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I Hate Being Right All the Time (Catholic Commentary)
National Catholic Register ^ | Sept. 1, 2013 | Mark Shea

Posted on 09/02/2013 1:19:06 PM PDT by RBStealth

The basic point of the series is that we are living on borrowed capital from the Catholic tradition and burning through it like Paris Hilton spending Daddy's money while creating nothing of value to replace it. As each phase of history passes by, we keep saying that nobody will ever take the next logical step from the premisses we have just set up as a platform for jettisoning some aspect of the Christian tradition. Then we are perpetually surprised when somebody does and the new revolutionary attacks the old one by citing the precedent established by the previous revolutionary. The Protestant revolts against the Church and then is stunned when the post-Protestant rejects the Bible. The 19th Century post-Protestant rejects Christianity assuming that Christian morals are the natural habits of all decent ladies and gentlemen and then are surprised as one by one the 20th century strips all that away.

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To: markomalley

I hope you feel better now.


21 posted on 09/03/2013 9:26:00 AM PDT by RBStealth
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To: RBStealth

” I hope you feel better now.”

Why?


22 posted on 09/03/2013 9:37:14 AM PDT by markomalley (Nothing emboldens the wicked so greatly as the lack of courage on the part of the good -- Leo XIII)
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To: markomalley

cause you were upset


23 posted on 09/03/2013 9:40:24 AM PDT by RBStealth
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To: RBStealth

” cause you were upset”

I was? If I had such thin skin, I’d have had a heart attack years ago. A rant does not equate with upset.


24 posted on 09/03/2013 9:44:13 AM PDT by markomalley (Nothing emboldens the wicked so greatly as the lack of courage on the part of the good -- Leo XIII)
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To: markomalley

On here, I usually keep my rants to myself
Good luck


25 posted on 09/03/2013 9:47:31 AM PDT by RBStealth
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