Christ without Commitment

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"Jesus, I think we should just be friends"

That's kinda how I translate someone who announces the trendy and very self-centered bromide

"I don't want religion, but relationship"

Seeing that the word religion actually means "to bind", it's as if this new bumper sticker theology is saying to our Lord

"you know, I still see other gods"
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Fatal Distraction

Having a spinal tap does not generally lead to a restful sleep , so I caught a lot of bad TV while flippin' channels at 4 in the morning. Catching an Anne Archer scene from Fatal Attraction, I was reminded of one of the reasons I didn't like that film when I originally saw it in the theater . . . that Michael Douglas would choose Glenn Close over her was ridiculous !!!

Archer's character was not only absolutely stunning, but also warm and loving and faithful and true . . .and Stable!

Close's character, while not being particularly pretty, was flashy and trendy and very very easy . . .but not exactly stable.

Douglas's character's complete stupidity mimics that of cradle Catholics who have the most beautiful bride (are the most beautiful bride), one which is Loving and Faithful and True; and out of spiritual stupidity or moral laziness, leave her for something Flashy and Trendy and mind numbingly Easy . . . but not exactly stable.

. . . .sadly those that fall for the easy morality of the world or the flashy and trendy mega-church down the street, are putting there soul in the pot instead of a bunny.
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Catholic Convert Bad humour #62

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Catholics call bad dogma "heresy",
Protestants call it
"time to find an ol' 7/11 and build a new church" (O:
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Love and Marriage

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"This is in keeping with the very nature of love,

which may be defined as a mutual self-giving
which ends in self-recovery.

All love must be a giving,
for without a giving there is not goodness;
without self-outpouring there is no love.
In marriage, love is first a mutual self-giving
for love's greatest joy
is to gird its loins and serve."
Archbishop Fulton Sheen
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I Need a New

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I Need a new Auto Mechanic,
'cause mine says I can't use tap water instead of gasoline

I Need a new Boss, mine says he expects me to do work in return for my paycheck

I need a new Doctor, cause my current one says if I want my hands to stop hurting
I must stop hitting them with a hammer

I Need new Neighbors, cause mine seem annoyed by my parking my car in their living room

I need a new wife, 'cause mine says I have to live in the same house and only make love to her

I need a new Church, 'cause mine says I can't divorce my wife,

kinda silly, huh?

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Silly Rick

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Didn't somebody tell Rick Sanchez that if ya wanna get ahead in the news biz you insult Christians or the Pope
. . .just ask Joy Behar (O:
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Tolerance leading to Despair

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“In the world it is called Tolerance,
but in hell it is called Despair,
the sin that believes in nothing,
cares for nothing,
seeks to know nothing,
interferes with nothing,
enjoys nothing,
hates nothing,
finds purpose in nothing,
lives for nothing,
and remains alive
because there is nothing for which it will die.”
Dorothy L. Sayers
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Some things never change

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"Those who commit these types of scandals
are guilty of the spiritual equivalent of murder,
but I',
here among you to prevent something far worst for you.
While those who give scandal
are guilty of the spiritual equivalent of murder,
those who take scandal-
who allow scandals to destroy faith-
are guilty of spiritual suicide."
St. Francis de Sales
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First I pray . . .

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Nipsey does Theology of the Body

like an old record

a lil' framing job I'm quite fond of

That's Entertainment

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All the fuss over some silly ol' preacher in Florida has proved once again we have given the all mighty media way too much power.
Me thinks if Shakespeare was alive today he would have good ol Dick the butcher shouting

"The first thing we do, let's kill all the media
. . .and than the lawyers"
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Dan Brown's Hollywood Playbook

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"The devil is no fool.
He can get people feeling about heaven
the way they ought to feel about hell.
He can make them fear the means of grace the way they do not fear sin.
And he does so, not by light but by obscurity, not by realities but by shadows; not by clarity and substance, but by dreams and the creatures of psychosis. And men are so poor in intellect that a few cold chills down their spine will be enough to keep them from ever finding out the truth about anything."
Thomas Merton - The Seven Story Mountain
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Father Keroppi

This proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that I am as geeky, as I am Catholic (O:
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80 years ago . . .or 80 seconds

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"Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies
because they become fashions."
G. K. Chesterton
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