Tuesday, October 27, 2009

"If that sounds like mumbo - jumbo, it's because it is mumbo - jumbo"


Let's just briefly imagine this wild, laugh - out - loud scenario:

Let's say a real - deal Jesus Christ - believing teacher is patiently trying to explain to her CCD / Youth Group / Altar - Server students -- and / or their bewildered young parents -- why it's a waste of time to ask any St. Mary Magdalene's clergy exactly why our New Age Indoor Paper Trash - Burning mitotes are suddenly an essential part of the Catholic faith, take it or leave it! :)

For all even our aging KC's are going along with the notion that any public -- or for that manner personal and private -- disagreement with this is in and of itself "mortally" bad manners! :)

Moreover, esta dama tan machetona might add:

"Be honest with your non - Catholic friends at BHS or later on at college, or wherever.

"Tell them if what they've too, been hearing from our Catholic clergy here in Brackettville amounts to saying that both Jesus and His Church are being updated, beware!

"Moreover, if what our priests and deacons and Liturgical Committee are currently trying to shove down our throats right here and now sounds like mumbo - jumbo, it's because it is mumbo jumbo! "

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Tip of the hat to:

This Rock Catholic Apologetics magazine, November - December issue 2009.

An essay in their Truth to Be Told section.

This month it's Robert P. Lockwood's essay: How Fact Becomes (Anti - Catholic) Fiction.

In this issue he talks about one Giordano Bruno -- for some persons at least -- "a martyr for modern science."

As Lockwood gives us in his opinion:

"Giordano Bruno died from a massive ego, intellectual pretension, a singular dishonesty, an overactive libido, and for being a miscreant priest who allowed himself to be ordained when he didn't believe any essential truths of the faith..."

This author then goes on to tell us that some wandering philosophers four or five hundred years ago (he names one Nicholas of Cusa 1400 - 1464) were genuinely concerned "to find the proof of God -- the action of God's creation -- in all matter great and small."

He then goes on to say that :

"Bruno's goal was different, describing an endless universe of endless creating that God needed, rather than a universe that needed God.

"As one of his cell mates in Venice put it: He said that God needed the world as much as the world needed God, and that God would be nothing without the world, and for this reason God did nothing but create new worlds...

"If that sounds like mumbo - jumbo, it's because it is mumbo - jumbo.

"Trying to get to the root of Bruno's beliefs is like wrestling with an eel.

"The scientific methods employed by a true nascent scientist like Nicholas Copernicus were processes the free - thinking Bruno loathed..."

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