Posted on 02/24/2011 3:15:40 PM PST by NYer
Ping!
... on display in the Sola Scriptura Caucus.
Months after Maher, Miller, Hitchens, and Warren leave this earth no one will even remember who they were. But they will still read Augustine.
As long as there are Rednecks, you Catholics will never be the last acceptable group to hate.
What could be more loving, wonderful, beautiful than the message of God to man through His Son our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ?
“God, who at sundry times and in divers manners (in many parts and in many ways) spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets, Hath spoken unto us by His Son, whom He hath appointed heir of all things, by whom He hath made the worlds; Who being the brightness of His glory, and the express image of His person, and upholding all things by the word of His power, when He had by Himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on High.” (Hebrews 1:1-3)
The prophet Isaiah was given a vision: in Isaiah 1:18a he wrote: “Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD;.....”
Then Isaiah 7:9 he wrote: “Therefore the Lord Himself shall give you a sign: Behold a virgin shall conceive, and bear a Son, and shall call His name Immanuel (God with us)” and again in Isaiah 9:6:”For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon His shoulder, and His name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.”
In the four Gospels (good news) Matthew, Mark, Luke,and John we see Jesus presented as “King” then “Servant” then
“Man” and last as “God.” And He was all four!
Look at John 1:1-5 “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by Him; and without Him was not anything made that was made. He was life; and the life was the light of man. And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.”
“He was in the world, and the world knew was made by Him, and the world knew Him not. He came unto His own, and His own knew Him not. But as many as received Him, to them gave He power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on His name. Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.” (John 1:10-13)
One more verse here in John 1:14:”And the Word was made flesh and dwelt among us, (and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,)full of grace and truth.”
We all know John 3:16 “For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should have everlasting life.”
But read on: “For God sent not His Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the the world through Him might be saved.” (John 3:17)
While anti-Catholicism is still acceptable (look no further than the fr religion forum for examples of it), it is not the only acceptable prejudice. It’s still generally acceptable to be prejudiced against other Christians, conservatives, white people, men, rednecks, southerners, gun-owners, the rich, capitalists, Americans, etc.
Yeah. Right. Like the MSM just looooves Evangelical Christians. Puh-leaz!!
**The last acceptable prejudice (Fr. Robert Barron on anti-Catholicism)**
Indeed the last acceptable prejudice. And it would seem that many here on this site practice this prejudice at will.
The Lord will be the judge.
And God is a God of Mercy as well as a God of JUSTICE!!!
“As long as there are Rednecks, you Catholics will never be the last acceptable group to hate.”
Well, the rednecks around here hate Catholics so I don’t know which is on first or on second.
What’s this??? Another cheese and whine thread??? People shouldn’t be allowed to express publically that they don’t like your religion???
Uh, no it’s Bread & Wine and furthermore, it’s one thing for people to disagree with our religion. It’s entirely different to encounter bigots who spew lies, hate, & misrepresentations of the truth. I do believe THAT is what the article refers to.
the MSM hates us both but the Evangelicals hate the Catholics. Hence, we are the last acceptable prejudice. Wake up.
It would be different if that meant that the rejection was based upon a real understanding of Catholicism, but ore often that not the "dislike" is based upon nothing more than ignorant hatred.
"There are not more than 100 people in the world who truly hate the Catholic Church, but there are millions who hate what they perceive to be the Catholic Church." - Bishop Fulton Sheen
There is nothing wrong with anti-Catholicism so long as people don’t take it out on Cathoics.
I'd say your Bishop was seriously mistaken...It makes for good press tho...
I'd say that the "indwelling" voice that is telling you that it is OK to hate the Church isn't the Holy Spirit.
Assuming of course that you mean the Catholic religion when you write Church, you would be mistaken as well...
And it not just the indwelling voice, it the written words of God that confirm this...
There is only one Church. All others are at best petulant little break-away personality cliques.
"And it not just the indwelling voice, it [is]the written words of God that confirm this...
But interpreted for you by that same unholy indwelling voice.
The last acceptable prejudice
As long as there are Rednecks, you Catholics will never be the last acceptable group to hate.
Hear, hear! I resent the blatant untruth that Catholics are a safer or more frequent target than "rednecks." In fact, Catholics not infrequently engage in the same anti-"redneck" bigotry as the most effete elitist liberal.
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