God abhorred human sacrifice by the children of Israel but somehow planned the sacrifice of his own son?

 They did not destroy the peoples, as the LORD commanded them, but they mingled with the nations and learned to do as they did. They served their idols, which became a snare to them. They sacrificed their sons and their daughters to the demons; they poured out innocent blood, the blood of their sons and daughters, whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan; and the land was polluted with blood. Thus they became unclean by their acts, and played the harlot in their doings. Then the anger of the LORD was kindled against his people, and he abhorred his heritage; 

-- Psalm 106:34ff.

Good news: Really handsome 30-year old Catholic soon to be ex-priest marries 18-year old . . . woman

 What a relief.

Story here.

Butthurt Roman Catholic thinks Luther himself would want to put his genie back in the bottle lol, opts for the authoritarianism of the old magisterium

Yeah, just disconnect your brain and do what we tell ya.

 

 

 

 

 

 

37.5% of the world's Christians now beg to differ as Protestants because Luther and his heirs thought otherwise, but Rome's problem with schism long predates Luther.

 

Unintended Consequences Of Martin Luther’s Reformation

 

Over the last 500 years, most American Christians — Protestant and Catholic — have operated as functional Lutherans. All I need is a Bible, a brain and the Holy Spirit to interpret Scripture. How has that worked out? Western missionaries, European and American, have exported a gospel around the world that has yielded more than 45,000 Christian denominations globally and more than 200 in the U.S., according to the Center for the Study of Global Christianity.

 

If you think this is a problem (I do), remember that we can’t solve a problem using the same mind that created it. I suggest returning to the early centuries of the church, when a magisterium, an authority beyond individual interpretation, settled these sorts of disputes.

 

Swift contra phonics

 Another cause, which hath maimed our language, is a foolish opinion that we ought to spell exactly as we speak.

-- Jonathan Swift

Prosperity corrupts

 Their manners wax more and more corrupt, in proportion as their blessings abound.

-- Francis Atterbury

Anti-Christian Pope Francis removes Joseph E. Strickland as bishop of the diocese of Tyler, TX

 The pope has indirectly accused Strickland of being a reactionary who has replaced the faith with political ideology.

 

 

 

 

 

From the story here:

Last year, when the Vatican defrocked ultra-conservative U.S. anti-abortion priest Frank Pavone for “blasphemous” social media posts and disobedience to bishops, Strickland was one of the few American bishops to defend him publicly.

“The blasphemy is that this holy priest is canceled while an evil president promotes the denial of truth and the murder of the unborn at every turn, Vatican officials promote immorality and denial of the deposit of faith and priests promote gender confusion devastating lives...evil,” Strickland wrote on the platform then known as Twitter.

And all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years: and he died

 Who were there then in the world, to observe the births of those first men, and calculate their nativities, as they sprawled out of ditches?

-- Richard Bentley

The credulity of Rod Dreher is one thing, the insufficiency of Christ's sacrifice quite another

 *'Get Me Out Of Here!'

How Danny called out to his family from beyond the grave -- and they responded

 

"And we did what we could to help his soul to reach heaven."

If looks could . . . you know

 Careless of thunder from the clouds that break,

My only omens from your looks I take.

 

-- George Granville