So true!
But our world today never worries about yelling FIRE!!! in a crowed theater.
"It may not be true; but it's accurate." is the phrase that is uppermost.
Despite our differences, I'm sure we share trying to find ways to explain to unbelievers how important the “fact” of the Incarnation is. A friend whom God is slowly, slowly drawing to his bosom asked if we would ever forgive Pilate. This was because the creeds mention that IHS was “crucified under Pontius Pilate.”
I tried to explain that it's not about blaming Pilate. I am at least as responsible as he for the crucifixion. It's about the fact that it happened! Really happened. Pilate was procurator of Judea. We can give the actual even a real range of possible dates.
It's not at all a matter of “fake but accurate,” but of “true and TRUE!”
And on some particular date a child was born “as at this time for us,” who was also God. Not like Vishnu or Osiris, whose stories happen out of time, but when Octavian was Caesar in Rome and Herod was King in Judea.
When they turn their backs on even the possibility of a sweating and bleeding Jesus, soon they find no value in facts at all.
From which may we be protected by the Lord of Love.
“Evidently the whole story has been misattribution of things nobody ever said but somebody wishes they did. Its really pretty funny.”
Dogs go to heaven? Don’t believe it
http://www.cnn.com/2014/12/14/opinion/schlumpf-pope-dogs-go-to-heaven-controversy/index.html?hpt=wo_c2
So Francis never said it and here I thought I finally agreed with the Pope on something.
He is and out and out Communist/Socialist if the story below is true:
Pope Francis: Capitalism is a new tyranny
http://www.salon.com/2013/11/26/pope_francis_capitalism_is_a_new_tyranny/