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Show 201: How to Become a Saint - The Way of Christian Perfection, part 3 · The Uncensored Catholic

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Speaker 1: A. We all welcome today's show. We will continue learning
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from father Sparago about how to become a saint, probably
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the most important topic one can possibly discuss, and we'll
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get to it in just a minute. But first we're
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gonna return to Radio Replies Volume one. There are actually
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three volumes. It's an incredibly important series where the oh.
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Speaker 2: Gosh, Protestants, Atheists, Muslims, Jews, you name it, would write
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in or call in to speak with two Catholic priests,
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one America and one Australia.
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Speaker 1: And I guess what the nineteen twenties, thirties. I mean,
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it's sort of an old book now almost one hundred
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years old, but it's remarkably modern. The same arguments, the
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same words. I mean, you'll do nothing newer on the side,
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as you might say. And in this one, in this
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question answer session, we've been working through a rather long,
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lengthy exchange by what you might call progressive a secular humanist.
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And yeah, they were around back then too. They're the
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guys that you know, were Nazis and Soviets and American
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progressives and the ones that founded planned parenthood and eugenesis
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and all that. Again, really the only difference between liberals
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in the nineteen twenties forties compared to today is back
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then they were a lot smarter, They were better educated,
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they were better spoken, better written. They were actually somewhat
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intelligent people, even though they were wrong. Now we have AOC,
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We have Joe fricking Biden, I mean, Kampala Harris, people
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who are so stupid they can barely put together a
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coherent sentence. Elizabeth Warren, Pocahontas, Folcahonnas whatever President Trump calls her.
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These people are so dumb you wonder how they can
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even feed themselves, and somehow, you know, they gained elected office.
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Don't ask me, seriously, try to listen to Nancy Pelosi
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put together a coherent sentence. Really, Dick Durbin, there's another
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great example. These people don't even make any sense anyway.
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Speaker 2: So and and.
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Speaker 1: You'll actually probably Durbin's the smarter out of that bunch. Yeah,
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he probably is. You know why I.
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Speaker 2: Say he's the smarter.
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Speaker 1: Look up the oh, what was the name of it
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at abscam? If I remember correctly, when the CIA was
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actually you know, not just going after Conservatives and Republicans,
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when they would actually go after both parties where there
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was corruption, they posed as Arabs trying to bribe congressmen
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and senators. Just give a little check to see what
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his role was in that. While you're at it, maybe
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look up Richard Blumenthal's military service. Oh my gosh, to
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have a memory in this day and age, in this
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day and age of the what fifteen second sound bite
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and the thirty second attention span if even that, No,
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it's not a thirty second attention span, maybe twenty, probably
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like three actually, if I remember correctly, Sesame Street used
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to the people that produced Sesame Street would do studies
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to see what the average attention span of a child was,
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and it was something like eight seconds. And they started
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doing their segments their clips based on that, and then
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mainstream news followed suit. So I mean, we're like literally
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in the eight second three to eight second attention span,
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and so people like Durban and Blumenthal keep getting re elected.
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Look them up seriously, if I'm not mistaken, they're both
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Catholic too, And that's that's uh, that is a should
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be a source of shame for every Catholic in the
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United States that these people represent us really the worst,
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the worst of the worst. I mean, maybe they're not murders,
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maybe they're not rapists, but you know what, actually, in
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terms of morality, they're pretty dagon close because they support
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killing babies, they support abortion, they support gay marriage, they
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publicly oppose Catholic teaching, and their thieves. Whether maybe I
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can't prove it in a court of law, but these
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people lie and cheat and steal for a living, and
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they're Catholics. Frankly, i'd hate to be in their shoes.
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I hate to be in my shoes. I got my
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own baggage going on. But you know, those guys, man,
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they've had many decades to work it out, and they
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just keep getting worse. In my rarely humble opinion, I'll
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try to be charitable. Yes, I know. My father Sparaga
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would say, I'm not on my way to sainthood because
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I'm being judgmental. We're a democracy, he wasn't. What are
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you gonna do? You got to be able to check
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the fruit on the vine in a democracy. Anyway, The
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questioner asked, did not Christianity borrow many doctrines from Greek, Egyptian,
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Persian and other mythologies. Cardinal Newman at least admits that
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Catholicism is a mixture of Paganism and Christianity. This is
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something you know, one of somebody with a lot of
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degrees is going to say to you. Okay, this is
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really commonly taught in college, especially at the upper levels.
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It's not actually true. Now, there were plenty of folk
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traditions from pagan cultures that the Catholic Church adopted. The
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Christmas tree, for instance, Christmas tree is an evergreen. It
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doesn't lose its needles or go brown in the winter,
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so it was used as a sign of you know,
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basically eternal life. Right or an egg was a symbol.
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I think, no, that's probably Phoenicia. It's either Egypt or Phnicians. Anyway,
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that was a sign of rebirth, new life. Christianity could
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adopt those customs and symbols without doing itself any harm.
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And you know, God plants the seed of religion and
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every people, so there's an element of truth in all
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non Christian religions because each person is made by God,
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inspired by God, you know, even if they're very you know, gosh,
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what the Persians, well Phoenician, I'm trying to remember. I
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guess it was actually the Philistines. The modern day Palestinians
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who worship bay All b A A L and ast
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But I think Ashtora may have been the Babylonians. Anyway,
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they practice human sacrifice, they worship demons. But our early
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Church followers would say, even in that flawed religion, we
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can find at least the grain of a true religion,
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that person is motivated to worship a god. In our
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modern times we have you know, atheists and such, and
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we could say, you know, we're not even as good
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as they were, those practicing human sacrifice and region old Testament,
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I mean, God was not happy with the so called Palestinians,
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the Philistines. He said, kill every man, woman and child,
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wipe them off the face of the earth. Removed King
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David from power because he was too weak willed to
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do it. He chose Solomon. No, I'm not Solomon, Samuel
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specifically because he was willing to kill them. Okay, And
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now you know Catholics and other denominations, Oh, the poor Palestinians,
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the poor. You know what, when they stopped trying to
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kill other people, other people will probably stopped trying to
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kill them. They've done a lot of polls. The Palestinian
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people still support what happened October two years ago or so, well,
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I guess a year and a little bit more or so.
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They want to kill Jews, they want to kill Americans,
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they want to kill all Christians. And actually their average
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IQ is only around seventy, which means the smartest Palestinian
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is basically like a mentally challenged American. What are you
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going to do? What are you gonna do? Just as
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a point of fact, there is a point of history.
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There is no such thing as a Palestinian. They do
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not exist. There were Philistines, Philistines, whatever you want to
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call them. God said, wipe them off the face of
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the earth. The Jews were too morally weak to do it. Sorry,
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in that case, when God says kill somebody, you better
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kill somebody. Yeah, that actually is the Old Testament, you know.
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They were the constant enemy and thorn in the side
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to the Jewish people, the Hebrew people, whatever you want
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to call them. After the Crucifixion and Resurrection, Rome destroyed, Israel,
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destroyed the Temple, dispersed the Jews. They took the Philistines
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and put them in Israel and renamed it Palestinia. There
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is no such thing as a Palestinian person. They are Philistines,
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and because they sacrifice their children to demons, God demanded
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they be wiped off the face of the earth. The
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Jews did not, and we all still have to deal
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with them today. I'm not saying all Palestinians are bad people.
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Got you know, I get along with everybody. There are
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plenty of Palestinian Jews and Christians. I mean, that's just
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a region. There's not a Palestinian person. There's not an
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ethnicity that is Palestinian. The Philistines really came from Jordan
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and somewhat from Egypt. Anyway, it's a very frustrating myth,
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and a lot of Catholics are going down a very
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bad road standing up for defending the rights of the
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so called Palestinian people. I'm not one hundred percent on
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board with President Trump's idea of taking over what Gaza.
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I don't think he's mentioned the West Bank, but Gaza.
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I don't want to have anything to do with that
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part of the world world at all. I mean, I'm
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not like, you know, jump up and down rahrah Israel,
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and I'm not jump up and down rah Rah. Whatever
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they are. The Palestinians, which are a myth. There are
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no Palestinians, but I'm not in defense of the Muslims
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who live in the region once called Palestine and call
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themselves Palestinians today they want to kill us all, not
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all of them, not certainly, not all people. But i'm
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their leadership, the Palestinian authority, the Hamas, the Hesbalah. They're
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very much opposed to Christianity, America and Israel. And I
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don't really give a crap if you like Israel or not.
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I mean, I'm not a Zionist, but you know, if
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the Jews want their own state, let them have it.
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I don't care. That's their business. God tried to get
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rid of those Muslims a long time ago, before they
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ever became Muslim. He tried to shove them out of
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that country. And you know, you know, I'll put in
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in terms that maybe be more understandable. I come from
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a long Southern heritage. I have some Native American blood,
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probably more from the Catobin tribes than the Cherokee. But
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I'm just gonna say the Cherokee as an example, right
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and being Irish, Okay, I certainly feel for any you know,
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people who have been forced out of the their homeland.
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I mean, as a person of predominantly Irish heritage, I
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could never get over what the English did to the
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Irish and I would probably have joined the IRA if
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I had been a teenager in Ireland in the eighties. Okay.
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I mean by the time I came along, the IRA
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was over and they had become a terrorist group and
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all that. Okay, not actually really not good guys. I'm
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sorry if that ends you. But I knew several people
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actually from Ireland, and they explained to me that the
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IRA had essentially become an organized crime operation. They were
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dealing drugs, illegal guns. They were more like the mafia
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than the actual Irish Liberation Army. You know, I could
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be wrong, but that's what I was told by people
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who lived in Ireland, and they said, you know, they
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would come to you and try to get you a
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deal cocaine for them, and if you cross them, they'd
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take a drill and blow out your knee caps. Okay,
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not trying to help the Irish people, but actually hurting
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the Irish people under the guise of being the Irish
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Liberation Army. But I mean in the seventies, of course,
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my sympathies the sixties. I mean you go back. I mean,
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you know, two hundred years my sympathies would have been
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with Ireland. Likewise, I mean, I look at American history.
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My sympathies are with the South. I'm a Southerner and
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my family he was all Confederates, and you know, they
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didn't own slaves. They really just wanted not to be
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invaded by the North. And when the North came in
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and burned their homes down and started raping their wives
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and killing their children, they shot back. All right, this
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is you know. I am of the Irish rebel Confederate mindset.
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And so when I look at I say, my sympathies
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are entirely with the Cherokee when it comes to the
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American white settlers versus the Cherokee. Right. If I mean entirely,
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I mean I would literally I hate Andrew Jackson. I
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mean seriously, I mean, you want to get me angry.
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I mean, he's from my region. He caused the Civil
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War essentially, and what he did to the Cherokee people
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was I mean, I have to forgive him as a Catholic,
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but truly unforgivable. Andrew Jackson was a horrible, despicable human being. Okay,
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a great war hero in the American Revolution, but what
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he did to the Cherokee people was inhumane. It was
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a genocide. But what I'm gonna tell you right now,
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the Cherokee occupy essentially three counties in North Carolina, Cherokee
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County being the main one. But you know, it's not
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really a reservation. It's sort of an unofficial reservation reservation.
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They're actually part of North Carolina. They're American citizens, kind
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of like the Palestinians so called, are in Gaza. So
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what would I do if tomorrow the Cherokee started bombing Ashville,
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blowing up people, killing, raping, and putting babies and ovens
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in Charlotte or Asheville or Murphy or whatever. There's a
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western you know, Charlotte's central part of the state. But
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I'm trying to think of you know, Swain County, Jackson County,
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they going to boom, I'd get my gun and I'd
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shoot as many of them as I could. Bottom line, sorry,
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I appreciate, I totally sympathize with your cause. You go
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start killing innocent men, women and children, and I'm going
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to blow your ass off the planet. So now I
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think you can understand my opinion about the so called
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Palestinians until they learn to live with peace with others.
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I don't care. It's not their land. First of all,
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it was never their land. They come from Jordan and Egypt.
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They have no right to it. They either have to
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be moved out or eradicated. I'm sorry if that makes
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me a bad person, but I don't agree with a
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lot of the bishops on this, and I'm not pro.
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I'm not anti Israel. I'm not a Zionist by any means.
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I'm not like super pro Israel. I've got a lot
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I've had a lot of Jewish friends. I actually used
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to date a girl from Tel Aviv that was in
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the IDF. She was actually Massad. She was really pretty great.
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I've had good Muslim friends. There's a reason why most
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Muslim countries do not want to accept the Palestinians. They
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don't want them anywhere around them. The Philistines have been
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the bane of the existence of Jordan and Egypt and
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Saudi Arabia and Lebanon. They're not people you want in
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your backyard. They're sort of the equivalent of like Somalians
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here in America. Not bad people, a lot of great Somalis,
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but culturally speaking, they're a cancer. They're like mad dogs.
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Not all of them, they're good ones, I know that.
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I mean, I'm not condemning individuals, but there is a
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cultural problem, and it is as much as they hate Jews,
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they hate Christians even more. As much as they hate Israel,
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they hate America even more. And frankly, I don't want
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anything to do with it. I mean, if it were
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up to me, I just say, you know, Israel, go
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ahead and blow them all to hell and leave us alone.
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But apparently our government's going to get involved for some reason.
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I guess because we do have ancient churches in the
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so called Palestinian area. Our church is getting involved. We
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have not got a dog in this fight, I am,
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and that's my opinion. We have not got a dog
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in this fight. Well anyway, okay, I guess that's my
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ramp for the day. But I just it just upsets
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me to see, like, you know, intelligent Catholic people making
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this argument that's somehow removing the Palestinians so called again
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they're not actually Palestinians from Gaza is equivalent to genocide
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and comparing it to what the Nazis did in Germany
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and Poland. No, No, these are agitators put there by
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other Muslim countries specifically to kill Jews. Like the Jews
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or not, they have a right to defend themselves. And
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I'm telling you if the Cherokees or the Lumbees, or
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the walk A Malls or something started coming into town
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and shooting people, they wouldn't last very long in America.
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Even though I sympathize with their they actually have an
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ancestral tie to that land. Unlike the so called Palestinians.
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They actually have a reason for revenge, essentially because of
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what Andrew Jackson did to them. He was a horrible
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human being. The so called Palestinians do not. They have
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no right to that land. They have no historical reason
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to kill, to hate, you know, to have a grudge. Again,
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it's Jews, you know, They've been pretty much are horrible
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people for thousands of years and culturally again not individually, culturally,
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and God told the Hebrew people to eradicate them centuries ago.
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I'm not putting my sympathies with someone who's going to
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kill a Jew and then come kill a Christian because
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they call Israel the Little Satan in America, the Big Satan.
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There is no sympathy for Catholics coming from the political
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or cultural organizations of the so called Palestinian people, the
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Philistines anyway. So after this person says that you know,
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all of Christianity came from pagan traditions, they reply to this.
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I reply firstly that there are naturally certain similarities between
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religions from the mere fact that they are religions. Religion
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is natural demand and natural issues, and naturally issues in
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expressions suitable. Let's right again, Religion is natural demand and
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naturally issues in expressions. Oh, issues in expression suitable demand.
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The words used, the symbols used are common. These are
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expressions suitable to man. It's an odd way of stating it,
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but I got it. Similarities do not, of themselves argue
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to derivation. Secondly, Cardinal Newman remarks that some things Christianity
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could certainly make use of. We're good elements in paganism.
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Even paganism has some elements of truth mixed up with
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its errors. Christianity and its development could select those elements
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of natural truth, remove all pagan and erroneous associations from
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so that they cease to be pagan and make use
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of the purified truth to better express Christian notions. Always, however,
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the motives of these things are observed among Christians are
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absolutely new and distinct and cannot be found in pagan rites.
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Person says, if there is anything more polytheistic than Christianity
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in Greek or other mythology, where is it, And they answer, well,
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it's in Greek or any other mythology. Christianity is not
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polytheistic at all. We have one God in three persons.
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They have many gods in many different persons polytheism. The
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person says, you have God, the father of the Son, God,
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the Father of God, the Son God, the Holy Ghost,
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Marry the Mother of God, Satan the God of evil.
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Now that's an interesting way of putting it, and invisible
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angels and saints, etc. They answer, teaches several gods. Christianity
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teaches but one God. The three divine persons share one
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nature and are but one God. The other beings you
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cite are declared by the Church to be creatures and
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cannot be used as an argument for the plurality of gods.
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If we taught that there are gods, you could rightly
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accuse us but if we solidly maintain that there are
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not gods, it is irrational even for a rationalist to
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accuse us of ranking them as gods. And he continues,
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will priestly sophistry deceive all peoples in all time, even
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with a spread of science, And they answer, no, sophistry
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is likely. No, sophistry is likely to deceive all people
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all the time. I guess it was what Thomas Jeffersons said,
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you could fools, know, Franklin, you fool some of the
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people some of the time. You can't fool all the
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people a the time. But Catholic priests do not rely
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upon sophistry, and your supposition that they are opponents of
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true science is absurd in the view, in view of
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the fact that they have done as much, if not more,
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than any other body of men in the world to
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spread science and genuine education. If the priests are deceiving
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people who were deceiving the thousands of priests themselves, or
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are the priests not deceived but an entirely dishonest body
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of men? And the person answers why did scientific study
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advance so rapidly after the Reformation? Was it not because
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the Catholic Church forbade it, and they answered no. Never
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was scientific study neglected by Catholics before the Reformation. In
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physical science, the inventions of instruments, and very many of
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them by Catholics has given us more data than men
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possessed prior to the Reformation. But this progress would have
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come in any case, rather than Reformation had occurred or not.
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It is due to the ordinary development of human thought.
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The Reformation had no more to do with it than
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the signing of the Magna Carta had to deal with
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the discovery of America. America was discovered after the signing
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of the Magne Karta, but not because of it. The
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invention of the printing press by Catholics contributed to more
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rapid diffusion of other men's findings and promoted study and progress.
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But even then, a Catholic invented the first printing press,
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not because he was a Catholic, but because he thought
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of it. Religion is not a factor in such matters.
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If a Christian became a pagan, and after that invented
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an excellent remedy for his indigestion, you would hardly trace
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the connection between that and his paganism. Oh, such a
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good point, and so relevant for today. You know, I
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have an issue with a certain Southern Baptist university that
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I attended where I became Catholic, and was essentially some
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merely asked to leave when I became Catholic. The head,
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the dean, I guess, with the school of Economics, is
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a man named Dave Brett. And I used to love
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Dave Brett. I supported him when he ran for office.
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I thought he was great. He has been presenting a
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very false view of economic history on a stow called
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Steve Bannon's war robe. Steve Bannon is a traditional Catholic
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and he should really know better. But apparently Bannon wasn't
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very well catechised. Brilliant guy in every other regard, and
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a faithful Catholic, but he defers to Brett, and Dave
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Bratt keeps saying that Protestantism led to the success Oh,
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what's the word, I'm searching for the general economic well
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being of Western European countries and America. That's actually that
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actually couldn't be further from the truth. Okay, I mean
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it's a complete line. It's a myth. The one of
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the first things that Martin Luther did, first of all,
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Martin Luther did not print up a bunch of Bibles
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and given to people, which is another thing. Dave Brett says,
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Martin Luther liberated the Bible. That's bs That is complete myth. Okay,
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the Bible has been read to people in all nations,
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in all languages from the beginning of Christianity, read by
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the priests to the people. Because for one thing, most
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of the people were illiterate. Universal literacy really hasn't even
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been accomplished to this day. But it was not even
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most people were not literate in fifteen hundred. Let's just
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put you know, pic a date right. Lutheranism began the
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late fourteen hundreds. Anglicanism the only fifteen hundreds. The so
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called liberation of the Bible was a book given to
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people who couldn't read it. Okay. Secondly, it was Gutenberg,
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the Catholic, who invented the printing press, and the first
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book he printed was a Catholic Bible. So again, Martin
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Luther had nothing to do with liberating the Bible for
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Christian people. He not only taught a lot of heresy
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and horrible evil things. He accused Jesus of being an adulter.
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He encouraged lying and theft and all kinds of sins.
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He encouraged people to sin in his own followers. He
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also encouraged the extermination of peasants, as he called them,
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and that was really useful for the princes that ran
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Germany and decided to call it a Lutheran nation. They
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got to confiscate all the churches, all the land held
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by the Catholic Church, which actually was quite good bit,
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but the property of all Catholic people, and then slaughter,
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wholesale slaughter they're poor, and so, yeah, the per capita
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income went up in Germany, didn't it. You just stole
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everything from people who had worked for it and passed
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it down from one family to another for fifteen hundred
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years and even further, because that family wealth and being
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gathered long before people became Christian. You stole it and
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then you killed everybody that was poor and then redistributed
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the wealth. That kind of sounds like communism to me.
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But you know, if that was just you know, Germany,
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we could say, well, you know, Martin Luther, he was
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a pretty damnably evil guy, actually, and we could accept that,
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and we could say, but you know, processism didn't follow
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that pattern. Actually it did. So Anglicanism starts in England.
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What do they do. First thing they do is take
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all Catholic churches, They take all Catholic monasteries, all the nunneries,
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all the Catholic hospitals, all the Catholic schools, confiscated slaughter
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than amongst priests and nuns. Then they went around and
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killed everybody in the country who was Catholic and took
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their property. A lot of those would be my family,
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the House of Wessex, the actual kings of England, like
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Richard the Lionhearted, or Edward the Confessor or Aerowith, and
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others whose names I can't pronounce, who fought and ruled
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England for a couple thousand years and owned thousands and
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thousands of acres and had all those big castles. Well,
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they killed them, they beheaded them, They stole their property,
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and they gave them to the Protestants, who were basically
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lower middle class. And so in terms of economics, boy,
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it looks like those Protestants were really doing good. Right,
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they again stole the property. And if you ever watched
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like a great Expectations, it's perfect example. You can see
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that the English did not in any way you have
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any appreciation or respect for tradesmen, anyone who worked with
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their hands, or even worked with their minds. If you worked,
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you were low class. The English nobility were they did
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nothing but play cards and fence a little bit and
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dance they I mean still to this day. I mean,
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you know, so called King Charles has probably never touched
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a pound note in his entire life. Money is considered,
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you know, low class. That really very much led to
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the Holocaust because in much of Europe, especially Germany, much
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of Europe, banking was considered to be like the lowest profession,
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and so Christians didn't Protestant Christians did not engage in
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finance or banking. Only Jews did. And so Jews loan
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money and they got their money back at a rate
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of interest. And so it was real easy for Nazis
33:07
and such to go overun and say the Jews are
33:09
stealing all your money. Think about it. There's actually a
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whole book written about how Martin Luther set the stage
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for the Holocaust. A lot of our anti Semitic ideas
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come from that. And I'm not saying they're all anocent,
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I mean, by any means, I mean, you know, the
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Rothschilds and such have certainly had their hands in a
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lot of nasty pies. But Protestants did not raise up
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the lower or middle or upper middle class. They did
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not celebrate the tradesman, the guy who made the barrels
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or the wagon wheels, or the blacksmith or whatever. They
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actually kept them from owning property. Our ancestors came to
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America for property. If they wanted to go somewhere for
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religious freedom, they could have stayed in England and been Protestants,
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so long as they didn't oppose the king. It was
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illegal to be Catholic in almost all of the American
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colonies except Maryland Somewhere a little more lenient Georgia would
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allow some men, you know, but you know, Massachusetts and
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North Carolina are two where it was illegal to be Catholic.
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Virginia is another one. The history that's being taught and
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the things that are being said by people who should
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know a whole lot better is nothing more than myths,
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Protestant mythology. And I just hope and pray to God
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that you know, the Internet being the Universal Library, will
34:45
now give people an opportunity to find out the truth
34:48
and people will come back to the Catholic Church. But
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it's really very interesting when you see a conservative economist
34:58
and his narrative of history is so false and so skewed,
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it actually kind of affects his reasoning the outcomes he
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comes up with when he's trying to predict what'll just say,
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predict economic outcomes, the results of policy. And then you
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put it together against like somebody like Robert Reich, a
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total socialist, I mean, a communist. Isn't it interesting that
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they both start out hating the Catholic Church, attributing to
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Protestantism and the so called Enlightenment all that's happened, that
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was for good? You think it's any coincidence that they
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often come up with similar so called solutions that often
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lead to horrible, horrible results. I don't. All right, So
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now let's get to Partner three of Christian perfection, in
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other words, how to become a saint. This is the
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special means for the attainment of perfection. He who aspires
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to a higher degree of perfection must follow the three
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Evangelical councils perfect obedience, perfect chastity, and voluntary poverty. How
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Unprotestant is that I wonder why are you where of
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the Protestant saints I'm not. I wonder why that might be?
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Perfect obedience, perpetual chastity, and voluntary poverty. These three virtues
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are called councils because they were not enjoined upon us
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by the Lord as a command, but as a council
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there or advice some of the words. There is no
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sin incurred in not following them. In other word, you
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don't have to take a vow of chastity, you don't
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have to take avout poverty. Those are the things you
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can do. You don't have to take a vow of obedience.
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Although Jesus said those who love me will keep my
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command commandments, we do have a responsibility to obey the
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word of God and his church that he established and
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gave the authority to speak in his stead. But you know,
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certainly free to marry, and that's your station in life.
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And you can make money, and you can give money
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to the poor, and you can employ people and hire
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people and do more good than someone who takes about
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poverty truly, and each person can become a saint. But
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because it's a lot easier to fall into the temptations
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of the world when you have money, that it is
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when you have none. Taking about poverty can help you
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become a saint more so than striving after large amounts
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of money. Again, that's probably something Dave Bratt would stand
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on his head and scream about if I had told
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him that was traditional Christian teaching. But I can go
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through the Bible chapter and verse and must not even
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get into obedience, because you know, Protestants are Protestants because
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they protest, they refuse to be obedient to God and
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his church. It benefits no, It befits the law of
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the New Testament to contain counsels as well as precepts,
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for in it God makes himself a friend of man,
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and in this character he does not command, but commend.
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The New law is a law of liberty the old law.
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When a servitude, by following the evangelical counsels, we offer
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an oblation to God of our will, our body, and
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our property. They are the three arms of the cross,
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on which is crucified, from which we are crucified with Christ.
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All of them is a lifelong martyred martyred him less
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terrible than that of the the sword, but more painful
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because of its duration. And I would not agree that
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it's more it's less terrible than that of the sword.
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I would been single now for since I became Catholic,
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because I can't seem to meet a Catholic woman who
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was between the ages of eighteen and eighty who's single.
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And I'd actually much rather be killed than continue to
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live as a single man. Yeah, So to you know,
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whatever benefit I get from my chastity, I take it
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unwillingly because this is not the station, the role, the
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vocation I chose in life. So I get no benefit
39:53
from it whatsoever, except that from offering up my suffering
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as penance. And do not think for a moment that
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it is not suffering. Loneliness is far more painful than
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most of the things that cause death. Those who follow
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these counsels will attain a higher degree of glory. That
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which is done voluntarily, not under compulsion, deserves a greater reward.
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And would that I could do things voluntarily. But from
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the earliest age, I actually just wanted to get married
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and have a family. I mean, other kids, you know,
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when they were five, thought girls were gross. Well, you know,
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I had crushes on every girl in school, and all
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I ever wanted to do was get married and have
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a family, and then I became Catholic. So I doubt
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you're going to find many people at Liberty University. They'll
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give up a wife and children to follow what they
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believed to be God will put that together with a
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vowel poverty, no wife, no kids, and no money. You
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won't have any Protestant ministers. Sorry if that offends you,
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but remember I used to be a Methodist youth minister.
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I actually have been in the Protestant ministry. Take away
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sex and money and just forget it. There will be
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no more Protestant church at all. It will die. It's
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really quite a miracle and quite a testament that the
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Catholic Church has existed for two thousand years in which
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priests have to take vows not to have sex and
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not you have money. That's superhuman, is what it is. Superhuman,
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all right. So perfect obedience consists in the complete subjection
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of one's will to that of superior This is also
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very much denied by Protestants, especially in America. But okay,
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Christian obedience that is obedience to the ecclesiastical and secular authorities,
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and secular authorities believe it or not, is binding upon
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every man. What does that mean? Yeah, that means even
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my ancestors who fought in the American Revolution were told
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in the Bible, told by God to obey the King,
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not to rebel against him. Ah, that just shakes the
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foundation of our every belief, doesn't it. I would say
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that because King Henry rebelled against Catholic Church, that because
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the English government rebelled against the will of God, our
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ancestors had a duty to rebel against him my opinion.
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But how can any Protestants say that? How do the
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Bible says, obey your rulers? How does a Protestant justify
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the American Revolution? I've heard one again, one of these
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Protestant so called historians saying that our founders followed the
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Old Testament, saying that there should be no king but God.
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But the New Testament. Jesus and all the apostles keep saying,
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obey get rendered to Caesar. What Caesar's obey the king?
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They have no leg to stand on, none at all.
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What they are actually following is the teaching of the
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Masonic Order, not any Christian teaching. But this obligation does
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not extend all of our actions. It leaves us free
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in many respects. For instance, the spiritual authority requires us
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to hear Mass on Sunday and Holy Days, another thing
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Protestants don't believe in to approach the sacraments at Easter
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they don't believe in the Sacraments, etc. But it leaves
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us at liberty to fulfill our duty. In what church
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and at what hour will we please? Perfect obedience, on
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the contrary, requires us to obey in everything, the voluntary obedience.
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This voluntary obedience is the greatest sacrifice we can make
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for God. If we fast, gives, give alms, or sacrifice
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our reputation for God's sake. We give to God only
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a part of ourselves. But he who sacrifices his will
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has nothing more to give. He emoliates himself to God.
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That means burns up. Obedience to a superior is neither
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a rational nor degrading demand, for he subjects himself voluntarily, wants,
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and forever to the will of one who is placed
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over him by the will of the almighty, the Almighty God.
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He is like a traveler who unquestionably proceeds to the
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direction in the direction to which the sign postpoint. Oh
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gosh I haven't choked here, sip something here, all right.
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It is a difficult matter to know one's self, but
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is an easy matter for another one to know and
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guide one. So here's the thing. When someone takes holy orders,
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priest none, they submit themselves to the authority of their
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religious superiors at that point. Essentially, so long as they're
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following orders, As long as they're following direction, they can't
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actually sin because they're not exercising their own will. Now,
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of course they could do things, you know, outside of
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that realm. But that's the reason that obedience is one
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of the easiest ways to get to heaven because you
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have just said, okay, not my will, but thine, and
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you know it. Christ is the head of the church.
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So when you're saying, I'm not going to do a
45:49
thing on my own, but I'm just going to obey
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the bishop, I'm not going to do a thing on
45:53
my own, and I'm just going to obey Mother's superior
45:55
or whatever, it really does take away a lot of
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the proclivity to sin, the ability to sin, and the
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consequences because that superior actually will be held accountable if
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they told you to do the wrong thing in obedience,
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if you are being obedient because you believe that it's
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the will of God for you to obey this person.
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You actually have no responsibility whatsoever unless they tell you
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to do something that's obviously and absolutely sinful, you know,
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and presumably that's not going to happen. Now, if it did,
46:33
you would have the responsibility to resist. But very very
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very rarely does happen. I know it does happen sometimes,
46:47
but very very very very rarely. And even then, if
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you obeyed their orders, you really couldn't be held accountable
46:55
because you know, God says to obey your masters. You
47:02
could just I mean, you wouldn't have to justify anything
47:05
you obeyed and God told you to obey. Yeah, so anyway,
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that one is impossible for me. I am not capable
47:17
of obedience. Again, I'm an Irish rebel by nature. I'm
47:22
a Southerner by nature. I chafe at every direction. There's
47:27
no way. So yeah, that's why I'm not one of
47:32
the main many reasons I'm not cut out to be
47:34
a priest. People say, oh, you're, you know, forty seven
47:37
years old, you ought to be a priest, And I'm like,
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I'd be the worst priest on the face of the earth.
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I'm not. God didn't call me to that, and I
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can't do it. Blessed are those who can. Another reason
47:50
is of chastity. Again, I am trying my best to
47:55
be a good faithful Catholic. That does not mean I
47:59
take on the all of chastity willingly in any way,
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she or form. But there are those who do. Again
48:08
pre smokes, nuns, and some in the laity, some you know,
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widows and widowers. There are, you know, blessed Virgin Mary
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took a vow of chastity before she was even fourteen
48:20
years old. That's why it says in the Bible, you know,
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how can I as I have not known a man
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at Actually the words in I guess Aramaic where will not? Cannot?
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You know? Not just have not? But anyway, life on
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chastity consists in abstaining from marriage and from all unclean desires.
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The sixth commandment of the Decalogue's ten Commandments obliges everyone
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to subdue his evil concupiscences, tendency to do wrong. That's
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what concupiscence mean. The Council requires those who follow up
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it to abstain from weblock they lead on earth. An
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angel's life. In fact, in this respect, man surpasses the
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angels in excellence for the latter who have no cardinal
49:05
impulse to combat. The Council of Trent declares the single
49:09
state to be higher than the married state. It is
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therefore better to be unmarried First Corinthians seven point thirty eight. Yeah,
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the Bible actually says that. Again, Protestants don't like that,
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But the Bible actually says that the reason the reason
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is that the reason it is therefore better to be
49:30
unmarried is because of the conjugal intercourse falters a man's
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lower nature and the care of providing for a family
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engrosses him in material interests. And I think that's probably
49:45
the more important of the two points. I mean, obviously,
49:48
you know, promiscuity, pornography, all that are huge impediments to
49:57
getting to Heaven, to being a good Christian. But Protestants
50:02
say their ministers can marry, and a minister of God,
50:07
a priest is the father, essentially the father figure to
50:12
all members of his parish. He has to be, at
50:16
any moment of the day or night, ready to get
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up and go to a hospital bed. He has to
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be able to help the poor. He has to be
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a counsel people, and when someone marries, their first duties
50:27
to their family. A Protestant minister's first duty is to
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his family and then to his church. Again, I worked
50:37
in Protestant ministry. You would not believe. You would not believe,
50:44
even being a youth minister, how much time and effort
50:51
that role requires. There is absolutely no way a married
50:58
priest could fulfill the role of the priesthood as intended.
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It's not possible, and I never knew a married minister
51:08
who didn't. How should I say it? A lot of
51:15
I'm trying real hard all I'm failed. I failed myself
51:19
as a single man. It was just impossible to be
51:23
all things to all people. I think, as Saint Paul said,
51:28
But yeah, a celibate priest really can devote himself to
51:33
his congregation. There's no way. There's absolutely no way a
51:37
married priest could do that. You know, and not all
51:41
Catholic rights require celibacy of their priests. Some do allow
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married priests. There is no way one could be as
51:50
devoted to his church family as they call it in Protestantism,
51:55
as to his natural family. Absolutely not. Loyalties of people
52:03
needing you at different times, the necessity. To provide financially
52:09
is impossible. It just truly is impossible. So point three
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is voluntary poverty, consistent and renunciation of all earthly possessions.
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To give everyone's own to the needy is a bound
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and duty of all. We are all supposed to provide
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for the poor. But it is immeasurably greater sacrifice if,
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for the love of God we renounce all earthly possessions
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and voluntarily embrace poverty, to which many hardships are attached.
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The voluntary poverty of Christians bears no resemblance to the
52:41
voluntary poverty of pagan philosophers. The latter despised riches from
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earthly considerations they wish to be quit of the cares
52:52
of attending to them. The Christian, on the other hand,
52:55
makes himself poor in order to serve God better, and
52:58
thus attains more surely the possession of eternal treasures. There
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is besides and in voluntary poverty, when a man is destitute,
53:07
or in straitened or poor circumstances. Again, there is a
53:12
poverty of spirit which is required from all men. It
53:15
consists in acknowledging that whatever wealth, distinctions, or learning, we
53:19
may possess. We are very poor in the sight of God.
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But now we are speaking of voluntary poverty, for he
53:26
who is poor for Christ's sake is exceedingly rich. According
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to Saint Jerome, these three councils are called evangelical councils
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because our Lord gave them to us when he preached
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the Gospel, and he followed them himself. Our Lord counseled
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perfect obedience in his conversation with the rich young man,
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perpetual chastity, in his discourse on the indissolubility of marriage,
53:49
voluntary poverty. In the aforementioned conversation with the rich young man,
53:53
we read that Christ said to the rich young man,
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come and follow me Matthew nineteen twenty one. I e.
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Come and let your conduct be guided by me completely.
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This is perfect obedience. And when he was speaking about
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the indsolubility of marriage, he said that there were some
54:11
who remained unmarried for the Kingdom of Heaven's sake, adding
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he that can take it, let him take it. Matthew
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nineteen twelve. Actually I like that translations to the Dewey raems.
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It's a little bit more strong than what we usually hear.
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He who can hear this, Let him hear it. He
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who can take it, let him take it. Yeah, that's
54:33
a little more accurate. By these words. Be counseled perpetual chastity. Finally,
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he said to the young man, if thou wilt be perfect,
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go sell what thou hast and give it to the
54:44
poor Matthew nineteen twenty one. This was voluntary poverty. Our
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Lord himself practiced the councils, for he saw it not
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his own will, but the will of him who sent
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him John five point thirty. He led a life of
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celibacy and extreme poverty. The poverty of the Christian was
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the poverty of Christ was perfect. He chose a stable
55:05
for his birthplace, a poor virgin for his mother, a
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lothly artisan for his father. He had nowhere to lay
55:11
his head Matthew eight twenty. And it's actually the artisan
55:16
who was despised by the English and the English Anglicans
55:20
and the German Lutherans. And you work with your hands,
55:24
you were low class. The evangelical councils lead to higher
55:29
profession because they are by their means the three evil concupiscances,
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because by the evangelical councils lead to a higher perfection,
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because by their means, the three evil concupisances in man concupiscences,
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tendency to do wrong, desire to sin essentially are completely destroyed,
55:51
and the chief obstacles in the way of his salvation
55:54
are removed. In following the evangelical councils, we do cannot
55:58
combat this or that evil tenant. See, we tear up
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all bad passions by the root and lay a solid
56:04
foundation for the evidence for the edifice of virtue, edifice
56:08
or building a virtue. All sins spring from the threefold
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concupants concupiscence that's a hard word for me, the concupiscence
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of the eyes, the concupiscence of the flesh, and the
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pride of life, i e. The inordinate longing for riches,
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essensual gratifications, and for honor. And that's first John two sixteen.
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As in medicine, some remedies are drastic and others are mild.
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So it is with the remedies for these evil concupiscences.
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Prayer is a curse for pride, fasting for sensuality, and
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almsgiving for avarice. These are mild remedies. But let him
56:51
who desires a radical cure, adopt the three evangelical councils.
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By obedience, pride would be thoroughly subdued, concupiscence of the
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flesh by chastity, and concupiscence of the eyes by poverty.
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The councils are a means of removing the chief obstacles
57:09
in the way of our salvation. By following them, we
57:12
shake off the fetters of the earth, and thus advance
57:15
more swiftly towards our final end. That earthly possessions our
57:21
a formidable hindrance to those who had followed Christ. We
57:24
gather from the story of the rich young Man in
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Matthew nineteen Socrates and compares riches to a long road
57:31
which prevents one from walking quickly because one's feet get
57:35
entangled in it. The traveler proceeds on his way much
57:37
more rapidly if he has nothing to carry. What is
57:40
said about riches is equally true in reference to wedlock.
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He that marries is solicitous for the things of this world,
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that he may please man. He that is unmarried, as
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solicitous for the things that belong to the world, how
57:55
he may please God. First Corinthians seven thirty two. One
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of those verses. Protestants like to ignore. He who is
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detached from earthly things can fix his eyes on heaven
58:06
and contemplate the Son of Justice with unclouded vision, and
58:10
gain a more profound knowledge of the divine things. Let
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no one say that the wealthy can do more good
58:16
to his fellow man and gain merit than one who
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embraces voluntary poverty. The former gives but a part, the
58:22
latter gives the whole. And consider it that immense good
58:26
that has been done in spite of their poverty by
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those who have given up all. The evangelical councils, however,
58:34
are not in themselves perfection. They are but a means
58:37
toward attainment, like the old Buddhists saying, actually that a
58:42
wise word is like a finger pointed to the moon.
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If you look at the finger, you're not gaining the point.
58:48
You're supposed to follow the finger and look at the moon. Anyway,
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the highest perfection is the highest degree of charity towards God.
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To adopt these councils does not make a man perfect,
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for it is possible to pledge one's self solemnly to
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do something, and then not to fulfill one's promise. A
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certain man sent his two sons to work in the vineyard,
59:08
and one said I will not, But afterwards, being moved
59:10
with repentance, he went. The other one said I go,
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and he went not. Matthew twenty one twenty through thirty.
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There are many in a state of perfection who are
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very much the reverse of perfect that is very true.
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And those who profess the following. Shall I name a
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couple of bishops. Yeah, if you come to mind, don't
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they what happens to be in DC right now? And
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those who profess profess to follow the councils and yet
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give way to the love of eating, to anger, to avarice,
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love of ease or other sins are all the more culpable,
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just as a messenger who would, although he had no
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way to carry dallied on his way and made no
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attempt to reach his destination. Not everyone is called of
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God to follow evangelical counsels. Thank God, I am not
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because I cannot do it. Okay, no way. My nature
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is not one of obedience I will, you know, no way.
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And and there's never been voluntary chastity for me. As
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far as poverty, I don't much care about money. Honestly,
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that's you know. Now that you know what I'm not.
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I'm gonna not even say it, but I am not
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good with this stuff. Not everyone is called of God
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to follow the evangelical counsels. For our Lord said all
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men take not this word, but they to whom it
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is given Matthew nineteen eleven. Those are called to whom
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God gives the desire of this grace, and who are
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ready to make every effort to obtain it. Let not
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those who are not called follow them. Let those who
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are not called to follow them hold the evangelical counsels
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in contempt. If the ring does not fit thy finger,
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said Saint Francis to sell, Saint prests to sell. Do not,
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on that account cast it into the mere. The members
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of religious orders are bound to follow the evangelical councils,
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and likewise all persons living in the world who have
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taken a vow to do so. A servant has to
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serve his master by reason of duties he has taken
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upon himself. So the religious is bound to strive after
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the highest perfection by following the councils by reason of
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the vowels he has made. The religious orders originate. In
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this wise, Saint Anthony the Great assembled around him the
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feebald fee Bayd. I don't know thh b aid number
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of disciples who live separately in cells and occupied themselves
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with prayer and manual work, and followed the evangelical councils.
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Saint Pacimus in three point forty eight collected these ank
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writes under one roof and gave them a fixed rule.
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Thus the first cloister was established upon an island near
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the mouth of the Nile. The monastic life was introduced
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to the Palestine and in Syria by the abbot Hilarion,
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whose disciples numbered some three thousand, well, and into Asia
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Minor by Saint Basil or Basil in three seventy nine.
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A d well he was art Bishop of Cesarea. For
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some reason, I thought he was a few hundred years later.
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That's interesting. Saint Martin, Bishop of Tours, and Saint Benedict
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were the founders of monasticism in the West and the
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fifth and sixth centuries. Thus the orders arose from men
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and women communities who led a regular life in accordance
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with the teachings of Christ. The men were called monks
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from the Greek Monachoi monachoe I don't know, and Hermit's
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and the Women's noun ZII Virgins. The principal orders of
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Franciscans founded by Saint Francis in twelve twenty six, the
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Dominicans by Saint dominic in twelve sixteen, the Jesuits by
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Saint Ignatius of Loyoila in fifteen fifty six, the Order
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of Mercy by Saint John of God in fifteen fifty,
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the Lazarus by Saint Vincent de Paul in sixteen sixty,
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and the Redemptorous by Saint Alfonsis Liguri in seventeen eighty seven,
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besides many others. Each order has its special mission, the
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care of the sick, the instruction of the youth, Foreign missions,
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et cetera. Religious are under the obligation of romanium one
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place either a particular house or monastery, or part of
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a house kind of enclosure. These are all subject of
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a superior who has generally elected, who is generally acted
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for three years. Each order has a habit particular to itself.
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At Mission to the order is by profession ie taking
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the vows previously previous to being professed. The navitiate of
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at least one year has to be passed through. Navichiat
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I probably pronounced that the religious orders are very numerous
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and at the present time, and when he wrote this,
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they had actually been outlawed in Germany. Remember the whole
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religious freedom thing. Well, they were outlawed in Germany, and
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they are property confiscated, the monasteries taken, the nunnery's taken,
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and that, yeah, that made some of those people kind
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of wealthy, didn't it, mister Bratt. It is an act
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of tyranny on the part of the state to forbid,
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forbid community life. It is depriving subjects of their natural right. Besides,
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and this is eighteen nineties, by the way, Okay, surely
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mister Bratt ought to know what happened barely one hundred
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and fifty years ago. Not even that, what is it
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one hundred and thirties, It doesn't matter. It is an
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active tyranny on the part of the state to forbid
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community life. It is depriving subjects of their natural rights. Besides,
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the religious orders are not merely an ornament of the church.
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They are an essential part of the church commonwealth. The
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suppression of religious orders by second powers is a mutilation
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of the body corporate. The religious state affords more security
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of salvation than a secular life. The means of grace
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can be employed more easily, more regularly. The religious or
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safeguarded from many occasions of sin, which cannot be avoided
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in this world, through the supervision of superior also by
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the habit they wear. Yeah, when you see a nun,
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you know it's a nun, and you're not going to
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go ask her for a date, right, I mean yeah.
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But those who do not live up to their religious
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profession nor keep the vowels, fall into a disorderly life
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and go swiftly to perdition or hell. Actually it is
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a mortal sin not to keep the vowels. This causes
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Saint Augustine to say, as I have never met with
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a better man than a really good monk. So I
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have never seen a more wicked man upon earth than
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a bad religious Most of the orders have, as history proves,
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done work for humanity, especially by works of mercy and
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encouraging of learning, And this is really important. The Benedictines
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in the Middle Ages, he says, cut down the primeval
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forest and cultivated the untilled soil. Essentially the Benedictine monks
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taught people how to farm and raised everyone out of
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poverty and starvation. I mean literally, you owe your grocery
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store and your produce, your garden vegetables to the Benedictines.
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The contemplative orders also contributed much to the furtherance of
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godliness and piety by their valuable writings. All the monastic
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houses were noted for their liberality to the poor, giving
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to the poor. It cannot be denied that in some
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conventional houses in the Middle Ages, laxity and self indulgent prevailed,
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but on these the scourge of God fell. Persons living
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in the world often take a valve chastity. Remember the
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example of Saint Agnes. She suffered torture and martyrdom rather
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than break her veil by marrying the son of the proconsul.
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The other two evangelical councils are not suited for people
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who live in this world. The secular clergy are pledged
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to obey their bishop and lead a life of celibacy.
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The secular clergy are bound to obey their bishop. This
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obligation is imposed on them when they are admitted to
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the subdiaconate, as also the obligation of reciting the Breviary.
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The celibacy of the clergy was made obligatory the Synod
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of Elvira in three to six three six Shaw, before
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the Bible was even published. During the first three centuries,
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there was no need of this law because priests voluntarily
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abjured marriage out of respect for the sacredness of their office.
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Only at times when the lack of priests was most
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keenly felt were married men admitted to the priesthood, But
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after ordination no one was permitted to marry. Only in
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isolated and very rare instances for weighty reasons. Has the
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pope been known to dispense priests from their vow and
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then they had to give up their benefici benefices, benefices
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and were debarred from all exercise of their sacridental function.
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Yet they were required to recite the brever Bread the
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area until death. In the Middle Ages, Pope Gregory the
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seventh made a determined stand against the marriage of priests,
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prohibiting those that had wives from performing any ministerial work.
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The Council of Trent declared marriage of priests to be invalid.
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The apostles, after their vocations, left all they had the
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great prophets Elias, Celesius, Jeremiah, Saint John the Baptist lived
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to celibate life. A parish priest must devote himself wholly
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to the salvation of souls. He must administer the sacraments
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to the sick at the risk of his life. He
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must assist the poor, admonish his flock, and offer the
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holy sacrifice of the Mass with a pure heart. And
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we'll wrap that up there. But I mean, you think
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about in past times, well even recent times with COVID
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and such. But you think about like when smallpox epidemics,
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priests had to go give last rites and expose themselves
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to those diseases. A married man cannot do that because
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he'd be bringing those germs viruses back to his family
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and infecting them. Out of conscience, he couldn't do it. Therefore,
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it is better for a priest, a minister of God,
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to be celibate. And yeah, Protestants hate that because Protestantism
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is Wow, think about every scandal you've ever had heard of,
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every Protestant minister, it wasn't it about money and sex?
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Yeah it was. Sorry, but y'all aren't real priests. And
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I can give you a lot of reasons why. That
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is a lot of reasons, and uh huh some of
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y'all aren't very good economists either, But I'll leave it there.
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You'll have a good one. I dogg you next time.