Posted on 06/02/2014 7:13:05 PM PDT by NKP_Vet
Self-Note for later.
The Catholics could never have created a United States, and they didn’t, but there are about 20 Catholics nations starting a few miles from South of my house, Catholics did create those.
“Life of Brian” ping
A serious historian who wrote about the positive consequences that the Middle Ages brought to Europe was Brian Tierney (Cornell professor late 50’s and early 60’s).
“there are about 20 Catholics nations starting a few miles from South of my house, Catholics did create those.”
... Of course they are losing Catholic membership there incredibly fast.
I was doing a lot of different things Sunday when this was posted and I forgot to get back to this. On this subject, Paul wrote to beware of “so-called knowledge.” It was knowledge about the rudiments of the world, what made the world tick. What God wants is people reconciled to Him, as the Bible says, who have turned from judging things according to themselves and agree with Him on what’s good and evil. Knowledge of this world must always be subservient to what God most wants for us, and in the grand scheme of things, knowledge of the world is absolutely meaningless. having it means far worse than nothing if one has it but goes to Hell. Second, with the mad obsession with knowledge and improving things for us in this life, has come terrible inequality where some people want their tenth Mercedes while hundreds of millions don’t have clean drinking water. And with this obsession, too, has come a turning away from God and a lack of fear in Him, as well as denial that there is a Hell and that God could think to send us there. We’re too important and too comfortable to go there. Knowledge that is pursued without the desire for it and the means of getting and using it being totally surrendered to the Lord is sin, because it isn’t coming from faith, which follows and obeys the Lord. And anything that doesn’t come from faith is sin, the Bible says. The Bible also talks of being “double-minded,” which is just as it says, “having two minds.” When we are the Lord’s we have no break from him, and have only one master, Him. Everything must be surrendered to Him and we must be wed only to Him, or else if we in any situation bow to authorities as if they’re above Him, that’s infidelity. The Catholic Church has encouraged such double-mindedness for centuries and centuries with its embrace of worldly knowledge without the Lord being master over it in the lives of the pursuers.
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