Posted on 05/19/2007 2:57:54 PM PDT by presidio9
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When O’Reilly starts flapping his gums about religious matters, I cringe and scramble for the remote. As smart and astute as he can be on many a topic, religion and the bible aren’t in his bailiwick. I’ll never forget when he slammed a guest for quoting from Paul’s epistle to the Romans because it wasn’t a “gospel”. O’Reilly’s comment, “That’s why we call it the ‘gospel truth’”. So much ignorance in such a short amount of time.
To be fair, you could replace O’Reilly’s name with Hannity and, other than the example, my comments would be deadly accurate, too.
CINOs, all three.
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Of the three, I’ll take O’Reilly. He’s confused on the life issues like so many Catholics, but at least he goes after monsters like Tiller.
Hannity always pulls out the line: “I was in the Seminary and studied both theology and Latin.” Then you Google the background and you find that he was in the high school seminary of the Diocese of Rockville Center, where the theology texts were probably from the “Let’s-Make-a-Jesus-Collage” Series from Sadlier, circa 1976, and the Latin was the chorus to Immaculate Mary sung twice a year. Please, Sean. Very impressive background.
You should write for a Catholic magazine. Great stuff!
BTW, I was a victim of the "let's make a collage about littering" school of catechesis, circa 1972. But I had one year with a real nun, which was a year unlike the others. The good part of being a survivor is that I will have great stories to tell my grandchildren. The experience also provided me with the resolve to catechize my own children. The bad part is that I lived, unnecessarily, in utter confusion and mental anguish for about 15 years.
My kids have gone through the Baltimore Catechism several times. They can answer Catechism questions better than I can. But out of respect for our priest and DRE, I put them into the pre-Reconciliation and pre-Eucharist classes. Sadly, little seems to have changed, at least in our parish. A typical comment from my kids: "It's soooo STUPID!" "Draw a picture of things you like to do. DUH!"
"Thou shalt not kill."
Draw your own conclusions.
I listent to Hannity every day after Rush, and over the years he has clearly stated postions that are contrary to Church teaching. That’s his right, of course. I’m just asking, as does Judi Brown, that he not hold himself out as some authority or representative on Catholic teachings.
He’s not very knowledgeable about the Bible and he can really tear into born again Christians. He bloviates...
Do you refer to the "Horrific Holocaust of the Protestant Ministers' sex abuse," or "Horrific Holocaust of the Public School Teachers' sex abuse"? Because the rate of sexual molestation is the same or higher for both Protestant ministers and public school teachers.
Keep things in perspective by doing a little research before parroting the MSM line, which is uniformly and hysterically anti-Catholic.
My research of cases over the past 20 years indicates no evidence whatever that Catholic or other celibate clergy are any more likely to be involved in misconduct or abuse than clergy of any other denomination -- or indeed, than nonclergy.What percentage of priests abuse, and whom do they victimize?Historian Philip Jenkins
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Check out Catholic Answers. They even have audio programs that you can listen to on-line.
LOL! I missed that one, but it is perfectly in line with some of his other "greatest hits". Someone who cares about him should just smack him and tell him not to get into the theater until he gets a clue. :)
Yes indeed. He jokingly says that's his job, but sometimes it really is true. :) From what I have learned BOR is as much of a Roman Catholic as WJC is a Baptist. :)
It seems that way with most or at least many of the congresscritters and so called journalists today. They have a smattering of religion and that makes them dangerous (smile). They really have no clue as to what being a Christian really entails.
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