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The last four things
For those hung over from the Halloween partying, it's time to sober up and start reflecting on what the rest of Hallowtide entails, as Christine of the Laudem Gloriae blog tells us: http://extremecatholic.blog... Indeed, today is All Saints Day and tomorrow is All Souls Day. As Christine mentions, not only are we to pray for the dead, but meditate on what we should be doing to avoid hell ourselves. Actually it would be good to ponder the last four things--death, judgment, heaven, hell--as constantly as possible. Unlike what some of you may think, I actually took the family out to celebrate Halloween at a church festival and for some trick-or-treating around the neighborhood at a friend's house where a party was held. Returning home, I tuned in to the Catholic network EWTN, which aired the hourlong program "What Every Catholic Needs to Know About Hell." I have to say that the statements made by the panelists were quite jarring, to say the least. Indeed, what you don't know about it can hurt you. It certainly hasn't gone out of fashion. Luckily, you won't need to fork over the $20 to buy a DVD of it to see for yourself. You can watch the five-part series on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watc... Among the pointers: that practically every page of the New Testament keys on the doctrine of hell and that Christ mentioned hell 28 times and eternal punishment 90 times. Spirit Daily has an excellent article on this subject as well: http://www.spiritdaily.net/... As you can see, this is what life, pardon the pun, boils down to. 8 comments from 5 users
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posted by
catpaw
on Nov 1, 2009 at 11:57 AM
Believe it, I meditate hell every time I watch the evening news. Right now, I'd say there's enough of it on earth to go around for everybody. Compared to the loved ones I'll leave behind, what happens to me when I'm worm food seems like an insignificant consequence. posted by
Deanz70
on Nov 1, 2009 at 12:43 PM
No wonder I'm an atheist............don't have to worry about any of it. I've never had a problem in knowing what is right and what is wrong. I don't need some book writen by whomever, telling me how to live. If you have to depend on what is written in a book to tell you how to live, then you must be a very unhappy person most of the time. Just my 2 cents!!! Not that anyone cares!..:)posted by
randomfactor
on Nov 1, 2009 at 01:28 PM
No wonder I'm an atheist............don't have to worry about any of it. You and me both. Hey, did you know that if you always do tomorrow's work today, you'll have the last day of your life completely free?
posted by
paxchristi3
on Nov 1, 2009 at 04:00 PM
Excuse me, Elinem, but I thought the Jack Chick illustration would be a bit less graphic than illustrations by Catholics like this:
posted by
elinem
on Nov 1, 2009 at 04:58 PM
Chick believes you and I and the other one billion Catholics in the world are going straight to the diabolical deep fryer simply because we are Catholic, Pax. Just wanted to remind you of how credible Chick is. I guess theology makes strange bedfellows. To refresh your memory, here's some "great" anti-Catholic material by your compadre, Jack Chick: posted by
paxchristi3
on Nov 1, 2009 at 07:53 PM
I knew that, Elinem. Just because I posted an illustration of his doesn't mean I prescribe to his wacky diatribes against Catholics. I used that illustration precisely to point out that hell exists and, as the Virgin Mary told the Fatima children, the sins that cause most souls to go there are sins of the flesh. With apologies to Lloyd Bentsen: I never knew Jack Chick. Jack Chick was no friend of mine. Elinem, I'm no Jack Chick. posted by
paxchristi3
on Nov 1, 2009 at 08:08 PM
Btw, Elinem, don't you feel sorry for Deanz70 and RF? What a shock they're in for when they realize Jesus and the earthly kingdom he established weren't kidding about the doctrine of hell, wouldn't you say? And there's nothing they can do about it except to possibly kick themselves for an eternity simply for not taking life a bit more seriously. If it turns out we were sold a bill of goods, they just as sadly wouldn't even have the opportunity to say "We told you so." posted by
elinem
on Nov 2, 2009 at 05:42 AM
Not really, Pax, since judging people is God's problem, not mine. Chick may think he knows who is going to hell, but I don't.
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