Posted on 12/19/2006 8:49:11 PM PST by lightman
And in this case it was a fitting comeback for the poster he was replying to.
Catholics, by definition, cannot be iconoclasts.
Catholicism has always upheld the legitimacy of iconography against all comers.
Or a baby Jesus out of a nativity set.
Amen!
"mothers" are the ones doing the slaughtering. This was either aimless Godless teenagers with nothing productive to do, or TROP sacrilege to intimidate.
Sacrilege either way.
Actually, "it" began with a totally unnecessary poke at the Presbyterians. This event isn't even a case of iconoclasm. An iconclast would have gone to the nearest Catholic Church and taken a sledge hammer to the statues there ... this was intended as an insult, and maybe a threat. It's actually quite the opposite of iconoclasm ... The vandal recognises that the statue is a sign pointing to a "higher" reality, and expresses his contempt for that reality.
Oh, yes ... missed that.
Blasphemy is correct, after all.
Inquisition and counter Reformation are two different time periods. The counter Reformation was as political as religious, and shall we forget the terrors of the Roundheads, or the martyred Catholics in Europe in the 15th, 16th and 17th centuries?
The modern world despises virginity and it despises the notion of self-sacrificing motherhood.
Our Lady, spotless virgin and perfect mother, is a standing reproach to the age.
The filth who did this is biting at her son's heel, but He will place His foot on the blasphemer's neck in due time.
The St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre was a political act by the Medici family to assassinate rivals to their personal power schemes.
The Medicis tried to mask their crime under the color of acting to defend the Church, but the fact that they baldfacedly lied to the Pope himself about the circumstances shows that the massacre had nothing to do with the Church at all.
One good bash deserves another.
Merry Christmas right back at you!
Why thank you!
(I think)
MERRY CHRISTMAS LARRY!
They also murdered priests and monks and nuns during the "purging" of the monasteries during the Scottish Reformation.
They also horsewhipped people for attending Mass.
They also confiscated the land of farmers who dared to shelter priests, turning them and their children off the land to beg and starve.
The Presbyterians have more to their charge than just the vandalism and destruction of property you admit to.
Complete and utter lies.
It is no wonder that Germany, which saw one-third of its population die as a result of the religious wars of the 17th Century, became a hotbed of skepticism and atheism in the 18th and 19th Centuries.
>>And in this case it was a fitting comeback for the poster he was replying to.<<
Well, as with all the "Mary", "Pope" or "Rosary" threads, it became an insult to Catholics instead of a personal smackdown to that poster.
Honestly, I would have been cheering if a witty comment was pointed at the poster who insulted the Presbyterians. It wasn't fair. My hubby grew up Presbyterian and never smashed one of my statues!
So generalizing Catholics or any other denomination should be off limits.
We are all brothers and sisters in Christ.
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From Wikipedia(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_Rebellion_of_1641): "The number of Protestants killed in the early months of the uprising is controversial, early Parliamentarian pamphlets claimed that over 100,000 settlers had lost their lives. In fact, recent research has shown that the number is far more modest, in the region of 4000 or so killed, though many thousands were expelled from their homes. It is estimated that up to 12,000 Protestants may have lost their lives in total, the majority dying of cold or disease after being expelled from their homes in the depths of winter. The general pattern around the country was that the violence of the attacks intensified the longer the rebellion went on. At first, there were beatings and robbing of local Protestants, then house burnings and expulsions and finally widespread killings, most of them concentrated in Ulster. In one notorious incident, the Protestant inhabitants of Portadown were taken captive and then massacred on the bridge in the town. In County Armagh, recent research has shown that about 1,250 Protestants were killed in the early months of the rebellion, or about a quarter of the Protestant population."
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