Monday, May 23, 2005

The Papist throws the velvet down!

Witness his request for the attention of the Bishop of Charlotte

He points out what should be the obvious. Clearly the Chauncery elves in Charlotte can't understand the obvious. He spells it out for them:

The article then goes on to give the impression that the Catechism of the Catholic Church (CCC) and Church teaching support revisioning God as "Mother." This impression, however, is simply mistaken. The idea that Scripture or Church teaching could be made to support such a view is simply not true.

While it is true--as everyone from the early Church Fathers to the contemporary Catechism of the Catholic Church (for online edition, click here) attests--that God's inner nature is humanly incomprehensible, that He transcends human gender, and that His tenderness and compassion may be expressed in feminine imagery (CCC 239), it is not true that the Church Fathers or the Catechism ever suggest that we may call Him "Mother." No Church Father says this. No catechism of the Church, past or present, says this.


It's amazing the lengths that the Foolable will go to blur their distinctions. They really seem to want a Faith that they can comfortably share at their dinner parties. I seem to recall, however, that the Savior made quite a spectacle of himself at some of these parties:

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10 11 A Pharisee invited him to dine with him, and he entered the Pharisee's house and reclined at table.
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Now there was a sinful woman in the city who learned that he was at table in the house of the Pharisee. Bringing an alabaster flask of ointment,
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she stood behind him at his feet weeping and began to bathe his feet with her tears. Then she wiped them with her hair, kissed them, and anointed them with the ointment.
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When the Pharisee who had invited him saw this he said to himself, "If this man were a prophet, he would know who and what sort of woman this is who is touching him, that she is a sinner."
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Jesus said to him in reply, "Simon, I have something to say to you." "Tell me, teacher," he said.
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"Two people were in debt to a certain creditor; one owed five hundred days' wages 12 and the other owed fifty.
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Since they were unable to repay the debt, he forgave it for both. Which of them will love him more?"
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Simon said in reply, "The one, I suppose, whose larger debt was forgiven." He said to him, "You have judged rightly."
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Then he turned to the woman and said to Simon, "Do you see this woman? When I entered your house, you did not give me water for my feet, but she has bathed them with her tears and wiped them with her hair.
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You did not give me a kiss, but she has not ceased kissing my feet since the time I entered.
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You did not anoint my head with oil, but she anointed my feet with ointment.
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So I tell you, her many sins have been forgiven; hence, she has shown great love. 13 But the one to whom little is forgiven, loves little."
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He said to her, "Your sins are forgiven."
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The others at table said to themselves, "Who is this who even forgives sins?"
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But he said to the woman, "Your faith has saved you; go in peace."


Don't you think they'd catch the general message? I mean, if you could take nothing else from this passage, maybe you could figure out that chilling with the popular might not be the best thing in the world? Is that TOO much to understand?

Apparently not.

Some of the Shepards need to grow spines. Dr. Blosser was all over this one this time. What about the others right now?