@pontificatormax@BigModernism@thelb236 Until last week, when Taylor Marshall blocked me, I had never been blocked by anyone, which shows how mild mannered I usually am. Or, how sensitive he is.
@TaylorRMarshall I used to actually admire some of the stuff you produced. You’ve let yourself down big time with this decision and I hope you enjoy the ‘nu synodal church’ you’re helping to create.
You know what shook me when I was Muslim?
Psalm 22. A song written by King David a thousand years before Jesus.
It opens: “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?” The exact words Jesus cried from the cross.
But it keeps going, and it describes a scene David never lived:
“They have pierced my hands and my feet.”
“All my bones are out of joint.”
“I can count all my bones — people stare and gloat over me.”
“They divide my garments among them and cast lots for my clothing.”
David was never crucified. Crucifixion didn’t even exist in David’s time. It wouldn’t be invented for centuries.
So how does a man describe death by piercing hands and feet, and soldiers gambling for his clothes, a thousand years before it happened to Jesus exactly as written?
You know what really rattled me?
This was a photograph taken a thousand years early.
Pierced hands and feet. Gambling for the garments. Mocking crowds. Bones out of joint from hanging.
Every detail, at the foot of the cross, fulfilled.
Islam told me to doubt the crucifixion.
David described it in HD ten centuries before it happened.
You can’t erase an event that was prophesied in that much detail.
@ProtecttheFaith I actually admire Fr Ripperger. He’s done some amazing work. However, he’s completely wrong about this. To pretend there isn’t a state of emergency in the Church is, as you say, absurd.
Mel Gibson: "I consider the Gospels to be verifiable history... every single one of those guys [the Apostles] died rather than deny their belief. And nobody dies for a lie. Nobody."
Nobody dies for a lie.
Si je persiste dans cette attitude, c’est parce que je suis convaincu de mon bon droit face à la persécution dont je fais l’objet.
À vrai dire, je n’ai jamais pu me défendre. Je n’ai jamais bénéficié d’un procès en bonne et due forme.
Certes, il est toujours pénible d’être en difficulté avec les autorités, et je n’ai qu’un souhait : retrouver enfin avec elles des relations normales.
Mais je me sens soutenu par deux mille ans de chrétienté et deux mille ans d’histoire de l’Église. Par conséquent, j’ai même le sentiment que ma position est plus solide que la leur.
Eux s’appuient sur une Église telle qu’ils la conçoivent depuis le Concile Vatican II ; moi, j’ai derrière moi deux mille ans d’Église.