Itching Ears
I charge you in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus who is to judge the living and the dead, and by his appearing and his kingdom, preach the word, be urgent in season and out of season, convince, rebuke, and exhort, be unfailing in patience and in teaching. For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching but having itching ears they will accumulate to themselves teachers to suit their own likings and turn away from listening to the truth and wander into myths. As for you always be steady, endure suffering, do the work of an evangelist, fulfil your ministry. 2Timothy 1-5
How is it that St Paul knew so much about modernists, feminists, and people who have moved on. How did he know there would be people who would soak up everything that criticised the Catholic Church. Their itching ears would listen to Rahner, Kung, Radcliffe, and anyone who would take them away from Catholic teaching. Gee, I almost forgot the great Teillhard de Cartdin, whom the backward Roman church condemned. They would declare they had moved on and everyone else who did not follow were by default just stupid ignorant Roman Catholics who needed to be governed and taken from their fears of hell, their superstitions on Mary, and their childlike confession of sin. And what about the myths. Well there was the era of the Goddess, which should have been preserved so that we could call God our Mother, instead of promoting a peasant girl as the Roman Mary. They would not have the intelligence to work out that the glory of Mary lay in that she was just a peasant girl. Then of course Christ taught against divorce, well fine in his time, but we must remember he was only human after all. And of course in this day and age who can accept adultery. Leave the young alone to enjoy sex, forget them, forget the single mothers, forget the divorces, the broken children, we are all doing fine thank you. By the way have you read the latest edition of the Tablet. I am sure your ears are itching already.
How is it that St Paul knew so much about modernists, feminists, and people who have moved on. How did he know there would be people who would soak up everything that criticised the Catholic Church. Their itching ears would listen to Rahner, Kung, Radcliffe, and anyone who would take them away from Catholic teaching. Gee, I almost forgot the great Teillhard de Cartdin, whom the backward Roman church condemned. They would declare they had moved on and everyone else who did not follow were by default just stupid ignorant Roman Catholics who needed to be governed and taken from their fears of hell, their superstitions on Mary, and their childlike confession of sin. And what about the myths. Well there was the era of the Goddess, which should have been preserved so that we could call God our Mother, instead of promoting a peasant girl as the Roman Mary. They would not have the intelligence to work out that the glory of Mary lay in that she was just a peasant girl. Then of course Christ taught against divorce, well fine in his time, but we must remember he was only human after all. And of course in this day and age who can accept adultery. Leave the young alone to enjoy sex, forget them, forget the single mothers, forget the divorces, the broken children, we are all doing fine thank you. By the way have you read the latest edition of the Tablet. I am sure your ears are itching already.
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