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Show 83: The Explanation of the Catechism, part 2 · The Uncensored Catholic

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Welcome to today's show. We will pick up on part two of Father Spirago's
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exhaustive explanation of the Catechism here in just a moment. But as usual,
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we'll start with radio replies. And you may remember from the last last episode
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the questioner apparently a secularist, agnostic, atheist, whatever, a modernist.
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We could say modernists. That's really probably the term that it's best to use.
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And why would I say that, Well, there are many people who
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qualify as modernists. They may be agnostic, they may be atheistic, they
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may be nominally Catholic or Christian in general. I hate when people say Catholics
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and Christians as if there's as if Catholics aren't Christians. What they mean to
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say is Catholics and Protestants. But anyway, hopefully we can get that corrected.
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How about next time you hear someone say Catholics and Christians support Donald Trump,
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which hopefully is true because he is the most pro life president of my
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entire lifetime. You know, I'm okay. Granted, he's not a choir
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boy, he's not a Catholic, he's not a perfect person, but hey,
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I'm sitting here on October thirty one, twenty twenty three, and I
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really miss having world peace, don't you. Yeah, only president of my
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lifetime not to start a war. I miss economic prosperity. I miss people
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being able to get jobs and work for a living and pay for food.
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I miss you know, a buck eighty nine gas. And yeah, I
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take some mean tweets if that's what it took to give us everything every politician,
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Democrat and Republican for my entire lifetime and well before promise, but somehow
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never delivered on. Yeah. Anyway, A modernist is really the better term
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because like Joe Biden, for instance, caused themselves a Catholic, Nancy Pelosi
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calls herself a Catholic, they don't adhere to any of the teachings of the
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Catholic Church. They are liberals, liberals first before whatever they call themselves religiously,
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they absolutely oppose the teachings of the Catholic Church on abortion, gay marriage,
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you name it. There are many practicing Catholics who go to Mass on
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Sundays and think they you know, they give a lot to charity and they
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think they're really good Catholics. But they think they know better when it comes
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to say, oh I don't know, birth control or divorce or there are
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a lot of issues. But then they're also you know, secularists, atheist,
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agnostics, Protestants who would also call themselves very moral people, but their
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ideology has nothing to do with the words of the Bible or the teachers of
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the Catholic Church. It comes from what is accepted by modernism. It is
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you know, socialist and secular at its core, and it has teaches a
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relativist morality. Essentially, whatever the state says is what's right. Of course,
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you know, this began with King Henry the Eighth. King Henry the
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eighth founded the Anglican Church on the basis of the popeut and grant him a
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divorce you know, and said basically also you have stopped chopping your wife's heads
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off. He was a very very evil man. There is nothing moral about
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the Anglican or Episcopal Church. It was founded by essentially a genocidal maniac,
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a murderer, a depressive alcoholic who was probably demon possessed, and unfortunately is
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my ancestor. Yes, King Henry the eighth is my ancestor, and I
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will tell you that he was probably one of the most evil men ever to
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walk the face of the earth. He couldn't father's children, well, I
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should say sons. He could not father sons. Whenever he had a child,
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it was a daughter. And instead of accepting that, maybe you know,
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when we say his ammunition was a little low caliber, he was shooting
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twenty two's instead of you know, I don't know, thirty eighth nine millimeters
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or whatever. Okay, you're getting the gist that he was didn't exactly have
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a you know, twelve gage going. And instead of accepting that, he
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would put it wives in jail and had their heads cut off, accused them
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of treason and have them executed. And I mean that was he was obviously
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a murderer. I mean, take an abusive spouse to the highest level you
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can imagine. Actually, before this point he had been a fairly devout Christian.
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If you read the history of King Henry the eighth, it's pretty amazing.
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Saint Thomas Moore, who refused to acknowledge him as head of the church
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as every Christian should, whom he had beheaded, had actually praised him as
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being a great champion of Christianity just a few years before. And then he
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kind of lost his mind became demon possessed. I have no idea, but
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yes, he was a murderer of his own wives. And because the Church
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would not grant him a divorce, because the Pope said nope, he declared
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himself the head of the Christian Church of England as a to the institution established
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by Christ, which is the Catholic Church, and then killed everyone who would
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not acknowledge him as having the authority of the Pope in England, now thousands
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of people. I mean, he was a brutal, homicidal maniac and for
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some reason, you know, we turn on PBS and they're always, oh,
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look at the English royal family. Aren't they great? You know,
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they drink tea and they're all you know, they have such pretty accents saying,
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look all these beautiful old castles they own that they stole from the Catholics
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of England. The House of Wessex. You know, the House of Windsor
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is not the House of Wessex. You know, they don't talk about the
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millions of Irish they enslaved and slaughtered and probably the greatest genocide in world history.
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Now, I mean, honestly, the Anglican Church and the Episcopal Church
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pure evil on his founding. The good people in it now they don't understand
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maybe the history of the church. But remember when Sir Thomas Moore, who
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was the greatest attorney, the greatest lawyer in all of England. King Henry
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really desired him to essentially bless his being head of the Anglican Church. I
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mean he was no longer just king a political figure. He declared himself the
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head of the church. What does that mean. Well, the head of
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the Church of England says what's right and wrong, what's moral and not how
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I mean, he could define doctrine and did with no authority whatsoever. God
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didn't grant him that authority. He took it as King of England. And
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you know, Sir Thomas Moore was both an attorney and a religious figure,
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respected by all all people, both Catholic and you know those who had become
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Protestant. And he was very wealthy and he was very influential. And had
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King Henry been able to get him to say that, you know, the
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king was the legitimate authority not just over political matters, not just over secular
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affairs, but over the church, well it would have been it would be
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huge because that's how respected Sir Thomas Moore was and when he was in prison,
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according to you know the story a man from all seasons for all seasons,
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I should say, and you know the books written about him. His
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nephew, who was sort of a social climber, you know, a typical
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attorney who would have done anything just to get ahead, came to him and
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said, uncle, why are you in there? And Sir Thomas Moore,
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one of my heroes, absolute heroes, looked at him and said, the
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question is not why I am in here, but why are you out there?
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So you see, no, in no way could a Christian morally say,
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honestly say that the King of England had authority over the Church of God.
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Yeah. Ah, pretty bad stuff actually, But that's the that's the
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that's the roots, along with a few other things. When we can get
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into the Renaissance, and there do many influences, there are very many influences
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on the modernist thinking. But it always comes down to whatever a government says,
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govern official president, isn't it. And in America we worship the Supreme
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Court. Whatever a judge says carries more weight than the word of God.
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That's the modernist belief in socialist countries. You know, it was whatever the
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premier said, whatever the you know, the dictator Cholceeski or Chilcheskew I should
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say, you know, stalin Castra mal their word was supersedes all that is
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true. In fact, if you read the you know, Communist Manifesto and
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you read the founding documents of the Socialistic Communists and Progressive Agenda, America is
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a progressive country. Okay, America may not be officially communist, but America
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is a fascist progressive country and has been, uh since about the time of
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Civil War. You know, there's a great overreach and power, a power
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grab by the federal government. America has not been the nation of the Declaration
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of Independence, which my ancestors signed since the Civil War, and we've gradually
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drifted into progressivism. Now some people say they're conservatives and some people say they're
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liberals. But one essentially just as they're foot on the brake and the other
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one with their foot on the gas pedal, but they're both head in the
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same direction. Anyway. The modernist is essentially the root. The modernist philosophy
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is essentially the root behind all of these philosophical identities. Whether you call yourself
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a liberal democrat, or you call yourself a socialist, or you call yourself
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a social democrat, or a communist, or a fascist, or an atheist
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or a progressive or you know, a secularist, agnostic humanists. That's one
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of their favorite terms. It's all modernism. So a very good thing to
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do is to go back and look at the Oath against Modernism. I've not
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a whole podcast on this. Pope Pius the tenth promoted it. And if
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more of us would embrace the Oath against Modernism, well two hundred million people
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wouldn't have been killed in the last few decades by progressive, socialist, communist
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democratic governments. We could probably avoid avoid a lot of wars, and we
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might actually have unity among Christians. But anyway, this modernist, we shall
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say, asked the priests and radio replies, why do no reputable historians mention
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Christ and his wonderful work? Well it's actually false on its face, but
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you'll probably be taught that in college now, because well they just kind of
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overlook and emit things that don't fit the modernist ideology. They answer, I
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have just shown that five reputable historians record the events. The four evangelists and
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Saint Paul. Their books are his as historical as any other. Tacitus,
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the Roman historian, writing about seventy years after the death of Christ, mentions
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him. Also Josephus the Jewish historian. Well, there are several others as
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well. We could you know, definitely list among them Polycarp, Saint Polycarp,
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Pope, Saint Clement of Rome, Saint Justin Martyr, Saint Irenaeus of
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Saint Barnabas. Certainly there's a little confusion over, you know, whether his
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name was actually Barnabas or not, the one who wrote the Epistle of Barnabas
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about what one ad maybe even earlier than that, say, nacious, Yeah,
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I mean so, there are many others. But they go on to
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say also Roman historians were not much concerned with Palestine. That's very true.
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It was an outpost of the Empire, and moreover had supreme contempt for the
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Jews, discounting all their doings. Very true if you read the Roman writings
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around the time of Christ and maybe one hundred years two hundred years after.
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Yeah, Rome really did not. Rome was pretty any Semitic, actually,
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and they did not want anything to do with a god who was essentially well,
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the king of the Jews obviously and Semitic, a Jew. I mean
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that was like, wow, yeah, Romans really thought, you know,
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they may have said, okay, a Greek might be on our level,
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but they didn't like Jews. So yeah, it took you know, some
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four hundred years to convince rom of the divinity of the Jewish Jesus Christ said.
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They say, it is obvious also that the Jewish writers would not be
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bent on recording an event that would they would very much like to forget that.
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That's true, That's that's documented history. The Jews tried to stamp out
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Christianity and erase it from their history books. I mean, I say the
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Bible, I'm not you know, not a slur against Jewish people or anything.
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That's actually actually what Saint Paul says, you know, finally, in
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absence of evidence, and other writers just who do not deal ex professo.
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That means, you know, specialize the subject professionally, the subject with a
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given subject waste nothing against positive evidence recorded by reliable historians. The person says,
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I do not mind admit that the Gospels are historical, so you know,
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he just contradicting himself. He just said they're not. But now he
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says, okay, I don't mind how many they are. But he does
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actually make a good point. You see, Christians don't claim that the Bible
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is just historical. In fact, we often, I mean any reasonable person
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says that much of the Bible is not historical. I mean Genesis, and
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you know much of the Old Testament is allegorical. Well, it has some
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basis in history. But the purpose of the Bible is not to be a
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history book. The purpose of the Bible is exactly what it says in the
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Gospel of Saint John. What is written here is so that you may believe
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it's not a newspaper. You're not going through the archives of you know,
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the New York Times of four thousand BC, in ancient Egypt, Syria,
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Turkey Ball and you know, no, it's not a history book. But
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this person says, I do not mind it beanning that the Gospels are historical.
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That's you know, well, I mean that guy just had to eat
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a lot of crow just to get to that point. And why do people
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say that eat crow crow is actually very good meat? Anyway, that's a
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that's a topic for another day. Uh No, seriously, I'm very fond
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of crows. They're very intelligent birds. I often have some as like quasi
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pets that I feed, and I enjoy having them around me. But as
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far as game birds are concerned, they're as good as any other and far
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superior. Chicken, probably the hardest critter you'll ever hunt as well. The
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crows are intelligent, and they can count, and they can play tricks,
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and they can play games. Yeah, I'm a big fan of crows.
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Actually, they are really cool animals, really cool animals. Anyway, the
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person says, you wish us, though, to accept that those books are
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the inspired word of God. And if we accept the Gospels, we must
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accept the whole Bible as being the word of God. For the New Testament
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quotes the Old Testament again and again as having the authority of God. They
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answer, all that you say is true. The Bible is the inspired word
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of God. There may be difficulties in the interpretation of the Bible, but
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the facts of its inspiration are certain. The person says, what proof is
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there that the Bible is the word of God? Is it any more true
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than the sacred books of other religions? Could I put it more, I
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don't know if I could say it any more succinctly. As all hinges on
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this question, they answer various texts in the I will say that they are
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spoken or written with the authority of God, but that is rather a vicious
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circle, arguing from the inspiration of the book to its authority, and from
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the authority back to its inspiration. However, a book that is the inspired
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word of God would be expected to say so, and the Catholic Church supplies
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the further evidence required, as I shall show in a moment. The fact
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that the Jews always accepted the Old Testament as inspired, and that Christians have
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accepted both the Old and New Testaments for so many centuries, also argues to
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the truth of their inspiration. I mean, think about this for a minute.
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The oldest intact or contingent I guess you might say contiguous. I don't
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know. Institution. Human institution on earth is Catholic Church. No government on
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earth has stood for two thousand years. No anything, I mean, everything
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has changed in the last two thousand years except the Catholic Church. And then
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we go about four thousand years back beyond that to you know, Judaism going
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back to Moses. I mean comparatively. I mean, if we include both
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the Mosaic and the Christian tradition, I should say the Jewish and Christian tradition.
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Islam is a very new religion. Okay, Protestantism is like, you
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know, I mean barely a blip on the screen. But I mean,
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but just sticking with different religions, Hinduism would be older, but it has
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changed a great deal, and Buddhism is younger. You would be hard pressed
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to find anything, any thing that human beings took part in that has lasted
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longer in the same form then has the Judeo Christian tradition. Now. I
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mean you could look back and say, well, okay, you know,
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the Druids were doing this and you know whatever BC, but not continuously,
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not contiguously. The Druid tradition died out for good thousand years, and then
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the Neo Pagans picked it back up and said, we're doing the same thing
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as the Druids. We're same with the Vikings in Scandinavia. Egypt has certainly
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not practiced the same religion for six thousand years, not at all. Most
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of Egypt now is Islamic. They don't practice the same religion as the Egyptians
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of the you know, of the Bible or before my guy, ancient Babylon.
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I'm still engaged in all the you know, human sacrifice and such,
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or I can put in another many other people's in that from Africa to the
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Aztecs. You know, people say, well, what happened to the Mayans?
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Well, basically the Aztecs atom you know, I mean, only Christianity
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is still standing at the end of the day. Daoism's not as old as
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the the Judeo Christian religion. No, you can't really go back. You
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can find older religions, but you can't find those same religions continually practiced by
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the same people. That in itself is evidence that there's actually something very special.
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People say, well, what about witchcraft, Well, dear, okay,
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what is witchcraft? Define it? Tell me which people practiced it.
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Well, you're going to come up with several dozen tribes, several hundred tribes
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throughout the world, all with very different practices and belief Well, paganism.
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Again, paganism, several hundred tribes throughout the history of humanity, all with
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very different practices and beliefs in different places and time people talk about the old
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gods of what Greece or they maybe talk of the Norse. You know,
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by at least five hundred BC, Greece was entirely Christian, and about one
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hundred years after that most of Scandinavia was, and within two hundred years of
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all was, you know, and there were a lot of a lot of
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that conversion happened with miracles, serious miracles like you know Saint Patrick in Ireland.
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And you know. Bottom line is when people learn the truth, they
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tend to adopt the truth and give up error and falsehood, until their descendants
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a thousand years later gets so corrupted and confused that they try to wander back
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to something that was never valid in the first place. So let's go on
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with this answer here. As they said, such a conviction indicates more than
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human influence. But still men may point to a somewhat similar phenomenon among the
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Mohammedans be the Islam Muslims in the Kuran. And really sufficient proof is found
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only in the authority of the Catholic Church in our own times. Let us
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take the Four Gospels first. Well, frankly, I think they give the
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Koran a lot more respect than I would you ever read the Koran. The
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Catholic Church has a great deal of respect for Islam. We are all Abrahamic
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traditions, both Christian, jew and Muslim. But in the Quran and the
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writings of Mohammad, they're told to kill Jews and Christians, and our books
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were told to turn the other cheek and treat everyone in respect and not kill
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people. So let's just say I have some issues with Islam and leave it
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there. We asked you could consider them for the moment as if they were
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not inspired. We do not deny their inspiration, but for the moment we
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abstract from it and make use of it. Let us subject the Gospels as
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books of the law of historical criticism the same laws that apply to other books.
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Let us subject the Gospels as books to all laws of historical criticism,
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the same laws as applied to other books. They prove to be reliable historical
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documents. Indeed, there is no genuine historical document in existence if these are
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not so. And that's true, I mean, the books of the Old
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Testament certainly tell you what was happening in the ancient world, and that has
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been proven by archaeological evidence. And other books by different cultures. That's say
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basically the same thing. Now, these historical documents tell us of a certain
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historical person who declared that he was God, justified that claim by works which
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no ordinary man could do, and said that he would establish an infallible church,
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a church still in this world. Thus we prove Christ's life and works
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from historical documents. We prove his divinity from his life and works. We
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prove the infallible Church from the promise of the divine person. But we do
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not yet say the Scripture is inspired, though of course we know that it
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is. But our rational grounds for that belief come from the fact that the
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infallible Church of Christ teaches with her authority that the Bible is inspired in the
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Word of God and also tells us what books comprise the Bible. Now that's
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a very good point, as I mentioned in yesterday's show. Without the infallible
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Catholic Church to decide what books were in the Bible, write the New Testament,
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compile the Bible, publish the Bible, and say this is the inspired
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Word of God, no one would believe in the Bible. Protestants make a
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huge mistake when they say the Bible alone is the sole authority, because the
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Bible never claims to be the sole authority. The Bible actually says the pillar
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and foundation of the truth is the Church. The Church says that the Bible
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is worthy of belief. The Church says that the Bible is written by the
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people who they claim wrote it and is inspired by God. The Church says
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that the Bible is true. Without the inherited belief in the Bible of Protestants
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that comes through the Catholic Church, no one would have any reason to believe
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the Bible was anything greater than Lord of the Rings by Tolkien. Frankly,
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Lord of the Rings was better written in many cases, But why would someone
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believe our religion without the authority of the Catholic Church to say it's true in
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many ways? Lord of the Rings or Wheing the Witch in the Wardrobe or
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any of your favorite fantasy novels is much more believable. I mean, how
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easy is it to believe that bread and wine becomes the body and blood of
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God. That's the most incredible, impossible thing in the universe to believe.
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No man would ever come up with that idea. Much easier, much easier
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to believe they're wizards and witches and warlocks and powerful rings and dragons. Right,
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especially if you can dig up a fossil and say, you know,
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this Brontosaurus bone may have come from a dragon. Well, a lot of
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people would believe that, wouldn't they. The only reason people believe the Bible
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is because they're still living in a tradition passed down from their parents and grandparents
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who were once Catholic. The Bible is infinitely superior to sacred books of other
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religions, and this once becomes a parent very true. I've read them,
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okay, the Baghavagda, the tu Dea Jing, and the Quran. You
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know, yes, actually the Bible is far more clear and practical, much
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less hidden by mystery. I guess you would say, I don't know,
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Yeah, I mean you think about the myths of the ancient Greeks and Romans
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or Egyptians, and yes, the Bible is actually far more coherent. I
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mean just think about Okay, if you want to think about like the mists
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of the gods of ancient Roman Greece, think about how many times they were
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fighting and defeated and you know, even made subject to man whom they could
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supposedly created, you cannot actually make coherent sense out of it. Their stories,
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the very entertaining stories, they're instructive even to this day. They're wonderfully,
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wonderful stories, but there's no truth in them because they contradict themselves repeatedly,
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repeatedly. Anyway, the most rigid criticism shows the strictly historical character of
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the Bible. Fabulous narratives cannot stand this test. That's basically what I just
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said. The supernatural character of the Bible stands out in vivid contrasts when compared
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with the teaching of other religious documents. The Catholic Church, whose very existence
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in the world today cannot be explained by natural forces, guarantees the Bible as
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the Word of God. And we'll pick this back up tomorrow. Let's go
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ahead and get into the Catechism as explained by Father from Rago. Let me
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get comfortable in my big squeaky leathers share here. Okay, all right,
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So picking up where we left yesterday, we will get it into part part
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three. We must make use of the means of grace. These are the
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holy sacrifice of Mass, the sacraments, and prayer before entering upon the subject
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of the sacrifice of mass. Sacrifice in and the sacrifice of the Cross are
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considered in treating the holy sacrifice of the Mass. The points explained are the
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institution and the nature, the parts and the ceremonies of the mass, the
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relation of the mass of the sacrifice of the cross, the benefits to derived
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from the mass, the manner of offering it, the devotions during the mass,
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the obligation of hearing the mass, the time and place is celebrating the
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mass, the vestiments, the vessels. You'll find this very interesting. I
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did. I never knew most of the stuff. And as far as the
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time and place and all that, boy, that's going to upset a lot
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of Seven day Adventists and Torah Observant, etc. Church of God, and
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oh my gosh, where I live, the fringe Protestant groups probably constitute the
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majority. Okay, so very good to know these things when one has to
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defend oneselves against the missionary that comes to the door, so called, usually
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a beautiful girl and a friend of hers, usually a guy, because you
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know he's looking out for who comes to your door and starts telling you that
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you worship Satan because you go to church on Sunday and okay, what do
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you do? Well, my mother closes the door in their face and says
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some harsh words and walks away. I have been known to offer them a
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cup of coffee and sit down and open the Bible and actually explain to them
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why their religion is wrong, their denomination at least, and it can get
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fairly heated, usually not on my part. They tend to, you know,
34:45
spin their wheels and throw some gravel as they tear out of the driveway.
34:47
And I've actually been accosted in a grocery store and screamed at before for
34:52
that very reason, my seven day Adventist. But Father Sparaga will give you
34:58
some very good ammunition with which to defend your faith anyway. He says,
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the duty of hearing the word of God. Next follows, there's actually duty
35:12
in religion. God created man. Why God create man? God created man
35:17
to serve and glorify God. I mean, you know, it's a duty.
35:23
And sin is actually our failure in upholding our duty to God and man.
35:29
You know, as Jesus explained in the Heart of the Law, being
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well God, with all your heart and your neighbors, yourself under the sacrament
35:36
of the altar, the institution and nature of the sacraments are considered, or
35:40
the sacrament, I should say, he's talking to the eucharists. Likewise,
35:44
the reception of the sacrament and the fruits produced thereby, the preparation before receiving
35:52
communion, the subsequent thanksgiving, and also spiritual communion very important. We receive
35:57
so much grace for the Euchrists we do through all this sacraments, but we
36:00
have to receive it properly. Remember, Jesus said, those who eat his
36:07
body and drink his blood unworthily are actually guilty of his death, meaning actually
36:13
bear the penalty of murder. Very important to understand. That's why, you
36:21
know, when you take a Protestant a Mass, they may get kind of
36:24
offended that they're not allowed to take communion with You hand them the missile,
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usually one of the pew, and it says, you know, only you
36:35
know members of the Catholic Church, you know, in commune of the Church,
36:38
not in a state of mortal sin et cetera, can receive the Eucharist.
36:44
Well, they'll say, well, you're preventing me from you know,
36:46
they get offended. Well, Jesus actually said if you receive the euclist Euchrist
36:52
unworthily you commit a mortal sin. The Catholic Church is not excluding them,
37:00
it's protecting them from hell. Very very important and not something most people understand.
37:08
I will say that one of the most impressed, one of the times
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I've been most impressed by anyone, was a relative through marriage who was openly
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homosexual, grew up Catholic, no longer practicing, went to our common relative's
37:30
funeral and observed all the norms of the Mass and Catholicism and did not go
37:37
up for communion. I was thoroughly impressed and actually had a great deal of
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respect for that man in acknowledging that he was it's not to impose his lifestyle
38:05
upon the church, but would accept the authority of the Church at his brother's
38:08
funeral. Really, I mean, you know, we got along fine.
38:13
I'm always nice to everybody, you know, it's not a matter of that.
38:15
I mean, you know, I don't accost people, and I don't
38:22
proselytize believe it or not, you know, you know I don't. I'm
38:27
not someone's going to beat somebody up with the Bible. Actually, have had
38:30
many gay friends in my life, this one was particularly flamboyant in his lifestyle,
38:39
but when he walked into that Catholic church, he made himself subject to
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the laws and norms of the Catholic Church, and he was so appreciated.
38:54
I mean, he could have made things very uncomfortable for his family and the
38:59
friends of his brother, but he didn't. He did exactly what he should
39:05
have done, and he did not incur mortal sin by presenting himself for the
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Eucharist. You know, living in a gay marriage. Okay, that is
39:21
a mortal sin. He's not in communion with the Catholic Church. Uh Nancy
39:28
Pelosi doesn't do that. Joe Biden doesn't do that. Dick Durbin doesn't do
39:32
that. You know, Billy Joe down the street, who's racticing contraception with
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his lawful heterosexual wife, doesn't do that. Very very impressive actually, that
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that man submitted himself to you know, what he learned as a child in
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Catechism. That's that's why Christian religious instruction is so very important. And I
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really think this book My Father Spiago, should be in everyone's house. It's
40:07
it's long, but it's easy to read. I mean, you know,
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nothing I said is complicated so far. He goes on and says, under
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the sacrament of Penance, the points are considered, the institution, the nature
40:19
and necessity of penance. That's confession. You know, we all know that
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the office of the confessor, the efforts, effects, the effects of the
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sacrament of penance, the worthy reception of the sacrament. In five parts.
40:35
A lot of this I hadn't considered before. Honestly, I found that it's
40:38
a very interesting section. General confession, the institution, excellence of confession,
40:45
the sins of relapse, and the doctrines of indulgences. I love this section.
40:51
Actually, now you may remember Protestants don't believe in the sacrament of reconciliation
40:58
or confession. They say, you pray directly to God, and only God
41:00
can forgive your sins. That's not what the Bible says. The Bibles,
41:05
the words of Jesus and the Gospel of John's are actually those who sins you
41:12
forgive, they are forgiven, and those who sins you retain, they are
41:15
retained. That's what Jesus Christ said in the Bible. And only the Catholic
41:22
Church has this sacrament of reconciliation. Well, to some extent, the Orthodox
41:30
Church does, and an Anglican will hear someone's confession, but they have the
41:36
Anglican has no authority to enact that sacrament. The Orthodox does have authority because
41:43
their ordinations are valid. You know, the priests who ordained the original Orthodox
41:51
priests were some of the original apostles, and so they do have that authority.
41:59
But there is a huge problem that they're not in communion with the pope.
42:02
They don't have they have a measure. It's like the Catechism says,
42:07
essentially salvation comes through the Catholic Church. The closer one is in communion with
42:14
Catholicism, the better, right, Well, the Orthodox Church is far in
42:21
closer communion than the Anglican Church, which is still actually in closer communion than
42:27
the Lutheran Church, which is in closer communion than say, the Methodist Church,
42:31
just because of the traditions they still uphold even though they no longer have
42:36
the power of the sacraments. One of the places we break ranks with the
42:43
Orthodox churches is of a marriage. You know, in all four Gospels Jesus
42:47
said absolutely no divorce. Divorce is not acceptable what God has joined together.
42:52
Let no man tarasunder the Eastern Orthodox Church. I know specifically because I have
43:00
a friend who is Russian Orthodox and she's divorced, and in the Eastern Orthodox
43:05
Church there they say you can get divorced once. It's like a trial marriage,
43:09
and that's sort of a simplification. She probably wouldn't like me putting that
43:13
way, but you know, I was talking with a priest about it,
43:16
and he was like, oh, yeah, yeah, you know, I
43:17
have Orthodox priest friends, and yeah, this is something we really different different
43:22
on. They say that, you know, there's sort of a time when
43:27
you're young that you haven't figured things out, and you know, they allow
43:30
divorce, whereas the Catholic Church does not do that. So we don't always
43:37
see the sacraments in the same way. Even though the Eastern Orthodox Church is
43:44
the Greek Orthodox Church especially well, and you know, well, even though
43:52
we're very very close, they're the closest to us than any of the other
43:59
denomination. And really the Orthodox would have gotten rid of the schism and rejoined
44:07
the Catholic Church, I guess it was in the sixties, maybe early seventies,
44:14
except for the opposition of Russia, not necessarily the Russian Orthodox Church,
44:21
but the Russian the Soviet government that had such control over the Orthodox Church,
44:28
the Russian Orthodox Church. Again, the Anglican Church was very close to becoming
44:34
Catholic in the late seventies early eighties, and it fell out over ordination of
44:38
women priests. You know, Catholic Church says only men can be priests.
44:45
That's the teaching that was given to the apostles by Jesus. The Anglican Church
44:49
said no, we're going to ordain women and that was the end of it.
44:52
And now they have gay priests and the lesbian priests and they do gay
44:55
marriages. And basically the Anglican Church church was very conservative, very orthodox and
45:02
becoming Catholic until the you know, the wedge of feminism and the gay movement.
45:10
Really now the Church of England barely exists after that. After they did
45:21
that, so many people left the church or just stopped attending the Anglican Church
45:29
that their churches have essentially been empty for the last thirty forty years. It's
45:34
essentially a denomination and name only and look who the head of their church is
45:39
now, the inmbred moronic, thoroughly devoid of morality. What do they call
45:50
it? An England git, he's a git, Prince, King Charles,
45:55
I mean, come on now. It may be the Irish and me,
45:59
but I would ever been a ded of that jackass. I'd punch him in
46:02
the face, I'd spit on him, but I would never no, no,
46:08
no, I mean, come on you. I mean any pretense of
46:16
the superiority of England is certainly null and void by making the Dumbo with the
46:24
big ears, the inbred moron your king. Really, look, my ancestors,
46:34
the Kings of Wessex would not approve, to put it mildly. Actually,
46:42
they do their Catholic duty and strike him down and reinstitute the Catholic Church,
46:47
which should have been done centuries ago in England and is what my Irish
46:52
ancestors have fought for for hundreds of years. Yeah, what a frickin' joke,
47:01
keen, Charles. Is I mean, oh my gosh, I wouldn't.
47:07
I will use an Irish phrase and I will not put it in the
47:10
vernacular. I would simply say I would not urinate on him if he was
47:15
on fire. Okay, So that's why you're listening to the uncensored Catholic Okay.
47:23
If I put that in Irish, trust me. Uh, it's gonna
47:28
be a lot stronger in language. I'm gonna put it lightly as an Egypt
47:37
anyway, The worthy reception of the Sacraments in its five parts, general confession,
47:44
the institution excellence of confession, the sin of relapse, that's a tough
47:47
one. And the doctrine of indulgences. As I just mentioned, indulgences are
47:52
so cool. Protestants so misunderstood stand indulgences. We will get into that.
47:59
I pray probably almost at least a half dozen, maybe up to a dozen
48:05
indulgenced prayers daily. I find them so spiritually comforting and uplifting. Martin Luther
48:16
another one I wouldn't urinate on if he was on fire, lied about what
48:22
indulgences were and Protestants believed it. You know, he's an Antichrist. He
48:28
is literally the Antichrist, one of several who opposed Christ in his church.
48:36
Martin Luther is on the same level as Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin mal Malse
48:43
tongue. He did nothing good in his life, you know, Pray for
48:51
his repose of his soul. Pray that he got to work out in purgatory,
48:55
because by his actions he deserved to burn in hell for all eternity.
49:00
Of course we all do, actually, but much more so than others,
49:06
you know, especially, I mean, look at the way he misinterpreted and
49:09
taught falsehoods about grace, which is the only thing that keeps us from burning
49:15
in hell for all eternity, because we're all sinful by nature. He led
49:21
millions of people, probably to hell. That's actually a lot worse than killing
49:28
people. Okay, yeah, so let's put on the balance. Adolf Hitler
49:31
killed six million Jews, nearly a million Gypsies in Catholics, and well,
49:42
I think it's more. When you anim a together faithful Catholics, Gypsies,
49:45
Homosexuals, a few other ethnicities he didn't improve of, you get about three
49:52
million there, and they're about six million Jews. And then you take the
49:55
war dead. And so you could say Adolf Hitler is responsible or at least
50:00
twelve million deaths. I would tell you that Martin Luther is responsible for at
50:06
least wow. I mean, over the time, over the few hundred years
50:15
that have passed, a billion lost souls, not deaths of the body,
50:22
but people damned to hell through his faults and malicious teaching that he admitted at
50:32
least in terms of his criticism of the Eucharist, the body and Blood of
50:37
Christ, holy communion, he admitted was inspired by Satan. Yeah, so,
50:46
I mean, every Protestant on earth today still holds as their highest authority
50:53
the teachings of Martin Luther as opposed to the teachings of Jesus Christ through his
50:58
church. He is. Yeah, Martin Luther's far worse than Adolf Hitler,
51:07
far worse. You combine Hitler and Stalin together and you get about one hundred
51:12
million deaths, the horrible genocide in Ukraine, the pogroms well through Malin there,
51:20
and then you get to about one hundred thousand. Because you got to
51:22
remember the laba je Martin Luther. They're pikers compared to him, They're choir
51:29
boys compared to Martin Luther. Martin Luther is responsible for dividing the body of
51:36
Christ, crucifying Christ. Again, Martin Luther is, next to Satan himself,
51:47
probably the most evil being this world has ever known. So anyway,
51:55
let's wrap this up here. He would then get into matrimony, the institution
52:01
and nature of marriage, treated of the duties of married people, mixed marriages,
52:07
and the single state a lot of confusion over that in modern days,
52:12
especially mixed marriages and such. We'll get into that. Hereupon follows the teaching
52:15
concerning the sacramentos and treating of prayer. An explanation is given of the nature
52:22
of the use, the necessity of the time, the place and the object
52:24
of prayer and contemplation, something everybody ought to know, okay. Furthermore,
52:30
explanations are given to the most important prayers. Of the most important prayers,
52:36
I should say, the Lord's Prayer, the prayer to the Mother of God,
52:38
so the Our Father, and the Ave Maria, the principal public services,
52:44
morning and evening processions, and pilgrimages, the way of the Cross.
52:49
This is fascinating. I mean, none of this is in the modern catechism,
52:52
as far as the places of pilgrimages and why did you okay, did
52:59
you know in the Red Oh, there's the actual house that Jesus grew up
53:04
in, and it was brought there by angels. And that's I mean literally,
53:08
seriously, I mean, if the world knew that, how different would
53:12
things be? Right? The exposition of the blasted sacrament missions, Catholic congressmans
53:20
congresses, passion plays, and religious associations. You go love learning about all
53:24
the confraternities. Again, none of this is in the modern Catechism. You
53:29
know, you can read the Catechism all the way through. You're not gonna
53:31
learn about the Association of the Miraculous Metal or the Confraternity of the Rosary or
53:37
et cetera. One of the probably these confraternities and religious associations like basically give
53:45
people like here's the way to get to Heaven. You know, here's already
53:49
do it, and we're all going to help you and pray for you.
53:52
Yeah, that really should be in the modern Catechism. It's not. The
54:00
lad includes third orders, confraternities, and charitable societies. I had no idea
54:07
about the third order or tertiary order of the Franciscans. You're gonna want to
54:13
know about that. You're going to want to know about all this stuff.
54:15
Amazing. Really, this is the stuff that you know, maybe your grandparents
54:22
took it for granted if you grew up Catholic. But I've been Catholic more
54:27
than twenty years now. I've watched EWTN to the point that I'll tell you
54:31
I hate it. I mean, okay, I shouldn't say that I like
54:36
EWTN. Some of their programming is very good. Most of them is boring.
54:40
Well, we'll see old phrase boring is sin No, seriously, it
54:45
is more boring than watching paint dry or an egg boil. It is like
54:52
it's better than when Mother Angelical was around. Nowadays it is like, Man,
54:57
I haven't turned on EWT in except four, you know, to watch
55:00
the Christmas Mass or something in a few years. It's awful. I'm sorry
55:06
if you're an EWTN host if that offends you. If you know, I
55:10
knew a girl one time her father worked for EWT in radio, and he
55:15
actually did a good show. Most of the programming is so freaking pathetic.
55:21
It could have been put on by a you know, a junior high school
55:24
group and it's as it will push your sleep. How bad is it?
55:29
Well? One time I miss Mass, got in late. You know,
55:32
I've been traveling and I didn't get up in time. Ran to my priest
55:36
at the grocery store that afternoon. I'm like, He's like, hey,
55:38
I didn't see it mass. I'm like, oh, yeah, I missed
55:42
Mass, but I did watch it on EWTN. He says to me,
55:46
my son, you've suffered enough. Look let's just say it straight. EWT
55:52
in sucks. Okay, it could be twenty times better than it is.
56:00
I think anyone would admit that. But having been Catholic for over twenty years
56:07
and having watched I don't know how many hundred hours of EWTN and read how
56:13
many Catholic books, I mean hundreds, probably I didn't know, you know,
56:21
seventy five percent of what Father Sparago talks about in this book. So
56:24
I'm sure I've upset people. You know, people love EWTN. It's like
56:29
a friend of the family. And I mean, honestly, it was a
56:31
lot better twenty years ago than it is now. I mean I actually enjoyed,
56:37
like Father Grocil's show and different ones. Gracchel was it Grocial Graciel.
56:44
You know, he was a psychologist, He had a near death experience.
56:46
He told people about his visions of hell and such a man. I mean,
56:51
that was something right. But then even then they do like a what
56:54
a dramatic interpretation of G. K. Chesterton, just some guy sitting in
56:59
a chair giving memorized lines out of a book. I mean that even PBS
57:07
has better programming for that. In the nineteen eighties for children, I mean
57:10
it's just pathetic, pathetic. And then there's that guy that looks like pee
57:15
wee Herman given the six o'clock news. Okay, at least he's funny sometimes.
57:22
Anyway, Okay, I'm sure I'm really upsetting people. I'm just going
57:27
to tell you that Father Spirago's explanation of the Catechism, written in the eighteen
57:32
nineties is better than anything you will get in modern media if you want to
57:40
learn about Catholicism. And that's why I'm going to vote probably the next year
57:46
to going through this book, you know, and I'm not just reading it.
57:49
I'm giving you my commentary. Unlike EWTN, I like to make things
57:53
interesting and engaging and entertaining. Maybe you wish I'd shut up and just read
57:58
it, but you know what, if that's your attitude, get the bok.
58:00
Can read it yourself. If you listen to my show, it's because
58:04
you like listening to my show. And I'm not gonna make any apologies for
58:07
it. And yeah, I missed up on some toes. This is the
58:10
uncensored Catholic. I have my opinions and I don't uh, you know,
58:16
I don't bite my tongue very well or suffer fool as gladly as the saying
58:22
goes. And uh, you know, frankly, you know a lot of
58:27
people wud eatputy in that are really dropping the ball in my opinion, and
58:31
that's some very Hey, you want me get into the the U S Catholic
58:37
bishops, You want me to get into the leadership the Vatican, leadership of
58:42
the church. He stays there. We got a lot of Judases in there.
58:45
I mean, I'll rip them up one side and down the other verbally,
58:50
of course, I wouldn't, you know, not makey through physical threats,
58:53
but I would definitely criticize. I'll Pope, criticize for Francis, I'll
58:58
criticize anybody. Uh, I criticize myself more than any of the above.
59:02
But I'm not gonna act like everything's okay when it's not. And e W
59:08
t N is a shadow of what it was under Mother Angelicals leadership. It's
59:14
it's pathetic. I wouldn't give him a cent. Catholic Charities should be actually
59:22
not only stripped of its Catholic title, but most of the leadership of Catholic
59:27
charities and many of the people that work should be prosecuted for crimes of aiding
59:32
and enabling human trafficking and the rape of children and drug trafficking. I'm not
59:39
going to hold back. That's that's the point of this show. You're gonna
59:45
get it, you know, as you know the old saying says with the
59:49
bark on uh, you know it's an old saying where you hit somebody who's
59:52
sticking. You don't even trim the bark off of it. Right, You're
59:57
gonna get it straight because what did our Lord say? What good is salt
1:00:05
of It's lost its saltiness? You know, the lukewarm I will spit out
1:00:08
of my mouth. I don't ever. I don't mind being wrong. I
1:00:14
don't mind being told I'm wrong. I will tell you if I'm wrong,
1:00:17
and I will apologize. But I'm not gonna be lukewarm. And I'm not
1:00:22
gonna be salt that's lost its salt, or a light hidden under a basket
1:00:27
or any of those things. You know, you listen to this show,
1:00:30
you're gonna know exactly what I truly believe, not what I feel. I
1:00:37
can't stand it when these millennials say, well I feel this, and I
1:00:39
don't feel Jack squat, you know what I believe something. I believe it
1:00:45
because I've learned about it. I believe it because I believe it to be
1:00:50
true. My feelings don't matter to anybody. But I'm going to tell you
1:00:57
what I believe, and I'm going to tell you why I believe it.
1:01:00
And I don't end sentences in questions either, like you know, up talkers,
1:01:05
I'm gonna tell you what's true and this is what I feel. No,
1:01:08
I'm gonna give you just plain flat talk in southern honesty. That's all
1:01:14
I know. That's all I can do, and God willing, I'll get
1:01:19
it right. And if I don't, you know, well that's on me.
1:01:25
Uh God willing, I'll work it out in purgatory or at least have
1:01:29
a chance to find out I was wrong and apologize and repent in his life.
1:01:35
But either way, I'd rather be bold in my convictions then, you
1:01:44
know, fail to tell the truth be a coward. There's no show room
1:01:47
for cowards in this world anyway, y'all, In the words of Saint Padre
1:01:53
Pio, pray, hope, and don't worry, and I will talk to
1:01:57
you next time.