Catholic Caucus: Earthquake between REBEL PRIESTS and Notre Dame [Vulgar Play promoter]

USGS and other Freerepublic Articles | April 18, 2008 | Vanity

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It is interesting that the Notre Dame University (Vagina Monologues controversy) and the REBEL PRIESTS of Belleville are almost on a crow's path for the 5.2 Earthquake this morning.

It is also on the Eastern end of the Madrid Earthquake fault. It is possible that God is choosing this earthquake's timing with the Pope's visit.

Albert Schweitzer once said that God sometimes makes known His ways by using coincidence.

In this case, the REBEL PRIESTS and VAGINA MONOLOGUES must be so distasteful to God that He has chosen the Pope's visit to hurl this thunderbolt down to earth in the form of a 5.2 earthquake.

It also shows God's mercy in that apparently that was little if any harm to human life.

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This part of the country has known earthquakes, but for this one to occur where it did and during the Pope's visit is interesting.

In my opinion, it is in the Diocese of Belleville (home of the REBEL PRIESTs and very close to South Bend, Indiana (home of Notre Dame and the recent Vagina Monologues controversy).

And you can hurl thunderbolts at me for posting.

But it does not deny the coincidence of the Earthquake, the REBEL PRIESTs, and how Notre Dame University allowed the Vagina Monologues.

Also, the name of the nearest city, i.e., West Salem [Illinois] reflects how our culture has turned to witchcraft (i.e., Harry Potter).

I do not consider West Salem an evil place -- it is just that God may be using the name of the town to remind us of the EVIL of HARRY POTTER.

[Just mythoughts]

First report I heard said it was in Mt. Carmel where the shaking took place.... Curious there is a West Salem involved, and maybe it is a common occurrence for the earth to shake in this area, but I do not recall anything this size in my lifetime. There is to be a huge shaking near another Mt. Carmel and near the area of another Salem yet future.

[Aquinasfan]

FYI, in the Bible, “salem” means “peace.”

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The AP news article via Yahoo:

5.2 earthquake rocks large region of Midwest -- http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080418/ap_on_re_us/midwest_earthquake

The report is out of West Salem, Illinois, and the claim, from the AP article, is that the epicenter was 6 miles from West Salem...

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That is interesting, as maybe God also means to wish us Peace with the Pope's visit or remind us that Jesus is the path to Peace.

I was referring to the infamous Salem witch trials in early American History... Many people would associate the buring of the witches at the stake with Salem, whether that be good, bad or indifferent (at least I do).

Finally, witchcraft is a way to have false gods before the TRUE GOD, which is one first commandments that God gave Moses...

People may not consider witchcraft to be a false religion or worshipping false gods, but I certainly would have to say if I had practiced something like that, I would confess the sin (in the confessional) as worshipping a false god...

Shalom...

[free_for_now]

Harry Potter? Maybe it happened becase of these gals

or this gal

or this gal

Let's not be so quick to blame a warlock. The witches are a danger as well.

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After researching via the USGS (United States Geological Survey), Mount Carmel (Illinois) was near the epicenter of the earthquake. This is much closer than West Salem (Illinois), but maybe West Salem (Illinois) is a larger geographical area.

For info on the earthquake:

Magnitude 5.2 - ILLINOIS: 2008 April 18 09:37:00 UTC -- http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/eqinthenews/2008/us2008qza6/

7 km (5 miles) NNE (13°) from Bellmont, IL
9 km (6 miles) E (88°) from Bone Gap, IL
11 km (7 miles) N (350°) from Keensburg, IL
60 km (38 miles) NNW (331°) from Evansville, IN
206 km (128 miles) E (95°) from St. Louis, MO

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It is witchcraft that I am blaming...

Obviously, the buring of witches at Salem, Massachusetts in early American History is something associated with witchcraft.

In terms of the modern craze for witchcraft, the movie by Kim Novak with Jimmy Stewart (Bell Book and Candle) is one of the first POSITIVE portrayals of witchcraft as a good thing (and not evil).

Then came the long running TV Series with Elizabeth Montgomery (Bewitched).

But the real problem with Harry Potter is that it is a significant craze among very young people and a rotten influence in this day and age on young people.

In terms of the Bible and Jesus (and the Catholic Church), Jesus said that it is better to put a millstone about your neck and be thrown into the sea than to corrupt the innocence of children.

Harry Potter is one of them -- as it makes witchcraft look like a good thing...

My belief in the evil of witchcraft is documented by the book: Possessed: The True Story of an Exorcism

The book explains that the boy gets demonically possessed because he started using one of those INNOCENT (/sarcasm off) OUJI Boards.

The boy had recently lost a beloved aunt, and he tried to connect his dead aunt via the OUJI Board.

Apparently, he dialed the wrong number.

The story of what happened to the boy was the basis of the novel and then the book The Exorcist. A young student at Georgetown University read about the story in the Wastington Post (or other Washington newspaper of the time) and was inspired to do the novel.

He changed from the story from the true story (a boy in the Maryland suburbs of Washington, DC) to a girl in the city of Washington, DC.

Also, be warned, this is a Catholic Caucus thread...

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Additional info on book:

Possessed: The True Story of an Exorcism

By Allen B. Thomas

ISBN 038542034X

Publisher Doubleday

Year published 1993

(This book is available to be purchased through various sites as a new book or a used book.)

Reading this book should show the danger of fads like Harry Potter and the such...

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An earthquake was used in the life of Saint Agatha. After she had been cruelly tortured and had part of her body cut off, she was healed.

When the Romans tried to start the torture over the next day, in the middle of the torture, an earthquake occurred at a near by volcano.

This frightened the people in the town/city, and the Roman prefect ordered the torturing to stop.

Within a day, Saint Agatha died peaceably in her cell within a die -- not suffering anymore torture.

Saint Agatha, Pray for us!

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Apparently, Mount Carmel did get quite a bit of shaking.

It is the most populated area (7,000 people) to feel almost the full force of the earthquake.

Here is an image from USGS of the intensity.

Mount Carmel is in the VI area -- the most violent for this earthquake.

[Just mythoughts]

Thank you for the image. My power had gone out the night before and my guess is from a lightening strike. The power company was very soon out and about to fixed the problem. However, it was pouring rain and I heard and saw their attempts down the road by loud explosive arching of electricity and the power vehicle then leaving the area. My neighbor got his generator up and ‘roaring’ which kept me from falling asleep as I had nothing to drown out that roar.

The first thing I hear when I awoke in the morning after I figured out how to ‘reset’ the cable on my tv, was a local report of people here in Kansas City area feeling an earthquake that hit at Mount Carmel, Ill.

So after doing ‘chores’ around here and getting my computer back up was to see the when this quake hit to see if there was any correlation with my power outage... No correlation but the name Mount Carmel, which I did not know was a place in Illinois, reminded me of another Mount Carmel.

I personally did not feel the quake, or the after shocks, but I heard later that MO DOT was out checking bridges on the eastern side of the state for bridge damage.

I do thank you for your updates, as I had other things I needed to get done and sometimes there is no other place to find out the details of events, except here on FR, of which I am thankful exists.

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KKK, after threatening Catholic Nuns in Beaumont, have National Headquaters burn down after being struck by bolt of Lightening

There is also a story of the burning down of the National Headquarters for the Klu Klux Klan.

A bolt of lightening struck the building and burned it to the ground.

Just prior to that, the KKK were threatening a group of Saint Katherine Drexel's nuns in Beaumont, Texas. The saint (still alive on earth) prayed for the protection of the nuns.

After the National Headquarters burned down, it was somehow correlated that it was related to the threats on the nuns.

This particular story I have to research more to find more facts and dates to substantiate...

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There are a number of aftershocks going on in the area (there have been just more than 10 of these since the 5.2

I pray that these aftershocks are not un-nerving for the people of this area -- having lived in California, I experienced some pretty good sized earthquakes (all less than 7).

For some people, tremors between 1 and 3 on the earthquake scale is part of their normal life...