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the_apostolic_truth_ministries
Advanced Member
Username: the_apostolic_truth_ministries
Post Number: 613
Registered: 10-2005
Posted From: 12.217.145.168
| | Posted on Thursday, September 27, 2007 - 7:33 am: | 
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Just curious, why do you think Newsweek and Times magazines attacked the Roman church recently? I know you know my opinion of that religion. However, I see nothing to be gained by attacking the dead. Many, secular and sacred alike, held the pope and Mother Teresa(sp?) in high regards. So why attack them, now that they are unable to defend themselves? |
pro610
Senior Member
Username: pro610
Post Number: 1113
Registered: 1-2006
Posted From: 69.204.140.203
| | Posted on Thursday, September 27, 2007 - 8:38 am: |
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Dear Ap,
This persecution is nothing new,just different tactics from evil .
Consider how Saint Peter ,Stephen and Paul were brutally tortured and killed and read the lives of the Martyrs like Saint Polycarp,Saint Cathrine and many others...
The devil has a more powerful weapon now- The media and press .
The tongue does more damage than the sword but try as they might our Blessed Lord promised that the "Gates of hell shall not prevail"
The early Saints recognized that once Christianity became legal via Constantine that physical attacks would cease ,but the vocal ones would mislead and manipulate others .
Here is what Saint Hilary of Poitiers said in the 4th century
""But nowadays, we have to do with a disguised persecutor, a smooth-tongued enemy, a Constantius who has put on Antichrist; who scourges us, not with lashes, but with caresses who instead of robbing us, which would give us spiritual life, bribes us with riches, that he may lead us to eternal death; who thrusts us not into the liberty of a prison, but into the honours of his palace, that he may enslave us: who tears not our flesh, but our hearts; who beheads not with a sword, but kills the soul with his gold; who sentences not by a herald that we are to be burnt, but covertly enkindles the fire of hell against us. He does not dispute with us, that he may conquer; but he flatters us, that so he may lord it over our souls. He confesses Christ, the better to deny him; he tries to procure a unity which shall destroy peace; he puts down some few heretics, so that he may also crush the Christians; he honours Bishops, that they may cease to be Bishops; he builds up Churches, that he may pull down the Faith.""
I wish you a Blessed Day! |
the_apostolic_truth_ministries
Advanced Member
Username: the_apostolic_truth_ministries
Post Number: 614
Registered: 10-2005
Posted From: 12.217.145.168
| | Posted on Thursday, September 27, 2007 - 9:09 am: |
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thanky |
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