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It’s Christmas

I think God is ok with you guys putting all the denominational chauvinism on vacation as we commemorate Christs birth on this chosen date

Merry Christmas

No I’m not Catholic but neither am I my way or the highway

I think we ...I’m southern baptist pretty much though enjoy any literalist preacher or padre.....I think....heck I know this for a fact

Western civilization owes more to Christendom and by default the Catholic Church than any other single entity for preserving civilization and a link to the only religion on earth which emphasizes a relationship between God and the individual....

And Catholic teachings and influence and power and Popes and on occasion even papal mercenaries sacrificed all to stop the very enemy who still threatens us today

The Arab moon god cult.....Islam

Martel....Cadiz....Alphonso...Ferdinand....James....Lepanto.....Vienna with Sobieski and the little friar

The Catholic Church stopped us from being prisoners to Islam and even though I don’t desire to be Catholic I darn sure appreciate that

Tell the lads at the rectory some of us are grateful Arthur

My oldest son and I were talking about this today while reviewing a book on Islam coveting Europe that Santa brought me

Not to mention the Church kept our history and traditions of western civ recorded going back way way before Jesus birth

Had they not done it who would have....this brings up Arthur’s talk about intellectualism being integral to Christian Faith

Which reminds me of Augustine and Aquinas....both very early influences of the process which eventually led to the enlightenment and our view of governance and freedom

Catholic intellectuals like them were a pit stop on the progression from Socrates and Aristotle to Hobbes Hegel and Locke and Rousseau etc