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Show 71: Keep my commandments · The Uncensored Catholic

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Hey, welcome to day's show. I am actually able to do two shows
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little in a row this week. I am let's said, I've still got
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the flu, but it's God willing. It's getting a little better every day.
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I think your Day's show will follow very well on the on yesterday's show.
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You know, sort of a similar thing yesterday's show is who do you
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believe that God is? Who do you say God is? If you believe
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that Jesus Christ is God? You really have a follow on question, or
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at least I do. I think everyone should. How many times in the
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Gospels does Jesus say something like, if you love me, you will keep
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my commandments? Why do you say that I am Lord? If you won't
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do what I tell you, many will say, Lord Lord, did we
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not prophesy your name? Did we not castide demons in your name? And
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I will say to them, I don't know if you be gone from me,
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you evil doers. If Jesus is God, and every word he says
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is by definition true, God cannot lie. God. Jesus is the word,
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the eternal word that spoke everything that is into existence. If Jesus says,
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do it, do it. If Jesus says this is true. Believe
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it. If you don't, you really can't say you believe that Jesus is
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Lord and God divide. That's the problem with the whole cafeteria Catholic mentality that
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you can take what you want and leave the rest. No, you can't.
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If Jesus is God, then what he said is true and you have
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to believe it. If you don't believe it, you're wilfully defying the will
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of God. You're you're sinning, and you know you're doing it, and
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you know, I really don't understand. I mean, the most basic Well,
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what's the first sacrament? Right, Baptism? The most basic tenant of
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Christian belief after accepting believing that Jesus Lord is baptism. And yet many,
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many Protestant denominations certainly say that baptism is just symbolic and unnecessary, and many
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many Catholics believe the same, even though we call it a sacrament. Most
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I would I don't know if this should say most, but I would probably
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say most Catholics in America do not believe in the sacrament of baptism. They
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see it as a symbolic initiation in Christianity. More of a ceremony, a
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little celebration you have after you've had a baby, and everybody comes around and
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their cards and gifts and you know all that. But that's not what Jesus
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said at all at all. And we're just you know, we'll touch we'll
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get into that. We hit a lot on a lot of points, but
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it all does center on who do you believe God is. If you think
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your opinion, your politics, your view of the world, your understanding of
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things is right, and the traditional Catholic teaching based on the very words of
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Christ, both in the Bible and has passed down through Apostolic tradition, Holy
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tradition through the Apostles of Christ, is wrong, then you're actually setting yourself
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up as your own God. And of course we can do this in many
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ways. I mean, anything we do that is sinful is saying, well,
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I either know better than God or my wants supersede the commands of God.
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But on something as basic as baptism, which is the initiation of the
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Christian into the Church, the very fundamental sacrament, to deny it, which
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many Catholics do, unfortunately, and most Protestants do unfortunately, that doesn't really
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honor Jesus as Lord, as God. How can you believe that Jesus is
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God and not do what he said and believe his words. No, there
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are many much harder teachings. You get to a hard teaching. How of
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the Eucharist Jesus said, truly, I say you will eat of my body
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and drink of my blood. Truly, this bread is my body and this
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wine is my blood. And if you do, If you don't eat it
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and drink it, you have no life in you. Only the Catholic Church
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teaches that when the priest consecrates the bread and wine, it becomes a spiritual
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body and blood of Christ. No Protestant denomination claims to have that power or
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believes the words of Jesus Christ in the sacrament of the Eucharist that he said
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not only in every Gospel, but he said it was much such power and
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force that like ninety five percent of his followers, all the Jews who thought
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he was going to be the Messiah left and thought he was a lunatic,
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because they can only see him as saying, you will eat my body and
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drink my blood, as if it was cannibalism, which was forbidden in the
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Mosaic law. If Jesus wouldn't be popular, he wouldn't have said it.
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And he went so far as to say, if you receive the Eucharist without
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believing that, without understanding it, and in unworthy fashion, you became guilty
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of his death. He said, you become guilty of the blood. That's
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big stuff. And unfortunately, according to recent polls, most Catholics do not
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understand or believe that when we receive the Eucharist, we are truly consuming the
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spiritual body and blood of Jesus Christ. That ignorance may be forgiven, you
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know, it's up to God, but there's really no excuse. And if
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you receive the Ukurus without that knowledge, you're committing a mortal sin. You'd
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be better off not even being Catholic than receiving the Euchurus and not believing the
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words of Jesus. Well, that's true, and just about everything marriage.
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I mean, you go through the sacraments, or how about you know the
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ten commandments, Thou shalt not steal, thou shalt not commit adultry. If
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you don't follow his commandments and his teachings. But you actually do believe that
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Jesus is God, you're committing a mortal sin. Just by your refusal,
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you're actually committing the sin of Satan, who said he could set himself up
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as his own God. You know, like liberal politicians who say, I
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don't care what the church says, I support abortion and homosexuality and all that,
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they're committing a mortal sin. That's scandal. That's there's many related sins
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actually there. But even a very otherwise good, moral decent person who refuses
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to believe the words of God commits some moral sin because the consequences of believing
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that Jesus is God is believing that he truly is God and everything he says
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is true and right, And it's our fault if we can't work our way
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through it and come to believe what he said, it's not his fault.
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But before we get to that, as usual, start with the radio reply
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series. The questioner who has been accosting the priests. I am honest without
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being religious. But I know many people who are religious without being honest.
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Well that's certainly true. But as they say, now, you take your
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own virtue as a standard and proceed to find other people want to by measuring
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it. When measured by it, it often happens that those who practice no
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religion canonize themselves as modern models of perfection and regard religious people as sinners and
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hypocrites. But those who go to church are constantly told of their own failings
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and that they must not judge others. It would be better for you to
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take up your own religious duties. As a matter of fact, it is
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impossible to be really honest without being religious. Religion is the highest form of
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honesty, a strict duty to God. Take this case, say, a
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man named Jones owes one man a hundred dollars and another man a dollar.
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He pays the dollar, but not the hundred. Smith, on the other
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hand, owes one hundred and to another one dollar, but pays the hundred,
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neglecting to pay the dollar. Whose is the greater dishonesty? Now each
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man knows ow's a tremendous debt to God, and a lesser one to his
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neighbor. You may pay the less you may pay the lesser, but you
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neglect the greater. Your neighbor, who who fulfills his religious duties at least
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tries to pay the greater, though he may seem to you to neglect the
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lesser. But he is the better man, at least in so far as
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he attempts to pay the greater. The man who is just to his neighbor
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but does not bother about his religious duties is the kind of man who pays
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the baker for the bread he puts into his body, but nothing to God
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for the body he puts the bread into. Religion is a strict duty of
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justice to God, acknowledging our indebtedness to him. If religious people sometimes fail
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in honesty to ward their fellow man, I do not justify it. But
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their creditors are insignificant compared to the Creator, who supplied you with all that
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you have and receives no acknowledgement from you. You are both wrong. You
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are both in the wrong. But I would rather be in the position of
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those you condemn, if I had the choice to be made, which of
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course has not to be made. The religion may save them despite their faults.
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Your honesty will not save you. He goes on, Well, I
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believe in God, would practice no religion. They answer thus charges gives way
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to excuses. It is something to believe in God, But what notice do
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you take of God? You believe in the existence of your own parents.
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But I am sure you paid them more attention than you have ever paid to
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God, in whom you say you often believe. Well, that gets to
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the heart of the matter, doesn't it. If you love me, you
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will keep my commandments. Of course, as Christians, we will try and
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fail. The only time you stop failing is when you stop trying. God
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knows that. That's the entire reason Jesus sacrificed his life for our sins.
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We could not do it on our own. Those who disbelieve in God,
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who disbelieve in Christianity and say they are moral in their own right, their
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secularists, their modernists, their humanists. Their morality falls short because all morality
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comes from God, and the first of the ten commandments is to worship God,
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one God, the Father, above all else. When the religious Jew
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asked Jesus, what must you do to be saved? He said, keep
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the demmandments. He said, which wants? Which are the ten commandments?
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You know, as Jesus didn't say, honor the Sabbath. Why Because,
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as Jesus said, the Sabbath was made for man, not man. For
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the Sabbath, Yes, our tora observe it. In seven day Adventist brothers
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and sisters would are probably standing on their heads and screaming right now since I
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said that. But Jesus didn't say that. He said, don't steal,
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don't commit adultery. But what else? Love God with all your heart and
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your neighbor as yourself. Our first duty is to God. So when someone
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says to me, I am a good Christian. I believe in God,
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but I don't believe in baptism. I believe it's just a symbol, Jesus
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will understand. Well, okay, yeah, Jesus certainly understands you. But
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Jesus also understands you're not doing what he asks. Now, Jesus says,
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asks many things that I fail in daily. Sure, you feel in daily.
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But these basics, these basics are so easy. Why wouldn't you just
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do what Jesus asked? I mean, are you so arrogant? You think
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you know better than God and his Church and his Bible. Let's look at
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a reading. These are from Acts on the day of Pentecost. Peter said
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to the Jewish people, let the whole house of Israel know for certain that
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God made him both Lord and Christ. This Jesus, whom you crucified.
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Now, when they heard this, they were cut to the heart, and
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they asked Peter and the other possibles, what are we to do, my
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brothers. Peter said to them, repent and be baptized, every one of
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you, in the name of Jesus Christ, for the forgiveness of your sins,
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and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. For the promises
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made to you and to your children, and to all those far off whomever
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the Lord our God will call. He testifieth with many other arguments, for
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the promise has been made to you and to your children, and to all
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those far off, whomever the Lord our God will call. He testified with
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many other arguments, and was exporting them, save yourselves from this corrupt generation.
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Those who accepted his message were baptized, and about three thousand persons were
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added that day. Now, this passage hopefully is so familiar to you so
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called cradle Catholics, y'all that were brought up in the faith, not converts
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like me, that it probably doesn't warrant much thought. Baptism is a sacrament
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of the Catholic Church, and what Catholic would doubt the necessess that would doubt
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it necessary see if I can get my tenses right for the salvation, given
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the plain words of our Lord and the teachings of his Church. While many
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stumble for words when confronted by evangelical Protestants who firmly a sort, ye must
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be born again, quoting the King James and the Old English, as if
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that means anything, Catholics who had the Catechism should at least know the rest
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of Jesus's commandment. You must be born again by water and the Spirit.
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He has clearly said the Christian must be baptized in water and received the Holy
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Spirit as plainly as he commanded us to eat His body and blood in the
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sacrament of the Eucharist, and the divorce is not permissionable for Christians. Later
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we find that new Christians were baptized, but did not receive the fullness of
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the Holy Spirit until the apostles laid hands on them. This is known as
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the sacrament of confirmation. Baptism opens us to the Holy Spirit. Confirmation gives
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us the fullness of the Spirit. Two sacraments. Confirmation can only be received
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through the Catholic Church, through the authority of apostolic succession. The power to
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bind and loose. No Protestant church has a valid sacrament of confirmation. All
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Christians, regardless of denomination, not only can be baptized, they can be
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baptized by someone who's not even not even Christian, so long as they say,
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I baptize you in the name of the Fathers and the Son, and
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the Holy Spirit or the Holy Ghost. You know if they're English, because
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it's the faith of the person being baptized that matters. All Christians of every
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denomination have a duty to be baptized because Jesus said it. Catholics who believe
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the Bible and the teachings of the Church, sacred tradition is passed down by
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the apostles. I understand that the sacraments are real, both physical and spiritual,
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instituted by God and necessary SI. Unfortunately, as a convert to Catholicism,
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I can tell you that many Protestants do not. Can also tell you
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many Catholics do not. I should have said faithful Catholics perhaps, or Catholics
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who are well educated in morals and doctrine catechized. But for Protestants this is
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foreign language. For too far, too many. Protestantism is founded on solo
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fide and solo scriptura. Faith alone solo fide, and the Bible alone solo
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scriptura, among the main meditating factors that calls me to explore the writings of
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the or Church and eventually to convert to Catholicism. Was attending a couple of
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Protestant universities. Actually I went to a Methodist and a Southern Baptist College,
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university whatever, not exactly on the level of my beloved University of George,
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where I did most of my study. Let's just say their academics were severely
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wanting. The Methodist college I went to not only put me over fifty thousand
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dollars in debt for just attending one semester, but the initials of it stood
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for last chance with an expletive in the middle to most people who went to
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the university and flunked out and realized, or whose parents were willing to essentially
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buy a degree for them as they drank and slept their way through college.
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The Southern Baptist University was a bit more strict, but i'll bite my tongue.
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Let's say there were some intelligent people there, but if they were,
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I rarely, if ever encountered them. No, that's a that's another show
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for another day. But anyway, I'm sorry I said a Methodist. No,
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that was a Presbyterian college, the one with the initials, Yes,
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that was a Presbyterian college. Sorry, I never went to a Methodist college.
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I would like to be accurate. I went to a Presbyterian college that
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became a university and a Southern Baptist university, neither of which were up to
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snuff. Of I'm gonna bite my tongue again. I could really talk about
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higher education quite a bit, but that's not the role of that, it's
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not the purpose of this podcast. Let me just say that although the University
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of Georgia when I went there late nineties early two thousands, was certainly a
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secular public university, it was far more traditional and traditionally Christian in what was
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taught, and conservative, patriotic, even really just open to everyone. You
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could sit there and have an honest debate and discussion with a communist, radical,
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liberal, radical, homosexual, it did not matter. Open debate and
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discussion was encouraged, and whether it was between students or students and professors,
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it was respectful. And I mean, you know, one of my professors
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had been in the Clinton administration. He was a radical lefty and I'm listening
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to Russia Imball every day at noon and after Classic we got to get a
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beer together and just sit down and we would laugh and we would argue.
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There was none of these safe spaces or you know, snowflake mentality. Everything
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was open to discussion and debate. It was a It was a true classical
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education when I was there. That's all I can say. When I went
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to a certain Southern Baptist university, so many topics were off, not allowed
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for discussion, that we couldn't have an honest conversation at all. And I
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thought I would fit in more culturally there than I did at a public university.
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I did not. I was ostracized and at the Presbyterian University before I
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went to the University of Georgia, it was so radical left communist that not
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only was I made to feel very unwelcome there, but they actually I may
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have been one of the first people in America to be docked. They actually
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put my name and social security out on the Internet and encouraged people to come
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to my house and threatened me. When I found out that they were taking
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student funds and backdooring it to a Palestinian terrorist organization, and dared speak about
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that. So religious colleges are often far worse than public universities. And having
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spoken with you know, I never went to a Catholic university. Didn't get
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the opportunity. I converted after the point where I could still you know,
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afford to go to school. I had to work for a living. A
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lot of liberal Catholic colleges and universities are just as bad as the worst communist
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indoctrination center that calls itself a school of the United States. And we better
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clean that mess up. But that's still Holy Wade, we're gonna be able
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to clean that up. Is that answer that question? Who do you say
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God is? If God is Jesus, and the words of the Bible and
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the teachings of the Catholic Church has passed down through the apostles who learn directly
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from Jesus, there's no place for communism and socialism and radical transgendered whatever social
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justice crap. But apparently a lot of people who call themselves Catholic, you
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know, just like Joe Biden and Nancy Pelosi, are college professors or college
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administrators or bureaucrats and whatever system. And those people really need a good priest,
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a good professor, a confessor to set them straight, or they're in
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danger of going to hell and leading many, many, many students, young
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people to hell. And the responsibility will fall on them greater than it will
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those they led astray. It's going to fall especially upon the priests and bishops
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and the pope who is not correcting them. The shepherd bears far more blame
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than the sheep. Well that was a tangent. Where was I? So
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all right? So we talked about soli fide and sola scripture. When I
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was at said Southern Baptist University, I was very shocked, and also at
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the Presbyterian when they I was told by professors, people with degrees and theology
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and such that baptism was only symbolic and the only thing necessary to be saved
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is faith. Well, that's soul of feed a faith alone, that's actually
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the sole tenant besides the Bible alone. Of Protestantism. They would say,
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God is not legalist, not legalistic, He's not going to hold you to
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the letter of the law. All that's necessaries is faith to believe in Jesus
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says your Lord and Savior and good will be saved, and they'd always say
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once saved, always saved, No sin can separate you from God, and
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all that is absolutely false. Jesus never said any of that. They made
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that up on their own. I mean, you know, can me a
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Bible and show me a Protestant who believes any of that, and I'll show
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them where the Bible says they're wrong five different ways. But they won't listen.
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They just won't listen. I was even told that, you know,
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Billy Graham, and I hope this isn't true, it buys members of his
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family not to be baptized because it was empty symbolism. I mean, I
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really hope it's not true. I would like to think that Billy Graham did
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a great deal of good in this world. I went to school with his
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grandkids. I mean, I know the family. I would hate to think
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that he actually said that. But even though I believe his faith was heartfelt,
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and I hope that's not true. But you got to remember, he
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did not have the teachings handed on by the Apostles of Christ to his church,
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preserved intact through generations by the guarantee of the always Spirit. Simply put,
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baptism is necessary and Catholic should firmly believe the words of Jesus that one
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must be baptism ties to be a Christian and to be saved only if one
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is of another religion or completely ignorant of baptism, with the lack of baptized.
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With the lack of being baptized not be a sin of a mission regardless,
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Baptism seals the candidate and joins him to the body of Christ. Baptism
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protects ones from one from willing demonic possession and opens the soul to the Holy
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Spirit. Baptism binds the Christian to Christ. What did Jesus say specifically of
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baptism Matthew twenty eight. Jesus came and spoke to them, Authority in heaven
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and earth has been given to me. Go therefore and make disciples of all
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nations. Baptize them in the name of the Father and the Son and the
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Holy Spirit, and teach them to observe all the commands I gave you.
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And look, I am with you always, yes to the end of time.
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Well, of course, Prodestans believed that the Catholic Church parted ways with
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Jesus and what became invalid. Of course, the very Bible they say is
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the sole authority, says that Jesus is with his Church, his apostles,
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and their successors till the end of time. But even if they were to
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deny that, they cannot deny that he said, baptize them, every one
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of them, in the name of the Father's Son, the Holy Spirit.
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Protestant online just a couple of weeks ago said you won't find the words Father,
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Son and Holy Spirit in the Bible. That's not even Christian. That's
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a Catholic invention. I said, okay, pick up your Bible, go
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to Matthew twenty eight, and then quoted the words of one of the popes
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I can't remember which one. Ignorance of the Bible is ignorance of Christ Mark
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sixteen sixteen. Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved. Whoever does not
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believe will be condemned. But it says whoever believed ann is baptized, you
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have to believe in order to be baptized, So that qualifies that statement.
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John three five. Jesus replied, in all truth, I tell you,
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no one can enter the Kingdom of God without being born through water and the
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spirit. Watch her, watch her, not pray the Billy Graham prayer of
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I believe you were a Lord for you at me I see on. That's
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all good. That's you that you have to have faith, but water is
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also necessary. I don't I don't doubt the faith of any devout Christian.
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I mean, I don't care what denomination you are. If you love God,
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you're a brother of mine in Christ. Okay, My problem is they
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generally hate Catholics, But I wish and pray that all Christians will rejoin the
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One Holy Catholic and Apist Church because we have the fullness of truth. It's
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so much easier to get to Heaven as a Catholic than it is if you're
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confused about all this stuff. But again, you know, my role is
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not to judge someone else's heart. I don't do that. But they have
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to answer the same question I have to answer that you have to answer.
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If you love God, why would you not do what He asks and even
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tells you specifically to do. We all see in We all buy the clear
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word of God and his commandments. But why would we avoid so easy a
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request is baptism, just to have a little water put on your head,
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and in the words I baptize you in the name of the Father, of
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the Son of the Holy Spirit. Why in the world would someone not do
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that. I mean, I realized this is a Catholic audience, and I
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probably made the assumption that the vast majority of those who are listening are baptized.
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But I mean that is a gross assumption. This is a podcast,
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it's on the internet, and I mean it's going out all over the world,
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and I mean, by no means are we homogeneous? Right? If
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you hear it, If you hear this, please remember the words of our
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Lord beginning that what is necessary for salvation is to love God with all your
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heart and your neighbors, yourself. Keep It's so easy because He actually just
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gives us the instructions. He gives you the words to say and tell us.
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You know, to be dunked in, has some water put in your
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head, and you don't have to worry about it. Believe in love our
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foundational and essential. And they're the first two steps. But that's the two
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steps on an eternal journey. Daily the Christians should grow in love and knowledge
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of God. The Christians should also grow in holiness. It's not easy for
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anyone, as it's utterly opposed to human nature and well due to original sin
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of our first parents and our personal disordered passions, we want things that aren't
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right. But as Pope John Paul a Second would always remind us, in
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the face of all trials, be not afraid. Jesus is our God,
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our Lord, our master, our high priests who you say, God is
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Lord, God Master or high priests, but also our brother. He knows
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better than anyone, how infallible and ignorant. Even the best among us truly
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is the smartest man, the most holy man, is still nothing compared to
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God, compared to Jesus, and Jesus understands because he's our brother. His
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human nature was the same as ours. He gave a simple instructions that anyone
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could do, regardless of mental or physical capacity. You could be severely handicap
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or or or mentally deficient. I mean, we'll just say mentally handicap.
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You can still be baptized, especially you should be because you know you might
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have to meet your maker before others. And not only did he give us
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just essential instructions, he told us why He told us how, and he
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infused his own incredible grace into these simple acts of sacraments he gave in each
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one of he gave to his well. Like I said, anyone can be
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baptized right. Anybody can be married and a valid marriage if the conditions are
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right. But a marriage and a baptism are the same, are universal through
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the Catholic Church. We have the u churs, we have confession, we
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have priestly orders, we have last rights, etc. These he gave to
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his one and only church that he founded and guaranteed to act in his stead,
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to provide these sacraments to all believing God until he comes again. I
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could go, and I have. I've done a whole series on the sacraments.
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But just look at Matthew seven twenty one. It is not anyone who
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says to me, Lord Lord, who will enter the Kingdom of heaven,
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but the one who does the will of my Father in heaven. When the
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day comes, many will say to me, Lord Lord, did we not
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prophesy in your name, drive out names in your name, and work many
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miracles in your name? I always shall then tell him their faces. I
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have never known you. Away from me, evil doers. Therefore, anyone,
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everyone who listens to these words of mine and acts on them, will
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be like a sensible man who builds his house on a rock. Okay,
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the house on the rock stands. I don't need to keep going that Luke,
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he says, why do you call me lord, lord and not do
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what I say? Everyone who comes to me and listens to my words and
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acts on them, I will show you what such a person he is.
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Such a person's like command and build his house on Yeah. And John,
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anyone who hears my words and does not keep them faithfully is not I ushul
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judge that person. I have not coming to judge the word, but say
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the world, world. Anyone who rejects me and refuses my word has his
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judge already, for the word itself that I has spoken, will be his
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judge on the last day. John fourteen, If you love me, you
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will keep my commandments. Whoever holds my commandments and keeps them as the one
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who loves me. We could go on and on, but the bottom line
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is how many people? How many people both like all Protestants claim to love
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Jesus but reject his commandments, and unfortunately, most Catholics who view the Eucharist
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or baptism as symbolic, or who don't follow Catholic teaching on marriage or contraception.
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I mean, there's a big problem for a lot of people. If
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you say that Jesus is God, you have to keep his commandments. Faith
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alone is not enough. The Protestant idea of solofide is faith alone is enough
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for salvation. And Jesus just said, you say to me, Lord Lord,
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that means you're acknowledging him as God. But you didn't keep his ammandments,
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commandments, and he would say, go away from me, you evil
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do or I do not know you. I don't understand how that's so hard
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for people to grasp. I don't understand how. I went to a Southern
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Baptist university with about fifteen thousand people who claimed that all Catholics were going to
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hell because we weren't really Christian. But none of them believe the actual words
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of Jesus Christ. As in, you must be baptized, you must be
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born again of water in the blood. You must eat my flesh and drink
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my blood, or you have no life in you. He said to his
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apostles, those who hear you hear me. Those who reject you reject he
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who sent me on you. Peter the Rock, I will found my church,
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and it will last into all ages, the gates of hell when I
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prevail against it. Or very simply in all four Gospels, when Jesus explicitly
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condemned divorce, you would think the one thing if they were confused about everything
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else, if you were going to believe the words of the Bible, you
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believe in baptism and marriage. And they actually reject. All Protestants reject the
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sacrament of marriage, beginning with King Henry the eighth, and then the Lutherans
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just fell right in line. And all Protestants say that marriage is just a
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contract, basically a government document that can just be torn up. A lawyer
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can get involved. It has nothing to do with the church. Saint Peter
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said marriage is a sacrament. Jesus said divorce is not permissible. All Protestants
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reject that, and yet claim to love God and keep his commandments. But
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I mean, as Catholics, are we that much better? I mean,
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how many Catholics vote for Joe Biden and Nancy Belosi, who support abortion,
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who claimed to be Catholic for Pete's sake. If you believe that Jesus is
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God, I said, it's a rat coal position. There is no compromise.
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You know. Protestants will get in your face and yell you must be
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born again. But we should understand and explain to them that command means you
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must be baptized. Do it now. If you haven't been baptized, get
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baptized now. If you have been baptized. Let's repeat our baptismal promise.
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This is the renewal of the baptismal promise. Do you reject Satan? I
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do, and all his works I do, and all his empty promises I
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do. Do you believe in God, the Father, Almighty, Creator or
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creator of heaven and earth? I do. Do you believe in Jesus Christ
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has only signed our Lord, who was born in the Virgin Maryam, was
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crucified, died and was buried, rose from the dead, and is now
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seated at the right hand of the Father. We answer, I do.
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Do you believe in the Holy Spirit, the Holy Catholic Church, the communion
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of saints, the forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the body in life
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of a lasting We answer, I do, God the all powerful Father and
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our Lord Jesus Christ has given us in new birth by water and the Holy
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Spirit, and forgiven all our sins. May he also keep us faithful to
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our Lord Jesus Christ forever and ever. We answer Amen. This is actually
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it's good to pray this, renew our baptism with vows daily. If you
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are so blessed as have a family. I am not very good for the
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father of the family, especially if there's no father. The mother can certainly
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do this. Get some holy water, blessed water, which is what we
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use in baptism every night before bed or every morning upon rising. Sprinkle your
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kids and cross yourself on your forehead or whatever with the holy water, and
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renew these baptismal vowels if you don't have time. I believe it was Saint
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Thomas Aquinas who said whenever he felt any form of temptation of sin, he
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would say, I renounced. I'll see, I renounced Satan and give myself
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holy to Christ, sort of a summation of the baptismal vowels. Baptism is
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so simple, but it's the initiation into Christianity. What excuse do you have
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not to do it? If you say, faith alone is enough, and
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you don't need to be engaged in empty symbolism. You know, Jesus,
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as I said, acknowledged that to call him Lord was proof of faith.
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But recall his other words. Not everyone who says to me, Lord Lord
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will enter into the Kingdom of heaven, but only the one who does the
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will of my father. Many of me will say on that day, Lord
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Lord, did we not prophesy in your name? Did we not drive out
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demons in your name? Did we not do mighty deeds in your name?
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Mighty deeds? My gosh, I think of the Pentecostal ministers that have had
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these great healing ceremonies on television. You know, they like slap somebody in
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the head and they're suddenly cured of cancer or something, you know whatever.
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They did mighty deeds in the name of Jesus. And of course Jesus's name
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is very powerful. But what does he say? Then? I will declare
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them solemnly. I never knew you depart from me, you evil doers.
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As simply as I can state anything, if Jesus asks you to do it,
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do it. That is the consequence of the question I asked yesterday,
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who do you believe God is If you believe Jesus Christ is God, you
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then have a duty to do what he says to the very best of your
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ability, and asking forgiveness when you fail. Everything hinges on that question.
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You can't have it both ways. You can't say, yeah, I know
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what Jesus said, but I think, because you know, my church teaches
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this, he didn't really mean that. What he actually meant was, you
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know, no, it doesn't work that way, But fifty thousand Protestant denominations
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believe it does. Fifty thousand Protestant denominations disagree with each other, and all
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of them disagree with the one Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church is founded by Jesus
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Christ and guaranteed against all error until He comes again, until the end of
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time. And by some estimates, two thirds of Catholics do not believe fully
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in the teachings of the Church. That's the reason our world's in such a
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bad state. We can't blame the Muslims, No we can't. I mean,
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yeah, they cause trouble in sometimes like nine to eleven. I'm not
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going to minimize that. If you listen to my show that I did on
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nine to eleven. You know, it took everything I had not to break
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down tears. I mean, you know, I'm not one of those some
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people did something you know, No, no, that was horrible and I'll
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never forget it. You know, not all Muslims. I have good Muslim
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friends, you know, we we can disagree on things and still treat each
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other's respect. But we cannot blame the Muslims for the problems in America.
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We cannot blame the Mexicans for the problems in America. We can't blame the
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English or the Canadians. We can't blame Buddhists or Hindus or Sikhs. America
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has been a majority Christian nation from its founding, and we better start blaming
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a lot of people who still claim to be Christian. Granted, Communism,
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socialism and all that they are. Yeah, the liberalism is, you know,
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the mental disease that's tearing our country asunder. But the answer to it
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is orthodox Christianity. And there are far too many people that claim to be
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Christian who vote Democrat or are liberal Republicans like the Bushes. As I've said,
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they're many ways worse than the Obamas or the Clintons, the mccains go
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down the list, you know, but they're also you know, many,
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many people who want to do right, who have not embraced an anti Christian
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ideology and are just using the title of Christianity to advance their evil, godless,
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socialistic, communistic agenda. We need to bring as best we can those
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people into orthodox understanding of Christianity, which will in the end mean bringing everyone
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back into the Catholic Church. But before we can, as Jesus would say,
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take the spec out of our brother's eye, we have to take the
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plank out of our own. So who do you believe God is? And
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if you believe God is Jesus Christ, and in his Church, which he
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through which he guaranteed his teachings, the very Church who compiled in the Bible
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the Old Testament and wrote the New Testament, the only reason, the only
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vehicle through which anyone has a belief in Christianity whatsoever, which is the one
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Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church. If you disregard or disagree with one of the
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teachings of Christ and his Church on what authority do you do? So can
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you say Jesus Christ is Lord and not follow his commandments. That's why I
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say this is the question upon which everything hinges. And yeah, I failed
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daily. Like I said, the only time we would stop failing is when
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we stopped trying. It's no excuse just to give up anyway. In the
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words of Saint Padre Pia, pray, hope and don't worry and I'll talk
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with you all tomorrow.