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Why I Am A Catholic by G. K. Chesterton
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Posted on 12/20/2010 6:21:26 PM PST by Salvation
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To: johngrace
Dan is my favorite of the Old Testament - that your brother carries his name is a good sign. Today he is in the lion’s den, but Our Lord will carry him home. I will pray for him.
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posted on
12/20/2010 7:40:21 PM PST
by
narses
( 'Prefer nothing to the love of Christ.')
To: utahagen
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posted on
12/20/2010 7:44:32 PM PST
by
stuartcr
(When politicians politicize issues, aren't they just doing their job?)
To: Salvation
Wow, that was a great read.
To: Jo Nuvark
Maybe you need to start a Chesterton ping list!
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posted on
12/20/2010 8:00:39 PM PST
by
Salvation
("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
To: Salvation
It knows where the Bible came from. I've always found it curious that people of other Christian religions don't wish to discuss the history of their Bible. Usually they don't know and don't care, while at the same time holding fast to sola scriptura.
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posted on
12/20/2010 8:03:31 PM PST
by
detch
To: Salvation
If you have a Chesterton ping list, can you add me? I should read this and other things by him.
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posted on
12/20/2010 8:10:23 PM PST
by
little jeremiah
(Courage is not simply one of virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.CSLewis)
To: stuartcr
Why is that a sin?The sin is in knowing the leaf is green, yet claiming it is something else.
It's in knowing an eternal truth, yet claiming that all is gray...
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posted on
12/20/2010 8:15:00 PM PST
by
Flycatcher
(God speaks to us, through the supernal lightness of birds, in a special type of poetry.)
To: Flycatcher
Why does that matter? Just because one says something, doesn’t mean it changes anything about how something really is. It means the other is either incorrect, or is using a different reference or definition. I don’t see how that can be considered a sin.
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posted on
12/20/2010 8:44:15 PM PST
by
stuartcr
(When politicians politicize issues, aren't they just doing their job?)
To: little jeremiah; Jo Nuvark
I don’t have one; I’ll compile links, however. I was talking to Jo.
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posted on
12/20/2010 8:50:29 PM PST
by
Salvation
("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
To: Salvation
This was a good one as well.
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posted on
12/20/2010 9:09:39 PM PST
by
Tribune7
(The Democrat Party is not a political organization but a religious cult.)
To: stuartcr
It would be presumptuous of me to speak for Chesterton, but I believe this conversation he speaks of is interpersonal. In other words, by knowing in your heart an eternal truth (the greenness of the leaf), and yet denying this truth (calling it gray), you've lied to yourself.
To deny an eternal truth -- if you know it to be one -- whether to yourself or to others, is to miss the mark.
Now if you don't believe in eternal truths, you may still call a green leaf gray.
That merely makes you a common liar.
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posted on
12/20/2010 9:21:03 PM PST
by
Flycatcher
(God speaks to us, through the supernal lightness of birds, in a special type of poetry.)
To: Flycatcher
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posted on
12/20/2010 9:46:44 PM PST
by
Ransomed
To: Salvation; nickcarraway; NYer; ELS; Pyro7480; livius; ArrogantBustard; Catholicguy; RobbyS; ...
This is a G. K. Chesterton Ping List.
Please contact me by FReepmail if you
wish to be removed from this auspicious
list.
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posted on
12/20/2010 10:05:31 PM PST
by
Jo Nuvark
(Those who bless Israel will be blessed, those who curse Israel will be cursed. Gen 12:3)
To: Salvation; nickcarraway; NYer; ELS; Pyro7480; livius; ArrogantBustard; Catholicguy; RobbyS; ...
This is a G. K. Chesterton Ping List.
Please contact me by FReepmail if you
wish to be removed from this auspicious
list.
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posted on
12/20/2010 10:06:16 PM PST
by
Jo Nuvark
(Those who bless Israel will be blessed, those who curse Israel will be cursed. Gen 12:3)
To: Jo Nuvark
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posted on
12/20/2010 10:18:44 PM PST
by
Salvation
("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
To: Jo Nuvark
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posted on
12/20/2010 10:20:03 PM PST
by
Salvation
("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
To: stuartcr
I think Chesterton meant that all sin was really about pretending that something bad is good.
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posted on
12/21/2010 1:12:01 AM PST
by
utahagen
To: Flycatcher
Right — impugning the known truth is a sin against the Holy Spirit!
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posted on
12/21/2010 2:03:18 AM PST
by
maryz
To: Salvation
Thank you—this is wonderful.
To: Salvation
Nothing is more likely just now than that the corruption of representative government will lead to the rich breaking loose altogether, and trampling on all the traditions of equality with mere pagan pride. Timeless words of the reality of the world we are living in from Chesterton.
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posted on
12/21/2010 5:30:12 AM PST
by
stfassisi
((The greatest gift God gives us is that of overcoming self"-St Francis Assisi)))
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