tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1062692702190792942.post6370479078204575509..comments2024-03-20T10:42:44.550+00:00Comments on ROMAN CHRISTENDOM: Maundy Thursday: "A new commandment I give you: love one another as I have loved you"Tribunushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17330137792269530812noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1062692702190792942.post-42010097986468227572011-05-04T11:16:44.439+01:002011-05-04T11:16:44.439+01:00Dear Mr Pretended Nixon-lover,
Your second-hand i...Dear Mr Pretended Nixon-lover,<br /><br />Your second-hand ideas would still be weak, even if they weren't already associated with your particular brand of know-nothingism.<br /><br />(1) That Masons were behind revolutions is their own proud boast. They say it themselves. Not all Masons are revolutionaries, particularly today, but in times past they boasted of their revolutions. If you don't know this then you simply don't know history.<br /><br />(2) Edgar Mortara was, himself, the chief witness for the cause of Blessed Pope Pius IX and gives the most glowing of testimonies of the man he regarded as a spiritual father and benefactor. You can read it on-line today for yourself - if you dare! Therefore, if you wish to argue the Mortara case, you'll have to deal with what Mortara himself said.<br /><br />(3) The walls of the Roman Ghetto were put back up by the anti-papal Revolutionaries in 1848, after Blessed Pope Pius IX had taken them down. So your facts are simply wrong. As a matter of fact, it was the Jews themselves who chose to live in ghettos and they paid Christians to close the gates of the ghetto so that they did not need to do it themselves since that was forbidden at certain times. They did not want the gates of the ghettos to be taken down. Thus putting the gates back was indeed, at least in their view, a "good idea".<br /><br />(4) The sexual scandals in Ireland (and elsewhere) are shameful and inexcusable but they are small compared with the cesspit of shameful sexual abuse that is to be found among other communities and countries, not least in secular humanist Sweden where the Children's Minister recently admitted a "dark period" in Swedish history and the existence of up to 100,000 child abuse cases - a simply huge number - occurring in the government children's homes over the last 60 years. You don't complain about that, however! Or, could it be that, like so many anti-Catholic and secular hypocrites, you are only interested in attacking the Catholic Church and so ignore all other, and far worse, evidence against others? Could it even be that you do not really regard the sexual use of children as a "cesspit" after all but, like so many who criticise the Catholic Church, you actually think, while hypocritically attacking the moral teachings of the Church, that the age of consent should be lowered so that adults may have sex with children? Is this only a "cesspit" when it is done by those with whom you disagree ideologically? If so, then I must ask you if there are any depths to which your shamelessness will not sink?<br /><br />(5) Could it be that you, with equal hypocrisy, believe that signs and symbols of your own belief-system should be shown and displayed in classrooms but that you wish to tear down those of belief-systems and faiths with which you disagree? In which case, why don't you simply admit that you reject toleration, freedom of conscience and belief, and prefer bigotry, prejudice, intolerance and narrow-mindedness, even though you probably call yourself, with yet still more hypocrisy, a "liberal"? Ah, the so-called "liberals"! They are truly something indeed to behold.<br /><br />Well, Mr Pretended Nixon-admirer, if even half of your views are thus then many could be forgiven for considering them truly "narrow-minded and stupid".<br /><br />You seem to have almost no grasp of the history of ideas, or of freedom, or of the history of the world.<br /><br />You appear to be embarrassingly ignorant of even the simplest of known facts.<br /><br />But - hey! - why let facts get in the way of a cheap story, eh?<br /><br />Well, folks.<br /><br />There it is.<br /><br />Some mothers do have 'em!Tribunushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17330137792269530812noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1062692702190792942.post-44608020732963732622011-04-26T02:11:00.622+01:002011-04-26T02:11:00.622+01:00Like believing the Masons are behind lots of revol...Like believing the Masons are behind lots of revolutions and that Pius IX was right to take away the Mortara boy from his parents? That putting the walls of the Roman Ghetto back up was a good idea?<br /> That the cesspit of sexual scandals in Ireland isn't the reason for lots of the Irish ignoring the catholic church, just an excuse? Like the idea that leaving the crosses up in Italian classrooms isn't pointless grandstanding but key to their educational system's success?<br /> Narrow-minded and stupid like that?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1062692702190792942.post-4057227116850046482011-04-22T20:49:46.677+01:002011-04-22T20:49:46.677+01:00Dear Nixon,
Oh, I suspect that no-one need talk t...Dear Nixon,<br /><br />Oh, I suspect that no-one need talk to you about it.<br /><br />I suspect that it makes no sense to you whether anyone talks to you or not.<br /><br />To understand religion you need imagination, humanity and largeness of mind and spirit.<br /><br />Narrow-minded myopia will not assist you to understand it, I'm afraid.Tribunushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17330137792269530812noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1062692702190792942.post-13402012493198408182011-04-21T18:27:29.524+01:002011-04-21T18:27:29.524+01:00You know, the whole thing (religion) makes less an...You know, the whole thing (religion) makes less and less sense the more people talk to me about it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com