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Posted by George W. Bush ~~ It's kind of like dangling red meat in front of a Rottweiler, isn't it?

You're an evil, evil man, FRiend GWB.

I really hate it when someone knows exactly how to push my buttons. Here I stay up a little too late on a Friday night, and the next thing I know GWB has me writing "Short Takes" for The Wanderer and The New Oxford Review.

I'll have you know that, if this keeps up and my Teaching Presbyter ever hears of it, I'm gonna hafta write....

It is a Father who testifies, "That the substance of bread and wine in the Eucharist does not cease but remains, just as the nature and substance of man remains united to the Godhead in the Lord Jesus Christ."

....FIFTY times on the Church Blackboard as penance, just to re-establish my "Protestant Credentials".

Don't you even feel the least bit ashamed, provoking my alleged (and much over-estimated) "Debate Skills" into action for your own personal amusement?? Eee-gads. The messes you get me into, GWB....

I hope you don't mind, but I just emailed your superb analysis all over the conservative Catholic world! ~~ Polycarp

Well, shucks... I don't mind a bit.

If my "superb analysis" (which was really nothing more than GWB goading me into a response, bomb-thrower that he is) should help provide encouragement, and perhaps a bit of fraternal levity, for the Religious Conservatives within the Bishopric of Rome (whom I regard as one of the Five Christian Patriarchs, though I do not regard him as any more than that)... then I can only say "Amen".

If you have really seen fit to Email my "superb analysis" to those Roman Catholics who are still fighting for Traditional Christianity within the Bishopric of Rome, then I hope my little off-the-cuff critique of the sheep-skinned Wolves within your Communion is of benefit, Polycarp.

I should very much like to see the Roman Catholic Church return to the Discipline of believing in Absolute Truth. For that matter, I should very much like to see the Protestant Church adopt the same Discipline -- believing in Absolute Truth. We Modern Protestants seem very far from it...

best, OP