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Show 124: Jesus Christ is Son of God and is God Himself · The Uncensored Catholic

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The a B. Hey, welcome today's show. Let's jump right in here.
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We'll get back to radio replies. And the person is asking of the
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priests. They say, anyway, there are Protestants as good as Catholics,
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and the Protestant Church is as good as the Catholic Church, to which the
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priest answers. The idea that there are Protestants as good as Catholics has no
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bearing on the position. They are very good and sincere Mohammedans, they're Muslims,
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and it's true, I've known some very good Muslims, you know.
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In fact, I mentioned this before. There was one Christmas where the only
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guy who was not a member of my immediate family, the only stranger,
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you know, acquaintance. You might know. He worked at a bank,
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in a restaurant, so we were kind of friends, you know, but
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not close or anything. Egyptian Muslim that year was the only one to wish
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me a merry Christmas. Every day I was associating with, you know,
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nominal Christians, in a church, at Mass, in the grocery store,
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at the post office, nobody, no one wished me a merry Christmas that
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year, except for an Egyptian Muslim. So they say that does not make
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Mohammedtanism true or Islam. We'll go with Islamists a lot of easier to say
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that Mohammetanism. And again, there is not a Prizeant church. There are
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dozens of different brands of Protestants Autism. There are actually thousands. Uh tell
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me which brand of protestant Ism is as good as the Catholic Church, And
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I will tell you when it started and who charted it. Christ certainly did
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not begin it. A person says Protestants are at least allowed to think for
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themselves, I can't. I mean, was decart allowed to think for himself.
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Let's just think about that for a moment. You know the answer,
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and when they do, they end in chaos or with no religion at all.
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However, the chief characteristic of the majority of Protestantism is absence of thinking
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on matters of religion. And it's very true. Most Protestants have no idea
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what the doctrine of their church is, or that the Catholic doctrine is different,
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or why they haven't thought it through. And actually, when I was
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at a certain Southern Baptist university, they were discouraged. We were discouraged from
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asking such questions. And it's because if you ask those questions, you end
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up at Catholicism. Person says, if Protestantism continues because Protestants do not think,
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is not the same the true of Catholics. And they say, no,
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there is really no rational foundation for Protestantism. And if Protestants did reflect
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soundly upon the subjects, they would discover this. But there is a rational
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foundation for Catholicism. All Catholics at least know that their church would not be
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so vast and unite, not to speak of its mere existence after centuries of
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misrepresentation, hatred, and attack, were it not for the protection of God.
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And if they give deeper thought to the matter, they find many other
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solid reasons for their conviction. Impartial study leads a man out of Protestantism.
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It never leads a man out of Catholicism. And that's incredibly true. That
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was my experience at least, and it has been for many, for many,
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many many converts to Catholicism. You hear people that convert to Protestantism because
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they marry a Protestant or they went to an Evangelical church, and everybody was
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so friendly and it was so much fun. Yeah, that's not rational,
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that's emotional. The person says, just the opposite is true. Catholics from
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main Catholics because they never develop any reasoning powers on the subject of religion.
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Okay, read Bolton Sheen, read Thomas Aquinas, read Saint Augustine, read
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Saint France. To sow there are more scholars in Catholicism than in any other
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affiliation of humanity. The person says, you show complete The priests say you
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show complete ignorance of Catholic theological works written by the very cleverest men of the
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centuries, Saint Thomas Aquinas, and had Thomas Aquinas had the Catholic faced very
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deeply, yet wrote probably the greatest masterpiece of religious thinking the world has ever
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seen. Believe it there, And I think it's very true. You know,
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I've always said William F. Buckley was a huge influence in me beginning
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to learn about Catholicism, a great intellectual, one of the greatest thinkers of
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the twentieth century. But yeah, it was Augustine and Aquinas, And I
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mean I could go into all the doctors of the Church you will not find
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depth of thinking and intellectualism comparable in Protestantism of any century. I'm not just
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talking modern times. You know, you can go back to the fifteen hundreds
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and you're really finding very ignorant people, uneducated people. And where you find
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when it's educated, you often find a great deal of dishonesty and oftentimes well
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bigotry, mental illness. All of the above could be said for Martin Luther,
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who was admitted hopeless, alcoholic, manic, depressive, immoral. Said
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the devil led him to rail against the Eucharist, apparently encourage one of his
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followers to commit adultery. Really bad guy, and he just hated. His
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hatred was so deep for the Catholic Church that he changed the very words of
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Christ. Or then what go to the Anglican Church, King Henry the Eighth.
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Yeah, another alcoholic, hedonist, murderer, adulter. I mean,
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bad dude, really bad dude. So and then Knox he was a nut.
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I mean, I'm serious, John Knox was just a nut. I
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don't know why anybody ever followed that lunatic. I mean, anyway, let's
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we'll move on to follow Sparago's great work with the Catechism, and he's talking
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about Jesus Christ. Well, he's talking about Jesus Christ the course, and
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he states Jesus Christ is the son of God. He's talking about the nature
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of Christ right now. He sates Christ called himself the only begotten son of
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God. This is John three p. Sixteen. And this is because he
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and he alone is the second person of the trinity begotten to the Father.
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In addition, he has far removed above the angels and mankind, who are
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likewise called children of God. For to these latter God has not communicated his
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own nature. That's Philippians two six a reference to I mean, and has
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adopted them only as a special grace. Galatians four to five point number one.
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Jesus Christ solemnly declared before the high priest that he was the son of
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God. And the Gospel of Matthew, and he called himself the son of
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God. Also on the occasion of his healing of the man born blind in
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the Gospel of John point number two, God the Father called Jesus Christ his
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son. On the occasion of his baptism and the Jordan and on the transfiguration
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on Mount Tabor point number three. The archangel Gabriel called Jesus Christ, the
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Son of the Most High when he announced his birth to Mary. Saint Peter
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also addressed, but also publicly addressed Jesus Christ, the Son of the Living
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God, and was committed by Christ. For this confession, even the devils
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cried out, what have we to do with thee Jesus, Son of God?
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Are there come hither to torment us before the time Matthew eight twenty nine.
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Jesus Christ is God himself. Bring into the nature of the Trinity.
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Here It's a very deep subject. It's very, very very interesting the way
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Felspraga presents it, and this is where he begins to introduce it. It
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had already been foretold God himself will come and will save you in Isaiah,
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and Isaiah said that the child who was to be born for the redemption of
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men was God himself. The heretic arius denied Christ godhead is heresy was condemned
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at the Council of Nicea in three twenty five, and it was expressly defined
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that Jesus Christ was of the same nature as God and therefore himself God.
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Our whole position rests on this doctrine. Hence it is a of great importance
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When the rich disciple addressed Christ as good master, our Lord's answered at once,
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why dost thou call me good? None as good? But God alons
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from Luke, whereby I teach us that we must before all things recognize him
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as God. That Jesus Christ is God. We learned from his own words
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and from those of his apostles. When sitting into heaven, he said,
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all power is given to me and heaven and on earth, and again I
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and the Father are one. These last words were treated by the Jesus blasphemy,
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and they threatened to stone our Lord for them. And that was again
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from John. At ten thirty three. Christ claimed in a special manner attributes
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and works, such as being as belonging to God alone. He proclaimed his
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eternity when he said, glorify thou me, O Father, with thyself,
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with thy glory, which I have. Before the world was with THEE,
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and before Abraham was I am. Those were both of the Gospel John.
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He claimed the power for giving sins is the case of Magdalene and Luke and
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the sick man with the palsy in Matthew. He laid claim to awaken the
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dead in John and to judge the world again in Matthew to be the author
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of life, and John on another occasion he said, if any man keep
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my word, he shall not see death forever. John eight fifty one.
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The apostles believed and solemnly proclaimed that Christ was God. Saint Thomas, for
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instance, in the words my Lord and my God and Saint Paul's epistle we
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read and in Christ dwelleth all the fullness of the Godhead corporeally, that means
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bodily and in him were created things. And He is before all and by
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him all things consist. One point two. Under this heading that Jesus Christ
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is God. We conclude from his miracles and prophecies, numerous miracles, which
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Christ wrought in his own name, testify to his almighty power. The miracles
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may be divided into five classes. One those performed on inanimate subject substances such
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as changing of the water into wine or call me the storms, the healing
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of the sick and the blind of the lane. Three, the raising of
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the dead to life, for example, in the case of the daughter of
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Jerius the son or of the son of the widow of Name or of Lazarus,
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the expelling. Point four the expelling of devils from possessed persons. Five,
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the miracles on his own person, as in the Transfiguration and the Ascension.
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Moreover, Christ proved that he had power over all creation as no other
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had. Others did miracles in the name of God. For example, when
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Saint Peter and Saint John cured the man at the gates of the Temple,
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Christ did not appeal in God's name. He said, simply, young man,
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I say to the arise and Luke seven fourteen, I will be thou
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may clean Matthew eight three. Peace be still that It was another quote,
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Yeah, this are very important. For instance, Well, there's actually several
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Protestant groups, but I'm not even sure if you can call Mormonism the Latter
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day Saint Protestant. They're different. I mean, you know, Jehoah's witnesses
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don't even believe in Jesus as God by the way, I mean, you
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know, we consider them a Protestant church, but they don't believe in the
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divinity of Christ whatsoever. Jehoah's witnesses say that Christ was born man and became
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like God through his holiness, individual personal holiness, and that anybody can do
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the same, which is utter blasphemy, you know, utter blasphemy. And
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if you read the plane words of the Bible, Jesus is acting with the
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full authority of God, not a man invoking God. Benedict the fourteenth is
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careful to tell us that if Christ prayed to the Father, it was to
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dispel the notion that his miracles were from the devil. The miracles attributed to
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the founders of false religions are very are often very absurd and childish. That
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the Buddha wrote on a sunbeam. Actually, and you know it's interesting,
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I say, Buddhism for many years of practice in Buddhist taichi chwan kung fu
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solong kung fu. Actually, I mean the real you know, kind of
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shell en stuff. They have a great respect for Buddhists, great respect for
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Buddhists. Most Buddhists do not believe that the Buddha was a deity at all,
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more like a philosopher. Buddhism does not, actually, depending on what
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school you follow, have a deity. Same with Daoism now and other.
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If it's Buddhism that's very influenced by Hinduism, they may have one hundred gods
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or five thousand gods you know, if it's Daoism, that is more from
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well, the Pagan the ancient Pagan origins, not necessarily from Laotza who was
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the founder of Daoism, just like Sidhartha, Shakamuni, whatever was the founder
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of Buddhism. Their philosophies were turned into a religion, and there are many
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legends were attributed to them as being like magical persons. So yes, there's
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a legend that the Buddha could ride on a sunbeam. Yeah, he was
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just a man, a man who stared at a wall for what ten years
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until he released himself from all attachments to earthly things and gain what he called
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enlightenment. You know who knows. You know, Thomas Merton and other Catholic
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writers have have found a great deal of interest in meaning in Buddhist writings.
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I don't think we were at odds in most schools of Buddhism now. I
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mean, if you go to Thailand, you know, they do tend to
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more worship the Buddha as a deity, and I don't think he would have
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liked that at all. Actually, he was not a real nice guy.
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He used to slap people and like if they took his words and put them
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in special books. He'd come in and tear them up or set them on
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fire. He was sort of an iconoclast. And as far as Laudza,
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I think he'd find hilarious. Actually had a really good sense of humor.
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And I think philosophically, you know, I'm an herbalist, I'm an outdoorsman.
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I'm in nature all the time. I'm gardening, I'm hiking, I'm
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fishing. Very what what Taoism is is looking for the lessons of how one
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should live and in nature and in the Bible, it says, you know
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that man can find God because he's reflected in nature. He can know what's
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right and wrong in the natural order of things. And you know, to
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an extent, Taoism is a philosophy that points to Christianity, I think,
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and to me, I mean, it's very natural, it's very comfortable.
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Some of the Native American you know, there's no such thing as a Native
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American religion. Every tribe basically had its own or subgroup of tribes. You
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have like a you know, tribes that are part of the Cherokee tribes that
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were Catawbin, the Siuon Trie. I mean, you can go. You
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know, they were related family groups essentially. They all had their own legends
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and beliefs. Some of them were actually very much pointing toward Christianity, a
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morality that was somewhat Christian, whereas others were, you know, cannibalistic and
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horribly cruel. Some were actually very peaceful, and you know, when the
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Cherokee were exposed to Christianity, they pretty much embraced it right away. There
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may have been some that didn't, put most did the Lumbee. I mean,
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I can definitely tell you most Lumbies or Southern Baptists or Methodists the Cherokee
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were actually when when Andrew Jackson forced the Cheroke out of western North Carolina and
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Georgia. I have no regard for Andrew Jackson, by the way. He
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was a very evil man. Actually. Yeah, he was a great war
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hero with the Bell of New Orleans, you know cool. Yeah, he
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was real jackass. I mean, he was not a good guy, and
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he really sowed the seeds that found fruit in the Civil War, and he
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could have prevented that. But he was horribly cruel to the Cherokee because he
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wanted their gold. That was it, their land had gold on it,
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so he treated them like animals and forced them off their land, and then
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maybe he had some pangs of regret and adopted one at some point. You
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know, he was a difficult, probably manic, depressive, complex person.
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I don't think he was a good president or a good man, and I
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don't think Abraham Lincoln was either. And I know a lot of people get
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really mad at me when I say that, But if you actually read Lincoln
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his writings as opposed to just as you know, famous speeches, he was
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kind of like Barack Obama. I mean, he just said what was what
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would benefit him on a given day, and then he'd go out and have
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sixteen Cherokees hanged on the front lawn of the White House for daring to not
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submit to you know, Watch Theello Josie Wells, you get it. Watch
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the Yellow Josie Wells probably one of the best movies ever made and without a
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doubt, the best thing Clint eas would ever did. And yeah, you'll
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get it. He was no friend of anyone that could not benefit him politically.
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Yeah, but anyway, I digress. Some of well and you call
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it okay, Socrates, that would be another really good example. Some of
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the highest of what you would call the pagan religious philosophers or or deists perhaps,
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you know, the Native American and the Dallas would see God in nature
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and often confused nature with God, but still had somewhat of a proto Christian
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morality. And you could actually argue, in many times more so than the
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Jews the chosen chosen people the Hebrews. If you read, if you get
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one thing from reading the Old Testament, it's like God chose the Hebrew people
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because they were the epitome of everything wrong with humanity. And I'm not saying
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I'm totally not it's indie Semitic. I love Jewish people, you know,
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nearly married to Jewish girls. Actually I played music with. I've always had
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Jewish friends, and they would be the first to admit that they the reason
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God chose the Jewish people is because they couldn't stay loyal to God and his
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teachings, the Ten Commandments for ten minutes they started. I mean every time
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they've turned around, they were going back to idol worshiping and all kinds of
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you know, bad stuff. So yeah, you could literally say that some
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of these more primitive Polynesian Native American, which you know, you can get
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really into the weeds when you start talking about ethnicities. I mean, some
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of the so called Native Americans came from Asia, and some of the other
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ones were actually probably Polynesian and but anyway, Asians and you know, maybe
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some of the more primitive African tribes. I don't know, there seems to
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be something in a lot of the African religions. It's a little dark,
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but a lot of the Americas and the Asians and such, they did seem
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to have a sense of religion and awe and piety and worship and morality that,
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like I said, was often more advanced and developed than the chosen people
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from which our religion comes. Yeah, like you know, like it says
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like I mean, Saint Paul and others in the Bible said man could find
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the handwriting of God in nature essentially if he was open and of a good
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will and willing to look for it. It's such a shame now that we
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live in this advanced Western culture and we've essentially turned our backs on Christian Christianity
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and hold up these you know, pagan primitive religions were people you know,
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like was it Augustine? I couldn't have been August. Well someone made the
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no, it's relative of my tongue. Uh. Well, I think it
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goes back to you know, through a glass darkly as you know, through
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the from the Bible, but that people were looking for God and not being
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able to find the truth because God had not revealed himself through Judaism and then
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Christianity, and you know, it's a shame, but that's all part of
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our culture now, victimhood and celebrating the victims. Well, you know,
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sorry, but when Columbus came to the Americas and brought Catholicism, he found
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a bunch of people who were constantly warring with each other and slaving each other
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and eating each other. Yeah, the Spanish imposed a Christian morality and gave
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them peace and education and government and structure and prosperity like they had never known.
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But now we act like that's all just you know colonialism. Well sorry,
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We'll look at any place colonized by Christendom, one of the you know,
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western European countries, even including England, you know, which of course
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turned its back on the true religion, and you will find that to be
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a more humane, peaceful, advanced, prosperous rights for women, rights for
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you know, minorities, et cetera. Then a neighboring country that did not
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have that European Christian influence. You know, Islam can be pretty tough.
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You know, there's some I could quach some passages from the Quran about you
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know, don't seek peace with the Infidel. You know, kill him where
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you find him. We kill the Jew where you find him, could lie
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to the Christian enslave them, I mean seriously, but far beyond that.
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I mean, like I said, there's some pretty crazy stuff. It's been
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going on in Africa for thousands of years and you don't want any part of
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it. I mean, you could be like living in peace one minute,
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next thing, you know, people running around machete's cutting their people's heads off.
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It's it's it's gonna be yeah. I mean, it's just a warlord
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culture. And had had there never been a Christian influence in Africa, I
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can't say as there would be many roads, cars, houses, you know,
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made of like bricks and stuff, electronic devices, laws that actually protect
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innocent people. You're pretty big on the warlord's running around cutting people's heads off.
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Once there's a Christian influence, you know, you find some of the
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finest, most moral and intelligent people on Earth coming from African nations. Some
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of the best priests, shoot, Saint Augustine was African, was I mean
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coming you know, really, given the Christian education, any people on Earth
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can advance in remarkably rapid time. Take it away and we all fall back
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into barbarism. Germanic tribes were horrible. They were worse than any of the
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African tribes before they were Christianized. Well, at least it's bad, you
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know, But I mean we're talking, you know, people who killed people
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that weren't members of their own family and drank their blood. I mean,
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they weren't exactly what we would consider to be civilized. And of course it's
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true of you know, Celtic peoples as well. I mean, I'm you
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know, Irish and French and English just as primitive and just as bad before
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the Holy Roman Emperor Charlemagne and you know, and the rise of Christendom and
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the civilization, the civil civilizing, I guess we should say of Europe through
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you know, there Benedictines and others who built hospitals and schools and orphanages and
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spread peace. But they actually gave. There was no concept of human rights
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in any nation. I mean even the most advanced, the Greeks and the
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Romans. You didn't have human rights. You had rights. If you were
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a Roman citizen, you had rights. If you were a Greek you had
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you know, you had There was no such thing as human rights. And
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you know people complain now about the patriarchy and all. Without the patriarchy,
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you're either you either kill or be killed, or be a slave. That's
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it. So anyway back to where we leave off. Oh, the myths
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about Buddhism or that Mohammed caused the moon to pass through his sleeve. Isn't
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that an interesting concept? Now? How exactly would that happen? The moon
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passed through his sleep? I you know, I got qualms with Islam.
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That Apollonius of Tiana raised a storm in a barrel, et cetera. So
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many so, so very different from the majesty displayed by Christ. The prophecies
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of Christ with respect to his own fate, the Treasury of Judas and the
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denial of Saint Peter, the death of Saint John and Saint Peter, the
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destruction of Jerusalem and the fate of the Jews, and the career of the
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Church all show his omniscience. Christ foretold that he would be put to death
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in Jerusalem, and that he would be scourged and crucified, and would rise
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again for three days at the Last Supper. He foretold the treachery of Judas,
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and that Peter would deny him three times before the cock would crow.
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After his resurrection, he prophesied to Peter his death on the cross, and
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to John that he should die in natural death. After his triumph will entry
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into Jerusalem. And during the discourse of the Last Judgment on the amount of
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olives, he foretold how Jerusalem should be surrounded by our enemies and destroyed.
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He also knew that the Jews should be scattered among the nations, that his
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Church should spread rapidly among the nations of the earth in spite of the persecution
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of his apostles. Point three, that Jesus is God. We conclude from
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the o elevation of his teaching and his character. The teaching of Christ surpasses
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that of the wisest to have ever lived on earth, and is far removed
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from the teachings of all other religions. Christ's doctrine answers all the needs of
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the human heart, and has adapted to all wherever, whatever their station,
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age, sex, or nation. The greatest philosophers even been, like Saint
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Augustine, found it in the place. They've found in it the peace they
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longed for. Christ's doctrine is the perfect revelation at the highest end of man
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and of the creation. Besides inculating the loftiest virtues such as loved one's neighbor,
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humility, gentleness, patience, love of one's enemy, poverty which up
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to that time, which up to the time of Christ had been quite unknown.
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In other words, people didn't think poverty was a good thing. It's
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it's hard to accept that one now, even for us, you know,
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can't confesses that cont I guess, you know, Kane, famous philosopher,
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German atheist, you know, confesses that reason would not even in the present
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day have discovered the universal moral law unless Christianity had taught it. I can't
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be MESSI say Camp was an atheist any more agnostic. It was definitely one
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of the leading philosophers for the Enlightenment where people started turning away from the Church
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and toward humanism. But even he had to admit that without Christianity, we
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wouldn't have our morality. Christ teachings, besides being lofty, were so simple
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and announced with such clearness that people marveled to hear him. Even Strauss does
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not hesitate to declare that to surpass the teachings of Jesus is an impossible task
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for all time. There is absolutely nothing in the Christian religion that is opposed
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to sound reason or can lower the true dignity of man. Oh how many
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of the other forms of How many of the other forms of religion can that
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be said, Mohammed Mohammed Islam will go well, I really do have trouble
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with it, Mohammedism. We're going to go with Islam teachers fatalism and is
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propagated by the sword. Very true. Even the Talmud contains a large mixture
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of very imperfect doctrine. Also incredibly true. The Only Church was pretty clear
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that the ancient Jews kind of misunderstood a lot of the teachings of God.
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You know how Jesus always taught in parables, Well, it seems like they
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got got things a little confused as well. Christ was free from all sin
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and was so conspicuous for virtue, for all time. He must remain a
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model from all men. The trader Judas confessed that he had shed innocent blood,
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and Matthew Pilot could find no cause in Christ. No blame is what
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he means. Christ himself challenged the Jews, which of you shall convict me
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of sin? And none of them dared reply. He was quite free from
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all prejudices and nearrow mindedness, which are the result of surroundings and nationality.
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We see this in his relations to Samaritans and Romans. Religious Jews were not
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allowed to associate with Samaritans especially, but only Romans, only so much as
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the law it demanded. They were considered pagans, you know more, especially
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in the beautiful parable the Good Samaritan. Again, Jews hated the Samaritans.
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They were considered to be like dogs, and Jesus actually elevated the Samaritan above
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the priests. That was quite a bit of scandal at the time. The
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following virtues were conspicuous. His love of neighbor, he went about doing good
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and laid down his life for others. His humility, which is seen in
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his associating with the most despised among the people. His gllness and forbearance with
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his enemies, even with the disciple who betray him, his patience in suffering
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the greatest tortures, his clemency in his conduct towards sinners, his love of
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his enemies and praying for them on the cross, his love of prayer and
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spending whole night spraying to the Father. His whole character is one of the
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wonders of history. His greatest enemies even felt all in his presence. No
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one, for instance, dared resist him when he drove the buyers and sellers
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out of the temple. When the Pharisees wished to stone him for claiming to
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be God, he went through their midst and they made way for him.
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John ten thirty nine. The soldiers in the garden fell to the ground at
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a word from his lips. Point four Jesus Christ as God. We conclude
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from the rapid spread of his teaching and from the miracles which he accomplished as
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teaching throughout the world. His teaching was propagated in spite of the greatest obstacles,
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and by the simplest of means. The obstacles among the Heathens were the
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laws condemning to death or banishment those professor religion. That's kind of a big
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deal. Calumnies of the grossest were or uttered against the early Christians, accusing
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them of being godless, of cannibalism, of attributing to them various misfortunes such
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as wars, petialists, and flamine. All this led to the persecution extending
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over some three hundred years. Up to the Edict of Constantine the Great,
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there were reckoned about ten persecutions. The doctrines of the Christians afforded others forwarded
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in another series of obstacles. The reverence paid to the one who had suffered
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the death of the cross was a kind of folly added to this doctrine,
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which was introduced by the Jews, a sect held in lowest esteem by the
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Romans. In other words, the Jews hated the Christians, the Romans hated
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the Christians. Everybody hated the Christians. No less repulsive to the sensual and
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pleasure loving Heathen were the restraints and self denial inculcated by the Christian religion.
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The Greeks and Romans were pretty darn hedonistic, and they did not like being
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told of morality at all. The means employed for converting the world were twelve
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poor fishermen, unequipped with eloquence to persuade or with the countenance of the great
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ones of the earth to support their mission. They did indeed work miracles,
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but as Santa Augustine said, they spread Christianity without miracles. But as Santa
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Agustine says, the spread of Christianity without miracles would have been the greatest miracle
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of any On Pentecost, five thousand were baptized two thousand and more after the
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miracle at the Gate of the Temple. In the year a d. One
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hundred, Christianity had extended over the whole Roman and in the year eighty one
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hundred, Christianity had extended over the whole Roman world. Pliny, the governor
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of Bethyna Bethyia I guess that's right, recorded to the Emperor Trojan that the
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Heathen temples were left empty because all were becoming Christians in the town and villages.
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Saint Justinus the philosopher wrote in eighty one fifty there is not a nation
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where prayers are not offered to the heavily Father in the name of the Crucified.
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The effects of Christ's teaching was that idolatry with its horrible abuses, disappeared,
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and that the whole life of man was reformed and ennobled. The sacrifice
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of human victims was abolished, and the bloody spectacles, as was the bloody
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spectacles of the Gladigator shows, all kinds of charitable institutions arose for the blind,
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the poor, the sick, et cetera, owing their existence to the
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teachings of Christian mercy. Polygamy died out, and woman regained her dignity.
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Remember that next time you're railing against the patriarchy. Without Christianity, there are
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no women's rights none. Order was established in the family life by the Christian
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doctrine of the indissolubility of marriage. Slavery was gradually abolished. That's actually very
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true. Slavery was essentially a abolished before the rise of Protestantism in the nation
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state. And then a king could say he ruled in the stead of God,
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and he said slavery was okay. So they'd go and slave a bunch
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of Irish or Africans and go put him in a colony. And you know
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in Australia or South America or the Bahamas, you know in Mexico America and
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forced them to work for the English, or the Portuguese, or the Germans,
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yes, the Germans and the French, don't forget the French, and
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many others. All kinds of charitable institute of the Spanish, certainly, and
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they were a Catholic nation. But it was the rise of the nation state
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that was when kings started asserting that they ruled by God's authority. All kinds
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of charitable institutions always just said that a rose from the blind, etc.
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Slavery was gradually abolished for every man saw in his neighbor the image of God.
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The cruel laws against malefactors became milder and wars less frequent. Yeah,
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I mean they used to be pretty rough on criminals, you know, cutting
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off hands, torturing to death, and they gradually became more humane, and
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wars really did reduce greatly after the spread of Christendom again until that rise of
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the nation state, which is very much associated with the so called Enlightenment and
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the rise of Protestantism. But more than anything like else, Freemasonry, yeah,
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Freemasonry, which sowed the seeds of what would become Marxism and socialism and
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Nazism, and yes, even the American Revolution. America was not founded as
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a Christian nation, regardless what some people want to say. America was found
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essentially as a Protestant Masonic nation, with my ancestor Charles Carroll being the sole
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Catholic sign or at the Decoration of Independence. And the only reason they probably
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allowed him is because he was the richest man in America. He owned more
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property and had more money and basically financed most of the American Revolution. So
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they had to put up with the rich Catholic you know, the rich Irish
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Catholic. Anyway, trade, science and art were cultivated, and labor acquired
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a new dignity. Very true. Farmers and fishermen and shop owners, shopkeepers
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were absolutely denigrated. They were hated before Christianity gave dignity to labor. But
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also without Christianity you don't have the schools and the arts and sciences. I
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mean, these idiots in modernists say that Christianity, especially the Catholic Church,
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held Backcientists held back science and arts. Without the Church you have none.
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You literally have just people going around lopping each other's heads off and taking each
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other's slaves and eating each other I mean civilization comes from Christianity. Even Julian
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the Apostate counseled the Heathen to imitate Christians in generosity and purity of their lives.
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A religion which produces so much good must be from God. It has
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sometimes urged that Christ's teaching has been the cause of many religious wars and schisms.
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The answer to this objection is that it is not Christ's teachings, but
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man's perversity in not following the teachings or wrestling it to his own destruction,
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which causes so much evil. In other words, if people just follow the
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teachings of Christ, we actually do have peace and goodness, and were our
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nations under the authority of the Catholic Church as they once were during the height
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of European civilization, we'd have a lot fewer wars. We definitely wouldn't have
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had the Soviet and the Chinese and etc. And the deaths of two hundred
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million people by communist governments when Vietnam was a Catholic nation. It's pretty durned
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peaceful. After the Communists took over, they killed so many people they ran
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out of bullets, and then they had to force people to dig their own
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graves and then beat them to death with a shovel. I mean, if
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you want to just pull up the big Black Book of Communism, okay,
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the Black Book of Communism, or just read or watch any decent documentary on
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the history or the Chinese Revolution, or the Soviets starving a genocide against Ukraine
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and what they did to their own people. No, there is only peace
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and goodness and humanity and human dignity and rights in a Christian nation, even
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for those who reject Christian morality. I have no idea why there are LGBT
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twenty seven whatever alternate allocations protesting on behalf of Palestine and other Islamic countries.
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You don't want to be gay in an Islamic country. Do you know what
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they do to you in Iran or Saudi Arabia or Palestine? Quick Google search
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should show you people thrown off roofs, hung from cranes, burned alive in
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cages, have their bits cut off. Really not good? You know.
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Christianity is what gives man his dignity because in man we see the image of
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God, someone loved by God. Jesus died for everybody, and so we
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go out of our way to even to coddle, I would say, horrible
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murderers. You know, there are times when the death penalty is moral and
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right, especially if that person continues to be a threat. We've really kind
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of gotten that up, you know, kind of taken that out of proportion,
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but we see that as the absolute last resort. Christian teaching, Catholic
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teaching is that that person should be given every opportunity kap alive, ministered to
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try to bring them to sanity and repentance, because that's you know, Jesus
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died for Charles Manson, like it or not as much as he did for
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you or me, or the greatest saint on earth. And that is absolutely
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unique to Christianity. The value of human life beyond I mean yeah, going
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back to Buddhism or some forms of Hinduism, they'll say that, you know,
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all life is sacred, and their practice veganism and all that, but
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it falls apart as a philosophy. You can't harvest, for instance, a
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field full of wheat or soy or anything without killing all kinds of critters,
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from bugs to know amiebas to rabbits and mice and birds. There is no
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way to do that, which you can do is respect human life, hold
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it above as sacred, above all things on earth, and treat humanely the
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lower animals. Only Christianity puts things in the right order. So anyway,
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y'all, that's going to wrap it up for today and we'll get back to
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this next time. I'll have a going talk to you later