You know normally I don't have much use for the blow dried preachers in those Mega-churches with thousands of congregants. They always remind me of Reverend Ike who was a processed hair pimp who had late night commercials when I was a kid. He would have the dirt poor church ladies in Bed Stuy send him nickels and dimes so he could drive a Cadillac.
Pastor John MacArthur has proven to be a real man of God. He is opening his church and having services even though the Communist government of Los Angles California is fining him $1000 a day and threatening to arrest him. In his own words:
“It has never been the prerogative of civil government to order, modify, forbid, or mandate worship,” said MacArthur and the church’s elder board in their statement. “Freedom of worship is a command of God, not a privilege granted by the state.”
Where is the Catholic Church in this battle to secure our rights to worship freely in the face of government oppression? Nowhere to be found.
I am ashamed of my Church. When this guy can go to jail and the Bishops count their money and diddle altar boys you know that we need a massive cleansing of the temple.
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I hear turned bowls are very popular in India, Sixty. Heed the spammer.
They are! However, I cannot compete with sepoys who work for pennies a year.
I wonder how popular Spam in on the subcontinent. I guess they are pretty much Polynesian-free over there, so I think I answered my own question.
IIRC Reverend Ike's big sin was telling blacks to get a job and better themselves, rather than go on welfare.
I even remember his slogan, "If you want your pie in the sky by and by, Reverend Ike's not your guy. He will show you how to get your pie right now with ice cream on top".
Just like Co's.
YMMV
That's racist!
Thank you.
Trooper:
If you are unhappy the bishops stopped having Mass in church during the Covid pandemic, then you should know that the very same thing has happened many times in history; not only in the Spanish Flu epidemic of 1918, but when various plagues and such swept through Europe in the age of faith. No less than St. Charles Borromeo made the exact same decision: he barred Mass in church, and instead had priests offering Mass in public squares, and people were encouraged to observe, and participate in prayer, from their homes. I can only imagine what he'd have suggested had TV and livestreaming existed in his time.
On the other hand, if you are unhappy that some bishops and priests failed to follow Borromeo's example of finding other ways to reach people and provide for their needs -- then you have a point. I think many simply retreated; but others were pretty active. But then again, that mixed record is what you find all the way back to the beginning.
I have been reading Benvenuto Cellini's autobiography and he lived and worked in Italy at the same time Charles Borromeo was there. Cellini details the fight to save Rome when it was invaded and how he lost his whole family to the plague.
Wars, disease, hanging out with the pope - I guess what goes around comes around.
Interesting fact - if you attack the man who killed your brother in cold blood there is a chance that your cutlass will get stuck in his "head bone", or skull, as we call it, and you will have to flee the scene and leave your edged weapon where it is stuck fast. But since it was a vendetta all will be forgiven.
In any case, reading these stories leaves me with a couple of impressions - Italians play the angles and they tend to be a bit hot-headed.
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