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Show 80: What does the Parable of the Vineyard mean for Judaism and Catholicism? · The Uncensored Catholic

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A, Hey, y'all, welcome Todave's show. This is actually what I've
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been wanting to get around to for a little more than a week. Well,
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with all the confusion going on right now this well, you know,
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I've been pretty vocal in my criticism of Pope Francis. You know, I
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believe he's a valid pope, I submit to the authority of the church.
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I do not believe he's a particularly good pope, mainly because a lot of
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what he says just really confuses people, and he does seem to equivocate somewhat
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on moral issues, not as much as the press reports. Last time I
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did a show very critical about him, a lot of people came out and
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said, well, that's not really what he said. You need to read
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the full statement. Okay, I read the full statement. Yes, the
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media certainly did take it and run with it and exaggerate it. But but
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he could still be a lot more clear and orthodox in his teaching. Lets
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put it that way. I don't think he's a bad man. I think
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he loves God. I think he's doing what he thinks his best. But
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I don't think he's one of our better popes. He is not, you
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know, put Benedict sixteenth of John Paul the second, and in no way
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can he be compared to, say, you know, Pope Pious the tenth
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or one of the you know, great teaching popes. So that's my opinion,
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and you don't have to agree with me. If you think Pope Francis
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is great, hey, go for it. Like I said, I am
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not a set of vocantists. I do believe that he is a valid pope.
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I just don't think he's one of our better popes. But you know,
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like I said, it's totally up to you if you have a great
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love for the man, and I respect that, and I don't wish to
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say anything to offend you. But my opinion is my opinion. It is
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the uncensored Catholic after all. But a couple about ten days ago or so,
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a friend of mine who also wrote writes for Missy Oday, Caleb Hammond,
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wrote a very good article. And here in just a minute, after
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we get through our radio replies, question answers, I'm just going to kind
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of give you a brief outline of his article. Really good if you want
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to read it in full. It's called They Will Reverence My Son, and
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it was the Gospel Reflection for October eight, and it's on missioday dot org,
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where my articles are featured once or twice a week. Not that I
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am anywhere worthy of being in this group of actually Catholic educated scholars and deacons
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and priests and theologians and students at Catholic universities. Somehow they let this hill
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billy come on there once or twice a week and fill in, and I'm
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very honored to do it. It's a great group of people, really,
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some great authors, some of them a couple of the moments, particularly Caleb's
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one of them Lexus and Chantal or two more. I can't believe how wise
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they are at their young age. Their college students blows my mind. And
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then we have you know, older, more mature guys like Jonathan fessendm and
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Philip and Deacon Mark Muller and you know, different ones. It's just a
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really good group of people. Anyway, let's get into the question answers from
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radio replies. And the person asked the priests today, if miracles were necessary
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to convince men two thousand years ago, why not today? And they answer
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miracles were necessary during the preparat preparatory stages of the religion, and above all,
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during the earliest years of Christianity, that the final perfection of that religion
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might rapidly be rapidly and firmly established. Once that true religion was solidly established
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under the form of the Catholic Church, there was no longer the same need.
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The Catholic Church is evidence enough in herself. Any man will study the
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facts without prejudice, if any man will state the facts without prejudice. However,
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miracles still occur in the world, and a study of the happening,
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say it, Lord's will provide any man with sufficient evidence that if he approached
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the matter with a fair and open mind, with sufficient evidence, if he
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approached with a fair mind. Yeah, I talked about this yesterday. There
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are so many miracles that's still happening today, and really the media suppresses them.
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It's not the policy of the Vatican and its news agencies to really promote
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miracles. I think. You know, basically you would say they go under
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the idea of one miracle supposed miracle proven faults would be more damaging to the
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faith of people than one hundred miracles proven true. I see that reasoning.
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I understand that reasoning. I'm not of the same mindset. I think,
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you know, had the Miracles of Fatima been shown in newspapers and radio reports
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and then later the movie in the Southern United States, there'd be a lot
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more Southern Catholics, a lot more you know, the Klan prevented that,
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and the Masonic Order prevented that. I think if the eucharistic miracles that occur
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were you know, in front of thousands of people, sometimes a priest holds
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up the eucharistic wafer and it turns into the actual bleeding heart tissue of Jesus.
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Yeah, I think that would I think I would really convince a lot
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of people. Or you know, the miracles at lords, the healings that
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people just kind of take for granted because it's been going on for so long.
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Those those are incredible miracles. And many more miracles than that, the
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saints whose bodies are uncorrupted, I mean, etc. Many, so many
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miracles happen on a daily basis in Catholicism. We only hear about one,
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maybe two a year if we're lucky. But I mean, you know,
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miracles happen in the Catholic Church every day. I'm living proof of it.
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I'm living proof of it. I told you how my back was miraculously healed.
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That started me on my journey becoming a devout Christian and eventually becoming Catholic.
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I am living proof that miracles happen. Now, my miracle happened before
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I became Catholic, but it proves the power of Christianity. It proves the
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love of God and his action in our life. And so many miracles happen
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in the Catholic Church that do not happen in Protestant churches, such as those
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eucharistic miracles, such as the Saints. I mean Saint Padre Pierre. He
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appeared in different places at the same time. I mean he had the wounds
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of the stigmata, his hands, his feet, his side bled constantly that
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the wounds of Christ. You know, I believe he was one and other
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several other states that would actually levitate as they prayed. Real I mean,
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not like the Transcendental meditation the TM stuff where they just kind of like sit
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in a lotus position and start bouncing up and down and they call it levitation.
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You know, they're actually just standing there, you know, at the
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Alder or wherever they are and they're praying, and suddenly they just start being
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lifted up miraculously or divine light comes upon. I mean, this is the
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kind of thing that could really, I mean change the world if more people
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knew about it. I mean, anyone with a scientific mind and interest would
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have to investigate them and would be proved to themselves the existence of God.
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But they're so suppressed, and that's a real shame. I think we should
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be very open and vocal about the miracles, that the power of God is
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still so active in the Catholic Church and always will be until the end of
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time, and no other denomination can claim that, you know, no other
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denomination can claim that. Let's see, the person says, it is always
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the same miracles happened last week, last century, They will happen sometime in
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the future, but they never happened today. That's the person's charge, right
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And they said that is a sophism of the purest ray serene. It's odd
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way of saying, it's just a fulse false we have stating something. Don't
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you realize that time is essentially in constant succession? Do you want today to
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stay fixed, never to yield tomorrow. If a miracle did happen today,
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you would only have to wait twenty four hours and then with sigh, ah,
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yes it happened yesterday, never today. All the miracles which have happened
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occurred on definite day. It was today when they happened, But today on
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which they happen cannot remain static. It is a historic fact that a miracle
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occurred a century ago, a week ago. The fact that our today does
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not happen to be a week ago, and no way disproves it that fact.
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Is this all too deep? Let me give you a simple argument based
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on your principles. They say that kings of England have died in the past,
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it is thought that they will die in the future. But I have
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searched the papers in Vain today to see if one died today. The truth
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is I don't think kings of England ever die at all. Yes, some
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arguments are literally that ridiculous. In fact, most Protestant arguments against Catholicism are.
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And finally, the person says, will you prove the reliability of the
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Gospels according to the five requirements you outlined by yourself To a previous inquirer,
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we said this yesterday by all means. Although I cannot go very deeply in
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the matter, and this brief time it might disposal, however, I shall
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do my best to give the main elements. Firstly, the authors assigned wrote
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the books attribute to them. A knowledge of Hebrew shows that the authors were
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certainly Jews. Historic and political references show that they were Jews of the first
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century. For Palestine has shown under the conditions before and not after the fall
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of Jerusalem in the year seventy a d. Also, had they been written
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after that date, the writers would not have omitted to make the point that
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Christ's prophecy had been fulfilled. They do not mention it all. The descriptions
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also are so vivid that they could only have been written by eyewitnesses. And
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in addition to this internal evidence, we have solid extern evidence. Thus,
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Popius, who was the disciple of Saint John the Apostle, and who certainly
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lived in the first century, has left it in writing that one named Matthew
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wrote in Hebrew, and one name Mark, who had heard of Peter,
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and that the one Mark wrote of what he had heard of Peter. Papius
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could not have written this had not the two evangelists already written their gospels.
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The Muraturian fragment, dating to at least the year one seventy, tells us
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that the third Gospel was written by Luke and the fourth by John, and
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that there is no evidence at all to the contrary. We have not as
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much evidence for the authority of many classical books, of which no one doubts.
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Also, the apostles and intermediate disciples would not have allowed forgeries to be
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palmed off as genuine. Heretics and pagans would have found their strongest argument in
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showing the basic documents to be fairly falsely attributed to immediate disciples of Christ,
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and all regions and all regions accepted these four gospels. If they were not
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genuine, genuine, and one region began the fraud, the rest would have
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risen up in violent protests. No critic of any value denies the fourfold authorship
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today. Secondly, the gospels have never been tampered with or substantially altered.
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The gospels had been multiplied by copyists and were quite familiar to the early Christians.
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Not all could be falsified simultaneously, and the changes could easily be detected
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by comparison, and the early Christians were most vigilant, holding the Gospels in
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great veneration. Marcion, the heretic, fabricated a Gospel in the year one
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ten to suit his heresy, and there was a universal protest at once.
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All existing manuscripts back as far as the fourth century quote the Gospels saar.
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Now, no substantial alteration can have occurred since the fourth century, and they
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were far less likely to occur during the times of the Apostles. Sincere critics
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today admit the substantial integrity of the Gospels, and those opposed to Christianity concentrate
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upon attacks of other lines. Thirdly, the evangelists were reliably informed. Rationalists
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take refuge in the thought that they were sincere but laboring under some strange illusion
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or hallucination. They have no evidence to support this contention at all, but
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stake all on the preconceived improbability. They practically say, we do not see
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how such things could happen. Therefore there is no use in telling us they
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did happen. This is prejudice. A few years ago men said a man
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could not speak to Australia from England by telephone, and therefore we do not
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believe it, ever will the fact has disproved them. A man with a
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theory can see almost anything provided supports his theory, and be blind to the
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most evident facts if they seem to upset his theory. Rationalists do not like
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the Gospel facts and therefore deny them. Forced to admit authorship, integrity,
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and sincerity, they say, the writers must have been the victim of some
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hallucination. But if you wish to deny a man's right to the property next
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door, you must prove something, if only that his title deeds are false,
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But it's no use saying I do not like the man. Meanwhile,
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all evidence is against the position of these rationalists. They have to admit exactly
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as regards to geographical, political, and religious conditions of Palestine. Why should
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they be less accurate when they describe as sayings and doings of Christ? They
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are perfectly saying in all other statements, and are all four to have the
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same hallucination all their lives. There is no trace of fanaticism and the sober
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accounts of Christ. In the Sober accounts, Christ had to accuse them of
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being slow to believe. Enemies then could not deny the miracles and must have
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been suffering from the same hallucination, And the Jews never attempted to deny the
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facts. The evangelists were quite reliably informed. Fourthly, they were sincere.
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If they not only knew the facts, but they told the truth, they
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gained martyrdom in life, and on their own principles stood to gain only hell
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in the next if they were lying on so important a matter. But if
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they intended to lie, they could have pained themselves as heroes instead of depicting
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their own faults. And above all, should not have described a mock humiliated
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and crucified master in order to win the veneration of men on the Jewish material
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all at their disposal. They could not have invented the type represented by Christ
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as Messiah if they did want to, imvt might just as well have painted
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the portrait of a far more glorious leader from a worldly point of view.
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No thinker today brings the old charge that the evangelists lied. Finally, that
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their statements were made under oath before God is abundantly clear. The writers call
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upon God to witness to the truth of what they write. Saint John says,
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I testify to everyone here that heareth these words, He that sawth have
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given testimony, and his testimony is true, and he knoweth that he saith
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true, that you may also believe. Saint Paul also says, I speak
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the truth, I lie not my conscience, bearing me witness in the Holy
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Spirit. No modern law court would reject evidence as clearly as that for the
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events and utterances attributed to Christ. And that's a wonderful explanation of the authority
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and validity of the Bible, at least the validity well, certainly the authority
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is given by God. But you know, that's actually a very interesting subject
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for another day. Yeah, we'll talk about the inspiration of the Bible at
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some point. Now, let's talk about what a Caleb had to write.
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First of all, he begins with the Gospel of the Day, which was
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Matthew twenty one thirty three through forty one, and it's the very well known
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story that Jesus told about the man who created a vineyard. He built the
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vineyard, left servants in charge. He sent his servants to go check on
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the vineyard, and the people there, the farmers he had hired whatever killed
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them, and so he sent more and they beat them and stoned them and
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killed them. And then he said since his son, saying, surely they
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will reverence my son, and instead they say, we'll kill him because he's
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the heir, and will take the vineyard for ourselves. At the end of
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it, Jesus says, have you never read the scripture? The stone which
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the builders rejected, the same became the head of the corner by the Lord.
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This has been done. It is wonderful in our eyes. Therefore,
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I say to you that the Kingdom of God should be taken from you and
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should be given to a nation yielding the fruits thereof Now it's very important,
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very important to remember this was a grave warning to the Jewish people, okay,
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that they had rejected the prophets, and now they were rejected rejecting the
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Son of God, and so their lot as the chosen people would be taken
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away and given to the Christians, Gentiles and jewelike doesn't have to do with
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race. Under a new Church and a new covenants, as Caleb stated,
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the Israelite, who are the primary groups symbolized by the vineyard and its fruits
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and the parable of Isaiah and our Lord, were intended to be pressed by
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discipline in producing the wine of fidelity to God's law, the overseers of the
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vineyards, the tenant, the tenants or husbandmen who were charged with protecting and
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cultivating the vineyard. From the watchtower. Are the priests and teachers from whom
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Scripture gives are the priests and teachers whom Scripture gives as direct targets of Christ's
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parable He was criticizing their religious leaders. In other words, he says,
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all these parables apply to the Israelites in general, who had failed to obey
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the law and practice of virtue as they should. I think it's good that
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Caleb's saying Israelites as opposed to Jews, because to some that's a loaded term.
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I grew up with a lot of Jewish friends. By dated a couple
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of Jewish girls. They call themselves Jews. I call them Jews. Some
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people will hear hear me say that and think I'm anti Semitic somehow, which
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is ridiculous. I've had probably well, especially when I was playing music,
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some of my very best friends were Jewish. Some Jewish folks tend to be
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a great musicians. They have a particular knack, I would say, and
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maybe that's a racist statement. I don't know, but I think Jews are
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particularly talented at music and comedy, and science and finance and fashion. The
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greatest tailors are generally Jewish, and there's something certainly nothing to be ashamed of
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in that. It's an incredible skill. Where I grew up in North Carolina,
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all the clothing stores in probably east of Charlotte were owned by Jewish families.
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They came over just usually just prior to World War two, to the
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Holocaust, and they found in wonderful men's stores, and they had real tailors
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that cut cloth, and I mean you cannot find that these days. And
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they became very influential with the community. They became bankers and doctors, and
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they were office holders. Some of our state senators are from those very families,
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or have been at least recently in those counties where those families established those
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businesses. My grandfather was great friends with one of them, and you know,
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that's how I got to know a lot of this. My mother worked
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for one of them when she was in college. And you know, the
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history of Jews in eastern North Carolina is really interesting because they did become so
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prominent, especially in politics and business and the Klan kind of left them alone.
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Meanwhile, Catholics were not allowed. So when I say when I call
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someone a Jew, I say it meaning they're just a Jewish person. You
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know, I don't mean anything negative by it. Certainly I might say someone's
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white or black. I don't have any negative connotation. But for some reason
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and some people misunderstand it sometimes when I do. I just grew up around
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a lot of Jewish folks, and they call themselves Jews, so I call
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them Jews. They make a great distinction between jew and gentile, you know,
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they really do. And you know, even though I was friends accepted
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their home, I was never going to be Jewish, but you know they're
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they're they're culturally proud. Do they have a lot to be proud of.
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I happen to be particularly fond of Jewish people, not all. Obviously,
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if Bernie Sanders was around, I would not be fond of him, even
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though it can be kind of funny sometimes. But you know, if you
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if you asked me to name my heroes, I mean, one of my
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first that I would mention would be Groucho Marx. I am such a huge
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Groucho Marx and mel Brooks and my favorite Jewish comedian of all time, Jackie
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Mason. These are like I grew up on these guys, you know,
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they their humor, their comedy formed much of my worldview. David Grisman playing
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the mandolin, kinky Friedman singing his obscene country songs. They formed in his
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mystery novels. They formed a lot. Gene Wilder, my gosh, what
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a fan of Gene Wilder I am. And you know, it was actually
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a great compliment. When I was dating a Jewish girl a few years ago.
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She was a psychiatrist and very well I mentioned her before, very intelligent,
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very knowledgeable about many things, which she said that I had a Jewish
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sense of humor. And she meant that. It's like, you know,
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a great compliment, you know, Jerry Seinfeld or something. And I think
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it's true. I think they did really shape my sense of humor a great
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deal. And I'm grateful for that. And trust me, I'm a foodie.
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I'm a foodie. Food is my first love. You sent me in
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a Jewish Delhi, and I am, in paradise a fan of even just
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a simple cabbage. It's so good. But they literally do make the best
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sandwich on the face of the earth. Now that's a generalization. You're going
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to call me racist for that? I don't care. You know what they
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used to warn people in politics in the you know, seventies and eighties,
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if you call everybody racist, the word's going to lose its impact. Well,
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that was also said, if you call everybody a Nazi or an anti
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Semite, the word's going to use lose its impact. Well, since Obama
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got elected, every single person who's not a liberal Democrat has been accused of
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being racist. And I don't freaking care anymore. Call me whatever you want.
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It has lost its impact. I know who I am. Anybody who
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knows me knows who I am. And if you're an ignorant, hateful moron
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and you want to call me a name, hey go for it. Jesus
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has called many names, and as my old friend Neil Boortch used to say,
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I've been called everything but a child of God. Right, So call
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me whatever you want. But anyway, I do think that's Yeah, maybe
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it's a little easier for people to read an article like this when Caleb use
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is the word Israelites or the name Israelites instead of Jews. But calm Hebrews,
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Calm Jews, callem Israelites. You know, you know what we're talking.
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We're talking religious Jewish people, not necessarily people who are just you know,
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Jewish biogenetics, like Bernie Sanders or Karl Marx or Adolf Hitler. Actually,
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there are a lot of really bad people that have done a lot of
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harm to the Jewish race who are actually of Jewish heritage. So we're talking
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actual religious Jews. He said, do these parables apply to the Israelites in
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general, who had failed to obey the law and practices they should in each
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instance? To blame is applied to their overseers, those who are responsible for
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the spiritual growth and health that they're people, the fruit of God's covenants.
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But these leaders had betrayed their obligations and forsaken their God given authority for which
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they had been ordained, and so the defects of their people were imputed doubly
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to themselves. As Saint James taught, teachers received greater judgment for errors of
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their pupils due to special responsibilities. The husbandmen not only failed in their mission,
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scandalizing the people and wasting the harvest which God had planted, but they
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also killed the prophets sent by God to collect it, finally culminating in the
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crucifixion of his own son outside of the vineyard on Calvary in the parable of
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Isaiah. God then says he will allow the thorns and briars of error,
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worldliness, and persecution to bring the punishment of ruin to his vineyard. But
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Christ gives the new revelation of hope in himself that the vineyard be saved through
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the conversion of gentiles and the establishment of the Church, through which Christ him
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will preserve his truth and protect it from its own sins and protected even from
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its own sins. As you know, this is where we change, and
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we started to talk about the Christian Church. As Caleb said, it would
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be misleading to apply these paralables only to the historic circumstances of the Israelites,
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as the christ Church, the true israel is immune from such bad leadership.
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Now that's sort of what a controversial Catholic teaching, But that what was believed
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by Christianity, oh, for a good thousand years and a lot written about
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it. And it's only because you know, Protestants have no foundation in Christian
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history. They're essentially inventing a new doctrine and everything a new every generation with
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their new churches. You know, you have to remember there are between five
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and fifty thousand, depending on how you count them. If you're going to
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say that, you know, all what a reformed Lutheran is different than just
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a Lutheran, okay, Or a Baptist is different from a Northern Baptist,
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which actually very much are. So you can count fifty thousand Protestant denominations,
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none of them whom have any foundation in Christian history more than just you know,
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most of them less than one hundred years ago. Some of them can
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go back about four hundred, five hundred years to you know, Lutherans and
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Anglicans. But when they just denied to Catholic Church and stopped reading the early
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Church Fathers and you know, fifteen hundred years of Christian writings, they just
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start making it up as they go. It's it's they say, each one
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will tell you that the Holy Spirit guided them in the reading of the Bible,
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right, so to all truth? Right, Well, that's you know,
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the Holy Spirit will guide you in all truth. That's what it says
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in the Bible. Meanwhile, you know that was actually said to the apostles
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that founded the Catholic Church. There's only one truth. So if two people
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disagree on what that is, only one can be right and the other the
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wrong. And in the case of Protestants versus Catholicism, I hate to say
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it, but all of Protestantism is wrong. It's all based on lives and
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confusion. There's only one truth, and it's eternal, and it's the truth
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that's been with the Catholic Church since the day Jesus founded it and will be
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until the end of time. But that teaching that I referenced is that Christianity,
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the Catholic Church in particular, is the new Israel. God had actually
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taken the inheritance from the Jews and given it to the Christians who are Catholic.
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Protestantism has no share in that. Another reason, you know, I
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had a very good Baptist friend who went apoplectic. That means he had a
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fit when he found out that I was becoming Catholic and sudden only it was
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revealed something he had never really shown before. He was extremely antisemitic. He
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hated the claim in the Bible made a million times in the Bible, that
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the Jews were the chosen people, and because of that he hated the Catholic
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Church, because Catholics were the chosen people. After the Resurrection of Christ,
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that resentment of Jews was transferred to a resentment of Catholics. And I think
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that is why you will find wherever evil raises its head in horrible, genocidal,
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deadly governments such as the Nazis and the Soviets, and the communist China
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and progressives here in America and England and such, who have killed million,
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hundreds of millions of people, they always single out Jews and Catholics. You
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know, very much. Part of English culture is to believe the English people
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are essentially the chosen people, the greatest people on earth. Yeah, they
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can't accept that Jews and Catholics are more favored by God than an Anglican Englishman,
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much less a secular Englishman. And again, our religious doctrine is the
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greatest threat to communism. So always you will find that these evil dictatorial regimes
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usually go for the Jews first, and then the Catholics. Yeah, others
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that they you know, don't like Gypsies, and you know, Margaret Sanger
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didn't like anyone who didn't have who was white, who wasn't white. I
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mean, she wanted to exterminate all the blacks and Mexicans and you know,
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you name it, right, But specifically and primarily they start by targeting the
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Jews, and then they go for the Catholics. Yet another reason why I
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think, you know, I have a great kinship and commonalty with nearly every
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Jewish person I've ever encountered. We just kind of have the same worldview.
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Not this, not the liberal ones, not the socialist ones, but you
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know, the ones that actually have some sense, the religious ones in particular.
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But that's neither here to there. And you know, maybe you've never
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been around Jewish people, maybe you don't have the same feelings about him as
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maybe you have, you know, real concerns with modern Israel as a Jewish
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state and their politics. Yeah I do one, they're a socialist nation.
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That's that's that's bad for a start, you know, But I definitely do
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not think that they deserve to be victims of terrorism by the Palestinians and Iran
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and all that. Uh you know, uh frankly, uh there, you
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know it's controversial to say these days, right, I mean, this is
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what Donald Trump got President Trump got just destroyed for by saying, in the
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matter of the Confederate monuments, there were good people on either side. He
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specifically said, I don't mean the neo Nazis. I mean people of good
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faith on every side. And everybody called him a Nazi and a Nazi sympathizer
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and all that. Well, there actually are good people on both sides of
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the Israeli Palestinian conflict. A lot of them. A lot of Muslims are
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wonderful people. I've known them, you know. I've mentioned this before.
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I'll just say it again. One time a friend of mine, a Muslim
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friend of mine from Egypt, was the only person not related to me to
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wish we me and merry Christmas. I'm going out about town. I was
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down central North Carolina, somewhere near Fayetteville and Raleigh and all that. And
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I'm staying there for a while doing some work. I knew, you know,
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several dozen people around town that I did business with, or that I
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knew through politics or going to church, you know. And only in that
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year one person wished me a merry Christmas. And that was my friend Mustapha
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in his home country. He probably could have gotten a lot of trouble for
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wishing someone to marry Christmas. But he respected me and he respected my Christian
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faith, just as I would respect him and his Islamic faith. And I
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don't know what the proper I don't think you wish someone a happy Ramadan or
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something, but if there was, you know, I want to say a
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gesture of well wishing I could offer to him, I certainly would have it.
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It's not I don't judge a man by his race, his ethnicity,
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his religion. I judge him by his character. And if someone is a
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person of good character, that matters a lot. Now, of course,
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the government the terrorist groups in Palestine are horrific, and many of the people
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there are absolutely powerless, and they're caught in the middle. Right now,
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you know, Israel's going to try to wipe out the Homos terrorists. The
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Homos terrorists put their military bases of operation. They are munitions under hospitals and
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large apartment buildings and schools, so that in order to get to them,
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many many civilians are gonna be killed. It's gonna be an absolute tragedy.
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And those people have no control over their life. You know, most of
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the Palestinians are so called are in Palestine because they were kicked out of Jordan
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and Egypt, to an extent being one of there. They wanted them to
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those two countries that opposed the state of Israel, wanted them to be a
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continual thorn in the side to Israel, and they use them as that,
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such as fodder, as cannon fodder. It's horrible, It's absolutely horrible.
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But not all the Jews in Israel are good. Not all the Muslims in
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Israel good. Not all the Christians in Israel good. It's not Israel maybe
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a Jewish state, but they have a great diversity of people who actually live
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there. And not all the Muslims in Palestine are bad. Not all the
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Christians in Palestine are bad. Don't forget some of our greatest places, holy
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places to Christianity are in Palestinian territory. It's gonna be horrible. We need
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to pray for peace on all sides. But as I was trying to say,
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this is his criticism is now going to be directed at the Catholic Church.
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So lay that issue aside. We're moving on to the New Covenant and
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the new era of Christianity. He said, despite the greater gift blessings given
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by Christ through his Church and the infused supernatural virtues of His grace, which
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is the Saints have lived out heroically in every age, Christians have consistently betrayed
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their baptism promises, becoming wild fruit and allowing the thorns of world devices and
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errors to corrupt the good soil of the faith. The shepherds of the church,
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those who are ordained by Christ as a husbandman of his new vineyard,
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are also vulnerable to these temptations, and when they succumb to them, the
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effects are even greater. The harvest of evangelization is left to rot. The
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pruning, which corrects errors and forgiveness of sins is neglected and instead allows corruption
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to infect the whole crop. The beacon of the watchtower, whose light of
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truth is meant to penetrate the darkness the people to guide the people of safety,
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is broken into a rainbow where good and evil or indistinguishable, and truth
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is condemned in favor of convenient lies. When this occurs, the fruit can
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become wild, believing that their guides will no longer protect them, Not knowing
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how they should live and grow, they fall prey to outside influences in false
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shepherds. Some can even spread outside the vineyard of God, believing that they
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can grow a purer vineyard on their own and act as their own overseers.
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Now, I tell you some of these missing Odaia writers are really impressive.
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Yeah, this is a college student writing this. That kid can write.
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He can flat write, Okay. I mean I say that as the author
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of like a dozen books. If I was writing as well when I was
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his age, yeah, I'd be a lot more successful today. You can
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also think a Southern God. They're going for him too, from Georgia.
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Actually go dogs anyway. This situation has occurred many times in Church history,
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as it did in the history of Israel, for example the Airyan Crisis in
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the Early Church and the schisms of the Middle Ages, or the Jainism of
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the Enlightenment or Modernism of the twentieth century. Today we are seeing another instance
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of it, the culmination of decades in which weaponized ambiguity and accommodation to worldly
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sin and error has led to continuous scandals, abuses, and confusion. Now,
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during this Synod on Synidality, Catholics are once again mired in fear and
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perplexity, wondering, as many of our best bishops have asked, asked,
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whether the supposed concern for pastoral charity and the use of sophis nuance will allow
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sophist dance, whatever, will allow the priestly blessing of sinful relationship, the
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perversion of tradition, and the abandonment of doctrine. Many even wonder if the
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Magisterium, which they held in faith as the infallible defender of the depositive faith
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and protected by the Holy Spirit from official teaching error, still exists, or
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if it will finally succumb to the pressures of the world, as have many
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of the Protestant churches, and thereby reveal that it was not supernatural after all,
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but only another human institution. Those their words, those are very heavy
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words. He then quotes Cardinal Ratzinger, who became put Benedict sixteenth, probably
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one of the biggest influences on my conversions, men whom I have the most
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profound respect and love. He said, we wish to make it clear that
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departure from the Church's teaching, or silence about it in an effort to provide
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pastoral care, is neither caring nor pastoral. Only what is true can ultimately
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be pastoral. That's the razor like intellect of pute Benedict sixteenth, before he
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went into his medical decline, you know, Alzheimer's or whatever, he had
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terrible tragedy. See, one of the most brilliant minds lost the way it
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was. Uh, you know, God's doing control. I'll get back to
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what Caleb brought here in a second. But you know, when you go
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back to say Sodom and Gamara and different instances in the Bible, it says
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God gave them over and to their devices, God give them, gave them
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what they wanted. And all these liberal, secularist, modernist Catholics got the
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pope they wanted, and you know, we lost the one we needed.
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That's just my opinion. Caleb goes on and says, thank God for his
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providence in giving us the epistle from Saint Paul for this Sunday with the two
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parables in our current situation, which they illuminate. Paul gives us an unflinching
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reminder that God is the God of peace. He cannot and will not abandon
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his church, whereas the House of Israel betrayed its covenants. The new covenant
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of the Church is the Blood of Christ. We are the members of his
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body, and He is our true priests and shepherd, the true God,
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the true Man who alone ensures the indefectibility and certainty of his promises. The
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grace of His sacraments will never dry up, and the truth of His word
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will never falter, no matter how much it is distorted by the human words
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of its shepherds. The official teaching of the Church therefore can never be corrupted,
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nor can the sacraments, even if the opinions and practices of the bishops
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misrepresent them. No matter what happens with individual bishops or individual perishes, Christ
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is omnipotent in victory, and so we should never allow fear or anxiety to
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destroy our faith or lead us into despair. In fact, through what doctor
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Anthony Essolen calls the ironies of faith, the very weakness of the Church today
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is its greatest strength the time when God will show his dominion over Satan and
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most profoundly, as Christ told us Saint Paul. As Christ told Saint Paul,
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my grace is sufficient for them. The power is made perfect in it.
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My grace is sufficient for thee. For power is made perfect in infirmity.
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We must therefore cling to him, focusing always on the good study scripture
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in the Saints, imitate those who have come before us. Cultivate wholly and
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devout families from which the future leaders of the church will arise, not from
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those families who do not hand on or exemplify the faith to their children.
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And continue the tradition of Christian humanism, which preserves and celebrates all that is
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good in history and in our own time. As Paul first taught, but
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prove all things, hold fast to that which is good. This is the
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path to true joy and salvation, not the misdirection of the world, which
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leads only to darkness. He also quotes from Isaiah, fear not, for
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I am with THEE turned out aside, For I am thy God. I
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have strengthened THEE, and have helped THEE and the right and the right hand
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of my just one hath upheld THEE. From John peace, I leave to
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you My peace I given to you. Not as the world giveth do I
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give to you. Let not your heart be troubled, nor let it be
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afraid. Let us ask all the saints for the sacred heart of Jesus and
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Immaculate Heart of Mary, to pray for those participating in the synod and for
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the protection of Israel against Islamic attacks. I think that was so well done.
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I just I wanted to share it with you, you know, as
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Saint Padrick Pa always says, and I always close my show, pray,
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hope and don't worry. I think Caleb Hammond has given us quite quite a
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bit to give us hope. So say thanks, Caleb. It's an honor
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working with you, and y'all. I hope you enjoyed this one, and
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I'll talk to you tomorrow. I have a great evening. And you know,
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I guess it's a little late to share this. If you haven't heard
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it already, you may have heard my stomach grow a little bit and growling
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while I was doing this. We're supposed to be the Pope ask us to
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fast and pray for peace in Israel, peace in the world. I mean,
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I think it certainly includes Ukraine and such as well today, So I
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hope you've joined me in that. Let's remember to say some prayers. Actually
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about three o'clock for me right now, so I'm going to go pray to
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mind Mercy Chaplet for that very intention. All right, y'all already did the
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Rosary today? I hope you. If you haven't done the Rosary day,
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remember pray the Rosary for peace. I'll talk to you tomorrow.