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To: saradippity
You should read the scriptures,particularly the passages about Solomon and the mother and the stepmother and the baby.

This is an extremely insightful post.

1 Kings 3:16 Then two women who were harlots came to the king and stood before him.

17 The one woman said, "Oh, my lord, this woman and I live in the same house; and I gave birth to a child while she was in the house.

18 "It happened on the third day after I gave birth, that this woman also gave birth to a child, and we were together. There was no stranger with us in the house, only the two of us in the house.

19 "This woman's son died in the night, because she lay on it.

20 "So she arose in the middle of the night and took my son from beside me while your maidservant slept, and laid him in her bosom, and laid her dead son in my bosom.

21 "When I rose in the morning to nurse my son, behold, he was dead; but when I looked at him carefully in the morning, behold, he was not my son, whom I had borne."

22 Then the other woman said, "No! For the living one is my son, and the dead one is your son." But the first woman said, "No! For the dead one is your son, and the living one is my son." Thus they spoke before the king.

23 Then the king said, "The one says, 'This is my son who is living, and your son is the dead one'; and the other says, 'No! For your son is the dead one, and my son is the living one.'"

24 The king said, "Get me a sword." So they brought a sword before the king.

25 The king said, "Divide the living child in two, and give half to the one and half to the other."

26 Then the woman whose child was the living one spoke to the king, for (1) she was deeply stirred over her son and said, "Oh, my lord, give her the living child, and by no means kill him." But the other said, "He shall be neither mine nor yours; divide him!"

27 Then the king said, "Give the first woman the living child, and by no means kill him. She is his mother."

28 When all Israel heard of the judgment which the king had handed down, they feared the king, for (2) they saw that the wisdom of God was in him to administer justice.

I would cast the far right as the woman whose baby has died. By creating their own parallel church, they have stolen the baby from the rightful mother. When the sword hovers over the baby it will be the far right who will not blink, rather it will be the left, who in the service of unity, will preserve the life of the baby.

101 posted on 10/29/2003 7:35:56 PM PST by St.Chuck
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To: St.Chuck
I would cast the far right as the woman whose baby has died. By creating their own parallel church, they have stolen the baby from the rightful mother. When the sword hovers over the baby it will be the far right who will not blink, rather it will be the left, who in the service of unity, will preserve the life of the baby.

Good observations. Traditionalists would rather destroy the Church, so one could be rebuilt in their image, than slog through the changes that come when, as John XXIII exhorted "The Church goes out into the world."

102 posted on 10/29/2003 7:41:20 PM PST by sinkspur (Adopt a dog or a cat from a shelter. You will save one life, and may save two.)
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To: St.Chuck
When the sword hovers over the baby it will be the far right who will not blink, rather it will be the left, who in the service of unity, will preserve the life of the baby.

Maybe so, maybe so. But then the left will then give the baby to a non-celibate homosexual Episcopalian bishop to raise.

110 posted on 10/29/2003 7:56:17 PM PST by american colleen
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To: St.Chuck
I am a little late from this thread, but St Chuck, trust me on this, the left have far more power in the church today in the US and have done far more damage to the faith of millions that traditionalists ever had. I am frankly shocked that you have anything good to say about the Catholic left, I know the Catholic left is one reason why I am so alone in my faith, since my immediate family and friends are no longer in the pews anymore. Anyways St Chuck, as others have pointed out, Hetrodoxy is self correcting over a few deacdes, and the left will fade away since the few children they have are quite secularised.
154 posted on 10/31/2003 11:26:58 PM PST by JNB
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