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To: NKP_Vet
Hey. Just let the priests interpret Revelation. Then, we don't have to think!

Better yet, forget it entirely as the Post-Modern Pope Rick Warren suggests. Ignorance is bliss.

4 posted on 03/28/2014 8:30:21 AM PDT by Dr. Thorne ("How long, O Lord, holy and true?" - Rev. 6:10)
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To: Dr. Thorne
Ignorance is bliss.

I suggest quoting the whole phrase in context:

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To each his suff'rings: all are men,
Condemn'd alike to groan,
The tender for another's pain;
Th' unfeeling for his own.
Yet ah! why should they know their fate?
Since sorrow never comes too late,
And happiness too swiftly flies.
Thought would destroy their paradise.
No more; where ignorance is bliss,
'Tis folly to be wise.

(Last stanza from Thomas Gray's "Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College", my emphasis)

20 posted on 03/28/2014 9:22:31 AM PDT by imardmd1 (Fiat Lux)
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To: Dr. Thorne

Oh! I know! Let dozens of authors speculate, each in a different direction, each reaching a different conclusion, then we’ll call those conclusions “inspired by the Holy Spirit”, as long as they each disparage the Catholic Church. That’s all of “the Truth” we need.


25 posted on 03/28/2014 10:22:26 AM PDT by G Larry (There's the Beef!)
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