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To: Alamo-Girl

Of course not.

However, seductive false hope can be amongst the cruelst things to perpetrate on innocents and unawares.

To the degree that this encyclical gives any RC or anyone else even a hint of a convincing notion that globalism can be moderated, softened, civilized, . . . or worse, sanctified

then the good Pope ends up playing the enemy’s destructive game.


173 posted on 07/14/2009 12:37:34 PM PDT by Quix (POL Ldrs quotes fm1900 2 presnt: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2130557/posts?page=81#81)
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To: Quix; betty boop
If a Christian - whether one of us or the Pope - describes to others what a Christian world would be like - what Christ's millennial reign will be like - or what the new heaven and earth will be like - our words are like a bright light, which set alongside the world that is, reveals its darkness.

I do not see where that is playing into the hands of the evil one but rather testifying to what we should be but are not. Darkness does not overcome light; Light overcomes darkness.

Concerning the evil in this world, Christians, all of us, must stay alert, always keeping the Great Commandment, so that we do not become like the Scribes and Pharisees Jesus rails against in Matthew 23, permitting something God made for good to become perverted or corrupt.

Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment. – Matthew 22:37-38

To God be the glory!

176 posted on 07/14/2009 1:10:04 PM PDT by Alamo-Girl
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