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... on display in the Sola Scriptura Caucus.
Months after Maher, Miller, Hitchens, and Warren leave this earth no one will even remember who they were. But they will still read Augustine.
As long as there are Rednecks, you Catholics will never be the last acceptable group to hate.
What could be more loving, wonderful, beautiful than the message of God to man through His Son our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ?
“God, who at sundry times and in divers manners (in many parts and in many ways) spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets, Hath spoken unto us by His Son, whom He hath appointed heir of all things, by whom He hath made the worlds; Who being the brightness of His glory, and the express image of His person, and upholding all things by the word of His power, when He had by Himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on High.” (Hebrews 1:1-3)
The prophet Isaiah was given a vision: in Isaiah 1:18a he wrote: “Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD;.....”
Then Isaiah 7:9 he wrote: “Therefore the Lord Himself shall give you a sign: Behold a virgin shall conceive, and bear a Son, and shall call His name Immanuel (God with us)” and again in Isaiah 9:6:”For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon His shoulder, and His name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.”
In the four Gospels (good news) Matthew, Mark, Luke,and John we see Jesus presented as “King” then “Servant” then
“Man” and last as “God.” And He was all four!
Look at John 1:1-5 “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by Him; and without Him was not anything made that was made. He was life; and the life was the light of man. And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.”
“He was in the world, and the world knew was made by Him, and the world knew Him not. He came unto His own, and His own knew Him not. But as many as received Him, to them gave He power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on His name. Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.” (John 1:10-13)
One more verse here in John 1:14:”And the Word was made flesh and dwelt among us, (and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,)full of grace and truth.”
We all know John 3:16 “For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should have everlasting life.”
But read on: “For God sent not His Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the the world through Him might be saved.” (John 3:17)
While anti-Catholicism is still acceptable (look no further than the fr religion forum for examples of it), it is not the only acceptable prejudice. It’s still generally acceptable to be prejudiced against other Christians, conservatives, white people, men, rednecks, southerners, gun-owners, the rich, capitalists, Americans, etc.
**The last acceptable prejudice (Fr. Robert Barron on anti-Catholicism)**
Indeed the last acceptable prejudice. And it would seem that many here on this site practice this prejudice at will.
The Lord will be the judge.
And God is a God of Mercy as well as a God of JUSTICE!!!
There is nothing wrong with anti-Catholicism so long as people don’t take it out on Cathoics.
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