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Show 171: The 5th Commandment- Thou Shalt Not Kill, Part 2 · The Uncensored Catholic

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Speaker 1: A b Oh, Welcome to today's show. We will continue
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with follower Spirago's commentary on the commandment thou shalt not kill.
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We're getting into part two of this, so if you're
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just joining me, now back up and listen to the
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last one if you want to hear the full teaching
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on all the various ways of that commandment actually does.
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It's a lot deeper than it sounds on the surface.
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Let's just put it that way. But we'll go ahead
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and start with a couple of questions and answers from
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radio replies. And you may remember a real anti Catholic
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bigot is questioning the priests. The person says, has not
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priests left the church, admitting they have been telling lies
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for years? They answer occasionally, priests have left the church,
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and some have unfortunately lost the gift of faith altogether.
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But such men often speak with great respect for the
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Catholic Church. The majority, however, have gone rather because they
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have been unwilling to live up to the lofty standards
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of more demanded of them. They have obviously adopted not higher,
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but lower standards of living. In their attempts to justify themselves,
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these men have often pandered to Protestant prejudices by revailing,
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reviling the church they once submit, the church they once served.
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Their case would sound better if they contented themselves with
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the mere admission that they had been hitherto mistaken. But
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if they confess that they have been habitual liars over
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a period of many years, you can hardly take their
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word for anything. A witness who admits to lying has
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long been almost second nature him for years is not
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much of a witness. A person says, have not political
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intrigues apt the Catholic Church of all its spiritual holiness?
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And they answered no, Some Catholic individuals have lost their
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own spirituality through political ambition. But this is not a
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fact the church. Christ promised that his church would never
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go wrong, not that individuals in the church would never
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go wrong. You cannot argue from bad fish in the
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net to the rottenness of the net. A very good
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net can hold some bad fish, he continues. Do not
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Catholics adore the Pope? And they answer, if the Pope
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were to ask me to adore him, I would tell
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him to go to confession and ask forgiveness of so
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great a sin before attempting to celebrate mass, for he
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would commit a mortal sin. Did he accept adoration, even
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as it would be a mortal sin to offer it
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to him? And the guy says, Yet, Leo the thirteenth said,
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we hold upon this earth the place of God Almighty.
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And he answer, He simply meant that, through no merits
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of his own, he has been promoted to a position
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which had annexed it to the promise of Christ. He
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did not say he was God Almighty. Christ said, whatever
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you bind on earth is bound also in heaven. Pope
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Leo was speaking of his commission, not of himself. Gladstone
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said to Queen Victoria, not with pride, but with the
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simple truth. Madam, I am the people of England, and
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we'll wrap this swing up here. Holiness demands and that
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forbids such arrogance as the Pope's claim to be the
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vice region of God, and they answer, the Pope's claim
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is not arrogant, even as the Gladstone's claim was not arrogant.
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The pope merely claims to the occupant of a constitutional
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office established and endowed with certain privileges by Christ. All right, now,
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let us get into a lot more than you ever realized.
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How to do with Thou should not kill and Part two.
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In the first part, we discussed man's duty to ward oneself,
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protecting and preserving his own life, not committing suicide, not
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engaging in riskue behaviors, and such through the as part
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of the commandment of thou should not kill. Your life
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belongs to God, not to you. It's given by God.
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He takes it when he pleases, and we were to
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be stewards of our lives in between time. Part two
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is our duty in regard to the life of neighbor.
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A strict obligation is laid upon us to avoid everything
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that may destroy the health or life of our neighbor. Accordingly,
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it is sinful to wishield on one's neighbor, to injure
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his health, to challenge him, or to accept a duel,
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or to put him to death unjustly and willingly. Yes,
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it is Dueling is forbidden by the Catholic Church. I
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guess that hardly needs be said said. But the English
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really celebrated dueling. The Protestant English and people have a
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sort of flawed view, a perverted view of dueling. But anyway,
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he who hates his neighbor wishes him dead. Hints hatred
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often leads to murder. Hatred suggests revenge. Witness Esau, who
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sought to kill his brother Jacob in Genesis twenty eight
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forty one King Saul, who repeatedly endeavored to say David
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King's twenty four Joseph brethren, who would have put Joseph
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to death at Reuben Nott interfered Genesis thirty eight. I
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believe there is little distinction to be made between hatred
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and murder. In God's sight, the will is the same
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as the deed. Hence Saint John said, whoever hateth his
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brother is a murderer. First John three point fifteen. Our
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Lord declares that he who is angry with his brother
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is in danger of judgment. In Matthew five point twenty two.
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Real hatred is im mortal sin, whether the evil one
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wishes to, whether the evil one wishes to one's neighbor,
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be great or small. However, is no proof of hatred
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to detest the evil qualities one sees in one's neighbor,
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or to abhor his conduct, for this is not incompatible
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with the affection for him personally. Men offered and injure
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their neighbor's health by quarrels and blokes, by adulterations of
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articles of food, by dangerous practical jokes, and culpable negligence.
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By quarreling, one excites one's neighbor and deprives him of
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interior peace and content, thus destroying his well being. Contention
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and quarrels call shedding of blood. All right, I've been saying.
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I've been making a mistake here. Ecclesiastes is the book
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most people know from the Bible. Protestant Bibles do not
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contain the Book of Syrac. So if you're Protestant and
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you've listened to this and you've heard me say Ecclesiastes
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such and such, and you think, wait a minute, I
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don't remember that passage, you were right. I was wrong.
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Ecclesiastes sus Ecclesiasticus, I believe is another and an older
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title for the Book of Syrac. It means basically the
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teacher okay, and the abbreviation used by Father Spirago is
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off by like a letter or two between the two
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books and being dyslike just like sometimes I can't tell
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you exactly when I read like XXV, I may invert
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one and get chapter in verse a little wrong occasionally,
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and probably more often than I realize. I probably cited
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Ecclesiastices when I meant sirac okay, so take that, you know,
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for what it is. I apologize. I'm you know, sorry.
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I invert things. That's what my brain does. But it's
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actually quite miraculous that I can actually read something aloud
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as I'm doing. But anyway, blows often cause severe pain
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or bodily injury. For assault, one may be arrested and
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imprisoned the practice of adultering articles of food is only
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too common nowadays. Flour, milk, butter, wine, beer, it setter
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are mingled with foreign substances, often of a deleterious nature,
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and manufactured imitation is sold for the general genuine article.
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As these adulterate goods contain little nourishment and much that
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is prejudicial to health. Trademen who thus defraud the public
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deserve punishment. In the Middle Ages, they were burned together
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with their fulsified wares wow. Practical jokes such as tripping
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anyone may cause fatal injuries. Culpable carelessness often a case's
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serious accidents. Furious driving, heedlessness and handling firearms. Neglect to
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warn passerbys, if anything is likely to fall, etc. Dueling
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is nothing short of murder. The Church punishes it by
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excommunicating the combatants and denying Christian burial to those who
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are killed. By mere fact of challenging to single combat
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or accepting a challenge, a man becomes excommunicated. The same
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holds good of those who take the part of seconds
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or who sanction the duel by the presence the second
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is the one who well, it's sort of like a
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judge a referee, But it also says that I'll stand
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in the place of the person should he not show
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so very serious. Let not one say that he has
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given his opponent permission to kill him. He cannot give
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another the right which he does not himself possess. A
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Catholic is bound to refuse a fight, to fight a duel,
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even if he thereby injures incur even if he thereby
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incures the incurs the imputation of cowardice. Well, that's a
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difficult way of just saying, if he looks like a
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coward because he backed away from a duel, we actually
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had the Catholic duty so to do, And it's a
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shame our ancestors did not know that, or we could
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have avoided the Civil War. For instance, there was a
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lot of honor at stake from a dueling culture that
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was a Protestant America in the eighteen hundreds mid eighteen hundreds,
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especially early eighteen hundreds especially, was an honor system based
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on dueling. A man's word was ultimately backed up by
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his willingness to fight for his honor. Catholics forbid that
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or if he thereby lose the chance of promotion. So
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you couldn't even duel if it meant you might not
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get promoted in the military. The duelist is guilty of
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a two fold murder. He intends to kill his antagonists
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at the same time he risks his own life while
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he imagines he is repairing an insult to his honor.
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He loses the respect of all sensible persons, for he
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shows himself to be enslaved by pride, resentment, and cruelty.
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Skill in the use of weapons will not avenge an insult.
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The duellists should seek satisfaction in the law courts, but
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let him who would acquire great merit in God's sight
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follow the teaching example of our redeemer, and not seek
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to avenge himself, but bear in justice patiently. For this
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is the greatest heroism that can be imagined. This is
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not what we're taught in American culture. This is not
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the cowboys, gunfighting and the feuds and such that our
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country is built on. Our country is the fruit of
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very flawed Protestant morals, very very flawed. It is noteworthy
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that many of the ablest generals and monarchs were strongly
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opposed to dueling and prohibited under severe penalties. It is
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related of Gustavus Adolphus that he once yielded to their
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quest of two officers at high rank and permitted a duel.
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But at the appointed hour he appeared on the scene
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with the military escort and said, now fight if you will,
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but woe betide you if one falls, for the other
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shall instantly be beheaded. A reconciliation took place at once
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between the two off Frederick the second of Prussia used
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to expel dulists from the army, saying, I want brave soldiers,
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not executioners. Whosoever kills his neighbor unjustly and intentionally commits
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a heinous sin, such a one is called a murderer.
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Cain was a murder, he slew his brother Abel. God
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himself said that the voice of Abel's blood cried out
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to him from the earth for vengeance Genesis four to ten.
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The murderer robs his victim of the highest good his life.
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He deprives him of the opportunity of gaining merits for
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eternity and of preparing himself for death. But the man
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who kills unintentionally is not a murderer Deuteronomy nineteen four.
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Yet he is seldom free from sin, as a fatal
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blow is generally the result of culpable inadvertence. In other words,
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it was due to being not cautious, and the person
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is still culpable. The executioner of going to carry out
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the sentence of a judge is not a murderer, since
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he does not act unjustly. He commits still a greater
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sin to destroy the spiritual life of his neighbor, either
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by tempting him to evil or by giving scandal. If
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thou persuade thy neighbor's sin, Saint Augustine said, thou art
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his murderer, and he who gives scandal is guilty of murder,
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nay even a greater sin than murder. Because the life
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of the soul is of far more value than the
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life of the body. If a thousand men were condemned
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to death, less harm would be done than if one
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soul were condemned to everlasting perdition. If the blood of
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able cried to heaven for vengeance of his brother on
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his brother, how much more would the blood of the
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lost soul cry for vengeance on its murder. How cursed
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are those are they who are the cause of so
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great a calamity to another. Temptation and scandal are all
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the more fatal because evil was handed on from one
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to another. He who has been led into sin leads
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another into it in turn. And the bird that the
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fowler entrap serves as a decoy to bring others into
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the snare. Like an avalanche, small in the beginning but
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increasing in its course, carrying vast amounts of snow with
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it into the abyss, the tempter drags countless souls with
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him into perdition. Others corrupt their fellow men by scandal
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they give as levin pervades the whole of the flower
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in which it is placed. Temptation is the endeavor, by
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subtle means to incite a man to sin. The tempter
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is like the devil, who, by his wiles led our
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first parents in Paradise to dissipate God. He goes to
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work craftily, like the fisherman who catches fish with a
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baited hook, or the fowler who lays a trap and
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spreads bird limes to ensnare birds. In the case of
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almost all the Holy Martyrs before their execution, before their execution,
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attempts were made to induce him, either by blandishments and promises,
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or by threats of torture, to abjure the faith and
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transgress the commandment of God. What trouble the proconsul took
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with the aged Bishop Polycart, What efforts the King of
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Bohemia made to force Saint John Nepomucine to violate the
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Seal of Confession. He offered him a bishopric, he put
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him to torture, and finally cast him into the mahldaal
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Moldall it's a river. Those who dissuade others from what
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is good also deserve the name of tempter. Temptation is
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the devil's work. He does not appear in person to
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seduce mankind, for everyone would recoil from him, he leaves it.
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He leaves men to do this business for him, and
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thus attains his in More certainly, scandal is given by
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some sinful word or deed, or a mission. We shock
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our neighbor and perhaps cause him to sin. For instance,
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a man gives scandal if he is seen in public
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in a state of inebriation, if he talks in decent talk,
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makes use of oaths and the presence of children, eats
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meat openly on Friday. That's changed. But we should still
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abstain from me if we can, does servile work on Sunday,
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behaves indecorously in church, publishes ungodly books to christs religious religion,
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and the ministers of religion in the papers and periodicals.
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What he does instigates another to do the same. This
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is true most of all in regard to children, who
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are sure to imitate anything wrong which they see done
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by their parents or elders. He who gives scandal is
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like a man who digs a pit into which another
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is likely to fall and break his neck. Scandal is
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an influence against love of one's neighbor. That it is
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a mortal sin. We gather from our Lord's words concerning
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him who scandalizes others, it were better for him than
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a millstone should be hung about his neck, and that
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he should be drowned in the depths of the sea
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Matthew twenty eight to six. Again, our Lord says that
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at the end of the world, his angels will gather
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out of his kingdom all who have given scandal, and
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cast him into the furnace of fire. There shall be
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weeping and gnashing of teeth Matthew thirteen forty one. But
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if the scandal given a slight or unintentional, is not
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a great sin, or is no sin at all. And
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I think whether leading another inter temptation or giving scandal,
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I doubt I am certainly guilty of it, certainly did
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not leave a lead a very good life when I
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was younger, still mess up a lot due to my
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own weaknesses. I'm sure everybody listening to this does. So.
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Examine your conscience as I do, as I will, as
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I will continue to do, and go to confession at
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the first possible opportunity, and do strive harder to do better.
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We will continue to sin, but we as long as
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we understand that it's wrong, we can go to confession
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and be forgiven, so long as we try our best
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to reform our lives, we ought and as far as possible,
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to avoid giving scandal. And for this end we must
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observe the following rules. We ought to abstain from actions
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which are not only lawful but good in themselves, which
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are of council, but not a precept if they may
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possibly give scandal. Okay, what that means is if anyone
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is dispensed from Friday absence on account of bad health. Okay, now,
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remember this is when Catholics were required not to eat
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meat on Friday. If they were in bad health, they
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could go to the priest and the priest would say, okay,
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you can eat meat on Friday. You need your strength.
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But if that person was, he should refrain from eating
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meat before others if he knows they will take scandal
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at it. That's just what Saint Paul says in the Bible,
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which I think, well, y'all, we'll get to that in
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a second. If this is impossible, he should explain to
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those at the table him and say he eats it.
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And if this is not possible, he should explain to
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those who are at the table with him why he
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eats it. If they take scandal, then it's not him
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to blame. Saint Paul declares, if meat scandalizes my brother,
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I will never eat flesh. First Corinthians eight thirteen and
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the Age at Eliazar preferred death to even appearing to
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eat swine's flesh, leading young person less young persons might
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be scandalized and be deceived into thinking he was going
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over to the life of the heathen. From Maccabee's another
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one was wonderful Catholic books that you should be in
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every Bible, wonderful heroic martyrdoms. It describes. We must, however,
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in no case, submit any act which is commanded by God,
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even if others will take scandal at it. Yeah, we
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should explain as far as possible to prevent scandal by
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some words or explanation or instruction, by doing what the
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law of God enjoins in us. We do not give
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scandal but to the contrary good example, the fault lies
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with the one who take scandal with the good action,
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but no one in fact would do so unless he's
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corrupted with a vice. The obligations imposed by the laws
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of the church, such as hearing mass on Sundays, approaching
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the sacrament at Easter may be set aside occasionally if
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others will take offense by their observance. Yet one should
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endeavor to obviate this by explaining the duty to be
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fulfilled purely. Human laws do not bind as a rule
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if a great harm may be done by keeping them.
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For Christ, as my yoke is sweet and my burden
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is light in Matthew eleven thirty. Yet it is best
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to explain matters and then act boldly. This often prevents
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difficulties being raised. If, however, it is impossible always avoid scandal,
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for evil minded persons take offense at what is well meant.
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Our Lord bade his apostles not to heed such people.
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Let them alone. They are blind and leaders of the
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blind Matthew, fifteen fourteen. It is, however, lawful, to wound
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or even kill our fellow men. If he threatens to
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take our life by violence or anything. There is absolutely life,
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as we have no other means of defense. This is
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called the right to self defense. Self defense is not wrong,
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because our object is not to take the other man's life,
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but simply to preserve our own, and the moral worth
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of an action is determined by that which is not
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by that which is not its object. We are permitted
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to then, but by no means to avenge ourselves. Hence,
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if we can save ourselves by flight, we ought to
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do so. That means if you can run away, you
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ought to do so. Yeah, that's totally opposite what we're
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taught in our English derived culture. Okay, but it is
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Catholic teaching. If it is enough to wound our adversary,
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we must stop short there. Above all, a woman is
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justified in defending herself against anyone who attempts to violate
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her chastity. We are also permitted to kill anyone in
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order to save the life of the third party. Thus
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Moses did when he slew the Egyptian who was striking
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one of the Hebrews, and exos to it is only
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lawful to put to death one who unjustly seizes our
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property if he lays hands on what is absolutely necessary
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to our existence, For then it is our life that
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we are defending. It is not right to shoot a
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robber who carries off something of no great value, Nor
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can we plead the right of self defense if it
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is only our honor that is wrongfully attacked. The officers
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of justice are warranted in punishing evildoers with death. Believe
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it or not. Yes, a lot of people make a
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big deal about Catholic teaching against the death penalty. Now,
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but you need to read your catechism. In some cases,
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if it's the law of the land and you have
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fair courts, it is condonned. It's never the best option.
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It should always be the last resort. But if you
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have an absolutely homicidal maniac who's killed several people, who's
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a danger to other prisoners in a penitentiary, who's a
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danger of prison guards, who cannot be released without fear
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of him killing other people, he may have to be executed.
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And in that case, the Church says, okay, if it
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was a fair trial, it's okay, according to the laws
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of the land, which are just. So let's restate this.
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The officers of justice are warned in punishing evil doers
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with death, and a soldier acts lawfully and wounding and
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killing the enemy at a time of warfare, the officers
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of justice, in as far as they stand in the
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place of God, have the right to sentence evil doers
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to capital punishment. Saint Paul says, the higher powers bear
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not the sword in vain, but as avengers, to execute
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wrath upon him that doeth evil Romans thirteen to four.
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The authority of the magistrate is God's authority. When he
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condemns a criminal, it is not he who condemns him,
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but God. Just as the sword is not answerable for
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the blow it strikes, but the hand that wields the sword.
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Yet the judge must not act arbitrarily. He must only
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sentence the criminal to death. When the welfare of society
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demands its society as a body of which each individual
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is a member, and as a diseased limb, has to
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be amputated in order to save the body, So criminals
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must be executed to save society. As a matter of course,
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the corport's guilt must be proved. Better let the guilty
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go free than to condemn the innocent. It is an
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error to suppose that the Church advocates capital punishment on
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the principle of retaliation. An eye for an eye, a
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tooth for a tooth. This is a principle of Judaism, Judaism,
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not of Christianity. The Church does not like to see bloodshed.
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She desires that every sinner should have time to amen.
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She permits but does not approve of capital punishment. That's
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the bottom line. The military profession is not unlawful. We
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are not told in the Gospels that soldiers were exhorted
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to leave the army, but only that they were admonished
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to be content with their pay and to do violence
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to no man. God by the lips of Malchisa Deck
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blessed Abraham after he had made war upon the kings
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who robbed Lot Genesis. The soldier must, not, however, allow
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himself to treat cruelly those who are disabled a battle.
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The Church forbids her ministers to use deadly weapons, as
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this is incompatible with their sacred calling. He who has
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wrongfully injured his neighbor, either physically or spiritually, is bound
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to repair harm done to the utmost of his power.
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If anyone has been the means of inflicting bodily harm
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upon his neighbor, he must pay the doctor at all
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the expenses of his illness, and make good the loss
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of his earnings, etc. If he has killed him, he
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must provide for his family. If he has given scandal
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to his neighbor or led him de sin, he must
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strive to counteract the evil consequences by good example, prayer
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and instruction. Unless he does this, he would not obtain
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pardon for God from God, and the priests absolutions will
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be invalid. Now imagine, if all is just, say, during
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the feuds following the Civil War, if people had understood
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that Catholic teaching, how many lives would have been spared?
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How much violence would have been prevented? What are the
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reasons which ought to deter us from taking the life
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of our neighbor or our own life? Says? Our own
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life or that of our neighbor. He who needlessly imperils
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or seeks to put an end to his own life
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is often punished by God by acute bodily suffering, and
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sometimes by eternal damnation. Thereafter, we constantly read of fatalities
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and sad accidents resulting from full heartiness and risking one's life.
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The indulgence of passions often brings some painful malady. On
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the other hand, some saints permanently injured themselves by excessive
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and unwise austerities and regretted it afterwards. He who takes
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the life of another as tortured by terrible pains of
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conscience hopefully often dies a violent death and is everlastingly damned.
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Cain was a fugitive on earth after the murder of
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his brother Abel. Murders like him find no rest. As
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a rule, they die of violent death. Either they are
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sentenced to death by the law, or they destroy themselves,
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or they fall by the hand of another. Whosoever shall
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shed a man's blood by man, shall his blood be
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shed Genesis ninety six. All that take the sword shall
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perish by the sword Matthew twenty six fifty two. Divine
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justice frequently punished as the cinner in the way that
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he has sinned. The Hebrews in Egypt were commanded to
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throw their infants into the Nile. The king and all
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his army were swallowed up by the Red Sea. Retributions
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speedily overtook those who had condemned our Lord to death.
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Judas and pilots were pilot were put to an end themselves.
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In the year seventy no less than a million of
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the Jewish people were slain. The persecutors of the Christians,
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in many cases, died of violent death. Nero by his
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own hand, Julian the Apostate on the battlefield. Murders should
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not obtain the Kingdom of God Galatians five twenty one.
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They shall have their portion of the pool burning with
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fire and brimstone. Apocalypse or Revelations twenty one to eight.
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A similar fate has frequently been to overtake heresiarchs. That
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means people who teach heresy and those who by word
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or writing, have undermined the faith with others, and thus
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incur the guilt of spiritual murder. He who hates his
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neighbor loses his peace of mind and becomes displeasing to God.
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His prayers are not heard, and his lot is eternal
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perdition hell. One who cherishes feelings of animosity and meditates
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vengeance is a stranger to peace. He is continually an affirment.
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The thought of the thoughts of his heart are a
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perpetual scourge to him. That man can have no concord
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with Christ who lives in discord with Christians. If peacemakers
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are called the children of God, those who stir up
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strife and distension are children of Satan. As long as
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the thword rankles in the wound, no remedy will heal it,
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nor will prayer avail the Christian, while deadly hatred holds
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a place in his heart. Our lord says, if thou
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offer thy gift at the altar, and there thou remember
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that thy brother hath anything against thee, leave there that.
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Leave there thy offering before the altar, and go first
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to be reconciled with thy brother, And then coming thou
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shalt offer thy gift Matthew five twenty three twenty four feelings.
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If hatred ought to be suppressed at once, let not
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the sun go down upon your anger Ephesians four twenty six.
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A dislocated limb can easily be gotten back into his
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plates if this be done promptly, but if some time
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he allowed to elapse, it becomes a difficult matter to
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set right. Very very true, I have dislocated my shoulders,
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each one like one twice and the other one three times,
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my right knee two or three times, and several of
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my fingers. I used to play rugby, and being a
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woodsman as such, one does get injured. Occasionally you gotta
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pop that sucker right back in. So it is with hatred.
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If a reconciliation takes place immediately, the former friendly feelings
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are restored without trouble. But if it is laid, anger
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gets some anger gets the mastery of us, and we
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think it beneath us to sink reconciliation. If says Saint Augustine,
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the dwelling were infested with snakes, thou wast hastened to
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rid thyself of them. Now, hatred and enemy are venomous serpents.
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Venomous serpents, wilt thou not banish them from thy heart,
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which is the temple of the Holy Ghost. All right,
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And we're going to finish this with the last little subsection.
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It's very short, and this was really unique to Catholic teaching,
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and I think a lot of people should know this,
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they'd really appreciate it. And it regards again, under the
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commandment thou should not kill. This is our conduct in
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regard to the lower animals. The lower animals are created
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by God for the service of man. First of all,
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that's the first point. Those that say it's immoral for
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people to eat meat, totally wrong. Okay, Those that say
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it's wrong to wear fur or leather, totally wrong. It's
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also wrong to torture or from no reason harm and animal,
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or neglect an animal, or anything like that. The benefits
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we revive, the benefits we derive from animals or these.
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They supply us with what is essential life eg. Food, clothing,
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et cetera. They help us in our work. They cheer
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us by their amusing ways, their songs, their beauty, et cetera.
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Some instruct us by their examples, such as bees who
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incite us to industry, storks to filial affection, sheep to
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the practice of patients, et cetera. Moreover, they all proclaim
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the omnipotence of the wisdom, the bounty of their creator.
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In relation, I'm sorry your may remember, maa dog died recently,
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So r for me. Read it actually right now, give
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me a sick all right. In a relation to animals,
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is our duty to care for their well being, to
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re frain from tormenting them, not to kill any useful
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animal without a special reason, and finally, not to treat
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them with exaggerated tenderness, which I suppose I've been very
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guilty of. We ought to take care for the well
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being of animals. The Just regarded the life of his beasts.
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The bowels of the wicked are cruel. Proverbs twelve ten.
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Those who keep animals are bound to provide for them
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with necessary food, to keep them clean and in good condition,
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the Lord says, it's not a sparrow shall fall to
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the ground without your father's knowledge Matthew ten, twenty nine.
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This should teach us to care for the welfare of animals.
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Some treat brute beasts as if they had no feeling
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over taxing their powers, beating them unmercifully, not giving them
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enough to eat, or depriving them of one day's rest
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out of the week, which the law of God ordains
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from them. In Exodus twenty eight through eleven, those who
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have to kill animals for the table with medical men
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who make experiments them ought to be careful to cause
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them no needless suffering. I agree with that one. I
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grew up on a farm. I know the humane way
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to harvest animals and what's in humane, and a lot
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of our modern industrial farming is not humane. Be much
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better off if people kept their own livestock again, And
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in terms of hunting and fishing, it is the duty
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of the hunter a little bit less. With fish, you know,
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you have fewer options. You can use a net or
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you're going to use a hook, and fish don't really
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feel a lot anyway, especially in cold water. But for
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you know, a deer just say, for instance, a deer.
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It is the duty of a hunter to practice that
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shot so that he can efficiently kill the animal quickly
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and with as little suffering as possible. That's my duty
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as a hunter. That's the duty of every humane hunter,
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and I know very few who do not strive for that.
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There are some bad people out there, some really bad
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people out there, and you will often find that those
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who harm animals unnecessarily do the same to humans. Call
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them sociopaths, call them whatever. They really need to be
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removed from society. And I would treat animal cruelty in
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that regard the same as I would cruelty to a human.
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They should be removed from society. They should not have
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the opportunity live and walk among us and raised children.
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They are cancers upon society. I believe strongly in that.
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That said, I raised, I have raised livestock, and don't
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have you right now. I will soon hut and fish.
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I trap. I use humane traps that don't hurt the animals.
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I think that is well, it's God's It's the god
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given role of man on this earth, and is up
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to each one of us to grow in knowledge and
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skill to do things. The most humane way as God
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would have us do. It is not right, either in
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the entrance of science or for the sake of amusement,
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to give pain that can be avoided. Doctor Fauci, you
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might want to learn that Catholic teaching you, son of them.
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I'll bite my tongue here. This is a Catholic podcast, anyway.
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You know, I'm going to leave that in normally I
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didit that out, but that he needs to be condemned
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by every person, every person with a conscience, for what
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he did to those dogs, Okay, and to the rest
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of us in COVID lockdowns and such, and yeah, we
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could go on that anyway. Wanton cruelty is to be condemned.
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So is the destruction of harmless or useful animals. Noxious
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insects and dangerous animals must of course be killed, but
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others that are not hurtful but rather useful should be spared.
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You can certainly kill free a mosquito, you know whatever,
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a poisonous snake if it's endangering you. Mice in your
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house that can make you actually very sick. Some people
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try to put up with mice and they can really
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carry disease. There's no reason just go along wantingly killing
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animals for no purpose. If you kill an animal, you
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darn bell, are you better eat it? I mean, that's
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my philosophy, unless it's something like a mouse or something
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you have to get rid of for disease purposes. Finally,
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animals are not to be pampered and petted over much.
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There are people who make an idol of some pet animal,
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preferring it to their fellow men and devoting every thought
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to it. Well, I never did that, but my buddy
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was my buddy. Such persons resemble the ancient Egyptians who
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worship cats, calves, bullets, et cetera. Men are men who
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are either cruel to animals or ridiculously fond of them,
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are often very hard hearted towards their fellow men and
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father Sproga was writing this in the eighteen nineties. He
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had no idea what would happen with Nazi Germany. The Nazis,
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you know, Hiler was a vegan, okay, And they absolutely
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love their Dotson's Dashians however you pronounce it, and their
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wimerunners and all that. And yes, they were very much
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animal rights people who slaughtered innocent humans. Yeah, that does
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tend to go actually hand in hand, and I'm afraid
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we are getting into that in America. You know, in
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commercials now it's all dogs and cats. You don't see
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a lot of kids. Well, Pole came out and it
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was done by a financial organization. Very well, respect, I
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can't remember it off the top of my head. Just
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recently that said, within the next five years, by twenty thirty,
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forty five percent of women between eighteen and forty five
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would be unmarried, never married, and have no children. And
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that number is expected to grow one point seven percent
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each year from are on. So our secular culture has
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now almost ensured the extinction of America through lowering birth rates.
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Lessening birth rates. And these are the the childless cat
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women that JD. Vance pointed out and upset all the
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liberals who are childless catwomen who love their cats and
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dogs and find it too inconvenient to get married and
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have a family. That's not right. That's actually the Pope.
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I mean, you don't have a listen to me. The
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Pope has warned about this quite a bit. People who
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substitute children for pets for pets for children. Actually, yeah, okay,
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all let's see children who take pleasure in teasing animals
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torment men when they're grown up. So true, that's those
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are the sociopaths I'm talking about. I have known, I've
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seen them. There are cancers in humanity, all who retire
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and after years were cruel to animals in their youth.
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Criminals have sometimes confessed upon the scaffold that their course
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of crime began with torturing animals as children. On the
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other hand, we often find that people who pamper and
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show great affection for animals are utterly hard hearted in
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regard to their neighbors. Never forget Hitler was a vegan.
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Next time someone tries to browbeat you, say well, Jesus
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ate Lamb at the pass Over dinner and he ate fish.
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He served fish. He was real big and eating fish. Actually,
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Hitler was a vegan. Now, who are you going to
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follow Jesus for Hitler? Both extremes cruelly to animals and
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foolish fondness for them are at variance with the order
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that God created in the universe. Established in the universe
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to torture animals. Wantonley is an abuse of the sovereignty
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given to man by Creator over the brute creation. Man
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thus becomes a tyrant, and sometimes it pleases God to
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make him suffer in the same way whereas he made
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the beast to suffer. So look out, tony fauci, somebody
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may pin your eyes open and have him eaten out
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by sandflies. For instance, a peasant who used to strike
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his horse on a tender part of the foot, causing
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him intense pain, was later crippled by gallut and the feet,
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being confined to his bed for years. Then he then
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acknowledged and deplored his fault. The Areopagus of Athens once
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condemned a child to death who was guilty of want
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and cruelty to animals, for they judge that no good
40:22
could be expected of one who has such a tender
40:25
age displayed such evil qualities. Exaggerated fondness and solicitude for
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animals is also a violation of their appointed order to nature.
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So I'm going to wrap it up there, y'all, have
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a have a great day. Hopefully I'll get talked to
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you tomorrow. If not, maybe a little later in the week.
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I may have to run out of town and do
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a little yard work for a relative tomorrow, so we'll
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see how that goes. And if I get in late
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maybe Thursday before I do it, but we've wrapped up
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the fifth Commandment. Next time we enter the sixth Commandment,
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it really follows very much on the fifth. You'll be
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interested in that. You find this very interesting. Y'all have
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a goin. I'll talk to you next time.