Posted on 01/24/2005 9:15:49 PM PST by Rocketman
I have been searching online in google a few hours searching for a quote. I have tried quite a few cobinations of words and I'm not even lukewarm to finding what I am looking for. I beleive the quote I'm looking for goes something like this:
"the chruches are empty, the priests are ignored, the sacrements are forsaken and . . ."
I'm working on a paper and I just can't seem to get the right key words to find this thing.
I know someone on FR will know this quote and someone probably knows who said it too.
The churches are empty but the mosques are full?
funny what phrases turn up in Google.
It's 'sacraments', not 'sacrements'. Maybe that will help?
nope. I am not looking for a mosque quote --
Goolge prompted me on my spelling deficiencies -- but it did not help
A few more hints, such as the context of the quote as you remember it. It sounds vaguely familiar.
I beleive it was either said by a Roman Catholic regarding the catholic church or an Anglican regarding the church of england
I think it may have been Friar Tuck in Robin Hood...
That could have been said be any priest on Super Bowl Sunday.
I googled a story on an old saying that "when the churches are empty the prisons will be full." Sound familira?
Tew true, and they can say that also on any sunday in europe as well.
"The churches are empty
The priest has gone home
And we are left standing
Together alone..."
- October Project, "Dark Time"
I always liked that idea.
Was just about to post that as the closest thing that's on the web.
I don't know if this is what you're looking for or not, but it's Catholic:
This is the boasting of the devil. He affirms with pride:
I have destroyed Faith. The Pope himself has spoken of the crisis of faith.
I have destroyed Morality. My impure demons are triumphant everywhere.
I have destroyed Religion: the churches are empty and blasphemies substitute prayer.
I have destroyed the Family: prostitution is general, and the innocentst are slaughtered with abortion.
The above are direct quotes from The Likes and Dislikes of the Devil by Fr. Pellegrino Ernetti (an exorcist) and translated into English by Fr. Adolf Saroni SDB
"Google Answers" allows you to hire researchers to find anything. More money means faster response. Of course, if one of them knows the answer, then that helps you get away with $30-40. But if they have to dig, then more might be needed.
If they don't find it, you don't pay.
If I knew, I'd tell you.
That quote was from Nietzsche, -- powerful statement but a man that was pretty Godless
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