THIS VALE OF TEARS
NCE AGAIN WE HAVE THE TERRORISTS KILLING PEOPLE IN LONDON IN THE NAME OF RELIGION. I AM SURE THAT THE VAST MAJORITY OF THE MOSLEM COMMUNITY DO NOT SUPPORT THEM WHETHER THEY LIVE IN BRITAIN, SYRIA, IRAQ OR ANYWHERE ELSE. THE TROUBLE IS THAT POLITICIANS SEE SUCVH HAPPENINGS AS PURELY POLITICAL AND A LITTLE DOZE OF BLAMING OURSELVES, AND THEY ARE NICE CHAPS REALLY WHO JUST NEED UNDERSTANDING AND EXPOSURE TO THE VALUES OF OUR SECULAR SOCIETY WILL SOON PUT EVERYTHING RIGHT. THIS OF COURSE IS NONSENSE. THIS IS A BATTLE WITHIN RELIGIIONS, THE BATTLE BETWEEN GOOD AND EVIL. SECULARISM DOES NOT UNDERSTAND GOOD AND EVIL BUT ONLY WHAT SATISFIES SELF AND SO BECOMES ALSO SUBJECT TO EVIL. THE PROGRESS OF ABORTION FROM SAVING MOTHERS IN DESPERATION KILLILNG THEIR BABIES IN THE BACK STREETS TO THE NOW ACCEPOTED VIEW THAT THE BABY IS NOT HUMAN AND CAN BE EXTERMINATED AS PESTS IS ONE SUCH VALUE MOST RELIGIONS WILL ABHOR. THE PROBLEM IS NONE OF US REALLY UNDERSTAND GOOD AND EVIL AND HAVE A UTILITARIAN APPROACH TO THEM. RELIGION IS THEREFORE A DILEMMA TO POLITICAL THOUGHT.
FOR THE CHJRISTAN AND ESPECIALLY THE CATHOLIC CHRISTIAN THIS IS NOT THE CASE. THE JESUS THEY FOLLOW TAUGHT THE EXISTENCE OF GOOD AND EVIL IN THE WORLD AND AS ONE OF HIS FOLLOWERS TAUGHT 'OUR ENEMIES ARE PRINCIPALITIES AND POWERS' AND IN HIS DAY AS IN OURS THIS BATTLE BETWEEN GOOD AND EVIL CARRIES ON. AT FATIMA IN PORTUGAL IN 1917 THE MOTHER OF JESUS APPEARED TO WARN US AGAINST THE EVIL THAT WAS HURTING GOD. THE THING IS WE DO NOT SIN APART FROM GOD HE IS THERE WHEN WE SIN AND HE LOVES US EVEN MOPRE THAN OUR PARENTS DO AND HE HURTS WHEN WE SIN MUCH MORE THAT OUR PARENTS DO. SINS ARE NOT THINGS THAT HE WATCHES UNMOVED HE LOVES US TOO MUCH. THE MOTHER OF JESUS ASKED US TO USE PRAYER AS A MEANS TO OVERCOME EVIL AND IN PARTICULAR SHE GAVE US THE ROSARY AND TOLD US THAT IF ENOUGH PEOPLE PRAYED FOR PEACE THEN PEACE WOULD RETURN TO OUR TROUBLED WORLD. OK, IT IS ON THE SURFACE A NICE STORY SOME WILL SAY, BUT IT BECAME MORE THAN A STORY, WHEN PEOPLE WERE TOLD THAT GOD WOULD GIVE WITNESS TO WHAT SHE SAID AND 70,000 PEOPLE TURNED UP SOME TO SCOFF AND SAW THE SUN DANCING IN THE SKY THEN SEEM TO FALL TO EARTH AND THEN RETURN TO THE SKY AGAIN. NOW YOU WOULD THINK THAT IN THE CATHOLIC WORLD THE ROSARY WOULD BE IN A RESPECTED PLACE OF WORSHIP AMONG THE PEOPLE. BUT SADLY IT IS NOT SO AND SADLY THE WARS AND EVILS CARRY ON. MANY CATHOLICS GO TO LOURDES WHERE MARY FIRST ASKED THE ROSARY TO BE SAID FOR THE CONVERSION OF SINNERS BUT SADLY FOT TOO MANY GOING TO LOURDES IT IS MORE LIKE A HOLIDAY THAN A PILGRIMAGE AND ALTHOUGH YOUNG PEOPLE ARE ENCOURAGED TO BE HELPERS THEY ARE NOT ENCOURAGED TO SAY THE ROSARY. AT FATIMA OUR LADY WAS DESPERATE FOR AS SHE SAID GOD HAD ALREADY BEEN TOO MUCH OFFENDED. I THINK THIS IDEA THAT GOD HAS FEELINGS IS SOMETHING CATHOLICS DO NOT SEEM TO UNDERSTAND. YES THEY CAN HURT AND BE ANGRY BUT SURELY NOT GOD. BUT ALL OUR FEELINGS COME FROM GOD AND HE CANNOT MAKE US HAVE SOMETHING HE DOES NOT HAVE. LET US PRAY THE ROSARY AND LET IT BEGIN IIN OUR SCHOOLS. LET US SHOW THE SUFFERING GOD WE LOVE HIM.
FOR THE CHJRISTAN AND ESPECIALLY THE CATHOLIC CHRISTIAN THIS IS NOT THE CASE. THE JESUS THEY FOLLOW TAUGHT THE EXISTENCE OF GOOD AND EVIL IN THE WORLD AND AS ONE OF HIS FOLLOWERS TAUGHT 'OUR ENEMIES ARE PRINCIPALITIES AND POWERS' AND IN HIS DAY AS IN OURS THIS BATTLE BETWEEN GOOD AND EVIL CARRIES ON. AT FATIMA IN PORTUGAL IN 1917 THE MOTHER OF JESUS APPEARED TO WARN US AGAINST THE EVIL THAT WAS HURTING GOD. THE THING IS WE DO NOT SIN APART FROM GOD HE IS THERE WHEN WE SIN AND HE LOVES US EVEN MOPRE THAN OUR PARENTS DO AND HE HURTS WHEN WE SIN MUCH MORE THAT OUR PARENTS DO. SINS ARE NOT THINGS THAT HE WATCHES UNMOVED HE LOVES US TOO MUCH. THE MOTHER OF JESUS ASKED US TO USE PRAYER AS A MEANS TO OVERCOME EVIL AND IN PARTICULAR SHE GAVE US THE ROSARY AND TOLD US THAT IF ENOUGH PEOPLE PRAYED FOR PEACE THEN PEACE WOULD RETURN TO OUR TROUBLED WORLD. OK, IT IS ON THE SURFACE A NICE STORY SOME WILL SAY, BUT IT BECAME MORE THAN A STORY, WHEN PEOPLE WERE TOLD THAT GOD WOULD GIVE WITNESS TO WHAT SHE SAID AND 70,000 PEOPLE TURNED UP SOME TO SCOFF AND SAW THE SUN DANCING IN THE SKY THEN SEEM TO FALL TO EARTH AND THEN RETURN TO THE SKY AGAIN. NOW YOU WOULD THINK THAT IN THE CATHOLIC WORLD THE ROSARY WOULD BE IN A RESPECTED PLACE OF WORSHIP AMONG THE PEOPLE. BUT SADLY IT IS NOT SO AND SADLY THE WARS AND EVILS CARRY ON. MANY CATHOLICS GO TO LOURDES WHERE MARY FIRST ASKED THE ROSARY TO BE SAID FOR THE CONVERSION OF SINNERS BUT SADLY FOT TOO MANY GOING TO LOURDES IT IS MORE LIKE A HOLIDAY THAN A PILGRIMAGE AND ALTHOUGH YOUNG PEOPLE ARE ENCOURAGED TO BE HELPERS THEY ARE NOT ENCOURAGED TO SAY THE ROSARY. AT FATIMA OUR LADY WAS DESPERATE FOR AS SHE SAID GOD HAD ALREADY BEEN TOO MUCH OFFENDED. I THINK THIS IDEA THAT GOD HAS FEELINGS IS SOMETHING CATHOLICS DO NOT SEEM TO UNDERSTAND. YES THEY CAN HURT AND BE ANGRY BUT SURELY NOT GOD. BUT ALL OUR FEELINGS COME FROM GOD AND HE CANNOT MAKE US HAVE SOMETHING HE DOES NOT HAVE. LET US PRAY THE ROSARY AND LET IT BEGIN IIN OUR SCHOOLS. LET US SHOW THE SUFFERING GOD WE LOVE HIM.
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