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Well I know that. Maybe that is the thing. I am Catholic and I think of the whole of it as being the same thing. The CCC, the Bible, the Rosary, the calendar, the liturgy, the statutes, the stain glass. It's all the same its all together. its all one fabric.

To just memorize scripture takes it out of the context of the fabric of my soul. It serves no purpose. I don't need to bust people over the head with word, word word, and then XXX:3-12. I mean if you want it OK.

In the beginning was the Word: the Word was with God and the Word was God.

I mean how fantastically mind blowing and awesome is that? Just breathe it into you. I guess I just don't get why people use Jesus as a weapon, even unintentionally.

Scripture has an origin and context that makes it particularly efficacious in dealing with the problems we face. It is much easier to memorize the Our Father and Hail Mary passages than to have to look them up each time you sat them. They are in your heart and mind for almost instant deployment as need arises. So it is with other Scriptures. We have a strong arsenal. It is to help ourselves, and also to help others. God decides if it is a beating or tender mercies. The name of the Lord is a strong tower: the righteous runneth into it, and is safe.

In the beginning was the Word: the Word was with God and the Word was God. I mean how fantastically mind blowing and awesome is that? Just breathe it into you. I guess I just don't get why people use Jesus as a weapon, even unintentionally.

Quite powerful when you mix it with:

In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.

And he humbled thee, and suffered thee to hunger, and fed thee with manna, which thou knewest not, neither did thy fathers know; that he might make thee know that man doth not live by bread only, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of the LORD doth man live.

But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.

Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled.

This then is the message which we have heard of him, and declare unto you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.

Well I know that. Maybe that is the thing. I am Catholic and I think of the whole of it as being the same thing. The CCC, the Bible, the Rosary, the calendar, the liturgy, the statutes, the stain glass. It's all the same its all together. its all one fabric.

So you're lured by the things that appeal to your 5 senses. Don't forget candles, incense and holy water.