An honest question, MD . . .
is there something . . . in the holy water or the sacramental wine—no, that doesn’t go to the serfs . . .
uhhhhh . . . I give up . . . in the air some RC’s breathe?
I give up.
WHAT is it . . . that several RC’s MOST CHRONICALLY GIVEN TO MOST REPEATEDLY PERSONALLY ASSAULTING OTHERS IN THE MOST OUTRAGEOUS TERMS THE MOST BRAZENLY DIRECTLY—OFTEN EVEN USING “YOU” AND “YOUR” . . .
are the quickest to wail the loudest at the least hint of merely an implied personal affront???
Have all their mirrors truly been shattered in a personal outrage at themselves? What???
I’m somewhat at a loss to even imagine what all must go into such a phenomenon.
I think if a Protty were guilty of such
1. he’d have been banned long term many times over, by now.
2. The Prottys en masse would have badgered and harrassed such Prottys into silence relentlessly and instantly.
I really don’t get it.
Mystifying.
We've got a Martin and Coy situation going on here.
We are each called to die daily.
Suppose you were a Martin or a Coy. And suppose you had heard Christ whisper (or bellow, as He has been known to do) in your heart. What would you be willing to give up for peace?
In the great and paradoxical words of Adlai Stevenson, "We must all go MORE than halfway to meet one another."
I think that unless we do that, and realize and accept that we will be shot at for doing it, there will not be peace.
I cannot control how someone else posts. I am such a sinner I can barely control how I post.
I can pray "Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us," and I can ask God to help me mean it.
And then, knowing me, I will cannon-ball right back into the mire and spread mud and filth everywhere.
I thank God for being more patient with me than they guy in the parable so that when I grasp someone by the throat and scream, "Pay what you owe!" God does not cast me into a prison. Now I beg Him to release me from the prison into which I cast myself at every opportunity.
I hope that's an answer.