What our dog thought about Ronald Knox ... zzzzzzz ....
Posted on 02/17/2011 7:35:48 AM PST by verdugo
Why, thank you! But I’ll have to let you know when I have grown up ...
Remember when you kindly suggested to the Greek Orthodox that electric guitars would help their service? That was a classic ...
Me too.
Oh dear....
Hey, TC, "Are you a YOPIOS"? (snicker!)
Shhhh, Uncle K. Don’t blow my cover!
Your secret is safe with me...trust me!
Hey, aren’t you the one who said I was a Calvinist or a Manichaean or something slightly unflattering? Not that I mind, as long as you also say I’m thin ...
An interesting misuse of Msgr. Ronald Knox.
Knox was a British playwright and theologian-priest who died in 1957. (The plot Orson Welles’ “War of the Worlds” may have come from H.G. Wells, but the execution came from Knox’s “Broadcasting from the Barricades.”) He quite certainly did not make that quote in response to the Catholic Charismatic Movement.
Speaking in unknown tongues is certainly a diagnostic symptom for demonic possession, but that doesn’t mean it’s singularly indicative of possession. I’m sure Knox wouldn’t say St. Francis Xavier, St. Gregory Nazienzen, Pope John Paul II or St. Irenaeus were demon-possessed.
The 1917 Catholic Encyclopedia is much abused around these parts; Where the encyclopedia records the predominant opinions of (protestant-dominated) 1917 America, Protestants here use it as if the Catholic Church itself has conceded points to Protestants. But I think anyone would find its article on glossolalia still quite relevant nearly 100 years later: http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14776c.htm
What our dog thought about Ronald Knox ... zzzzzzz ....
Heaven forfend, dear lady; not I, never!
Oh, sorry. Must have been someone else ...
Impressive. My dog still reads the Washington Post Express.
(Yeah, he knows it bullshoot, but it’s written to his reading level.)
Ash is a greyhound; they are dogs of superior literary taste.
Stay thin then, my child. Go in peace and not too much pizza.
Yeah, well you’d never catch *my* dog riding a bus.
(Then again, that’s probably why he isn’t as well educated.)
No doubt "a man of blood and a base fellow"!
The Holy Spirit does not have anything to do with "slaying" people, nor woman falling backwards exposing their legs and other areas of the skin. Take a look at the Hindu Gurus touching their followers in the East and you will se the same out of control movements, barking and snorting. I do not believe at all that this display is from the God I serve, rather an imposter behind it all.
Ash would happily get on a bus. She loves rides of all kinds.
Oh, you’re all too kind. I’ll get an unholy case of self-satisfaction if this goes on.
There is a point, though, which is that I believe Relentless Niceness is the godly response to overwrought grumpitude. I’ll even break out the baby pictures, if that’s what it takes to restore a spirit of light. There’s enough darkness around, already, without our going back to 1997 to look for someone’s complaints about people who aren’t doing anything to him, anyway.
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