675 Before Christ’s second coming the Church must pass through a final trial that will shake the faith of many believers. The persecution that accompanies her pilgrimage on earth will unveil the “mystery of iniquity” in the form of a religious deception offering men an apparent solution to their problems at the price of apostasy from the truth. The supreme religious deception is that of the Antichrist, a pseudo-messianism by which man glorifies himself in place of God and of his Messiah come in the flesh.
Votive candles burning around Pachamama.
The last words of the Amazon Synod Document:
. . . we invoke the protection of the Virgin of the Amazon, Mother of the Amazon, venerated under various titles throughout the region.
That about says it all. Bergoglio and his satanic cohorts have made a worldwide laughing stock of the One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church. And we just sit here with our thumbs up our ass.
All Along the Watchtower 
As a staunch observer of the human condition, it looks as though your first paragraph has already come true as seen in the holy Catholic Church. You would really have to kid yourself to not be able to see that all played out years ago, now operates with impunity.
“For this lawlessness is already at work secretly, and it will remain secret until the one who is holding it back steps out of the way. 2 Thess 2:7
This is all of course in the context his return was imminent. It never happened, now the church has been morally bankrupt 1500 years.
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Rather than answer your silly remarks I will simply let a friend of mine’s post many months ago speak for me as well.
https://charliebroadway.blogspot.com/2019/01/what-i-know.html
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Wow, silly remarks? We’re simply disputing the timeline. Faith continues to blind the Catholic to what outsiders have known for centuries. ”This is the story of how the Roman Catholic Church has fell into its present apostasy and scandals.”The point is that it hasn’t recently fallen into anything, simply the covers came off. And like the camel in the tent, Catholics have dismissed the corruption for generations until the general public became aware through the media. This was an extremely long article to sift through any relevance to the scripture. May I ask, which pope held back the evil as Paul states, and and what time did the corruption reverse what was already happening? Ravenous wolves did not spare the flock. The Catholic Church is the most corrupt organization on earth.
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No, satan is the most corrupt agent on earth and he desires Christ’s Church . . . as it is the Church that satan hates the most. The corruption, as scripture tells us was already in the world . . . and Catholics have been very open about this culminating in the years before Christ’s return. Faithful Catholics are not scandalized by this fact. Christ told us and so did the apostles warn of it. Our catechism states it well as quoted in my post. What other Church has pointed its finger to itself as the object of this diabolical plan to destroy Christ’s Church? None. We know who will win and that there will be a resurrection just as Christ (who was made sin for our salvation). The Church (as the mystical presence of Christ in the world moving through history be spared? If we are the children who are ‘in Christ’ will we not be expected to deny ourselves, pick up our cross and follow Him? Many will be fooled but don’t delude yourself as to the ‘infiltration’ and the transcendent aspects of the Church. That would be like confusing the human nature of Christ with His Divine nature and thinking that they are one and the same.
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Another million pages of explanation cannot defer what is plain as day. You’re in subservient denial in hope. Of course it is much easier to be duped, than to admit to it.
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Oh I see. Having theological hope (faith and love as well, I suppose) is best thrown aside for your ‘clear eyed’ hopelessness and despair. Very smart! Glad to me rather than you. What a very sad existence you must lead . . . though you can always just imagine some ‘truth’ that lets you think that death is simply like to sleeping. I guess there is some consolation in the nihilism that you embrace.
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You’ve not described me in any way. This is another false talking point on atheism. Btw, your hope is only needed because of the anxiety caused by religious threat.
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Thank you Dr. Freud. You’re not very good at psychoanalysis.
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Do you think it would be an interesting thought experiment to have an outsider sift through a dogma they don’t t believe and describe to you, with unbiased eyes what they think of your belief? You know what that might be like if you toured into Islam or Mormonism. Clear-as-a-bell you could pick it apart. I’m just doing you a favor. I definitely know enough about Catholicism to tell you what I see, and you get all hurt over a mere belief. It’s not like it means anything, just a little comfort food for doubt.
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Do you even realize what you said? Unbiased eyes from a person who is already biased to NOT BELIEVE? What an oxymoron. Exterior and interior KNOWLEDGE are quite different. You say you know enough about Catholicism but I could positively say that your knowledge is about as having a biased premise whilst looking at the exterior teaching from this viewpoint. That is not exactly KNOWING anything. It sounds like judging the book by the cover.
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I didn’t desire to lose faith. I was quite content to follow along fifty years of my life. Atheism is simply proof of another biblical error, that man can be tempted more than he can bear—with knowledge. Seems like nothing has changed since the garden story.
I didn’t choose unbelief, but I certainly awakened that day. But now I’ve learned of another that said it better than I. “ The study of theology, as it stands in Christian churches, is the study of nothing; it is founded on nothing; it rests on no principles; it proceeds by no authorities; it has no data; it can demonstrate nothing; and it admits of no conclusion. Not anything can be studied as a science, without our being in possession of the principles upon which it is founded; and as this is the case with Christian theology, it is therefore the study of nothing—Thomas Paine.
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You were not tempted beyond your means. All fall, but that is how we develop understanding that we cannot trust any good as that which we possess. If I want faith, my faith will be tested. I can surrender to God or rely on my own ego that I possess the virtue of faith. It is why St. John of the Cross said: “to possess all you must go by the way of possessing nothing.” Reliance on God and letting go of one’s self-reliance to abide by the teachings of faith is the only way forward. Otherwise humility is not your foundation and without a foundation no spiritual edifice can stand.
Thomas Paine is not exactly an expert in these matters.
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Of course anyone that disagrees just doesn’t get it. Doubt is so natural one should learn trust it. It’s no wonder the gospel hedges it with some fancy wording that plays on the human psyche like a fiddle.
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Dispelling doubt is something that is part of life. Why do you suppose it is something online inimical to religion? Doubt is not a sin, on its own, but not seeking an answer to your doubt might be. Misuse of our understanding and will are part of the fallen nature of man and it is to be trained and informed. If it is, our conscience can be reasonably relied upon. If not, then it cannot be. It is journey or growth not some switch that is either on or off . . . magical somehow? Obvious you didn’t put in the discipline or time to overcome your problems Jim. You weren’t the first and you won’t be the last. Great saints felt abandoned by God, sometimes for decades, to only emerge from the darkness in the light of spiritual perfection (as perfect as man can get in this world). There are dark nights in the spiritual life: dark night of the senses is the first, dark night of the soul is the second but if you persevere the rewards are far more valuable than the riches or gains you’ll ever find in this world. You’d do well to read Ascent of Mt. Carmel or Dark Night of the Soul by St. John of the Cross.
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I tend to stay away from this topic, even here. Cause if I don’t some people will think I’m anti-Catholic, which as you know, I’m not. But I can’t see many alternatives to what you’re saying here. Sad day for us all.
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The alternatives are what Our Lady prophesied for almost 500 years. I guess that it some small comfort to know that Our Lady is still looking out for the Church and that She is not misleading us. Her prophecies are always true.
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Yep. Still, there’s always hope. One of my Catholic friends told me a few years ago that about every 500 years the people had to reform the Church, that’s her explanation for the various schisms. I think she has a point.
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There are larger eruptions, of course, but the battle is ongoing and has been from the beginning . . . and it isn’t only on the Church it is a battle that each Christian fights in the Spiritual Warfare they face should they take they take the call seriously.
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I certainly agree with that.
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Good brother neo, you are in error and your church is invalid and you are going to hell, according to good brother scoops religion, and he firmly believes this also. But, thats no reason you two cant be friends. im friends with both if you and like you both alot. but i dont belong to a religion that says you are going to hell. My master wants to see you both saved. That is my prayer also.
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Oh yes, good brother jim is rite. the CC has always been a pit full of snakes. its just now that the cover has been ripped off that the people can see how perverted it is. to be fair, all other religions are false also. But the CC is the biblical false religion. No other religion is mentioned by name like the CC is. Its the mother of all the other harlots. It exalts itself. It makes claims as to how its gods true church and you must be a member or go to hell. Its priests are little christs and have to power to order god around and its head is called the Holy Father. It has exalted itself to the heavens.
It takes a special kind of buffoon to fall for this obvious scam called the catholic church.
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It’s as obvious as you say. Denying that obviousity literally means faith is as corruptible as any desire to believe. Why did the early church automatically need to appeal to faith (which is a mind well played) when the my supposedly had the genuine article in their midst?
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good brother jim, you mistake religion for being saved. who knows what religions had in mind. the religious are fools and dupes. the saved are invisible and dont figure into religious equations.the unsaved dont understand this.
im here for two reasons; one is to spread the good news of the gospel…..the other is my own wicked agenda not authorized by christ, is to kick ppl who are on their way to hell. hey, they are going to hell anyway. might as well kick them as the go.
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Your first mistake is you take any of this game seriously. Of course, it is our western culture to do so, the stern father judging your every move. That isn’t the way of the universe at all. No one need saving, there is no mystery but a happening and we are but participants in a game with ourselves. Relax, the awakening is yours by unbelief.
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i happen to have met the creator. i cant un meet him.
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Did you ask him his name? Funny how cross culturally that interpreted awakening varies based on your previous exposures in life. Maybe you met someone? Divinity? Hardly, but a mere projection of bias and self which is routinely duplicated in a lab, even with outright lies. There are many ways to misinterpret the awakening.
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i was given a new spirit, one that knows jesus personally. its like a hard drive with windows on it already that you put into a computer. he gave me a spirit that knows him. then my eyes were opened and i can see. believe me, what i see isnt nice.
you know how some spiritual religious ppl talk about how wonderful and nice it is to be with god…….they dont know god. they are liars. its war out here, and its ugly.
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Would you accept my Muslim friends nearly identical testimony?
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no i dont accept muslim god allah. or his liar5 prophet muhammed. muhammed didnt die for anyones sins and come back to life. i do believe muslims have life changing experiences, but they are from the evil one.
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That’s pretty arrogant and biased. That’s what belief does. So you got a new hard drive? I got passed over. My neurology wasn’t susceptible to the game
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you hate god and love lies. thats why you get passed over. you raise your fist and tell the creator that he didnt create you. pitiful little human.
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Hahaha. That’s funny. I hate pretending. You seem to have it mastered. If you are a true believer, show me a sign. Jesus said “greater signs than these follow them that believe”. You should be healing the sick and regrowing limbs for people. Making water into whiskey and feeding 10’s of thousands with only one fish. But I see you are an imposter. Either the Bible lies, or there are no real believers anywhere. Either way, he did not give you the tools he promised and is a liar.
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Hello?
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you should be glad i dont have that power, cause id have you attacked by a hive of killer bees.
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Speaking of hate, your beliefs have made you less that human. That’s what beliefs do. You nor any one else has the promised power without some showmanship and fraud. You’re a phony
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you wont see the born again on TV. the ones giving the big fake shows are just con men.
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The whole of Christianity is about pretending to be something you’re not. Just look at your case.
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youre mistaking christianity with all the store front religions like catholic 7th day, mormons ,jehovas and others. christians you wont see. you see me because youre lucky. you might even know a christian or two.
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@Scoop
In actual fact, as it was men who invented Satan and the Catholics who invented the Christian religion as we know it, then it is obvious that the Catholic Church is as corrupt as Jim points out.
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good sister ark, you are kinda right. the catholic church invented christianity as we know it is true. the non christian world thinks the CC is the archtype of christianity, just because it has the biggest mouth and the most colorful pagents. and its agents are all over the world doing their evil deeds. but the catholic church is far from chritianity. its actually the mystery religion of nimrod. the priests wear the same robes and hats. cant get around that even though the catholics deny this with every fiber of their being. but dont kid yourself, the devil is real. after all, hes your father.
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*Smile*
Yes, another Christian with similar mental deficiencies as you made the same observation, a while back. When I mentioned this to my mother she responded: ”Well, your dad can sometimes be a bit of an old devil, for sure.”
Oh, how we laughed, and shook our heads that Nobs such as you not only believe such rubbish, but may be allowed contact with children.
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we have our earthly parents and we have a heavely father who formed us in the womb. then there is the other father. if you heavenly father isnt the lord, you have another rider on the drivers seat of your heart….the devil. the born again have the lord as their father. these religious ppl arent born again just as nice little old ladies and scout masters. if they arent born again , the devil is their father. look at the flack i get from the religious in here. they have a different father and hate my father, whether they know it or not.
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As I mentioned in my first reply: ”Yes, another Christian with similar mental deficiencies as you made the same observation, ….”
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poor sad lonely human. alive for a moment, then nothing. even that moment can be cut short by a car accident or a brain eating amoeba. pass the word on to the kids….there is no hope. we came from nothing….we are nothing…and we are going nowhere. have a happy halloween. cause when you die its just blackness and nothing.
hey kids, wanna get a machine gun and shoot as many classmates as you want? think of it as a video game with real bullets. dont worry, their lives mean nothing. just put the gun in your mouth and pull the trigger after youve had your fun. its game over.
the ol Hitler “lemme outta here method.” it was fun while it lasted.
isnt atheism wonderful. no punishment. also, no reward.
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Your hope (which you sacrificed a life for) doesn’t prove anything at all. Hope is merely an emotion for the insecure. You can’t cheat death, no matter what you believe. And you have no idea if there is more to this than the preachers who’ve directed the conversations through fear of a natural order. Everything is so horrible to you? Life is pretty good and getting better all the time. Your hope has now defeated you.
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preachers didnt get me where i am. i never cared for them. insecure? i guess you are the rock of security then. big bad god hater. yes. tough guy. tell me, do you give presents away during christmas? sure you do tough guy. there are two places where you arent such a tough guy. in the cradle and in the grave. your hero richard dawkins dont look so good. have you seen him lately? looks like he could drop dead at any moment. hey, how much you wanna bet he will be a death bed convert? i mean, hell is forever and he deserves to go there and he knows it. you think he wants to live in fire forever? he likes his comfort. better look both ways when you cross the street.
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That’s ridiculous as expected. Certainly I give gifts, but I’ve never read Dawkins or any other atheist books. I do my own thinking. Funny how someone can hate of a mere belief. I have malice for no man. You’re choking on your miserable beliefs. Good for you.
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tell me good brother jim, do you say merry christmas when you hand someone the gift?
So you do your own thinking eh? Hhhmmm. there is a joke in there but ill spare you my gregarious gut busting humor. (;-D
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For some reason I can’t post a reply to your recent comments, but it looks like I can post here.
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I’ll post here and this should make it easier for you to reply …
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Re women keeping quiet, that did not stop St Catherine of Siena remonstrating with Pope Gregory XI.
I agree that – as a matter of good discipline, – women should not speak in Church (where today they hold themselves free to chatter on with gay abandon for some reason), but not all the time. The only person who has a proper mandate to speak publicly in Church is the licensed preacher. Paul also said that there is no Jew no Greek no male no female in Christ Jesus. Women who are not married are not obliged to submit to a husband; the convent offers a higher path, where the soul can give itself wholly to God.
I am not an egalitarian – I think it’s right that the roles of the sexes should be differentiated because the sexes are different. But difference does not need to mean denigration. I have the highest respect for my own wife, who is – I freely confess – far brighter than I am. However, my job as her husband is to provide for her and our family materially and spiritually so she has somewhere wholesome to raise children. Give that I am answerable for this in the tribunal of my own conscience and before God (and before her, not least!), it is right that – when push comes to shove – I am captain of this vessel.
If you put someone in charge of a thing, and make him answerable for the outcome, and then say to the other stakeholders “Oh don’t worry, you don’t have to listen to what he says” how do you think that’s going to turn out?
So it is with married life in the modern world. Marriage becomes impossible, and increasingly, marriages break down, because men are unwilling to assume the responsibility of being men, and women are unwilling to let them. That’s my take, anyway.
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Hey, each to his or her own.
If you want to take your lead from the supposed sayings of someone who could well have been an epileptic, probably delusional and seemed to be at pains to tell everyone he wasn’t a liar, then go for it.
Oh, and as your wife is brighter than you are, you are only captain of your vessel simply because your wife lets you think you are.
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ha ha ha
Well, you might be right there. Since I always agree with her, I’ve never needed to put my authority as patriarch to the test.
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Re paedophile priests, no – they don’t escape the stigmatisation. In Catholic theology, sodomy rates with murder, oppression of the poor, and denying the labourer his wages as a sin crying out to heaven for vengeance.
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Pedophilia is not the same as sodomy.
Pedophile priests are child rapists. Remember that.
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There’s an overlap in the Venn diagrams.
In practice, I understand most of the clerical sexual abuse has been same-sex abuse of pubescent minors, rather than pre-pubescent minors. I think I am right in saying this is technically ephebophilia, not paedophilia. Either way – I think it’s a safe bet that there was a significant amount of sodomy going on.
And of course, there’s no sin so grave that optional extras can’t make worse.
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Your emphasis is on sin and anal sex.
Of course sin is simply any transgression against your god. From my perspective the term is utterly meaningless.
As far as I am concerned it is nothing but child rape.
Under any normal circumstances a large number of clergy members would have been sentenced to prison.
And of course, the Church, being one of the most corrupt organisations in history, is culpable for its lack of any meaningful action.
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I would be delighted if every one of the culprits was hanged. But they will have their reward in Hell, if their sins don’t catch up with them on earth.
Sin means deliberately doing what you know is wrong. Atheists can feel guilt about wrongdoing – you don’t need to bring God into the picture for that, per se.
Though it’s telling, I think, that the more God is forgotten, the fewer and fewer the rules become, until there are no rules apart from THERE ARE NO RULES. That’s a rule.
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Sorry, sin is a theological term and means any transgression against your god.
I do not subscribe to it.
In actual fact, theses days, the more the notion of your god is rejected humans generally live better and treat each other better.
Secular humanism will eventually supplant religion.
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Secular humanism has no means of deciding what treating people better looks like. What it ends up deciding is that indifference is best, and it calls this tolerance. But it is in fact the antithesis of tolerance, and worse than hatred.
Secular humanism has already reached its zenith in the West. It will ultimately collapse, because secular people are no good at breeding. They like their creature comforts too much to risk unwelcome children jeopardising them.
More divorce, more suicide, more stabbings, more abortions, more mental illness, bigger state, more crime…
Yes, so much better than it was when instead of needing the police state we’re sleepwalking into, Christians had their own “little policeman” – a well-formed conscience.
You’re welcome to the Islamic Caliphate that will supplant the Christianity you have succeeded in destroying.
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And yet all the evidence regarding secular humanism refutes your statement.
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Produce the evidence, and then tell me how “Secular Humanism” interprets it.
How does Secular Humanism decide on what is better or worse?
If Atheism isn’t a belief system, but a lack of one, where do you start?
If the factors I refer to aren’t to with the breakdown of traditional values, what are they to do with?
All the factors I refer to are current in modern Britain to my knowledge. If you disagree, be specific.
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Be specific.
You have failed to demonstrate any causal link between the things you list and secular humanism.
For example: How on earth can you assert a causal link between the increase in stabbings in the UK and Secular Humanism?
This question makes no sense. Start where / with what?
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I have been specific. You made a claim – that secular humanism improves the way people treat one another. I asked you to explain what you mean by “better” and then to give examples. Burden’s on you. I asked “Where do you start?” because to me, in an atheist paradigm, there’s no basis for believing in right and wrong.
You brought secular humanism into it. I have no idea what it’s supposed to be in practice – though I have heard the term -, and I don’t think I know anybody – apart from you – in my circle of acquaintances who claims to be one.
I said there was a causal link between the abandonment of traditional Christian cultural values and the factors I cited. Atheism, as a lack of belief = anti-culture, was the cause I posited.
I assume Secular Humanism is supposed to be atheistic, but perhaps it doesn’t have to be and I’m sure you’ll put me straight on that.
Causal link for stabbings is readily established as follows.
Violent crime has risk factors, among these born into broken homes.
The number of children born into broken homes (“non-traditional families”) has sky-rocketed. Family dysfunction is particular high in extremely deprived areas, which are – as a matter of common experience – overrun with feral depraved human beings.
This is because people no longer believe that sex is for marriage and marriage is for life.
The children are feral and depraved because their mothers and fathers didn’t raise them properly.
They didn’t raise them properly because no-one (the rest of their “family”, society, government, books, tv, radio, Church – like, literally no one) either desired or was able to teach them how to do so because all traditional standards of behaviour have been jettisoned, at least in theory (increasingly in practice) by our whole culture.
Now show me what’s wrong with this analysis.
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Causal link for stabbings is readily established as follows.
False. These are merely assertions based on your opinion.
How do atheists, secular liberals decide what is right and wrong?
Whether something is supportive and affirming of life and liberty, or not.
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Re slavery, it happened in every culture and every part of the globe. It is still rife (but not in the post-Christian west!).
Christians engaged in slavery are not interesting historically. Christians putting a stop to slavery are interesting, because no-one else had any appetite to do so. The understanding of a common human dignity is part of the Christian patrimony. It took the forces of philosophical atheism to unleash the inhuman genetic policies of the Nazis (policies which enjoyed considerable support in principle from the bien pensant, God-hating, progressive chattering classes in this country).
I do point the finger at the Arabs, and the Turks, and the Africans. Who is more at fault? The one who buys a slave, or the one who enslaves in the first place? When the British ambassador asked the Grand Turk to abolish slavery in the Ottoman Empire, he thought it was a joke.
It is also worth noting that, in harsher times now long past, enslaving a population – or part of it – was the only realistic alternative to committing genocide. The term slavery is a very wide one, but it is used very narrowly.
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The Chinese ended slavery long before certain Christians developed a conscience.
Best you check your history.
Now this is laughable!
Historically Christianity is one of the most vile worldviews ever to be rammed down humanity’s throat, and the historical record bears this out.
And Luther had nothing to do with this antisemitism, of course.
I suppose Yahweh’s mind must have been otherwise occupied when he gave the Commandments to Moses, yes?
I mean, it seems to be the only likely explanation as to why he didn’t include a Commandment forbidding slavery.
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P.S.
There is (limited) provision around slavery in the Mosaic law. The maximum term of involuntary servitude is given as 6 years for a Hebrew slave, after which time the slave must be given the option of liberty.
Even in the imperfect law, it was seen as a condition to be mitigated.
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You are either being very selective or haven’t fully understood the terms as laid out by Yahweh.
And once again, how difficult would t have been for an omnipotent deity to include a commandment banning slavery?
Says a lot about your god when he …oops, sorry, He, is more concerned woth mixed fabrics and shellfish, don’t you think?
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I simply don’t agree that all forms of slavery are on the same level morally as murder or theft or adultery. Why is it difficult for you to see that not every issue is as black and white as the 10 commandments? There’s a lot of grey.
If you default on a debt, and there is no other effective means of paying it is bond servitude actually an unjust outcome for you?
I am glad we live in a society where it is not necessary or expedient for people to enter / be forced into indentured servitude or serfdom or any other condition of slavery.
But, while it is always and everywhere undesirable, it is not always and everywhere wrong.
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I don’t care if you do not agree, the evidence tells us that your god sanctioned slavery and dished out rules for it.
It’s right there in the bible.
Do you really need to be told book, chapter, and verse?
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God also sanctioned divorce under Moses. That did not mean that He likes it.
What is always and everywhere wrong, and what God occasionally permits – but does not like -, are not the same thing.
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What on earth are you waffling on about?
According to the bible, your god sanctioned slavery and laid down rules for it. Fact.
Perhaps if your god had been a little more forthright about banning slavery instead of getting his underpants in a knot over mixed fabrics and shellfish Christians might not have been the major players in the Atlantic Slave Trade?
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What am I waffling about? I could say the same to you. I have been clarity itself.
Christians put an end to slavery in modern times. The doctrine of the imago dei, the doctrine of Adam and Eve, and the liberty purchased for Christians in the blood of Christ, all fed into this.
You are trying – and failing – to rubbish this contribution of Christian thought to the bettering of humanity’s lot in large chunks of the world by whataboutery (What about the Chinese?) and by sleight of hand (God made rules for it in the Old Testament, therefore Christian thought is fine with it).
I’ve explained why this is not the case, citing divorce as an example. In fact, the whole ritual law of the Old Testament has been binned. So blathering on about mixed fabrics isn’t going to cut it. We haven’t followed that for 2000 years. Not part of Christianity – that’s Judaism.
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Christians were not the first to end slavery – how many times must I tell you this – and they merely helped end it in the West after developing a conscience. There were the ones largely responsible for the trans Atlantic slave trade in the first place. It was certainly a major contributor to the foundation of the US economy.
Again, your god would have ended slavery but did not, instead he sanctioned it and issued specific rules, thus paving the way for the horrors that ensued.
You cannot hand wave away reality. Your god, as describe in the bible is a monster.
If your god was the be all and end all there would be no need for humans to apologize for their acts.
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@ Bosco the
heretic>/del> NobYes … some sort of mental illness going on with you, and that’s no maybe.
Here’s a tune for you …
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i appreciate humor, but british humor is dry and not funny. brits think its funny. i guess they are easy to entertain, what with their small minds and all. not that im saying your mind is small good sister ark.
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While believing in a god should be considered hilarious, the trouble is , Bosco, you have no sense of humour … period.
However, if you don’t mind being laughed at then I reckon you are in the pound seats my old son.
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well, you must be british judging from the times you post. and the terms you use such as pound seat. if i knew what pound seat means i would know if i should be happy or angry.
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@ Bosco the Clown
Yes, I am English, though I do not live in England.
One of the great things about the computer age is this thing called the Internet.
Find Google or similar search engine and type: In the pound seats.
Afterwards type: Knob, as this specifically refers to you.
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good sister ark, i didnt ask what knob meant because im smart enough to have figured it was some sort of insult. so i was rightfully angry. am i to assume pound seat is also an insult of some sort? well instead of looking it up, i will take it to be some kinds of dig at my persona and i will just go ahead and be angry..im justified in my actions because you rarely if ever compliment me.
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That you won’t bother to Google In the Pound Seats tells me you are a Knob.
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Im a knob eh.What ever that is. But its a compliment coming from the likes of you. When i was in lake geneva Switzerland in line to rent a paddle boat, two young british teens in front of me and my friend turned around and called us coloniels, with disgust look on their faces. i was almost 15 but i knew that the US saved englands butt twice in two wars.The fact that they still think of us as coloniels was funny. England is nothing but a worn out tourist trap. And you good sister ark demonstrate that with your weak british insults that have no meaning to americans. Have a nice day.
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Scoop – just testing to see if this comes through. I have been unable to post recently.
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Hi QVO. Seems you’re posting OK now.
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God is working a great thing by means of this unholy Pontificate, Scoop.
He is bringing clarity out of ambiguity, and uniting the orthodox against Francis – whatever our petty differences may be – and the heterodox in one army for him.
The devil will soon be cast out of the Church, as foretold in the 12th chapter of the book of Revelation.
Then the fun really starts. But all ambiguity will be resolved before the Beast is unleashed on the world – of that I am sure.
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My wife and I are always amazed that our lives were placed in this most amazing time, QVO. Obviously, God must have a reason for that . . . we are blessed to even perhaps see His coming again in Glory. If not and He prefers to allow history to slowly nudge us to its finality then I am wrong about that but then we will see an awful lot of souls led out of the Church and to eternal punishment. It’s a strange time and we must pray like we never prayed before.
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