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Show 138: Church and State · The Uncensored Catholic

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The f A. Hey, y'all, welcome to today's show. We'll pick
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back up with our series on the father Sparago's exhaustive explanation of the Catechism the
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Catholic Church. We're going to do a really interesting topic. It's a relationship
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between the Church and state, which is, you know, a perennial perennial
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issue, we might say. But first we'll start with radio replies that classic
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book from the forties. The questioner asks of the two priests, what is
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your attitude toward John Wesley? And they say Wesley was a good and sincere
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man, but he was mistaken in his notion of Christianity. It was evil
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that he should have created a further sect gap, because he and his followers
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were sincere. God bless their goodwill and many things, drawing good work,
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good from their work, in spite of the undoubted evil of preaching erroneous doctrines
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as if they were indeed the true doctrines of Christ. Meanwhile, God wills
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for Wesleyans the greater goods still over returned to the cat the church. I
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think it's very well put. I mean, you may remember I was a
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Methodist youth minister for a time, and I would certainly say that especially most
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of the old folks of that church had a sincere faith, a complete ignorance
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of Catholicism and its doctrines, often quite a bias toward Catholicism and its doctrines,
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often quite a bias toward Baptist And you know, the both churches had
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their own baseball team and were quite very much the rivals. That could get
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pretty heated. But yeah, Methodism comes from Wesleyanism, and yeah, I
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mean you can't doubt those people's faith. You know, you're judged by what
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you know and understand. Catholics are judged much more harshly because we have the
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fullness of the truth they aren't. Yeah, was it fair? Well,
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imagine the parables. Jesus was telling to the Jews that what they the religion
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given to them by God through abra Ham and Moses, was going to be
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taken away from them and given to the gentiles. Was that fair? Was
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it fair? When? Well, we could go on down that road.
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I mean they're parallels to you know, trading the inheritance for a pot of
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a bowl of lentils essentially a mess of pottage. Or was it Esau's yeah,
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inherits being taken away, and then by Isaac and Ishmael, what was
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rightfully due the older brothers given to the younger brother I mean and over and
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over. I mean we just see this over and over. I mean,
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there're you know, there's these are types in the Bible, in the Old
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Testament explaining exactly what would happen when you know, approximately half the Jews rejected
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Jesus, about half did convert, but their gift of being God's chosen people
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was then given to the Catholic Church, which becomes the New Jerusalem, the
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new religion. Before they were exclusive, what they had was taken away.
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You know, you know, they can still have a relationship with God again.
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People are judged by their understanding, but they would have been had a
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much surer and easier past salvation had they become Christian, accepted Jesus's the Messiah.
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You know they are well, you can read the Catechism. You can
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see what various religions, how close they are in union in one yeah,
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in union with the Catholic Church. I mean they're not in full communion,
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but you know, I guess it was Saint Augustine said all salvation comes through
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the Catholic Church. Before you know, the Bible said salvation comes through the
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Jews that was taken and given to the Catholic Church founded by Jesus. The
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new Church, the new religion, the new people of God, the new
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Jerusalem, the shining city set upon a hill. And yeah, I'm sorry,
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much as I loved Round Reagan, as much as I really like Steve
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Bannon's show, America is not the new Jerusalem. The Catholic Church is the
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new Jerusalem. America needs God. God does not need America. If America
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abandons God, it will fall like every empire before it. Only one institution
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has existed for two thousand years, and that's the one founded by Jesus Christ,
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the one Holy, Catholic, Apostolic, one Holy. I'm get it
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out. Let's think, let's get the Catholic Church. So the next question,
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they say, the Baptist Church is the true church. It really acts
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as did the first Christians. Whilst the Catholic Church is not mentioned in scriptures
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as the true church, a lot of Babtists really believe that too. The
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Baptist Church is certainly not mentioned in scriptures. The Catholic Church is most clearly
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described there. Meantime, do Baptist act as did the first Christians? Do
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they go to confession? Have they the sacrifice of the mass? Baptists,
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like other Protestants, insist on one thing not commanded by Christ, and neglect
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most of the things insisted upon by him. Also, Christ said that his
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church would be in the world all days from his time and to the end
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of the world. But where was the Baptist church before the fifteenth century.
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Christ certainly was not the founder of the Baptist Church. It is subject to
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all the defects common to the other forms of Protestantism. And if you thought
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that one was kind of ridiculous, how about this one? The next question.
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I'm going to leave it with that one. Just three there from this
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book today, whatever you may say of other churches, you will never be
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able to prove that the seven day Adventists are wrong. Whilst we remain true
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to the Bible seven day adverage from the one that say, every Christian that
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worships on Sundays worshiping the devil and going to Hell, and they're the only
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ones going to heaven because they still worship on the Jewish Sabbath. I say,
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if you were true to the Bible, no one could prove you wrong.
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But you are most unbiblical. Your very system leaves you without any real
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proof that the Bible is the inspired word of God. It cannot say what
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is It cannot say what is the real sense of all that is contained in
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the Bible. It concentrates upon a few misinterpreted texts, and it ignores that
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the whole trend of scripture. Although all scripture is of equal value as God's
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word, the Catholic Church alone can guarantee scripture as the word of God,
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and alone can guarantee its correct meaning. Well, let's put that in other
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words, I always like to do that. In other words, the Catholic
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Church gave us the Bible. Catholic Church decided which Jewish scriptures would be comprised
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the Old Testament. The apostles wrote, or really more dictated the books of
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the New Testament. The apostles decided, you know what would be acts I
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mean, from Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John to the Revelation of
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Saint John, Books of Peter, the Letters of Saint Paul. The Catholic
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Church gave us all of that. There's no Bible except the Bible that comes
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from the Catholic Church. Their false scriptures, like the Gnostic so called doctrines
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a gospels I mean, which were they were heresies. They were condemned in
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the early centuries of the Church. They were fictitious faults and actually made up
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by the man described in Well at least inspired by the man described in the
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Acts as Simon the Magician, the one who wanted to buy the Holy Spirit
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and had had nothing to do with the with the Church. He went on,
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gosh, where did he go? Samaria maybe seems like, called himself
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Jesus and started a cult, and they started to write false, false gospels
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called the Gnostic Gospels. There they're fictitious, erroneous and evil and they have
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you know, they can't even be compared with holy scripture. But the Catholic
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Church that gives us the Bible can also guarantee the Bible, because Jesus said,
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those who hear you hear me, and those who reject you reject him
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who sent me. Without the Catholic Church one, you have no Bible,
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I mean. Protestantism only got started in the fifteen hundreds when Luther started stripping
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out books from the Bible he didn't like and changing the words of Jesus.
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So every Protestant Bible is a false Bible. Maybe not quite as bad as
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the Gnostic scriptures. But if you've got the King James version, or I
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don't even know the Good News New Day, whatever the Bible of the day
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is, if it doesn't contain all the books in the Catholic Bible, if
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it doesn't contain the words as written in the bibliosacrovoic Goda. When Saint Jerome
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translated all the books of the Bible into Latin and the three hundreds, you
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know they've been in Greek and something's in Hebrew, and all that he put
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them into a cohesive volume meant three hundreds. Just imagine that the only Christian
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Church on earth, the Catholic Church, had no Bible for about three hundred
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years. So you can't say that all Christianity is based on the Bible.
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Solo scripture of the Bible alone is the sole authority, because there wasn't a
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Bible. But where does the Bible get us authority? How do you know
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it's real in the Word of God that comes from the Catholic Church. So
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for a seven day Adventists say they're true to the Bible. One, they
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don't have a real Bible. Two, they have no reason to actually believe
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the Bible because they don't have the authority of the Church. How do they
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know that it's any better than the Gnostic Gospels so called or the Book of
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Mormon. That would be probably an even better example, because the Mormons came
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about just before the Adventists. Why aren't the Adventist, you know, following
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the Mormons because at some point their grandparents, their great great great grandparents,
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were Catholic and gave them that deposit of the faith which comes through the Catholic
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Church. When a Baptist usually boasts that they only believe in that, I
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think it's the sixty six books of the King James Bible, they're admitting they
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don't have a complete Bible. I mean, if they knew what they were
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saying, they would realize they're saying, Hey, I only believe in this
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fake, fraudulent, counterfeit Bible. That doesn't give me the fullness of the
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truth, not the actual Bible, not what Jesus said, not what the
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apostles wrote, what Martin Luther thought was right as then interpreted by some English
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folks who knew the King James Bible. That's when it says authorized version,
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it just means it's the official Bible the Church of England. And I'm sorry,
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my ancestors fought at least two wars to get away from the Church of
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England and British rule. Why in the world would that give me credibility to
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it? For me, it doesn't at all. And my Irish ancestors fought
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for centuries to get just to live free of being enslaved by the English.
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So I don't have a whole lot of respect for anyone other than the natural
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respect the dignity of a human being. But I don't have any respect for
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the argument that the King James Version is the only trustworthy, reliable Bible just
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because it's the Bible authorized by the Anglican Church. That's it's frankly, so
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historically ignorant. I mean, it's it's a childish argument. It's just stupid.
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I mean, it's one of those things that's so dumb it's hard to
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refute because you hand someone the actual facts and they won't believe them. They're
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going to believe that, you know, day is night and night is day,
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and the sky is I don't know, purple in the earth is blue
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whatever. The sky is green and the earth's blue. How's that. We'll
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go with opposites, all right. Now, let's get into the x an
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age of the Catechism from father s Charago. And this is interesting under the
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topic of the relations between the Church and state, the state might be defined
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as an institution having for its end the promotion of the temporal well being of
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its members. Church and state have similar ends in view, but the Church
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looks mainly to the eternal welfare of its members. Both have their power from
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God, the church holding hers from Christ, while the state receives its powers
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not from an assembly of men, but from God. There are various points
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of difference between church and state. You know, just what the Bible says.
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The Bible says you have to abate your political leaders not so much.
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But they're really talking more kings because the king was put there by God.
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It's another reason America is not really the new Jerusalem. God didn't actually authorize
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democracy as a constitutional republic. We were a little bit closer to how we
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should have been. But you know, God, basically it said to the
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Jews following me as your king, and when they want a different form of
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government, he chose for them a king. We as Catholics should look to
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the Catholic Church. In a perfect world, we would be ruled and governed
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by the Vatican. I'm not what we know what happened with the French Revolution.
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They absolutely never should have revolted against the King of France because that was
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the beginning of communism and so horrible and violent that streets ran knee deep in
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blood. Well, it's tricky when we get to like America, because I
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see the King of England revolted against the Catholic Church, supposedly forming his own
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religion, so he declared himself not just king, but essentially pope. Yeah,
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I could make a strong argument that he lost his authority to rule the
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people of England. But we as Americans probably would have been a heck of
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a lot better off if we had made George Washington king. You know,
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he actually, even though he was a Mason, and our nation was founded
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almost entirely by Masons, except for my ancestor Charles Carroll, the only Catholic.
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George Washington converted to Catholicism at the end of his life, we could
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have been under a Catholic king as opposed to losing our republic during the Civil
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War. Following the Civil War and the actions of Jackson and Lincoln cost us
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our republic, we ended up with a democracy. You know, in a
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democracy, three wolves vote to eat two sheep. Everybody gets a fair vote.
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Right, the might does not make right. The number of people on
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your side doesn't mean that you're going to make the right choice. And since
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the end of the eighteen hundreds, as America became a democracy and universal franchise
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became commonplace, I mean, it used to be that the only people that
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could vote were property owners, didn't matter if they were men, women.
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There were black people who voted who were property owners. After the Civil War
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they said all the slaves could vote whether they owned property or not. Then
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it was all women can vote, whether they owned property or not. And
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you may think that's right or wrong, but that's not the way our founders
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intended it. The property owners because they pay the taxes. There was no
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income tax at the time. That's also unconstitutional. We should never have had
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an income tax. Our founders actually said it was immoral to tax income property
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owners. Would vote for essentially their state legislator and their congressman. The state
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legislature would then vote for the senators, and the senators would choose the president.
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This country went a good long time without the people voting for a president.
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I know that would shock a lot of people if you don't know your
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history. But imagine if we had had a Catholic king in George Washington,
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the Masons would have have been sassinated. No, seriously, the Masons would
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have killed him. That is the fruit of the Protestant so called Reformation.
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You ended up with powerful anti Catholic organizations that were fostered by Protestant kings in
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England, Protestant rulers in Germany, Switzerland, go down the list. Italy
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it's led nothing to but to nothing but revolutions, Communist revolutions, world wars,
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and complete lack of stability and degradation of morality in the family. So
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just imagine anyway, that's a tangent, and you may think I'm totally wrong.
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I'm just conjecturing kind of about history. But it as proud as I
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am of my ancestors, she fought in the Revolution. I had many,
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not just the Irish English as well Scots Irish. Well, actually the Scottsirish
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actually were loyalists, so I can't blame the Scots Irish for it. Some
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of them did fight in the Revolution, some of them had sworn loyalty to
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England and could not. Native Americans fought against the English. Some of them
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here in North Carolina did up and up north it was different. They had
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sided with the English. But as proud as I am for them their valor,
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and as much as I could make the argument that you know, the
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King of England no longer had an authority because he was no longer part of
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Christendom. He had separated himself from the authority of God's Church. And you
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know, I'm going to be an Irish Republican rebel for always. I think
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the Irish absolutely should have fought against the English and never given up. Did
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it on the Scottish and the Welsh, etc. But I think I think
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the republican form of government as founded by our framers, and you know,
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a huge fan of Thomas Jefferson, so I'm not criticizing them at all,
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failed and was replaced by democracy in the late eighteen hundreds. And I'm not
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unless barring a miracle, I don't see America being around another century, falling
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apart from within. I mean, when artificial intelligence takes I was talking with
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economists just yesterday. When top economists in the world actually happens to be a
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friend of mine. This is someone he ran the economy of Morocco. He
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worked for David Rockefeller, he ran the Bankers Association. I mean, I
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could go down the list, worked in the Reagan administration. He's the guy
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that tells the Federal Reserve basically what to expect. And we were talking about
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artificial intelligence. I said, you know, what's going to happen when it
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takes fifty percent of the jobs. He said, no, that's a that's
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a very conservative estimate. He said, we're talking about like seventy seventy five
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eighty percent of jobs are going to be taken by artificial intelligence within the next
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twenty years. How scary is that, I said, I said so,
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I said, so, okay, then the only thing that we can do
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what we could expect. The first thing is a universal basic income. You
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know, people are going to be out of work and for our economy to
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keep going, for people to have money to spend it's going to send everybody
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a check and expect people just to be consumers, go out and buy goods
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to keep the economy going. And he said, yeah, but here's the
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problem. The same side of the political aisle, the liberal side that would
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encourage universal basic income, is also the one that wants open borders. And
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you can't have universal income and open borders. They're going to begin then advocating
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population control. All right, So this doesn't end well for us. This
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does not end well for us. Surprisingly, he didn't see China's as much
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of the threat as I do. He said that they were making the mistake
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of that the Soviet Union did, in that they were putting so much money
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into their military and being a communist system, it's a distributionist you know,
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just like basically, like I just described that they can only your economy is
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only getting to the point where it's only big enough to support about half the
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people. And he thinks China will collapse. I hope he's right that it
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collapses in time before we have a nuclear war. Dido Russia did Iran.
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He has a huge concern over Iran. We talked a lot about the Muslim
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Brotherhood, Muslim Brotherhood is very much allied with the Masonic Order. Masonic Order
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is not Christian. It doesn't believe in any religion. Therefore, supposedly all
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members of every religion can be part of it, except Catholics. Catholics are
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they hate Catholics. The Masonic Order has two goals stated goals, destroy the
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Catholic Church and topple all monarch monic monarchies, all kings. Now, they
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will accept Catholics, but they have to swear allegiance to the Masodic Order over
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God and his Church. Any Catholic it becomes a Mason is actually ipso fact
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so excommunicated. And you know, even Pope Francis had reiterate that recently Catholics
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are not allowed to become Freemasons. But anyway, yeah, we'd have probably
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been a whole lot better off if George Washington had become a king. Well,
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I went to school with his great great, great great I guess granddaughter
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by far, the most beautiful, delightful, intelligent woman I've ever known.
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I wasn't good enough for her, even though, well see I didn't know
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back then my heritage. I didn't know, you know, my family was
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in the d R and was descendant of a signer of the decoration. If
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I had known that, maybe we would have been in more social events together.
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You know, she just thought I was just a nice guy, but
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not really up to her level. Now she's been divorced three times, so
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I think she probably got maybe made a bad choice there, at least in
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my opinion. But no, if yeah, I do think a republic,
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a republican form of government, the republic we were founded to be, has
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not existed since I would say the Civil War. You could actually back it
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up a little bit, you know, Yeah, but definitely not since reconstruction,
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when you know, the entire system of voting was turned on its head.
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Yeah, so anyway, we'll get back to back to Father Spiago here.
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Oh, we had just explained that both the church and state have their
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power from God. Well, I don't actually think you can say that about
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say, communist China, for instance, an atheistic state. But you know,
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we have to remember that divine providence states that God allows all things to
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happen. Nothing happens outside of his will, so even things that are horribly
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evil he finds a way to use for good. But Father Sparago wrote this
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before there was a single truly communist government. He goes great length condemning communism.
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So it would have been interesting if he had been around after the Soviet
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the Bolshevik Revolution in Soviet Russia, so he could have explained, does you
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know does well, obviously God doesn't approve of this atheistic, communist, genocidal,
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murderous regime regime are and you know, later the Church would say that
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Catholics had no were not required to follow their godless laws and commands. I
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would have liked to have had a commentary on how Father Sparago reconciled these two
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ideals, but you have to remember it his time in the eighteen nineties,
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there were still mostly monarchies in the world, very few, I guess one
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or two republics, and America was still essentially a republic. I mean it
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was eighteen ninety it was transitioning into a democracy. But yeah, anyway,
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we'll just going on with it here. There are various points of difference between
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church and state. The Church is one, while states are many. The
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states include one or more nations. The Church embraces all the nations of the
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earth. States grow up and pass away, the Church remains forever. The
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Church recognizes every form of existing government. And see that's what I'm saying.
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I mean, in the eighteen nineties the Church could recognize every form of existing
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government. I'm not sure after the Communist revolution they could. And he goes
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on to say, the Church recognizes every form of existing government, for there
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is nothing in the various forms that contradicts Catholic teachings. Yeah, after communism
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there was, but communism is founded on atheism, and told people they had
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to recognize the Communist government is higher than the Church, and if they didn't,
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they be slaughtered and usually slaughtered him anyway. Hence Leo the thirteenth has
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frequently enjoyed enjoined on French monarchists to recognize and support the existing republic. Christ
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himself taught that what was Caesar should be given to Caesar, and of course
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that was a huge controversy with Napoleon, and Napoleon rebelled against the Church and
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they didn't end well for Napoleon. The church is in its own department,
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absolutely independent of the state, for Christ left the teaching and government of his
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church the apostles and their successors, not to any temporal sovereign. Hence,
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the state has no legal claim to dictate to Christians what they are to believe
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and reject, nor to instruct priests what they are to preach, nor how
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and when they are to give the sacrament same mass, et cetera, which
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communists you and now Canada does, and the European Union certainly moving in that
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direction such interference. So is America. Someone told me today, and I
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don't know if it's true or not, that they were going to pass laws
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that any Chick fil A attached to a gas station would have to be open
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on Sunday. That's clear violation of that Protestant company's religious beliefs. We'll see.
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I hope it's not true. You know, you don't get your chicken
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sandwich from Chick fil A on Sunday. Get over it, Get a freaking
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Hamburger. Such interference has always been resented by the Church. Thus Hassius in
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the Council of Nicea addressed the Roman Emperor when the latter was meddling in the
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affairs of matters of faith. Here, you have no right to dictate to
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us. It is rather your duty to follow our commands. The state,
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too, is in its own affairs independent of the Church. The power of
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the state, as well that of the Church, can is circumscribed by the
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limits within which it can work uncontrolled. That's quote from Poplio the thirteenth.
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There are many points, however, where these limits touch. Hence some mutual
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agreement is necessary in both sides. If contrary orders were given in the same
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manner, strife would arise, and the subject would not know where his duty
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lay. Between the two powers, there should be some such union as there
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is between the body and soul of man. Agreements between the state and church
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are frequent occurrence in history. They are called concordance concordats. These are often
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conspicuous proofs of the tender love of the Church in pushing her mildness and toleration
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as far as consistent is consistent with her duty. In other words, church
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compromises, usually more than the state. The Church is an essential factor in
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promoting the welfare of the state, for she teaches a beating it's to authority,
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prevents many crimes, incites men to noble endeavor, and unites together various
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nations. Plutarch speaks of religion forming a better protection for a city than its
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walls. The Church teaches that the civil authority has its power from God.
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That's Romans thirteen to one, and that even wicked rulers are to be obeyed.
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And that's first Peter, but surbayed so long as it doesn't contradict church
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teaching. So that's something you really have to point out there. We are
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not required to follow immoral orders or laws. You know, like in the
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Holocaust when a lot of Germans said we were just following orders when we rounded
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up the Jews and slaughtered them. No, that was though they should have
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said, no, we're not going to do that. That was their moral
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duty. They failed in their moral duty. How many sinners have been rescued
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by the Church and change into saints and benefactors of mankind. How many have
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been restrained from crime by the teaching of the Church or God's judgments. How
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much unjustly acquired property has been restored? And how many enemies reconciled? More
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than this, the Church teaches that salvation depends on works of mercy and makes
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a point of duty for her members to assist in their suffering, assists their
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suffering brethren. How many institutions for orphans for the sick, the blind,
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deaf, mutes, etc. Owe their foundation to the servants of the Church.
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Indeed the needy of the Church's first care. Moreover, the Church binds
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the nation together and bonds of brotherhood, both by a common profession of faith
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and by the precept of charity. Hence, it is, as far as
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possible, the priests of the hints. It is that, as far possible,
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the priests of the Church should keep aloof from all strife between nations.
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In consequence of all of this, all good rulers and states statesmen has supported
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the Church to the best of their power. Such was the policy of constanting
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the Great of Charlemagne, of Saint Stephen King of Hungary, Saint Winceslaus,
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King of Bohemia, love that name Winceslaus. Rulers who reject the Church saw
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at the branch which supports them saws and cut the people see them no longer
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the representatives of God, but merely the elected of the people, removable at
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the people's will. Exactly, the states which have persecuted the Church have always
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sooner or later experienced the evil results of so doing. And right now the
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Church is very persecuted in America, as it is in China, and as
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it is in Canada and many other places. And I don't think the order
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as we know it now is it really will be around much longer unless something
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miraculous change happens. Our Lord's words were very apt. Every kingdom divide against
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itself should be brought to desolation. Religion is to the state what the soul
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is to the body. The nation and the kingdom. That will not serve
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these shall perish. It's from Isaiah. The surest sign of a ruin in
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a state, right Smackavelli, is when religion is neglected. The fall of
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the Great Roman Empire and the horrors of the French Revolution may be traced to
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the same cause. Even Napoleon confessed that no nation could be governed without religion.
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The absence of religion means the introduction of crime. There is no knowledge
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of God in the land. Cursing and lying and killing, and theft and
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adultery have overflowed from Isaiah. I believe our prisons are filled with people,
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for the most part, neglect religion. And that's a pretty darn good description
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of America in twenty twenty four. As we've secularized most everything and almost all
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pretty much all, basically all religious morality has been done away with. We
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legalized divorce, normalized homosexuality, slaughter, children with impunity left has been legalized,
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in many cases encouraged. I could go down the list. The Church
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was from the earliest times the patron of true education and culture. It is
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to the answer of the Church to promote culture. Ignorance and immorality are usually
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close companions. The world is a book displaying the wisdom of God. The
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more we know of this book, the more we shall know of God,
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and the more we will love. The more will our love for Him be
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increased. Hence, it is the duty of the Church to encourage scientific research.
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It was Christianity which tamed the wild nations of Europe, civilizing them and
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making them the rulers of other peoples. Had the Church been established with the
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view of ministering to the temporal wants of man, it could not have conferred
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greater benefits than it has done. Is the judgment of Saint Augustine on the
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work of the Church. It was the Church which first charged yourself with the
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education of the young, and founded the first schools, the schools of the
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Monastery, Cathedral and perish in the time of Charlemagne owe their origin to the
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Church. Most of the universities of their existence to the Pope. Whole orders
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of religious such as Benedictines, Jesuits, Christian Brothers and others, devoted themselves
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to the education of the youth. The success of the Jesuits was acknowledged even
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by their enemies, and in spite of their suppression in seventeen seventy three Frederick
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of Prussia and Catherine of Russia, neither of them Catholics, retained them to
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instruct the youth of their kingdoms. It was the Church which rescued the works
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of antiquity from destruction. The monks of the Middle Ages transcribed the works of
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heathen philosophers and historians, thus preserving them to the posterity. The great libraries
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of the monasteries, as well as the museums and libraries of the popes,
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preserved many treasures. We might remark too, that the Benedictines have produced sixteen
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thousand authors, and the Jesuits, in their comparatively short existence twelve thousand.
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It's incredible. It was the Church which from early times raised the noblest buildings,
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such structures, for instance, as Saint Peter's in Rome, which was
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one hundred and ten years in building took one hundred and ten years to build,
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or the Cathedral Cologne, begun in twelve forty nine and finished in eighteen
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eighty. Not to mention the glorious structures to be seen all over the continent
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in Germany, France, Spain, and Italy. England is filled with magnificent
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buildings like Westminster, Lincoln, York, Durham, et cetera. Those were
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Catholic churches. That large prest portion of the finest edifices in the United States
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are Catholic church. I remember one time someone said, why are all the
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Catholic churches in England so ugly and the Anglican Church is so beautiful, And
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the person matters like, well, that's because they were all originally Catholic churches
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that were confiscated by the Anglican churches. It was a church which from the
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earliest time gave the greatest encouragement to the fine arts. We owe plane Chance
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Gregorian chant to Saint Ambrose, Bishop of Milan three ninety seven a d.
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Saint Gregory the Great six o four, and its developments to many other artists.
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It was the pope who encouraged men like Palestrina in fifteen ninety four.
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Twice in its history of the church resisted the iconoclass or image breaking movement,
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at Nicea in seven a seven at Trent in fifteen sixty three. Artists of
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worldwide fames such as Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael Michaelangelo, Carraggio, Canova,
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et Cetera, Correggio, Sorry Kronove, et cetera. Owed much of their
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success to the support of popes. It was the cloister which produced some of
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the finest artists in their works. It was the Church which made whole tracts
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of land fertile and habitable. The work of the Benedictines and Cistercians in way
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of clearing and draining land and developing agriculture, was especially conspicuous in the German
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forests. The same work has carried on in Savage countries now by Trappists and
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other orders. It is to pre some monks that we owe some of the
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greatest discoveries. The deacon Flavio i guess georg Giosia Gioja discovered the magnet and
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compass in thirteen hundred. Vite a monk in Areso, Areso I don't know,
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discovered the scale, the rules of music and harmony, The Dominican Spina,
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the use of spectacles, the Franciscan bertheled Schwartz. Gunpowder. Yes,
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gunpowder was invented by a Catholic monk, believe it or not, in thirteen
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hundred. Well, okay, it existed earlier in China. He figured out
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how to actually use his gunpowder. The Jesuit Kircher exhibited the first burning glass
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in sixteen forty six. I guess he means like a magnifying glass, you
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know, the way it can concentrate sunlight and make a flame. Copernicus canon
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of Froudberg discovered his famous system in fifteen oh seven. The ju A Cavalieri
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the components of white light in sixteen forty seven. The Spanish bigteen Conscious invented
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a method of teaching death mutes in fifteen seventy. The Jesuit Lana, a
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way of teaching the blind to read in sixteen eighty seven, and the Jesuit
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Secchi in eighteen seventy eight made many discoveries with regard to sunspots. Only lately
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the Dominican Calandoni invented a typesetter to replace the compositor. In other words,
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the beginnings of the typewriter. The enemies of the church are always airing or
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is crying her down as opposed to progress, enlightenment, and freedom, and
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it's absolutely not true. I would also add that it was the Jesuits who
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discovered quinine in Peru, and these days they don't seem to be up to
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much good, but at one time they were one of the greatest religious orders
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of the Church, and God willing they will reform quickly. Maybe the only
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hope for our nation is if the Jesuits become a forced for good instead of
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confusion. All Right, I'm gonna wrap it up there. I guess it's
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kind of been a mixed bag, hasn't it. I got a lot of
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concerns these days with what's going on in culture and society, and I'm not
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going to try to pretend I don't. But as I always say, we
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know how the story ends. Everybody running around a couple of weeks ago saying
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the eclipse was a sign of the end of the world. I'm like,
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no, no, it's just an astrological event. Don't buy into that.
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But it's definitely true that things have gotten a whole lot worse in the past
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century than they were the previous centuries. Under Christendom, under the rule of
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the Catholic Church, we had relative peace and prosperity for well over a thousand
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years fifteen hundred years, and then the religious wars began, really in Germany
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and such with Luther and then the divisions with the Anglicans and the English Empire
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enslaving the Irish and importing opium into China to try to take over China and
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really being pretty barbaric in Africa and India. Things started falling down. I
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mean, slavery was on its way out until the rise of the secular nation
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state that said it did not have to listen to the church. The Church
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was opposed to slavery. And then we get to the revolutions in France,
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when America and France, and then the Bolsheviks and more. You look at
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it, you do see the hand of the Masonic Order very much in all
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of this. But things really deteriorated dramatically in the nineteen hundreds of the World
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Wars and the Holocaust and the genocides in Ukraine and Russia, and abortion,
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legalized abortion on demand, homosexuality, normalized, just trans stuff, and now
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AI looming, and really the Muslim Brotherhood really rear in its head. Really,
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you know, I could go on, but we know how the story
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ends. The thing is, the end may be a very long way away.
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I always try to explain to people that are so sure this is the
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end of the world, the apocalypse is any day. In the Bible,
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we've seen many patterns. Remember I was talking about the types and the Old
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Testament that foreshadow of the New You know, God made the world in seven
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days, well, six days he rested on the Sabbath, right, He
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says in the Bible one day to God, this is a thousand years,
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and a thousand years is this one day? Well, you could make a
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very strong case that the new world following the resurrection of Jesus would come into
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like a six or seven day model, which would actually be six or seven
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thousand years. If that be the case, we're barely through the second day.
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This little world very likely has another you know, four or five thousand
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years to go in which things are only going to get worse. So take
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heart, the end is not near, and they're not as bad as things
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aren't as bad as they're going to get you. Everything goes in cycles.
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Generally, humanity works in forty year cycles. You go forty years toward the
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bad, then there's a pause. You never know exactly how long that pause
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is going to be. You know, it's like a pendulum swings to one
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side and it kind of pauses, then has a forty years swing back the
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other way. We are very much do the swing back the other way.
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God willing that will happen soon. I am hoping pray Donald Trump is elected
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and Biden is gone and his whole family prosecuted for their corruption. And I
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hope Trudeau's gone, and I can go down the list Macron and Putin certainly,
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and you know, I can go down the list of just horribly evil
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people that are running this country. And no, Donald Trump's no choir boy.
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He's not a saint. But remember God uses very flawed people for his
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purposes. And he got rid of rov Wade, which is something no supposedly
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pious religious Republican who promised it has ever done. The Bushes sure didn't do
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it. They didn't even try. Nixon didn't do it. Even Reagan,
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as good a man as wrong, and Reagan was, he didn't do it,
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you know. So anyway, the words of Saint Padre Pio, pray,
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hope and don't worry and y'all I will talk to you next time.
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Have a good one.