Facebook Follies of Friends and Families

[celedhring]

From the sole Trump voter I have in my FB:



I will go out of a limb and say that Ben Garrisson hasn't read Don Quixote...

[The Brain]

Not in the original Klingon at least.

[The Larch]

I will go out of a limb and say that Ben Garrisson hasn't read Don Quixote...

His defence seems to be "I did read the book but I'm very smart, you know".

[Josquius]

[celedhring]

We're talking about a man that is so confident about his rethoric ability that he has to spell out in text the meaning of his own metaphors. (i.e. "lawsuit").

[The Brain]

What a guy.

[Syt]

He really likes the book, I think.

[ulmont]

The Meaning Of The Native Graves
They're good, actually.

https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/the-meaning-of-the-native-graves/

[crazy canuck]

The Meaning Of The Native Graves
They're good, actually.

https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/the-meaning-of-the-native-graves/

Evil, just plain evil

This is not to discount the deaths of children altogether. Of course, it would have been better if each and every one of the First Nations tykes Christianized by the union of Church and state had lived a long and happy life. But it is absolutely to discount the blame fixed on the Church by vicious opportunists.

Likewise, the certain fact that souls were saved by the missionaries, the enduring belief of Christians that the Gospel is true and must be spread, is paramount; everything else is secondary.

I stopped reading at this point.

Whatever good was present at the Ossossané ossuary—where those who had not yet encountered the fullness of Truth honored their dead as best they knew how—is increased a thousandfold in the cemeteries of the residential schools, where baptized Christians were given Christian burials. Whatever natural good was present in the piety and community of the pagan past is an infinitesimal fraction of the grace rendered unto those pagans' descendants who have been received into the Church of Christ. Whatever sacrifices were exacted in pursuit of that grace—the suffocation of a noble pagan culture; an increase in disease and bodily death due to government negligence; even the sundering of natural families—is worth it.

[Berkut]

Makes perfect sense and is completely rational once you accept the foundational premise of the faith.

[Valmy]

So Socialism is where a person owns something and gets to do with their property what they want with it, regardless of what I think about it? I swear I don't understand what Socialism is.

[crazy canuck]

Makes perfect sense and is completely rational once you accept the foundational premise of the faith.

I think a distinction needs to be drawn between the toxic brand of right wing Catholicism practiced by conservatives in North America and the faith as a whole.

There are a number of Catholics who would vehemently disagree with the utter nonsense in that article.  Including Catholic Bishops here in Canada:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/archbishop-apology-residential-schools-1.6073733

"I extend my sincere apology for the involvement of the Catholic Church in the residential school system and I pray for healing as the church in Canada walks the path of reconciliation with the Indigenous people in our community,"

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/vancouver-archbishop-apologizes-indigenous-community-1.6051150

"I am writing to express my deep apology and profound condolences to the families and communities that have been devastated by this horrific news," Miller said in a statement Wednesday.

"Each time new evidence of a tragedy is revealed, or another victim comes forward, countless wounds are reopened, and I know that you experience renewed suffering."

In the statement, Miller said he reflected on an earlier apology he made in 2013 before the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, which he described as "words to which I remain committed and accountable."

[PDH]

It is as holy as the Franks marching the defeated army into a river where they could be baptized, then killed on the other side so they wouldn't backslide.

[Valmy]

It is as holy as the Franks marching the defeated army into a river where they could be baptized, then killed on the other side so they wouldn't backslide.

Well I mean best to end it when your soul is clean and pure. Somewhere in Heaven those Saxons are eternally grateful.

[crazy canuck]

It is as holy as the Franks marching the defeated army into a river where they could be baptized, then killed on the other side so they wouldn't backslide.

Well I mean best to end it when your soul is clean and pure. Somewhere in Heaven those Saxons are eternally grateful.

"Kill them all, God will know his own." or something.