I have just received a rather bitter lesson in the nature of religious bigotry.
Getting home from work and checking my youtube recommendations I come across a quote
"The cross shows us a different way of measuring success. Ours is to plant the seeds. God sees to the fruits of our labors. And if at times our efforts and works seem to fail and not produce fruit, we need to remember that we are followers of Jesus Christ and his life, humanly speaking, ended in failure, the failure of the cross."
If you will bother to read this without prejudice, and to aid in this I will withhold for now the name of the person saying this, you will see that there is in fact nothing wrong with this.
Humanly speaking the cross was a failure, but divinely speaking it was something else entirely. By no stretch of the imagination can the speaker be said to be saying that the cross was a failure in its intrinsic essence. He was saying, or at least gave no reason to have us think he was denying, what all Christians know, namely that it was only apparently so, humanly speaking To hold any other meaning those hostile to the speaker have to ignore the phrase "humanly speaking" as well as the very opening of this quote "The cross shows us a difference way of measuring success".
How can the cross be offering a different measure of success if it was a failure?
I invite you to reread the quote.
Done?
Very well, I will tell you , if you do not know , who said this
It was the current pope. Francis I.
They are saying that the pope is saying the cross was a failure.
Moreover they are screaming blue murder and denouncing him with all self righteous fury
He was not saying this, however. There is nothing wrong with this quote
In their hatred they have twisted the words that this man uttered in order to make these words something to justify their hatred
This is seen not by appealing to hatred as some kind of a priori, but by simply examining the words spoken. When we do we see that the true statement such as this can only be twisted by motivations such as hatred
A true statement, then, is twisted into a blasphemy then the speaker is railed at for speaking blasphemy.
This reflects on the evil of those who think that libel is the way to serve truth. It is not, and neither is railing against the perceivedly evil person, for it says in Jude verse 9 that "when the Archangel Michael was disputing with Satan over the body of Moses he did not dare bring a slanderous accusation against Satan but said 'the lord rebuke you.'"
To rail even at evil is sin.
To bring false charges against it is open defiance of the Word of God
The arrogance of this filthy underbelly of Protestantism s quite literally a disgrace, as it the warping of minds that such hatred produces.
Even if Catholicism is riddled with heresy to bring false charges against it is only to encourage them in their error. But alas this is something the anti-Catholic bigot does not care to consider
Getting home from work and checking my youtube recommendations I come across a quote
"The cross shows us a different way of measuring success. Ours is to plant the seeds. God sees to the fruits of our labors. And if at times our efforts and works seem to fail and not produce fruit, we need to remember that we are followers of Jesus Christ and his life, humanly speaking, ended in failure, the failure of the cross."
If you will bother to read this without prejudice, and to aid in this I will withhold for now the name of the person saying this, you will see that there is in fact nothing wrong with this.
Humanly speaking the cross was a failure, but divinely speaking it was something else entirely. By no stretch of the imagination can the speaker be said to be saying that the cross was a failure in its intrinsic essence. He was saying, or at least gave no reason to have us think he was denying, what all Christians know, namely that it was only apparently so, humanly speaking To hold any other meaning those hostile to the speaker have to ignore the phrase "humanly speaking" as well as the very opening of this quote "The cross shows us a difference way of measuring success".
How can the cross be offering a different measure of success if it was a failure?
I invite you to reread the quote.
Done?
Very well, I will tell you , if you do not know , who said this
It was the current pope. Francis I.
They are saying that the pope is saying the cross was a failure.
Moreover they are screaming blue murder and denouncing him with all self righteous fury
He was not saying this, however. There is nothing wrong with this quote
In their hatred they have twisted the words that this man uttered in order to make these words something to justify their hatred
This is seen not by appealing to hatred as some kind of a priori, but by simply examining the words spoken. When we do we see that the true statement such as this can only be twisted by motivations such as hatred
A true statement, then, is twisted into a blasphemy then the speaker is railed at for speaking blasphemy.
This reflects on the evil of those who think that libel is the way to serve truth. It is not, and neither is railing against the perceivedly evil person, for it says in Jude verse 9 that "when the Archangel Michael was disputing with Satan over the body of Moses he did not dare bring a slanderous accusation against Satan but said 'the lord rebuke you.'"
To rail even at evil is sin.
To bring false charges against it is open defiance of the Word of God
The arrogance of this filthy underbelly of Protestantism s quite literally a disgrace, as it the warping of minds that such hatred produces.
Even if Catholicism is riddled with heresy to bring false charges against it is only to encourage them in their error. But alas this is something the anti-Catholic bigot does not care to consider
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