Why convert the pagans when you can join them?
‘Fudging’ or smudging?
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Isn’t the catholic incense ritual analogous?
Smudging, especially with smoldering sage, may have some pagan use, but lots of ordinary people swear by it to get rid of bad spirits and negative emotions.
It also acts as a repellent for people with evil intent, be they methamphetamine users, who really abhor its smell, and undercover cops, who will abandon the area and take off with just a whiff.
I knew people that would carry around canisters of sage spice, put a few pinches in an ashtray and set it to smoldering with a lighter, while eating alfresco.
So, it might indeed be part of some “pagan ritual” somewhere, but that doesn’t mean it doesn’t work.
The Church is currently undergoing its biggest crisis in a very very long time. The infiltration by anti-Christian subversives began in the late 60’s and early 70’s. The era of free love. AKA F anything that moves era.
During that time The Church was in a panic about the lack of the devout volunteering to become Priests.
I am not Catholic. I am Greek Orthodox. But, I grew up in a heavily Catholic area. My wife is Catholic. Nearly all of my friends were Catholic. I witnessed this firsthand. The gay infiltration of the Catholic Church was an unstated problem.
But, the Catholic Church was in such a panic about the dwindling volunteers for the priesthood they turned a blind eye to this issue. Many decades later they are the victims of their blind stupidity.
Nominating a blatantly Socialist Preist with no Biblical loyalty is a continuation of the rapid decline of the Catholic Church. Francis is a disaster that was an obvious disaster to anyone paying attention.
I thought this said Cal Thomas.😀 I was like, What!