Posted on 01/22/2013 2:02:25 PM PST by NYer
Kevin Walsh of the University of Richmond School of Law writes:
The twitterverse is alive with tweets about Justice Scalia’s headgear for today’s inauguration. At the risk of putting all the fun speculation to an end . . . The hat is a custom-made replica of the hat depicted in Holbein’s famous portrait of St. Thomas More. It was a gift from the St. Thomas More Society of Richmond, Virginia. We presented it to him in November 2010 as a memento of his participation in our 27th annual Red Mass and dinner.
Wearing the cap of a statesman who defended liberty of church and integrity of Christian conscience to the inauguration of a president whose policies have imperiled both: Make of it what you will.
Moore burned a bunch of heretics, seems like Scalia is ready to defend the Constitution come hell or high water.
Indeed, cool hat.
Yes, I reject all that Yeshua said to reject.
“Yes, I reject all that Yeshua said to reject.”
OK. You don’t mind if I point out that most of Christendom for all of history accepts that which you reject? Or that your views are the same as those many think of as, well, odd?
Moreover you might know, Holy Scripture doesn’t support - at least in my opinion and that of 2,000 years of Christian scholarship - your lonely and very odd views?
Nobody cares unless he goes nude.
The guy's been dead for five hundred years, how long are y'all gonna keep spreading that goofy nonsense?
If Luther REALLY just wanted to "have sex with a nun", he could have stayed where he was. The pope at the time was the renown Pope Leo X. Who got his clerical "tonsure" at seven years old and made a cardinal at the ripe old age of SIXTEEN thanks to his wealthy father - a Medici. He was elected Pope on 9 March 1513, and this was proclaimed two days later. On 15 March 1513, he was ordained priest, and consecrated as bishop on 17 March. He was crowned Pope on 19 March 1513 at the age of 37. He was widely suspected of having homosexual proclivities had "an improper love for some of his chamberlains", was a "spendthrift" and used money from selling Papal "indulgences" to rebuild St. Peter's basilica. Luther was also familiar with the Popes before Leo X, Alexander VI, especially was not known for his "celibacy" and made no secret of his five children with his mistress and those of others. So, I think it is pretty easy to guess that Martin Luther was NOT into his "theology" in order to have sex with nuns. Now that you know better, are you still going to say that about the man?
There is also such a thing as what is called “white martyrdom” as well.
Prayers up for all of us who follow Christ to stop attacking other Christians.
οὐ - τόπος
not - place.
The word τόπος is the root of our word "topography".
St. Thomas More was fluent in both Latin and Greek, as was every well-educated gentleman of that time.
Who is that behind Scalia... Steven Hawking?
My pleasure. Agreed about Thomas — you can’t really blame him, what with the Court marginalized at best and the Constitution trampled. It would have been cool if Thomas or Scalia or Alito had stood up and yelled “You Lie”, like Joe Wilson did in Congress. :-)
It seems as if the Marxists have
de-constructed the word.
Either are forms of martyrdom. I will stand by my statement. The time is coming when we must be willing to pick up a cross and decide that death for the sake of the truth is how we will be following Jesus.
Not only is the cafeteria closed, it is going to cost us something if we really believe.
I hope that You don’t mind if I point out that most of “Christendom” for all of history are lost tares, and are headed through the wide gate to the pit of hell?
This is something that Yeshua pointed out while he was walking the Earth.
No Hazard.
He wore it to keep his head warm because it looks more stylish than this?
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