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Show 90: The Preaching of the Gospel · The Uncensored Catholic

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The f A Hey, y'all, welcome to today's show. Let me begin
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by saying, turkey smoked with wild cherry, wood and at least a percentage
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of paper birch maybe the very greatest smoke meat of all time. I am
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not kidding you. Remember I told you yesterday I was smoking a turkey,
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and you know I carve wood. I make a mostly spoons, some bowls
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and cutting board and such set. And I had a pile of wood chips
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and predominantly wild cherry from a tree that fell in my yard some paper birch.
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I don't know the paper birch added any flavor. I'm going to have
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to experiment a little bit. Wild cherry makes the meat amazing. I cannot
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wait. I mean, from now on that's gonna be my predominant. I
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mean, I grew up smoking with hickory, hickory and oak, and I
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think oak is still the best like base layer for just the cooking of the
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meat. It doesn't really add a lot of a roam or flavor. I
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wonder if birch is going to fall into the same category as oak. Really,
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I'm going to try that next time. Try to do one exclusively or
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a pork butt or a brisket. I cannot imagine how good wild cherry smoked
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brisket would be. Or pork actually I've had I have had pork smoked with
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cherry wood before it was good. I've had pork smoked with apple wood.
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I know these woods do add a subtle flavor to the meats, but I
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am telling you wild black cherry or choked cherry, whatever you want to call
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it, from the mountains in North Carolina, will turn a turkey into like
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a gourmet feast. I cannot begin to explain to you how good this turkey
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is. So I may not have a a lot of friends and family around
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for Thanksgiving, you know, be a little lonely, but the food is
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phenomenal. The food is absolutely phenomenal. And one nice thing about being a
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single guy is I can cook my turkey on Monday and enjoy it all week
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and no one's gonna complain about eating leftovers, because I love to eat turkey
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Thanksgiving turkey like every meal until it's gone. And then I'm gonna take that
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turkey carcass and I'm gonna boil it down and I'm gonna make some good stock
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out of it. And there's gonna be gravies for mashed potatoes, and there's
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gonna be soups, and there's gonna be cast roles. And yeah, I
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mean a turkey will feed me for weeks. So one benefit of being a
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single guy, right, one turkey that you know was on sale at food
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Line for I think twenty nine cents a pound, get a couple with Harrisdeter
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for nine nine sents a pound. The one at Foodline required like an additional
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thirty five dollars grocery purchase or something. And for a single guy, that's
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tough. You know, it's hard to go in there and buy thirty five
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dollars worth of groceries, even in Biden's economy with inflation through the roof.
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So I did get a few of those nine nine cents ones and stick in
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the freezer. But I'm telling you, man, that's good stuff. That
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is good stuff. And you know, I think it's pretty cool that I
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get to use the scraps for my carvings to cook with. If you want
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spoons and baskets and everything I make, one of its kind, unique airloom,
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quality crafts, artisan works, whatever you want to call them. And
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of course my books make wonderful Christmas presents. So let's get into a book,
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isn't it. Do you really just think what a profound thing a book
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is? Yeah, other people's books. My books are just my books.
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You know. I don't read my own books. I don't actually buy my
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own books. I thought about it when I started. I've written, I've
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published eleven and written twelve almost thirteen books now, and when they came out,
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people said, you know, isn't it cool to have your books on
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your shelf? And I'm like, I don't buy my own books. Maybe
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I should. Actually, there was a big mistake in one of my books,
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and if I had bought a copy, I would have caught it beforehand,
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a formatting error. It was really bad. So yeah, I wish
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I had bought in that case, But that would to me be almost like
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setting up like a little altar to my ego or something. So I don't
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buy my own books. I know that's probably weird. I know that's I
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don't know. I wonder if Saint Augustine or Saint Thomas Aquinas had a shelf
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with his own books. I kind of doubt it, but you know who
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knows. Maybe they did, and maybe I should. I don't know.
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Anyway, let's get into radio replies. I think it was said. I
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cannot remember the source of the quote. I remember I got it from a
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neuro wolf novel, or maybe it could have been the show. It's actually
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man if y'all want to see a great show. You know, you're looking
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for something to binge on over the holiday week on it Wakened or something.
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Go to YouTube or wherever you can find it. The A and E channel
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did. It was just two seasons of the Nearer Wolf Mysteries back in the
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nineties. Could have been early two thousands, so somewhere around nineteen ninet nine
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two thousand. Timothy Hutton played Archie what was his name? Mary Chenkin played
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near a Wolf. Well, you may remember Maury Chenkin as being the guy
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that ran the diner and my cousin Vinny who said no self respect in southern
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or whatever. He was instant grits. He does not he's not son,
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he doesn't have he will he's passed away. He did not have a Southern
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accent. He played the perfect near a wolf. These of all the mystery
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novels ever written, you know, I love Charley Comps, grew up on
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it, love Agatha Christie, grew up on it. Nero Wolf was the
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best, the absolutely you know, love My Camera, Oh my gosh,
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and my teens. I just I devoured My Camera novels. That was probably
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not the best influence. Actually, if you've ever read of My Camera novel
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you know they could be pretty pretty rough actually, but no Nero Wolf was.
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Oh Dashal Hammett, don't even we started on Dashl Hammett. I mean
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he kind of like, uh well, just something. He was one of
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the creators of the genre. You know, there were actually what they called
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pulp novels before the n just kind of rough characters in these little dime store
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novels. Dashal Hammett elevated the detective like if you've ever seen them all,
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He's Falcon's starring Humphrey Bogart. Absolute classic, okay, any of the Sam
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Spades. Oh, my absolute favorite of all time, Literally, my favorite
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movie of all time is The Thin Man. William Powell playing a Nashal Hammet
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Detective. That is literally my favorite movie of all time and my ideal of
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the perfect marriage. I'm serious. William Powell and Myrna Lloyd playing those two
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characters. They're witty, banter, they're back and forth, they're picking out
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yes, okay, someone's going to say, look, you know, he
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was drinking like a gallon of vodka day and you know, okay, yes,
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they should have cut back on the alcohol a little bit. That's not
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the point. You know, it was the nineteen twenties orly nineteen thirties.
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People did drink heavy. It was the jazz age. Take take that out
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of it, and maybe you don't have the you know, kind of Dean
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Martin kind of laid back humor. I love Dean Martin too, of course,
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but no, seriously, the banter and the relationship between those characters in
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the Thin Man movies, that's my ideal. That's exactly what I'm looking for.
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And a wife. Okay, she didn't have to be a multi millionaire,
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which actually she was in the movie. But you know, I actually,
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oh gosh, I don't need to go down that road. I started
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thinking about an ext girlfriend of mine last night, and they put it this
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way, never fall in love with a schizophrenic. I did. I met
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the perfect woman, and we were engaged to be married, and we had
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that zach relationship. She was always giving me a hard time, picking on
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me. We laughed constantly, and one day she woke up and she was
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a different person, and she disappeared. Took me three years to she had
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moved halfway across the country, maybe two thirds across the country, and was
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living a new life, completely different person. Anyway, if you ever want
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to see a good show over the holidays or any other way when you have
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some time to kill and you want to be entertained by a really great mystery
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series, look up the Nero Wolf Mysteries. They were, like I said,
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around year two thousand on A and E. All of them are available
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for free on YouTube. They're so good. They're just they're so The stories
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are interesting, the characters are fantastic. Rex Stout was brilliant, he really
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was. He was brilliant. His sister Ruth was also brilliant, whereas he
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pioneered the great mystery novel of America. And uh, good, good,
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good guy. I mean both he and his his his sister were both really
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solid. They were. Let me think, what were they? Oh,
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Mennonites maybe so, I mean not Catholic. You're not gonna get Catholic themes
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in that. I don't think it was Mennonite whatever. Quakers there were Quakers,
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Yes, that's it. But there's nothing you know, you you can
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watch these with your kids. Uh, They're not gonna be offended. You're
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not gonna be offended. And the humor was great, The storylines were great.
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I love them, especially in the A and E series. The music,
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the big band music of the thirties, there's great suits. My gosh.
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I mean, if I could just find someone, you can't buy him.
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I have literally called every men's store every in North Carolina. Probably not
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every men's store in North Carolina, but everyone I thought where I might be
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able to get a suit actually cut like that, and they say, oh,
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no, our pants they all come in. You know, they're pre
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made, they're out of country. We just cut them to fit, even
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in the best men's shops. I mean those the natural rise of the pants
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that goes to a man's natural waste. Yeah, I mean they come up
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on the stomach, you know, to the natural waste. The double breasted
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suits, the wingtips shoes, the fedoras. I mean the big band music,
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which is I mean I could listen to Benny Goodman and Glenn Miller and
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the Dorsey Brothers like every day. I mean that is like I mean,
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I am all about big band jazz and traditional country, and I mean people
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think that's weird, but to me, it's like two sides of the same
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coin. I love it. Of course. I love old blues, I
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love rockabilly, all of punk rock. I love all kinds of music.
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But yeah, the big band music on those set series is fantastic. But
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let's just wind it back around. I've been all over the field. Let's
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get back to books. Start with the first customable of Questions and Answers from
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radio Replies, which I believe was published in nineteen thirty one, so it
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is of the period. The person who had just asked about the giants mentioned
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in the Bible says, the ridiculous story of the flood offends against my common
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sense, and they answer, any ridiculous element is supplied by your own imagination.
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It would be better to find out what the narrative involves, and then
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to put and then put your difficulties archaeological evidence of archaeological research justifies the fact
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the flood need not have covered the whole world, but it could have been
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local. We have to admit, however, that it destroyed all human beings
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then living, except Noah and those with him in the Arc. And there
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is incredible archaeological elements for the great evidence for the Great Flood. You can
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go right here in North Carolina and you can go, gosh what halfway into
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the state and find fossils of ancient, prehistoric sharks and stuff. Okay,
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that may be even going back longer than the Epic of Noah, but the
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fact that water cover the earth is not disputed. Now, in recent years
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they seem to have found evidence of Noah's ark on the top of a mountain
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in Turkey. Now, how much water must have covered that area of what
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we now call the Middle East for a big old boat to get on top
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of a mountain in Turkey. So, yeah, the flood is real.
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Okay, I don't think anybody disputes that anymore. There may be some,
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but I I doubt it. The person says the arc is surely as a
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fable or a symbol, even on the measurements given it could never have contained
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all that's said to be in it. They say it is not a fable,
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although it does symbolize the Catholic Church in which souls are saved from the
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moral flood of sin. It was over four hundred feet long, seventy wide,
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and forty deep. The flood was probably local, and the animals were
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of various types from their region. Only in its occurrence. We are not
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obliged to believe that all living animals were represented, nor that all animals outside
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the Ark were destroyed. Men themselves had not spread so far afield at that
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time, so that Noah and his family were the sole human survivors. The
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flood happened the Ark is a fact. All men were drowned, save Noah
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and those with him in the Ark. That much must be so accepted in
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the literal sense, must be except in the literal sense, but many subsidiary
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details need not be whilst the wholeness, whilst the wholesale imaginative exaggeration those details
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is to be entirely rejected. A thing is credible when a sufficient capable cause
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is assigned. Incredible if the cause I alleged could not do it. But
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if the cause alleged could do it. Then it becomes a question of fact
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did it occur. God says that he calls the flood and its consequences,
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We cannot say that he is mistaken or deliberately deceiving us. I accept it.
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You must make your own choice. But you have given no sufficient reason
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for unbelief in your letter. Now I would say that, you know,
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I'm a big believer in empirical evidence. And almost every culture on the face
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of the Earth has a story of the flood. The Cherokee have the story
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of a flood where well, it was a turtle that you know, people
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got on the back of. You know, there's a legend of a great
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flood in nearly every culture. Culture is not informed by Christianity, not informed
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by Judaism. At some point there was for I mean, there's no reason
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to disbelieve there was a great flood in which most of humanity was wiped out.
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Now, I think the problem kind of comes down to timing. A
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lot of people want to deny that man has been on earth as long as
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man has likely been on earth. You know, they Okay, here's a
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really good example. I guess it was about twenty years ago. Maybe thirty
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a medicine bundle, a bundle of herbs, and I think some additional mushrooms,
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a couple of like sharp objects that one may have used to like,
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you know, prick up in a boil or you know that kind of thing
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was found in a cave. And I'm blanking on where this cave was.
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I believe it was in somewhere in South America, and it was like ten
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or twenty thousand years old, and the archaeologists who discovered it said, look,
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this has been found here. That means human beings were on this continent.
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I don't even remember, like ten thousand years before, the archaeological community,
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the universities said that human beings were there, and they absolutely went after
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that person and tried to destroy them, and the person say, look,
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no, no, here's this piece of evidence. It would have overturned all
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the theories of how human beings got to the Americas. It's very likely that
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yes, some did come across an ice bridge from you know, Asia or
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Russia to Alaska and come down through that. It's very likely. It also
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seems that probably thousands of years before that, Polynesians may have sailed from somewhere
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like I don't even know. They may have actually originated in Australia and of
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her generations come across the islands to South America. That's what this medicine bundle
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indicated. And instead of the academic community getting excited and like you know,
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Smithsonian, Russian down there and everybody trying to figure this out, they did
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their best to destroy the person, ruin their reputation and keep this from coming
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out for the one reason only it would have undermined their academic reputations. You
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had thousands of people having written papers and books on what they presumed to be
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the history of human settlement in the Americas, and here was someone saying,
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no, actually there was not only people here, but they had trade routes.
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Because the items in this had come from various locations. It was not
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just like this came from somebody's backyard garden. No, they had actually traded
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with other tribes farther north and farther south than where these you know, where
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this was found, That's where they plants grew, That's where the mushrooms and
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medicinal mushrooms grew. It absolutely turned the evidence of archaeology on its head,
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and instead of accepting it embracing and getting really excited about it, which is
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what I would do. I'd be like, wow, we just discovered this.
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Now they literally tried to erase this evidence. So, you know,
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we look at an academic community or whatever, it says mankind'smen on the earth
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for ten thousand years descended from apes before that. Meanwhile, they not provided
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any archaeological evidence of the evolution from ape to man. It's still just a
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theory. It's never been proved. I guess this is the way say it.
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I always say proven, but people say no, it's supposed to be
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proved. There's not a fossil evidence. They're missing links, as they call
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it. There's definitely a development of man over time. He changed stature and
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shape and all that, but there's no there's still not a connection between what's
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semi into human. Okay, it hasn't been found. What has been found
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is probably evidence that man has been here a lot longer than the Museum of
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Natural History up in Washington, d C. Would want you to believe.
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And over that time man was not a great widespread race. It was,
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you know, probably exactly as the Precious said, a small tribe somewhere in
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the middle East before and then now, I mean if mankind goes back to
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before the separation of the continents, which maybe who knows. I mean,
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they will tell you, well, we say man's descended from apes, but
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we can't show you the archaeological evidence. Someone else could easily say, well,
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mankind was was on Earth before Pangaea is separated. We don't have the
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archaeological abin. It's either, I mean, they're actually those are two theories
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could compete, and neither one can be proved. But how better to explain
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the story of the expulsion of the Garden of Eden than to think that the
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continents separated? And you know where might the origin of man actually be?
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Well, it could be Australia, could be New Zealand, it could be
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somewhere in that area. Yeah, I mean, seriously, seen, we
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keep finding clues that say that humanity may have originated there or somewhere in North
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Africa. Who knows. Science is not as definitive as it would like to
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pretend to be. I think we all learned that from Anthony Fauci, didn't
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we? Yeah? I think we did. The person says, what right
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had God to drown the animals? They did no harm? The question of
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this there answer. Of course, the question of right does not entered into
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this question. God has a perfect right to do as he pleases with the
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work of his own hands. He did not have to create, nor has
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he any obligation to creatures that should continue to confer existence upon them. The
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drowning of animals is no more difficult than the destruction of vegetation, which God
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makes and is free to unmake. Nor is the vegetative and animal world to
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be recognized as entirely independent of Man, who is a rational animal is the
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representative of all material creation. He sums up in himself the mineral, vegetable,
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and sensitive kingdoms. And it is in fact the intelligent voice of creation
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alone that is capable of responsibility. Mysterious though it be, there is a
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law of solidarity in this world which cannot altogether be overlooked. However, inability
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to comprehend the full significance of this event is proof only that the human mind
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is limited and in no way affects the historical fact. That is, I'm
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going to have to unpack that another day. Man is the crown of creation.
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I've written a whole article on this. You can kind on MISSI oday,
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all nature, vegetable, animal, mineral, whatever was affected by the
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fall of man, the original sin of Adam and Eve and redeemed through the
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sacrifice of Jesus. I don't know it is so offensive to our modern sensibilities
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when we read, like in the Bible where it says, you know,
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God notices as one sparrow of falls, but you're worth more than you know,
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many sparrows. Okay, God actually values man more than any animal,
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and for some reason we have almost deified nature. Man is the steward of
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nature, and nature is here to provide for man. We must care for
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it. We must be kind to animals. But the role of the of
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nature, of animals, of vegetables, of you know, trees, and
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even the soil itself, it's to support the life of the human being.
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In our culture, in our society, I mean, we've what was the
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number that I heard this morning, forty million black babies have been killed through
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abortion. Now overall, more than I think around one hundred million children in
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the United States have been killed through abortion. That's horrific. That's the greatest
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slaughter. I mean, it's a genocide, is what it is. We
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essentially erased a third of the population of the United States because usually due to
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convenience, people don't want to be bothered having a child. And you know,
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as a single man who wants nothing more on this earth than a family,
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I find that it's so offensive. I could really probably get violent if
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I got in a debate with somebody over that the crown of creation that person
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made in God's image killed. Meanwhile, people treat their dogs and cats like
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their children. People deify trees. I mean, we grew up on the
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Disney movies ridiculous Bambians such as that, where we anthropomorphasize whatever we think that
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Animals talk and think and have emotions and relationships like people. They don't spend
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a few minutes on a farm, spend a few minutes in the woods.
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Okay, I mean, look, it doesn't take very long to see a
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deer with its guts ripped out by a pack of coyotes. They would just
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come, just tear it out and then run away to kill something else,
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knowing the deer will die and they'll come back and eat it. Nature is
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so ridiculously cruel you you cannot imagine how horrific. Let me put it this
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way. Nothing dies in nature due to old age. The minute and animal
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loses a step, you know, gets a little old. Whatever gets injured
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usually happens. It's either torn apart and devoured by other animals while still alive,
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or by parasites or dies of disease or starvation. Nature is so phenomenally
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cruel. Universally, there are not these animals like in some Disney movies,
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sitting around in the woods and weeping over each other. No, let me
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tell you, people in our culture in our time are not dealing in a
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state of reality. They're dealing in a place where they think it's okay to
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kill children, babies, human beings, but it's wrong to eat a pork
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chop. Sick of my stomach just thinking of it. Literally, all right,
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So let's get on to Father Sparago. The preaching of the Gospel,
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the truths revealed by God to men by God's command proclaim to all nations of
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the earth, by the Catholic Church, especially by means of the Living Word,
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that is, by preaching the command to proclaim to all nations of the
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earth. The truth revealed by God was given to the apostles by our Lord
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at the time of physiciension. Our Lord, before ascending to heaven, spoke
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to his apostles as follows, All power is given to me in heaven and
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on earth. Going therefore, teachee all nations, baptizing them in the name
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of the Father and the Son and the Holy Ghost. And behold, I
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am with you always, even until the end of the world. Such so
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important, I mean, so many denominations now that deny the necessity of baptism,
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but hold up the Bible as their sole authority. No Jesus said you
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must be baptized in the name of the Father and the Son, in the
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Holy Spirit or the Holy ghosts you used to say. I mean, I've
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had debates. Well, I usually avoid them. I just opt out for
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some processts telling me they don't even believe in the Trinity. They say the
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Bible doesn't mention. I'm like, pick up your Bible, turn to Matthew,
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what is that chapter twenty eight eighteen through twenty. You know, maybe
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if you're going to hold up the Bible as your sole authority, you want
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to read it occasionally, just you know, stop listening to preachers who pull
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a verse out of context and then talk about it for an hour, actually
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read your Bible in context, and if you do, you'll probably become Catholic.
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I did for this reason. The Apostles and their successors have never allowed
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themselves to be prohibited by any earthly authority from preaching the Gospel. Nor has
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the Church ever turned aside from fulfilling her mission to preaching the Gospel by the
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opposition of the world. I hope that remains true that in Canada, and
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you may be aware that in Canada and several European countries right now it is
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illegal to read aloud the passages of the Bible that speaking against homosexuality. And
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you know, the Church has been feckless on this, has caved, has
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not shown any spine whatsoever. Our church, especially the bishops of Canada and
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what Norway, Sweden is a Sweden, maybe Sweden. The Vatican itself should
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have taken from their vast millions and there are many on staff lawyers should have
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put everything they had into suing to make sure this didn't happen. But you
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know that's not exactly Pope Francis's priority, is it. That's why I support
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groups like Catholics for Catholics, people who actually stand up for the Catholic Church
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and our teachings, her teachings and our faith. This is back in eighteen
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ninety so even now this when father Sparaka was writing this, I mean you
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tell you the man was prescient. He knew what was coming. Even now,
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in many countries, the state seeks to make the Catholic Church dependent on
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her. That's exactly what's happened in America and Canada and many other nations.
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Our church is so Catholic charities, for instance, do you know how many
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millions of dollars they get in grants to facilitate human trafficking across the Mexican border.
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Their abomination. They are an abomination and it should be stripped of their
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Catholic identity and prosecuted the fullest e steen of the law. They are causing
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children to be raped, they are facilitating it, are helping it. They
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are working with drug cartels that are killing hundreds of thousands of Americans with fentanyl,
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and they call themselves Catholic. And we have a second collection in our
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churches. Next time that play comes around, I'm going to beg you to
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put a note in it saying, not one penny for Catholic charities because of
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their facilitation of human trafficking. But you know it would be better take the
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plate, throw it to the ground, kick it and walk out, all
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right, They pull myself off the ceiling. In consequence of the command given
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by our Lord to the apostles, that Pope send missionary to the Heathens and
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issue papal briefs and risk scripts. I don't know that word risk scripts.
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To Christendom, the bishops and priests throughout their dioceses and publish pastoral letters that
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perish. Priests instruct their people by sermons and catechism, while the Catholic Church
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spreads the Word of God by means of preaching. Mahommedans, that's Muslims they
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used to call the Mohometans spread their beliefs by the fire and the sword,
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and Protestants by means of the Bible. I wonder if he meant to compare
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Protestants to Muslims. I bet he did. Father's barago was pretty sharp in
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his tongue. It is an error to suppose that Holy Scripture is the only
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means intended by Almighty God to communicate to the nations of Earth the truth of
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revelation. It was the will of God to make use of preaching for the
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conversion of the world. Our Lord's sisters, apostles, go and teach all
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nations, not go and write to all nations. What a great point,
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especially when you consider that universal ability to read? What is that words?
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This escaping me write this minute literacy? Universal literacy only came about around two
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to three hundred years ago, is it you go back to I mean five
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hundred years ago, six hundred years ago, a very small percentage of any
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community you went into could read. And then I mean even with the printing
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press, you could print plenty of Bibles, but if people couldn't read them,
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what didn't matter. It was the word, the spoken word, the
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oral tradition of the Church that gives us the only faith that both Catholics and
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Protestants have. Protestants would have no religion at all if it was entirely dependent
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on the ability to read and understand the Bible, because it was hundreds of
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it was three hundred some almost four hundred years before there was a Bible.
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I mean, you know, Saint Jerome took these first of all, the
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apostles had to write the New Testament. But then Saint Jerome had to translate
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things from Hebrew and Aramaic and Greek into Latin before you had any Bible that
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was available to the majority of people in what you might call the civilized world
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in Christendom. And then it was several hundred years later, gosh, almost
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two thousand years later before the average person could read it. Protestant is such
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a myth, it really is. It's so obvious. You can pop that
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balloon which is the slightest prick. But you know how many people have the
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guts to do that? You know, Yeah, I get yelled at,
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I get screamed at, I get cussed out a lot. I think good
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as most of us online these days. It used to be in person.
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But when I say to someone, they'll say, well, the Bible doesn't
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say that, And I say, well, okay, where does the Bible
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say that the Bible's soul authority? And boom next thing, you know,
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I mean, they well, it's very to acknowledge the truth of the Catholic
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Church means not only are they wrong, but they're a preacher that they respect
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is wrong, and the writers they read are wrong, but their parents and
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their grandparents are wrong, and it becomes a very personal issue and it becomes
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very offensive to them. Meanwhile, they don't hesitate to insult the One Holy
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Catholic and Apostolic Church established by Jesus Christ. They don't, really, you
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know, worry about insulting you and your family and your grandparents and all that
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anyway, and God himself, they don't worry about insulting the Mother of God.
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They say horrible things about the blessed Virgin Mary. I mean, you
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have to wonder what did she ever do to warrant their attacks. Do you
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think that eases Jesus for people to insult his mother or people who respect his
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mother. It it doesn't make a lot of sense anyway. As I said,
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it was the will of God to make use of preaching for the conversion
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of the world. Our Lord said to his apostles, go and teach all
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nations, not going right to all nations. Out of the apostles, only
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two wrote all the rest preached. That's true, you know, most of
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the books of the Bible were written by through dictation. Actually, other people
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wrote down the words of the apostles. The apostles themselves were the books of
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the faithful. That's a reference to Saint Augustine. He said the apostles were
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essentially living books of the Bible. Saint Paul tells us that faith cometh by
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hearing, hearing, not from books, not from mere books. As he
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said, teaching by word of mouth. The corresponds to human needs. Everyone
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prefers to be taught rather than have to hunt out the truth from books by
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study. Yeah, you don't believe that. Remember high school, you know,
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remember when you had to take a test to write a term paper and
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you open that textbook and you had to try to find something. Wouldn't you
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rather someone just tell you the answers. Well, that's actually what the Catholic
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Church does. It tells you the answers. If writings were the only mean
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by which means by which men could arrive at knowledge of revealed truth, the
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Christians of the first two centuries would have been a terrible disadvantage. So too
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with those who cannot read, as well as the great massive mankind in the
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present day, who have neither the knowledge nor the capacity to penetrate the meaning
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of the written word. To say, eighteen nineties, most people were still
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illiterate. Yet it is the will of God that all men should come to
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the knowledge of the truth that's from Fir Timothy. Holy scripture soon loses its
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value in the eyes of those who do not have the assurance the living Word
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that is truly a divine origins. Yeah. Go to any religious college now,
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Yes, even the Southern Baptist University I attended in Virginia, the name
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of which I will not mention, And if you really scratch the surface,
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a whole lot of those professors will tell you, well, we don't really
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believe this. The Bible says it, but we we think this was written
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in the context of this, and it was this meant this. They'll do
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whatever they can to make their the Bible fit their ever changing doctrine. Yeah,
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it actually is ever changing. You read what a Baptist believes now as
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opposed to what a Babtist believed two hundred years ago, you will find a
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very different church. I went to a big conference when I was working for
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a Methodist church before I ever went to that Babtist university, and they were
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trying to make well I think they finally did. They said gay marriage is
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okay in the Methodist Church, and they twisted the words of the Bible a
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thousand different ways to fit that ever changing doctrine. Uh. Anyway, Saint
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Augustine says, I should not believe the Gospel unless the authority of the Church
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moved me to do so. So, Saint Augustine said, the only reason
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he believed the Bible is because the Church told him it was true. Actually,
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that's the only reason anybody believes the Bible now. I mean, I'm
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sure they're screaming Protestants out there right now. The Bible is the sole authority.
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I read the Bible and I believe in God. You only have a
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Bible because the Catholic Church wrote it, published it, gave it to your
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ancestors. All you know of Christianity has been passed down from your parents and
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grandparents or cultural because they originally got it from the Catholic Church. Because there
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was no Protestant Church until about five hundred years ago. There was no Protestant
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Church until about five hundred years ago. There is no Christian knowledge and doctrine,
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or practice or tradition without Catholicism. You remove the Catholic Church, there
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is no Christian Church in the entire world because for fifteen hundred years, the
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only Christian Church the only Christian Church that told you about Christmas in Easter,
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and Baptism, and the Sermon on the Mount, and for God so loved
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the world, and the yay though I walk through the Valley of the Shadow
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of Death, was the Catholic Church. You take the Catholic Church away,
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your grandparents and great grandparents would not be Christian. They'd be you know,
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pagan vikings knocking each other in the head. You only get there drew the
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Catholic Church, which gave you the Bible. At least acknowledge that when you
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go out and say Catholics aren't really Christian, they worship Satan. They're all
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going to Hell, which is what many Protestants have told me. And I
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say to them, from where do you think you got the Bible? Who
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told your great great great grandfather about Christianity, who baptized him? You think
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it was a Muslim that did it? Islam is younger than Christianity. I
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mean, think about it. A truth which the Catholic Church puts before us
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is revealed by God is called a truth of faith or a dogma, and
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people rail against dogma. Dogma is official truth. It's an official truth.
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That's all It means either a universal council i e. One consisting of the
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bishops of the whole world acting under the authority of the pope, or the
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Pope himself has the power to declare a truth to be revealed by God.
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There's actually I cannot remember the name of the philosopher. Was the death of
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Dogma as the beginning of understanding or something like that? What is that saying?
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What are you taught in college about dogma? You must reject truths revealed
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by God? Where's that going to get you in life? Where's that going
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to get you in the afterlife? Thus the Council of Niciah declared the divinity
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of Our Lord to be an article of faith Pope Pious the night the Immaculate
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Conception of the Holy Mother of God in eighteen fifty four. Thereby no new
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doctrines were taught, but those truths were declared to have been truly revealed by
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God, and therefore they became dogmas the faith. When a child advances in
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its knowledge of religious truth, it does not really change its belief. So
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the Church, the collected body of all the faithful, receives dogmas new to
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it. When on the appearance of some new form or of error. It
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sets forth after careful examination, certain truths of religion in explicit form, and
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imposes their acceptance on all the faithful. You see, most official dogma's.
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Official teachings of the Catholic Church only occurred because some group, some cult,
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some nutball group, tried to deny them, like the Arians who denied the
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divinity of Christ. So the Church got together and said, no, if
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you're a Christian, you have to believe that Christ is indeed God. That's
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all it is. And I mean, the first day one of a philosophy
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class in any college, you're told to reject all dogmas, i e.
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Revealed truth by God. Again while you're sending your kid to that school.
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Yeah, did they tell him, your kid that went to that school that
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Nietzsche ended up insane in a mental institution and committed suicide. I doubt it,
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But no, he's probably spending a good, you know, two semesters
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reading Nietzsche. Maybe maybe we ought not learn to reason as insane people.
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Maybe we ought to reject you know, Karl Marx and Ingles because their teachings
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have led to the death of some two hundred million innocent people. You know,
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that would kind of make sense to me. I mean, you know,
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what's the old definition of insanity keep doing the same thing and expecting a
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different outcome. Well, the Catholic Church is created has produced some of the
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greatest well saints obviously, but also scientific minds. Decarte the curies. I
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mean, I could go on and on. I mean, yeah, we
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didn't even get into Galileo and all that. That's a controversy, but I
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mean he was Catholic. If you want to find the truth, the path
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to the happiness and salvation, maybe spend your time studying what the Catholic Church
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has given you. Thousands of books by some of the greatest theologians, mystics,
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I mean Saint Hildegard v. Benjin who had, you know, conversations
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with Jesus and angels, doctors, scientists. The Catholic Church has created more
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of the produced I should say, more of the great minds of human history
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than any other institution on earth. Get in our universities, and even in
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our supposedly Catholic universities, we spend most of our time studying failed, failed
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doctrines, failed systems of thought, things that have led to the deaths of
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millions of people, progressive politics, liberalism, feminism. Don't you know,
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one day I'll probably do a show on feminism. It has been probably the
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most destructive force in America, even worse than communism. But feminism is at
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its heart communism. Communism always sets to set, seeks to set people against
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each other, men against women, women against men, black against white,
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et cetera, et cetera, divide and conquer essentially, And why our Lord
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say a house divide against itself cannotstand. But you go to school and you'll
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study gender studies. You'll go to school and you'll study psychology and sociology,
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and let you know, they never say, let's look exactly what these schools
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of thought, these so called scientists, sciences, social sciences have produced.
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Well, most recent statistic I saw always eighty percent of people are on some
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kind of psych what's the word psychoactive medication. They're on any depressants, they're
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on add add HDHD mets over, they're on sleeping pills, they're on tranquilizers,
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they're on antipsychotics. And our birth rates are down, our lifespans are
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decreasing, Our violence and crime is up. Drug overdoses are an all time
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high, and still we're looking at we're educated so called divorce rate everything.
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We're living in a time of anti humanism because people are so disconnected from each
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other. They don't even see that they're hurting another person. They don't care.
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They only care about and that's well. I won't say it's all because
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of psychology. Most of it has to do with rejecting Christianity, but didn't
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making psychology a religion. Truth is psychology, psychiatry, sociology has destroyed this
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country, has destroyed our culture. It's destroyed the family. It's been satanic.
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You're not gonna be taught that in school, are you? Are you
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gonna be taught in school that the leading cause of death in America is medical
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malpractice, error and over prescription, or are you gonna be taught that doctors
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basically hung the moon and you need to spend your entire life doing exactly what
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they tell you to do. But don't listen to your priest. You know,
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Oh man, I'm telling you I could go on some rants today,
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couldn't I. Anyway, before the definition of any dogma by the Church,
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it was only a pious opinion or approximate or one proximate to the faith,
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such as at the present time, the belief in the assumption of the body
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of our lady into heaven. And that's this was the eighteen nineties. Now
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we do believe, We believe in the assumption. It has been given by
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divine revelation. So we know that the blessed Virgin Mary was assumed body and
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soul into heaven, just as you know Elijah was in the Bible, you
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know, but Alicia too, I think maybe, But you know, it
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has been revealed by divine revelation. The Catholic Church derives from Holy Scripture and
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from tradition the truth that God has revealed. Holy Scripture and tradition are of
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equal authority and claim from us equal respect. That's what Protestants deny at the
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heart of it. They say, the Bible, not tradition. Meanwhile,
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the Bible says everything Jesus said and did wasn't written down the Bible. So
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the Protestant position makes no sense. And actually the Bible itself tells them they're
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wrong. But they don't read those passages. You see, Protestants normally have
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Bible studies where there's a verse, and then you know, they read about
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it, or someone teaches about it, or there's a preacher gives a sermon
52:23
where he reads a verse and then he might talk for an hour, you
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know, go to a Babtist church, it may be an hour and a
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half about what it means, never in context. So when I was dating
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a Presbyterian girl in college, and originally said she said, she might,
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you know, if she would convert to Catholicism if she married a Catholic man.
52:45
Then she said, no, absolutely not. You're either going to convert
52:47
to Presbyterianism or we're not getting married. So that was, you know,
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that relationship. She said, what about going to priests for confession? I
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open the Gospel John and I go to where it says those go the four
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then the well. Anyway, I won't try to get into the I think
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it was a king James, so I won't try to say the old language.
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But those who sins you forgive, they are forgiven, and those who
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sins you retain, they are retained. And her jaw dropped. She said,
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I've never seen that. Give me that Bible, and I don't understand
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this. No one's ever said this to me. I've never read this.
53:24
I said, why haven't you read it. You've had a Bible your entire
53:27
life. I never understood this. I said, well, you know,
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maybe you should. Maybe you should, Maybe you really need to understand what
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the Bible actually says, other than you know, your good news message of
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the day that you know everybody's happy and you're are going to be rich and
53:45
happy because you're a Christian. And meanwhile, Jesus talks about suffering, and
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he gives the role of the priesthood and says that he wishes all Christians to
53:54
be won and unified and hates schism. And you know just what somewhere what
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Halloween Day the Protestants celebrate Reformation Day. I mean, the Bible says,
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literally, that's dividing, that's crucifying Christ again, and they celebrate it as
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if it's a good thing. No it's not. And if you read your
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Bible, you'd know that. Anyway. Holy scripture is written, tradition is
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the unwritten word of God. Saint Paul exhorts the faithful to hold fast to
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the traditions they have received, whether by word of mouth or by writing.
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Second Thessalonians two fourteen. So you can tell your Protestant friends to not only
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open their Bible and read, Oh, what you bind on earth bound on
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heaven in heaven. What you loose on earth, be loosed in heaven.
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Those who sins you forgive, they're forgiven. Those who sins you retain,
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They're retained. But you could go to Thessalonians, hold fast to the traditions
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you have received, whether by word, earth mouth or by writing. Or
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how about the other many books of the New Testament that say, obey your
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priests and bishops, no dissension, no schism. Jesus said, Lord,
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I wish that they would be one as you and I are one. Or
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how about most especially those who hear you hear me, and those who reject
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you reject him who sent me to give the authority to the apostles. So
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I reckon, we'll wrap it up there today, y'all have a great,
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great day, great evening. I'll talk to you tomorrow, hopefully, and
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in the words of Saint Padre Pio, as always, pray, hope, and don't