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Steven Barrett
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Posted: Sat Apr 19th, 2008 01:36 am |
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If some megachurch took that as its name, it'd have to build one of those interestate-highway sized signs; which would require a zoning hearing; which might well turn down the sign; which would bring out the Religious Right's "persecution complex" dream team lawyers, Sekulow's firm, I believe out of DC, which would inevitably cost big bucks, more hollyroller fundraising sing along schmalzy shows on the INSP "channel"; which would also bring out Robertson, Parsley, Hagee, and more of that ilk just to raise more money to pay for the celebs' private jet fuel costs or hi-tech gurus "link up" expertise (of which they could finish ina few minutes at pennies' cost, but you know will inflate it "to cover expenses" being the good Calvinists they are); which will inevitably bring forth Franklin Graham to buy blocks of time for a crusade on behalf of religious freedom from power-grabbing pettiflogging local bureaucrats and perhaps they might even con Alan Dershowitz to put in a few words on behalf of letting this long-named-monstrosity get approved on behalf of "religious freedom," and that'll bring along Chuck Colson who couldn't bear to be upstaged by Eliot Spitzer's buddy in whose defense he said "prostitution ... is a victimless crime" and this'll probably trouble Fr. Neuhaus at First Things to step in and put in at least a kind word on behalf of the newfangledprotestantdenomination, but will somehow succeed where Dershowitz and his new goyim buddies couldn't.
Neuhaus will simply lean over, and say, "C'mon, let's agree to cut the name in half, you'll get your sign, and we'll get the rest of those clowns out of the limelight and then we can both go out and light up a nice victory cigar."
Leave it to the Catholics to inject some commonsense into the situation.
That's all plausible providing this long-named little 35,000th splinter group of Protestantism isn't located in a town like Amherst, MA where the phd'd locals on the board will be all the more inclined to wait till HELL FREEZES OVER before they make up their minds, just for the sportin' hell of it.
Then it'd all start over the very second New Gingrich, Ann Coulter, the Limbaugh brothers (yes, there are two very active Limbaughs, God help us!), and Jim Dobson start writing their next columns whining all about religious persecution of Christians where Christians make up the numerical majority and there's no law in existence anywhere proscribing the practice of any faith. Welcome to Faith in America, 2008: Chutes n' Ladder Style.
When they recognize that Catholic Americans are real Christians, too, then they might not feel so troubled, insecure, persecuted and lonely. Besides, that's never been Protestantism's problem in our nation's history. Never.
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Steven Barrett
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Posted: Sat Apr 19th, 2008 02:00 am |
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And while we're back at the business of persecution, rudness towards Catholics, etc., thank God we have a friend in the 4th Estate who's quite adept at blowing away many misconceptions, misunderstandings, half-lies, half-truths, and outright damned lies so perhaps the mainsteam press will pull back and all our relatives, friends and deeply concerned fellow Christians won't feel necessitated to warn us against what happens when be embrace "popery."
I'm sure many of you've heard of Bill Donohue of the Catholic League. And I'm sure you've also heard of Lou Dobbs, one of televisionland's self-proclaimed pontificating talking heads.
Check this link out: you'll find it pretty interesting.
http://www.catholicleague.org/release.php?id=1423
After reading this piece, all uneasiness I formerly felt calling myself a Catholic who happens to be an American, rather than the more commonly used phrase, "American Catholic," went right out my window.
Home Sweet Rome, Mr. Dobbs. And for saying this, am I going to be somebody you'd like to haul over the side of that gigantic Berlin Wall you want to build on the Mexico border?
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For anyone suffering from a mental illness or has a loved one with a mental illness, my book "Lead kindly Light: A Devotional For The Mentally Ill" might be of some help: http://www.lulu.com/ (Use search box at the top of page.)
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