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Entry: A Tale of Two Normans: Podhoretz and Finklestein Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/a_tale_of_two_normans_podhoretz_and_finklestein#8067 Post contents: The problem with heresies and heresiarchs is that they not only drag their own souls to perdition, they also drag down innocents with them. Particularly problematic with protestants and their 30,000 + variant cults is that, like the good neocons that they are, spiritually if not politically, they are their own popes in all things. Since that constipated monk decided non serviam, everyone from monks to snakehandlers believes that he can read the Bible in "his own language" and understand it. Perhaps that's why there's a new church with a new pastor and a new congregation every week. And if somebody doesn't like Pastor X's rendition, well then he can just mosey over to Priestess Y. She will know the truth. The truth, however, requires humility. And my humility -- about which I am quite proud [;)] -- tells me that Our Lord would not and did not create or commission a visible church with 30,000+ variants, which, in another parallel universe, you claim are "not protestants...[but] liberals or Anabaptists." Even George Wallace would have difficluty finding a dime's worth of difference. That's like trying to differentiate between Scottish Rite Freemasons; what the Mexicans called the "Yorkinos"; and your friendly local politico-Shriner. Whether it's Rabbi Hagee or Kennedy or Pelosi, and others like them, they all have one thing in common: they have all removed themselves from the one, true Faith. Kerry and Neuhaus and Curran may be nominal Catholics but the Curia claims Vatican2 is "Catholic." Those of us who try to remain faithful to the deposit of Faith (aka the Magisterium) know that such claims are spurious and, in fact, quite protestant and, most deplorably, masonic. At least Rabbi Hagee and others like him (regardless of their whimsical denominations) can claim with absolute candor and integrity: invincible ignorance! So, while I appreciate your humor, I must advise you that the bishops you disparage bear no resemblance to Cardinal Newman or even Bishop Sheen. As far as I am concerned, the modernists and pedophiles may own the buildings but, as you have noted, their politics are anything and everything but Catholic. And that leaves few other choices in the spectrum. When you have a chance, would you inform Mr. "I am not Spartacus" that the correct spelling of protestant is not "protastant." I was quite ready to discipline him as St. Joan of Arc ould be quite ready to discipline you. Cheers indeed :) Sent at: 2008 05 15