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Show 103: THE DIVINE ESSENCE · The Uncensored Catholic

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The f A. Hey, y'all, welcome today's show. I did not
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travel as intended today, so I am able to do a Wednesday show,
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and we're gonna pick up right where we left off yesterday. Do you want
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to put out just a little plug for an odd interview I had last night
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with John Benco with a four persons Catholic radio show. He invites me on
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every now and then, and this time the guests was going to be a
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wood carver, and being I guess because I'm a wood carver myself, I
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was gonna I don't know if i'd say co host it, but you know,
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I was gonna be a part of the program. And the guests didn't
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show up. So John knows that I'm a music geek, and he decided
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to play Stump the Chump. So for an hour, he played every obscure
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Christmas song he could think of and asked me to name the band, the
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name of the song, and oftentimes the album. If you want to check
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that out, you can I sent it out on my Uncensored Catholic subsect newsletter
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this morning, or of course you can get his site. We laughed a
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lot and it was actually pretty fun and you're gonna hear a lot of Christmas
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music that you're never gonna hear anywhere else. I mean, he started me
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off with Chicago and then the Pretenders. I went back at him with let
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me think Sean McGowan doing Lullaby of New York and the Ramones doing It's Christmas.
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I don't want to fight anymore. He had never heard those. I
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mean, obviously very few people have. The next thing, I know,
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he's playing the Beg's and I mean we ended up with you know, Manheim
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steam Roll of course, but I mean in between just about out every obscure
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Christmas song you can think of, Brian Setzer, Orchestra, Wow, so
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many, from pop hits to obscure rock to big band. You know,
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we were all over the map and it was it was it was fun,
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you know, one of those unexpected things. And I've got finished with that.
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I told someone, I don't think there's anybody on earth that could have
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done what I just did. I mean, my collection of obscure musical knowledge,
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just pure you know trivia. Even I'm surprised the stuff I know sometimes.
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I mean, I'm not kidding, yeah, I mean we covered everything
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from Billman Road to the beeches. So if you want to hear some Christmas
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music, you're not gonna hear on the radio, or you're not gonna hear
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while you're shopping, and you probably don't have in your collection. Uh and
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and to really out there Catholic music geeks cracking each other up. Check it
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out. It was fun. It's still titled actually an interview with this guy
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from Bethlehem Carvers who didn't show up, and maybe he will next week because
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I mean, really talented, super tap. I mean, I'm looking forward
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to that. But anyway, it's yesterday's show that would be December twelve,
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twenty twenty three. And like I said, it is still entitled an interview
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with I can't remember his name from Bethlehem Carver's even though it's just me and
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John talking odd Christmas music. So you know, if that's your thing,
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give it a shot. But okay, so the questioner asked the priests a
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very important question. This is actually something just about every Protestant believes. And
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as they explain, they're right about Protestantism, they're wrong about their belief in
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Catholicism. And here's what it means. I mean, here's where I'm going
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with this. The person says, does not Christian today differ vastly from the
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religion Christ preached? The answer outside of the Catholic Church, yes, but
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in the Catholic Church, the exact religion of Christ has come down to us
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in virtue of Christ promise to be with his church all days until the end
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of the world. This assertion will be justified in a later section. So,
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yeah, Protestantism differs greatly. Trust me, Jesus and the Apostles were
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not practicing a megachurch, you know, evangelical or nationalistic religion. Actually,
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And when I say nationalistic, I mean like the Church of England. You
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know, I don't well, I don't have a problem with what they call
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Christian nationalism in America right now, Okay, I think that's just a way
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of trying to blame Catholics and Evangelicals and Trump supporters for, you know,
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all the problems that the left wants to identify. I think it's actually and
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Pope Jump Paul the Second was quite clear on this, although Pope Francis has
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not been that nationalism patriotism is a very good thing. But yeah, I
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mean, I don't know what a Christian nationalist is I mean Joe Scarborough,
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who's a moron, had a guest on his show the other day. I
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only know this because Steve Bannon plays like five minutes of mourning Joe on like
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almost every one of his shows, and I'm like, turn that mess off,
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you know. But he said that people who love America more than they
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love God. You know, I haven't met one yet. I did a
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whole program. I said, American East God, God doesn't need America,
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and I would certainly be described as a Christian nationalist by morons like Joe and
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Mika. I mean, I literally said it. It's the title of that
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show. Anybody wants to hear it. I mean I was specific in saying
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America needs God. God doesn't need America. You know, America can rise
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and fall. The Catholic Church will not. But they would say because I'm
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a Trump supporter and I'm a conservative, and I'm an outspoken Catholic who opposes
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abortion and gay marriage and transgender garbage and all that, And I'm not terribly
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concerned about global warming. It's you know, the climate changes. It always
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has and it's not been proven that mankind has any effect over it. And
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I know, you know, I have enough sense to know that masks don't
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work to prevent the spread of viruses except actually spitting on another person, because,
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as a lady said during the whole pandemic, pants don't keep your farts
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in, and the virus is a lot smaller. I would be described as
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a Christian nationalist, and they probably say I was a racist and a biggot,
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And that's like the furthest thing from the truth. Literally, I don't
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care what race anybody is, never have. I grew up in what you
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would call a majority minority city where white people were the minority. It may
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surprise a lot of people, but it's not actually all that in common in
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the South. I I can have a dozen towns at the top of my
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head that I spent time in with an eighty percent black population. Maybe a
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small town of only two or four thousand people, but still I'm the only
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white guy in town, you know. I mean, basically, I go
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into a store and everybody's black. Doesn't bother me. I'm used to it.
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I grew up that way with me. For me, it was I
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think the population was twenty percent white, thirty thirty percent. Mm. I'm
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off of my numbers, I know, my percentages aren't are not up.
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It was only about maybe twenty twenty five percent white. The next largest group
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was black, and then by far the largest group was Lumbey Indian. And
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then we had probably about five to ten percent Mexicans as well, I mean,
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and maybe three percent Asian. I mean literally, you know the kids
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I grew up playing with and kids I went to school with, except you
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know, when we left that area were I was like often the only white
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kid on the ball team, or I was only you know, one of
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maybe three white kids in the classroom. And you know, we got along
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fine because no one told us we shouldn't. That's sort of the problem with
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liberals. They keep trying to divide people and turn them against each other.
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And that's sort of the secret of Trump is he unites people like him or
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not. A Trump supporter is a Trump supporter, white, Black, Indian,
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Mexican, doesn't matter the race. I mean, just you know,
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Taylor Swift, trash of trying to turn all women against the Republican Party and
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especially Trump. That's who divides people. I mean, that little piece of
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trash trailer, Taylor Swift. I'm sorry if that bothers you, her music
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is horrible, I don't get it. Yeah, she's cute, okay,
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whatever, her music's not good. It's not good. It's not quality music.
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What you know, we stopped having music education in schools that was based
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on classical music, to some extent jazz, we lost a lot. And
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yeah, I think I guess on that one. I side with probably some
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of the people more on the liberal side of the spectrum who say we ought
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to fund arts education in schools. Well, I say, absolutely, we
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ought to find arts education in schools cential to the human spirit. It cultivates
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the other mental virtues, if you want to put it that way. We
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should also have religious education schools. We should absolutely do away with public education
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and let the Catholic schools take back over. I mean at least, I
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mean until public schools can. Actually the last week, right, the reports
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came out that the most recent high school mass schools scores in the United States
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were so bad they couldn't even be evaluated. They are not enough kids actually
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able to do basic math to even put it quantify it. I mean,
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that's how bad. And you talk literacy, moral education. No, if
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you want to have public schools. You need to show that they are actually
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doing something more than indoctrinating and abusing kids. Otherwise, fund them, get
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rid of them. I mean, I don't care. You know, it
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doesn't have to be a religious education. If that's not what you want,
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you want to charter school, you want to it's a regular private school that
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like I went to one for like two years when in my teens I was
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pretty great. I guess she got a really good education there. It was
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light years ahead of the public school that I left to go there, and
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like a fool, I wanted to be with my friends, and I went
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back to the public school, and by junior year I dropped out. I
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dropped out because I was bored out of my mind and I was getting into
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trouble. But I was, you know, what they call intellectually gifted.
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I could start college early. But then the state legislature passed a bill saying
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that anyone who did drop out of school could not start college until a year
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after their graduating class. So I got to spend three years on the community
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college system, where I learned a lot. But they did that to trap
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intelligent kids in the public schools. Why do they want that well, they're
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not so much trying to keep those kids down as those are the very few
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in that classroom who can read and do math. They inflate the schools scores
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for the rest of the school, so they play it. They punish kids
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by leaving them in you know, drug and gang infested schools to be indoctrinated
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and to be dumbed down because they make the other ones look like they're not
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so stupid. Well, why are kids stupid? They're not born stupid.
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They're stupid because they're not being taught. Why is there such a thing as
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a public school teacher. If the public school teacher cannot teach the student,
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it's literally that simple, show me you can do the job, or you're
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fired. And that is why we love Donald Trump. That's his motto,
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all right. So anyway, person says, have not downright absurdities been tagged
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onto the teachings of Jesus, They say they have, but not by the
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Catholic Church. And remember and remember that greater absurdities still have been put forward
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by pretended human reasoning. Yes, how absurd is it to think that,
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you know, you should pay a teacher who can't teach or put a kid
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in a school that can't teach them anyway. Early Christianity boasted many miracles.
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Christianity can boast none today. Well, again, that's not true in the
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Catholic Church, where a church full of miracles. They say, God has
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never ceased to perform miracles in favor of true Christianity, but it is not
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necessary that so many should occur today. More frequent miracles were necessary in the
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early Church to a secure its rapid progression, But the Catholic Church is now
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firmly established. Read little history, Note all the forces employed against the church
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during the centuries, and then tell me whether it is not a standing miracle
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to find that the church, that church still existing, the Catholic Church,
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with undiminished vitality and able to claim over four hundred million adherents. So this
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was in the nineteen thirties. On this subject of miracles. Also consult earlier
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questions where they talked about that, actually questions ninety five through one oh three.
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You don't want me to rehash stuff, We'll just go back a few
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days on the show and you'll find them. We're on question one A two
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now, so it's only you know, November check out November. The person
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says, would you say that the world has benefitted by Christianity? And they
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say, yes, it has beenefitted in a thousand different ways. Christianity has
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elevated men's thoughts to a higher level, directed men's wills to a greater good,
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and has indirectly affected their will being even in the world, even in
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this world, in almost every department of life. If the world is less
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happy today than in past years, it is because whilst men still profess to
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be Christians, they are less willing to behave as Christians and to put their
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principles into pre Christianity does not force men to be good in spite of themselves.
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But if men can be really miserable only forsaking Christian principles, it shows
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that Christianity practice is very likely the one true remedy. Let all men live
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up to Christian principles, and then if the world is not better, you
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can blame Christianity. Very well stated, I think that really illustrates my point
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about you know, so called Christian nationalism. In that little Taylor Swift,
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more than anything I could say, she's let's just say she's not the most
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moral person. As she goes around promoting abortion and you know, apparently sleeping
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with everything that moves. So let's get into Father's Virago's book and we are
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now to point number two or sub chapter number two on the Apostles Creed,
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and this is concerning divine essence, which is obviously a rather deep point to
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discuss. It's going to take a little time, so let's jump in here.
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What God is in his divine nature. Essence is known to us partly
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from created things, but more clearly from his revelation of himself. Saint Paul
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tells us that the invisible things of God from the creation of the world,
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are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made. Creation is
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a sort of mirror that reflects the divine perfections. Thus, from the beauty
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of things created, we can infer the greater beauty of Him who created them.
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So again, from the order that prevails in the visible world, we
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can conclude that He who made it is a being of surpassing wisdom, and
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from its vastness we learned the power of Him who upholds and supports it.
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Yet the knowledge thus obtained is always imperfect and obscure. From a beautiful picture,
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we do not learn much about the character of the painter in creatures.
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We see God only as through a glass and in a dark manner. Represent
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Corinthians. The Heathens before the coming of Christ were sunk in the grossest vices,
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and this darkened their intellect and rendered them still less able to arrive at
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a knowledge of God from his works. Oddly enough, modern liberal thinkers take
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issue with such a statement. All the Heathen was pure and simple. Yeah,
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you know, tell that to the Mayans, who are mostly eaten by
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the Aztecs. Okay, I mean really all right. In order to enlighten
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the ignorance, God revealed himself to men, speaking to them by the mouth
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of the patriarchs and the prophets sent above all by the mouth of his on
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Jesus Christ. It was Christ who gave to men the clearest manifestations of the
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manifestation of the nature of God. All the rest spoke somewhat obscurely, for
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none of them had seen God face to face. And by the way,
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I mean to just single out, you know, Mexicans or anyone the Germanic
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tribes as that yesterday were incredibly violent. Rome was a place of unspeakable horror,
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where people just took their unwanted children through them on the trash heap and
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cheered at watching people torn about part by wild beasts. Read the Book of
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Maccabees to see how cruel the Greeks were. Look at Genghis Khan. I
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mean just you know, every single culture still, I mean the horrors that
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have happened in Africa, even in modern times. Seriously, people are not
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good without religion by definition. Actually, even since God's revel of himself,
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man is not capable of a thought or a complete knowledge of the nature of
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God. The reason for this is that God is infinite and man is only
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finite. Just as we cannot inclose a boundless ocean and a little vessel,
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so we cannot take in the infinite majesty of God with our finite understanding.
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Behold, God is great, exceeding our knowledge. The things that are of
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God. No man can knoweth but the spirit of God. It's also from
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Corinthians. We can either express in words nor conceive in thought what God really
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is. When the sage Semites was asked by Hiro, king of Syracuse,
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what God is, he took first, then, well, oh, yes,
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okay, I remember the story. Now he took first then two days
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to consider the question, and then he requested four days more then eight,
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and finally said to the King that the longer he thought about the matter,
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the more obscure did it become to him. It is easier to say what
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God is not than what he is. He who attempts to fathom the majesty
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of God becomes profane. It is told of Icarus in the Old Mythology that
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he fastens wings to his side with wax and attempted to fly up to heaven.
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But when he came to near the sun, it melted the wax,
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and he fell into the sea and perished. So it is with those who
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seek to fathom the nature of God. He casts them down into a sea
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of doubt and unbelief. He who gazes upon the sun becomes dazzled. So
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it is with those who seek to penetrate into the nature of God. Even
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the angels fail their faces before God, the most perfect of them cannot comprehend
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his majesty. They are like a man who looks upon the sea from some
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high point. He sees the sea, but he's not see the whole of
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it. How can we expect to reach the heights which even the angels cannot
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obtain. We can only give an imperfect and incomplete explanation of the nature of
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God. Firstly, God is a self existent being, infinite in his perfections,
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glory and beatitude, the creator and ruler of the whole world. When
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Moses ask Almighty God his name on the occasion of his appearing the burning bush,
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God answered, I am who am I E? I exist of myself.
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I derive my being from myself. All other beings derive their existence from
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God, and therefore, in comparison of him, are as nothing. Hence
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David says, my substance is as nothing before thee God also possesses the highest
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perfection. We see how some beings upon the earth are more perfect than others.
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Some things have only existence without life, as stones and metals. Others
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have life but without sensation, such as trees and plants. Others have sensation
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and movement as well as such as birds and beasts. Man has a spirit
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with intellect and free will. Above man, there are countless numbers of pure
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spirits, each with a special perfection of its own, and each increasing in
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virtue as it descends towards the throne of God. But they can never arrive
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at infinite perfection, since the most perfect among them can always attain some higher
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excellence. Hence, we must believe in a being of infinite perfection from whom
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all other beings derive their virtues, who possesses in himself, and who is
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infinitely exalted beyond all existing or possible perfections that can be found in all other
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beings than himself. Nothing greater than God can exist or even be thought of.
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God is also infinite in glory and beauty. For if on the earth
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there exists so many beautiful things, how far greater must be the beauty and
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glory of God. Since it is He who gave them all their beauty,
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He could not have given it unless He already possessed it. His life like
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the boundless ocean, and the beauty of all created things is like a series
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of drops taken from the ocean. God is also infinite in his supreme happiness
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or beatitude. He lives an endless and infinite joy. No creature can interfere
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with the perfection of his happiness. None can increase or diminish it. As
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the sun needs no light from other bodies because it is itself, the light.
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So God needs nothing from others, because he is himself in possession of
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all good. We can only give to him what we have already received from
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him. God is who creator of the whole world of heaven and earth and
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the sea, is also the King and Lord of all, and has made
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all things outside of himself subject to certain fixed laws. The earth is subjected
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to fixed laws. It goes around the Sun in three hundred and sixty five
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and a quarter's days, and revolves on its own axis in twenty four hours.
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All the heavenly bodies have. All the heavenly bodies move according to fixed
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laws, so that we can foretell eclipses of the Sun and moon, et
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cetera. There are laws which regulate all material things on the face of the
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earth. Plants, trees, and animals have their growth and development governed by
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stated laws. The actions of reasonable beings are also governed by laws, which,
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however, by reason of their free will, they are able to disobey.
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The penalties for transgressions are laid down by Almighty God. God is the
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King of kings and the eternal King. The majesty of the greatest of the
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earthly kings is but a feeble and faint reflection of the majesty of God.
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Hence, we are bound to obey him because he is our King, and
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he will have all subject to him, either willingly in this life or against
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their will, to eternal misery. Debt Believe it or not has become somewhat
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of a controversial statement. Recently celebrated the feast of Christ the King, Christ
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the King of the Universe, and when Catholics began posting Christ is the King,
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a lot of people got upset. Why well, some said it was
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anti Semitic, which is idiotic. It does not take away from a Christian's
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belief in Christ as Lord and God and King just because a Jew doesn't believe
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the same thing, and vice versa. What it really is is our secularist
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society resents any system of morality that differs from their own empty hedonism. I
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guess it's about the best way to put it, you know. In other
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words, Taylor Swift doesn't like it and Joe Scarborough doesn't like it. Yeah,
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well that's uh yeah, let's weigh out there intellects as compared to say,
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oh, I don't know, father's bara, I go. William F.
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Buckley, can you Imagine Joe Scarborough in a debate with William F.
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Buckley. That would be hilarious. Imagine Phyllis Schlaffley in a debate with Taylor
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Swift. That would be pathetic. Actually, that would not even be hilarious.
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That would be like a vapid moron speaking to you know, Albert Einstein.
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I mean, you'd seriously, and I know she's a very good businesswoman.
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You do have to get her credit for that, but that's about all
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the credit I'll give her. She's quite bright in the terms of business,
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but not in terms of the things in life that truly matter, the things
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in life that will attain real happiness. She's obviously not getting the things that
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really matter in life right. And she continues on this path, as Father
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Spiago just said, she will against her will be subject to eternal misery.
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So say a praier for Taylor Swift, say a prefer Joe Scarborough, These
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Amika Brazinski and you know, even Joe Biden and Nancy Pelosi. These people
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need help. They need a lot of help. They need I need to
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realize that their ideology is just self destructive and destructive to all around them.
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In I mean if they got their will, if they got their way,
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America would not be America. And it's really not what it once was at
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all. It's not a free country, and we're not in a free country
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anymore. We're not a strong country. We're not a vibrant country. And
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I mean their ideology is truly the ideology of death, killing babies, relationships
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that have no procreative potential, you know, gay marriage and such, trans
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cutting people's bits off because they're confused as a kid, damning them to a
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lifetime of misery and hopefully not an eternity of misery. Nothing good. I
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always say liberalism is a mental disorder, but it has nothing. And I
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don't mean classical liberalism. I mean if William F. Buckley was here,
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he's pointing out that classical liberalism is a very different Yes, I know,
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I'm talking atheistic, socialistic, communistic, fascistic, modern left beat the new
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boss same as the old boss. You know, Hitler and Joe Biden not
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that far apart. Actually, I'm a shoot. Hitler was a vegan who
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didn't drink or smoke and an animal rights activist. So wow, So Greta
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Thunberg, maybe you know it's always the same thing in just another generation,
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another form, you know, from Robespirit to Stalin to Bill Clinton, I
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mean Hillary Clinton, Oh my gosh. You know, if there's anybody who
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is a better example of the utter misery of the liberal ideology. I mean,
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she is not a happy camper. She's a miserable person. And I
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cannot imagine. I mean, can you imagine spend in five minutes with Hillary
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Clinton? That would be as close to Helen Earth as I think we could
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come, except like with an MS thirteen gang member cutting your bits off.
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I mean, it would be almost as bad. All right. We cannot
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see God because he is a spirit i e. Being without body, immortal,
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possessed of intellect and free will. Our Lord says God is a spirit
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and that they adore that they that adore Him must adore him in spirit and
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in truth. It's from Gospel John. It is because God is a spirit
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that the Jews were strictly forbidden to make any image of him. That's I
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mean, yeah, you know, before Jesus came in human form, there
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could be no image made that could portray God. Any image that was thought
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to betray God was by definition an idol. Now we know what God looks
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like, the person of Jesus. And really the making of religious imagery is
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in honor of the personhood of Jesus. When we have a painting or a
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statue of a saint, it's all in honor of the person, the physical,
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real person of Jesus, who rose physical being and matter to the level
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of being able to share its nature with God. I mean, is so
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wrong that Protestants don't want our saints to start with, but have an issue
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with Catholics having statues of saints and such. That's all, It's reflected their
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importance, the religious devotion that they remind us of. It is all the
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reflection of their devotion to God. Anyway, God cannot be seen by man,
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and there is a veil between us and God. We can see the
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stars, we cannot see the stars during the day, but only when the
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darkness comes on. So we cannot see God during the day of our life
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on earth, but only when the darkness of death comes over us. In
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this life, God is a hidden God. He inhabits the inaccessible light,
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and that's a quote from Isaiah and Timothy. Yet God has often assumed visible
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forms. Thus he appeared to Abraham as a traveler at the baptism of our
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Lord under the form of a dove, and in the shape of tongues of
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fire at Pentecost. But the external form under which God appears was not God
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himself. In the same way, we often read of the eyes of God
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or the ears of God, etc. But this is only to impress upon
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us the fact that God sees and hears us, etc. There is only
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one. There is one God, and one only. The most perfect being
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in the world must be only one. The tallest tree in the world must
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be but one. To say that there are more gods than one is like
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saying that there can be more than one soul in a human body, or
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more than one captain on a ship. Even the pagan Greeks and Romans honored
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one God is supreme among the rest. The plurality of gods probably arose from
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the plurality of the forces of nature, such as thunder, lightning, fire,
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et cetera, which filled the beholders with fear and caused them to adore
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these forces as gods. Or it may have arisen from the deification of heroes,
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or from the power of the evil spirits, which, having attracted notice
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caused them to be worshiped as God. At wraps up today's little sub chapter.
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I think there's a lot to unpack there. When I did, I
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think there's two or two maybe podcasts a couple months ago on talking about how
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you can prove the nature the existence of God through the things of nature,
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like the reflective principle. All life comes from another source. You know,
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you were born of your parents, who were born with their parents, who
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are born with their parents. You eat plants that grow from the energy from
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the sun. You know, the animal you ate the plants that grow that
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came from the energy of the sun. The sun itself has brought itself into
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existence. It's composed of gases. And I mean, you know, you
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can go back and back and back and back and back until you get to
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the realization that everything we understand and known experience is reflected from another source,
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and that source could not have been created by anything outside of itself. So
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and we can get into just that very simple concept. It was a lot
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of what Father Sparago was discussing in the first paragraph or two. You know,
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when it comes to next year, when it's time to vote, vote
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for the person who's done more to protect and promote Catholic teachings, such as
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you know, giving US Supreme Court justices who overturn rov Wade. If you
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support a politician who supports abortion, if you vote for any this is church
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teaching. If you vote for any politician who supports abortion and who openly opposes
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Catholic teaching, you're committing a sin. Uh. Certainly, you know what.
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I'll put it this way. If I was a fan of the person's
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music, Okay, that's that's fine. That you know that person is entertaining
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and I can enjoy anything that isn't immoral. So if her music isn't immoral,
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that's that's that's just fine. No, it's the holding her up as
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an example of how what a woman should be and how women should think and
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all that. That's you want an example of, you know, what a
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woman should be. How about go with the Blessed Virgin Mary. There's probably
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room to disagree on that, you know. I love the Pogues. Shane
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McGowan was certainly no saint. He did die with it wearing a crucifix.
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I have the Pogue's albums. I love their music, so I you know,
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if if it's your business if you want to listen to questionable music.
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But I certainly certainly would not have followed the teachings of Shane McGowan over those
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of the Catholic Church. As much as I loved his music and pray for
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the repose of his soul, I think he probably did come back to the
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Church at the end of his life. No, just because someone I like
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their music, I'm not going to follow their example in supporting abortion, or
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gay marriage, or euthanasia or I mean anything that's you know, opposed to
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Catholic teaching. That that's actually deifying that person, that's actually violating that very
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thing we've been talking about, you know, in the Apostles Creed, I
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believe in one God. To follow the Almighty creator of heaven and earth.
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Well, that's who we take our instruction from. And I'm going to continue
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to follow the teachings of the Catholic Church, the words of the Bible,
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the teachings of Jesus Christ, and you know, attend commandments. There's no
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person on earth that can alter or change the word of God, not even
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Martin Luther, who you know, changed the words of the Bible to fit
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his doctrine. Anyway, y'all have a great day. Hopefully I can get
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a show done tomorrow, but I do have travel sometime this week. We'll
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see how it works.