The Vatican/Roman institution/organization/edifice/church . . .
So well-known hereon for
1. Mangling history 13 ways to Sunday . . .
2. Mangling Scripture with more twists, turns, convolutions than Alice's rabbit hole . . .
3. Mangling simple definitions of simple words so wholesale and routinely it's a wonder ANY linguistic communications occurs at all . . .
4. Mangling, affronting and even blaspheming Christ and Holy Spirit's work with all manner of usurptations in too often truly outrageous and seriously spiritually hazardous ways . . .
. . .
You want us to think of this !!!!TRADITIONS!!!!-BOUND fossilized pile of political power-mongering and bureaucratic self-aggrandizement as
Sounds like someone's been reading WAAAAYYYYYYY TOOOOOOO MUCH Kierkegaard and ended up with yet more layers and clouds of fantasized postulations, dogma, encyclicals . . . !
JESUS CHRIST IS THE TRUTH, THE WAY AND THE LIFE. PERIOD.
And, in one of the most mystifying assertions of His ministry EVEN HE asserted that ONLY THE FATHER was good.
It is almost beyond comprehension--even as a psychologist experienced in deliverance ministry stuff--it is almost beyond comprehension that any sane, educated, Biblically read, logical "CONSERVATIVE" creatures above the IQ of a . . . could even BEGIN to delude themselves into thinking that
ANY
Human pile of self-serving bureaucrats
COULD POSSIBLY
END UP telling, asserting, claiming a CONSISTENT story about anything--MUCH LESS ANYTHING WITHIN 3 GALACTIC CLUSTERS OF DISTANCE WORTH CLOSE TO
TRUTH!
Most of the TRULY CONSERVATIVE Biblers' swarm and lurkers are not that stupid nor clueless. We've been around enough bureaucrats to know better.
Folks are still looking for the perverbial single solitary TRULY HONEST, TRULY TRUTHFUL man low these many centuries.
And yet the Vaticons would have us believe that a bureaucratic collection of deliberately self-serving, self-righteous, narrowly rigid, wholesale biased, wholesale manipulative [cue Monty Python Spanish Inquisition music] THAT--A COMMITTEE of such blokes is going to result in
Quick, someone, please tell me it's a bad joke gone worse.
I wouldn't begin to assert that the best congregation I'd ever been in was a pristine pillar of truth. They did good to get it mostly right most of the time. And most congregations are a lot worse than that.
And all the Vatican congregations I've ever been around have been AT LEAST THAT BAD.
And the Vatican edifice on the whole--has great gaping chunks that are absolutely antithetical to anything remotely CLOSE to the truth.
ANYTHING less is polluted. ANYTHING LESS = flesh + whatever this side of eternity.
HINT--THE FLESH IS NOT A WELL-SPRING NOR A PILLAR OF TRUTH.
Advocating anyone
hook up to
a COLLECTIVE BREAST OF BUREAUCRATS
to suckle TRUTH
is more than a little like advocating that folks suck on a rattlesnake for mother's milk.
It doesn't matter the brand of the RELIGIOUS edifice on the church-yard sign.
It's the nature of bureaucrats, of humans.
It's like compounded interest.
Take a bunch of narrow, rigid, brittle, self-righteous, self-serving, vain-glorious, political, power-mongering, militarily supported bureaucrats MEETING IN COMMITTEE . . . add in layers of inducements, privileges, !!!!POWER!!!! . . . heat up with various political and military confrontations . . . mix thoroughly with various demonic influences and pressures . . .
AND THEN PRETEND THAT TRUTH is going to come out the spigot?
I didn't realize that Monty Python had married Harvard Lampoon and birthed a new planet??? Talk about fantasized 'UNreality!'
Try again. That dog won't hunt. That dog ain't even a dog--it's a drunken sea slug in a dog suit.