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To: Greetings_Puny_Humans

Complain all you want, but you’ll kick the bucket and be forgotten, never even having noticed really, while the Catholic Church will go on serving Christ until the end of time and with the same canon.


177 posted on 01/31/2014 4:39:33 PM PST by vladimir998
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To: vladimir998; Mr Rogers; All

“Complain all you want, but you’ll kick the bucket and be forgotten, never even having noticed really, while the Catholic Church will go on serving Christ until the end of time and with the same canon.”


Complain all you want, but your arrogance, delusions and blind faith will never stop both history and your own church from conspiring against you. For example, not even your own religion even believes in the content of their apocrypha.

From the Vatican website introduction to Judith:

“Any attempt to read the book directly against the backdrop of Jewish history in relation to the empires of the ancient world is bound to fail. The story was written as a pious reflection on the meaning of the yearly Passover observance. It draws its inspiration from the Exodus narrative (especially Exodus 14:31) and from the texts of Isaiah and the Psalms portraying the special intervention of God for the preservation of Jerusalem. The theme of God’s hand as the agent of this providential activity, reflected of old in the hand of Moses and now in the hand of Judith, is again exemplified at a later time in Jewish synagogue art. God’s hand reaching down from heaven appears as part of the scene at Dura-Europos (before A.D. 256) in paintings of the Exodus, of the sacrifice of Isaac (Gen 22), and of Ezekiel’s valley of dry bones (Eze 37).”

http://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0839/__PCP.HTM

And another, also official Catholic source:

“Judith is a dramatic fictional narrative...” “Because Judith is fiction replete with historical and geographical inaccuracies, it is difficult to date its composition.” (New Jerome Biblical Commentary, Nihil Obstat: Raymond E. Brown, S.S., Joseph A. Fitzmyer, S.J., Roland E. Murphy, O. Carm., Imprimatur: Reverend William J. Kane, Vicar General, Diocese of Washington)

You’re free to defend your indefensible fables, but your Church which you put so much blind trust in will not even lift a finger to aid you anymore.


178 posted on 01/31/2014 5:00:09 PM PST by Greetings_Puny_Humans (I mostly come out at night... mostly.)
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