DEVIL ESPECIALLY HATES PRAYERS IN LATIN, SAYS A PRIEST KNOWN AS 'ROME'S EXORCIST'

SpiritDaily ^ | May 30, 2007

[Dr. Eckleburg]

For people to imagine that everything Jesus said during his life is contained in the New Testament is just...moronic. There's probably a politer way to put it, but nothing that stupid deserves courtesy.

Of course, nobody's saying the Bible contains every word Christ spoke, but that doesn't stop the "moronic" red herrings from being trotted out as if they were facts.

baseball...

"The Bible is thought of as authoritative on everything of which it speaks.  Moreover, it speaks of everything.  We do not mean that it speaks of football games, of atoms, etc., directly, but we do mean that it speaks of everything either directly or by implication.  It tells us not only of the Christ and his work, but it also tells us who God is and where the universe about us has come from.  It tells us about theism as well as about Christianity.  It gives us a philosophy of history as well as history.  Moreover, the information on these subjects is woven into an inextricable whole.  It is only if you reject the Bible as the word of God that you can separate the so-called religious and moral instructions of the Bible from what it says, e.g., about the physical universe." --  Cornelius Van Til, Christian Apologetics (Phillipsburg, NJ:  Presbyterian and Reformed Publishing Co., 1976), p.2.

[Dr. Eckleburg]

There's nothing I can do to help you. You are your own jailer.

More personal insults. Sad.

[markomalley]

Up in Balt’more, hon. ;)

Better school and far cheaper than in the DC diocese!

[murphE]

the Roman Catholic religion is not The Church or the authority that Christ established. It once was part of The Church, but it's heterodox dogmas and distortions of the True Gospel of Christ have rendered it void.

LOL! Pope Michael, is that you? ;- )

[vox_freedom]

Buh bye, & good riddance.

[dsc]

“More personal insults. Sad.”

What is sad is your dismissal of the truth as “personal insult.”

[dsc]

“Of course, nobody’s saying the Bible contains every word Christ spoke”

Nonsense. Of course you are.

If the Bible does not contain every word Christ spoke, then Sola Scriptura is Satanic evil.

[Salvation]

**Such a wonderful legacy, faithful children...**

But only if the parents are faithful.

If the parentns blaspheme, then the children will also be blasmphemous.

[Canticle_of_Deborah]

Over the top, isn’t it? It’s like a caricature you’d see on TV.

I didn’t think people actually believed this stuff anymore.

Guess I live a sheltered life, lol.

[1000 silverlings]

The Lord is the Lord of History. The whole episode of John Knox confronting Mary has a remarked similarity in the story of Elija and Jezebel.

[AnAmericanMother]

Usual confusion between "Bloody Mary" (Mary Tudor) and Mary Queen of Scots (daughter of James V and Mary de Guise). Knox fled to the Continent when Mary Tudor assumed the throne of England. Mary Queen of Scots was a Frenchwoman and a fool; perhaps she traded so successfully on her looks as a young woman that she never learned wisdom. Mary Tudor was little wiser. Elizabeth was the first to understand that a female monarch must put aside her "weak womanhood" in order to rule. But it made her hard, like her father.

Gloriana.

Possibly the best meditation on the price Elizabeth paid, by a master of psychology, Rudyard Kipling.

[Tax-chick]

I’ve always sympathized with Mary Tudor. All she wanted was to have a baby.

[Tax-chick]

Oh, a Queen may love her subjects in her heart, and yet be dog-wearied of ’em in body and mind

Now there's a mom-line for you!

[AnAmericanMother]

I'm telling you, Kipling KNEW. He understood by instinct things that were outside his own experience.

The book that that story is from is one of a pair - Puck of Pook's Hill and Rewards and Fairies. If your kids are studying English history, I can't think of a better place to begin.

These are books suitable to be read to younger kids or for the preteen set to read to themselves, with excellent Kipling poetry bracketing each short story. There's an overarching theme to the books - Kipling said it was "What else could I have done?" - and they give a human face to English history. George Washington makes an appearance (as told by a French-English smuggler), along with one of Sir Francis Drake's captains, a Norman knight, a Jewish merchant who saved Magna Carta, a Roman centurion, and a Stone Age priest . . . .

I love these books and re-read them all the time.

[AnAmericanMother]

Poor lady. I do feel sorry for her too. She had no business marrying Philip of Spain though, she didn't need the political trouble on top of the religious. Just like her cousin Mary Queen of Scots, she let her heart overcome her head. Although there was a strain of treachery in Mary of Scotland that I could never like, that I didn't see in Mary Tudor.

If she had married a Catholic German prince or maybe a Catholic Frenchman with a reputation for tolerance towards the Huguenots, and settled down to a life of happy domesticity a la Queen Victoria, things might have been quite different.

[trisham]

No more shirts. I am getting a tattoo. On my forehead.

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Thank goodness I didn't read that until this morning. Last night I might have been persuaded. :)

[1000 silverlings]

Both Jezebels were alive at the same time period as John Knox and a threat to Knox’s life. Like Elijah, Knox did flee from one, and like Elijah, he did confront the other. Thanks though for the facts re the two Marys.

[AnAmericanMother]

You won't get any argument from me on calling Mary of Scotland a jezebel . . . because plainly that's what she was and unworthy of her crown.

But Mary Tudor I think was sad, conflicted, zealous but misdirected, scarred by her childhood as a disowned bastard and by her awful father, and duped by Philip of Spain. With a better upbringing and without that dreadful excuse for a husband, she might have brought peace a generation earlier in England. It's damning with faint praise to say she "meant well", but that's better than being Mary of Scotland.

[1000 silverlings]

It’s always better to live a peaceful life in the country than be at court

[AnAmericanMother]

Truer words were NEVER spoken.

My friend, if cause doth wrest thee
Ere folly hath much oppressed thee,
Far from acquaintance kest thee,
Where country may digest thee,
Let wood and water request thee,
In good corn soil to nest thee,
Where pasture and mead may breast thee,
And healthsome air invest thee;
Though envy shall detest thee,
Let that no whit molest thee,
Thank God that hath so blest thee,
And sit down, Robin and rest thee.

- Thomas Tusser, Some of the Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry, 1557