesses and such than anything mainline Christian or that
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would be in common with the founding principles and ideology of America. And I'm
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not saying that well, I mean we could get into that too. I
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mean, you know, as much as I love Benjamin Franklin, yeah,
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he had some really weird religious ideas. He was quite the ladies man,
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shall we say? He had many affairs in his life. He used to
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work out nude on his balcony so he could show off his body to everyone
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in town. When he was a young man, slept with a lot of
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women who earned his wife, had a lot of affairs, actually counseled and
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instructed other young men in their shall we say, romantic pursuits, saying that
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they should pursue widows to have their affairs with. So they're wild oats because
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you know, younger women were less practical about worldly things. You know,
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we could really get into some of the more interesting aspects of our founding fathers.
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George Washington was not a very loyal friend, for instance, and that
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caused a lot of issues. Not of them were perfect people. My ancestor,
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Charles Carroll essentially funded the entire American Revolution. He was the most wealthy
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man in America. He was the only Catholic who signed the Declaration of Independence.
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Sure he was a slaveholder, Cail. We get into the morality of
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owning slaves, Yes, we absolutely could. But isn't it better to talk
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about the truth than myths, such as you know, the Thanksgiving Pilgrims.
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I mean, honestly, it's like ten percent true and ninety percent faults.
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And you know, as much as I loved Russia, Lymbball, every Thanksgiving
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he would read this story of the Pilgrims, and you know, it was
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great, but you know, he didn't also didn't touch on the fact that
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they were sort of a nutball religious cult, and you know, all that
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and really had no appreciable influence on the founding of America whatsoever. It's like
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a tangential story. I mean you might as well. I mean, you
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know, it was a myth also that George Washington as a kid, you
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know, cutting down the cherry tree and said, when ask who cutting down
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the tree, said, I cannot tell a lie. It was I.
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It was I. That was That was a myth made up by a biographer
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later in time. Dad doesn't contribute anything to the founding of the nation.
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We can throw out the myths and just look at George Washington, say,
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you know he was he was a good man on this point. He was
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a very flawed man on this point. Uh, definitely somewhat of an opportunitist
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at points, not the most loyal friend, great president, great general.
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Became Catholic at the end of his life. That's pretty cool. And that's
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something you know, they absolutely won't teach in public schools. We can look
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at the man as a man, not the man as a myth. And
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I think we should do that in all regards, whether it's a person or
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a country or or our church. You know, let's look at it all
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aspects. The good the bad and the ugly, and at the end of
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the day, it's still going to stand because guaranteed by Jesus, you know,
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every human institution is going to be full of humans who are are flawed
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and bad. To deny that is, to just open yourself up to attacks
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by people who want to destroy you. You have to be honest. Well,
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anyway, let's get back to Irons, he said, And therefore does
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the scripture say these words. The Lord spake to all the assembly of the
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children of Israel in the mount, and he added no more, for as
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I have already observed, he stood in need of nothing from them. And
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again Moses said, and now, Israel, what doth the Lord require of
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thee but to fear the Lord thy God, and to walk in all his
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ways, and to love him, and to serve the Lord thy God with
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all thy heart and all thy soul. Now these things did indeed make man
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glorious by supplying what was wanting to him, namely the friendship of God.
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But they profited God nothing, for God did not stand in need of man's
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love. For the glory of God was wanting to man, which he could
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obtain in no other way than by serving God. And therefore us says to
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them again, choose life, that thou mayst live. And I seed to
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love the Lord, thy God, to hear his voice, to cleave unto
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him, for this is life and the length of thy days, preparing man
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for this life. The Lord did speak in his own person to all like
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in the words of the Decalogue, and therefore in like manner do they remain
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permanently within us, with us receiving by means of his advent in the flesh,
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extension and increase, but not abbrogation. The laws of bondage, however,
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and what he means by that but not abrogation. Extension in priests were
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Remember what Jesus said, You know, you were taught in the Ten Commandments,
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or Moses told you how I put it, you should not commit adultery,
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he said, I say, if you lust after a woman in your
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heart, you have already committed adultery. He said, you should not commit
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murder. I say, if you know, if you hate your brother,
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you've already committed murder. Jesus actually expanded, and especially in regards to marriage.
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You know, he said absolutely Moses may have said, due to the
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hardness of your hearts, he gave you a way to get divorced. I
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say, absolutely not. Christians may not get divorced. And his followers said,
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this is a hard teaching. How in the world can we follow.
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And he said, well, if you can't follow, it's better if you
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don't get married in the first place. Yeah, I mean, he made
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the law even harder in that regard. And Ironaeus explains the laws of bondage,
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however, were one by one promulgated to the people by Moses, suited
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for their instruction and their punishment, as Moses himself declared, and the Lord
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commanded me at the time to teach you statutes and judgments. These things therefore,
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which were given for bondage and for assigned to them, he canceled by
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the new covenant of liberty. He canceled the laws of bondage, circumcision,
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and the Sabbath, and the dietary laws, and the cleanliness laws, the
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handwashing and not touching a dead body, and not associating with gentiles. Obviously,
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that was the whole point of the vision given to Saint Peter, of
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all the unclean things so called on the sheet that descended from heaven. And
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God said to him eat, and he said, I've never eaten anything unclean.
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He says, call nothing that God made unclean. He canceled by the
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new covenant of liberty, just said that, okay. But he has increased
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And why okay? But he has increased him widened those laws which are natural
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and noble and common to all, granting to men and without grudging by means
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of adoption, to know God the Father, and to love Him with the
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whole heart, and to follow his words unswervingly, while they have stained not
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only from evil deeds, but from the desire after them. But he has
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also increased the feeling of reverence for Sun should have more veneration than slaves,
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and greater love for their Father. And therefore the Lord says, as to
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every idle world word that men have spoken, they shall render an account for
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it in the day of judgment. And he who has looked upon a woman
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to lust after her hath committed adultery, are already with her in his heart.
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And he that is angry with his brother without cause shall be in danger
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of judgment. All this is declared that we may know that we shall give
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account to God, not of deeds only as slaves, but even of words
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and thoughts, as those who have truly received the power of liberty, in
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which condition a man is more severely tested whether he will reverence and fear the
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love of the Lord. And for this reason, Saint Peter says that we
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have not liberty as a cloak of maliciousness, but as the means of testing
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and evidencing faith. So, like I said, there's nothing new under the
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sun, these heresies that people were promigating today. I mean, I'll just
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tell you flat out. Anybody who says they know the truth, the truth
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of God, and what they teach is in opposition with the teachings of the
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Catholic Church is de fact wrong because God guaranteed the Catholic Church. He did
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not give another truth. And there's the Bible says at the end of the
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Book of Revelation, let me no further revelation. A lot of these cult
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leaders and such I knew one one time. I knew a minister who claimed
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to have all kinds of visions and prophecies. He was an absolute con man.
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He stole a lot of money. Unfortunately, I worked for him for
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a while. I was in college. I wasn't that bright, but I
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found out what he was about, and wanted nothing to do with him,
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and was fired summarily. And no one would listen. When I tried to
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say, look, he's stealing from you, well, they didn't want to
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believe me. He's praying upon the women in your church sexually as well.
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No one wanted to believe me that. As I said, nothing new under
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the sun. Saint Irenaeus began the two hundreds refuting almost all the heresies we
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see around us today. Saint Paul and Saint Peter were doing it in the
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in the New Testament, in the Bible, I mean from the very beginning
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when the church was established. Within what a year, they had encountered Simon
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Magnus, Simon the Magician, and condemned him, denounced him, and he
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went off and formed another church, claiming that he was Jesus and he had
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the truth, and he basically took all the teachings of the apostles and twisted
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him and made himself very wealthy and powerful. Apparently there were statues to him
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in some area. According to I think it was it was Justin Martyrs,
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Saint Justin Martyr who wrote about Simon Magnus. And we're talking you know,
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the Apostles were still alive, and they were false teachers and false churches,
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and they were warn't against very you know, very openly, very plainly.
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In the New Testament, the Apostles say, if anyone comes bringing a teaching
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different than that we have given you, reject them, have nothing to do
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with them. They're people representing Satan. That's exactly what Martin Luther did.
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That's the exact founding of all Protestant fifty thousand denominations, all of which disagree
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with each other, and each of which disagrees with the Catholic Church. They're
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all faults, very simple, very plain, and you know it could be
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uncomfortable when a missionary comes to your door, an anti Catholic a cost you
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in a grocery store. You know, be ready, be ready to defend
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your faith. It just takes a little bit of reading in your Catechism,
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and a little bit of reading in the Bible, and a little thought and
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a little prayer, and a little conversation with others, especially people who you
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know catechists or people who are into apologetics. They are great books. The
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Essential Catholic Survival Guide is a good one. Born fundamentalists born again Catholic.
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Oh, they're various ones that will teach you how the arguments that the more
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prominent of the denominations, beginning with the Lutherans and the Anglicans and on up
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I guess through the Seven Day adventis and Jehovah's witness will make against Catholicism,
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and how you can refute them in just like two or three sentences. Yeah,
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it's not comfortable. Yeah, we'd rather not have to deal with that.
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But I mean, it's not exactly becoming a martyr, is it.
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You know, tomorrow is the commemoration of several important martyrs in the Church who
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were slaughtered, tortured to death for their faith. And all we have to
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do is have a slightly uncomfortable conversation every now and then. It's not too
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much to ask at all, is it. Trust me, it's easier,
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probably less controversial for me to have certain conversations about Catholicism than it is to
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point out that, you know, the Pilgrims really worked important in American history.
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People really get upset about that stuff. You know, those are the
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myths that people hang their cultural identity on. You know, I'm having an
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honest conversation about Abraham Lincoln is not something that basically ever happens in America shooting.
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I mean, I don't know, I don't know if it's the case
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or not. But look at the articles that came out just to what five
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years ago, maybe about what the FBI had found on doctor Martin Luther King.
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I mean, yeah, I remember wants to say he was this great
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moral leader and hero. Apparently there were a lot of law enforcement documents that
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said he was up to some pretty shady stuff. Try bringing that up in
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polite conversation. I mean, and people would really much rather believe the myth
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than know about the man. And I mean, I don't know what's true
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or not on that. I'm just saying, you bring that up, and
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you're gonna get called racist in the blink of it. I if someone says
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to you, you know, defend your beliefs about the Catholic Church, you
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should be able to say, well, we believe in the euchers because Jesus
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said this, We believe in baptism because Jesus said this. We believe in
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going to a priest for forgiveness, because Jesus said, you who sends you
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forgive or forgiven, and those who sends you retain or retained. We believe
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the Catholic Church wrote the Bible, the Catholic Church published and the only reason
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you have a Bible is because the Catholic Church. So you know, your
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idea that Catholics aren't allowed to read the Bible or don't want people to read
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the Bible, it is completely false. You know how easy is it just
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say, you know, Protestant will say that their church has been around since
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Jesus. They say, well, show me the archaeological evidence. I mean,
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especially for like a Jehovah's Witness. They're not even a Protestant group,
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right. Jehovah's Witness say they were these great cities and kingdoms in America long
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before you know, Christopher Columbus ever got here. And after Jesus rose from
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the dead and appeared in Jerusalem, he came to American preached to the Native
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Americans, and you just say, well, where are those cities? Show
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me the archaeological evidence, you know. I mean they're not talking about the
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pyramids down in you know, the Mayan ruins down in Mexico. I mean
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they're talking like right here in America. They're supposed to be these great cities.
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You just say, well, show them to me, show me the
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archological evidence, show me the buildings. Well, you could say that to
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anyone. Show me a Baptist church before, you know, five hundred years
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ago. Actually it's not even that old. Show me a Methodist church.
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Show me any church that existed that wasn't Catholic fifteen hundred and two thousand years
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ago. They can't. So, I mean it's really easy to win the
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arguments. I mean, it just takes you a little tiny bit of study.
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But then you know, nine times out of ten they're not going to
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listen to you anyway. Still, you have a duty. It's shameful to
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kind of duck the questions or sneak away without engaging. You do them no
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favors by allowing them to remain ignorant, and you do yourself a great deal
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of harm spiritually. You know, Jesus told said we were supposed to stand
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as witnesses for his truth. And it's yeah, it's uncomfortable, but that's
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not just no, there's really no kind of marred them to run away from.
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So anyway, y'all, in the words of Saint Padre Pio, pray,
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hope and don't worry, and I'll talk to you tomorrow