As long as I can remember, the Catholic Church has been trying to snag tax dollars to further it’s goal of universal membership and the elimination of all other religions.
Wisely, our forefathers blocked such shenanigans with the First Amendment. That doesn’t keep the church from trying, as in this amusing controversy.
Of course SLU lawyers snort the same mumbojumbo as all the other piglets squirming for a taxpayer teat.
It’s just a little undignified to hear them deny that they are Jesuit, or Catholic, or Christian.
It makes me think of the denial of so-called Peter.
Publicly denying Christ proved no impediment to Peter’s rise to power. I should remember this when I take umbrage at former Nazis becoming pope.
There was a high school massacre a while back where the kid-perp shot up a pre-class Christian prayer group. Reports had him asking one girl, “Are you a Christian?” When she said, “Yes,” he shot her dead.
She was a true martyr. Or just dumb? Where would the church be today if Simon-Peter had been as brave as that young girl?
Wisely, our forefathers blocked such shenanigans with the First Amendment. That doesn’t keep the church from trying, as in this amusing controversy.
Of course SLU lawyers snort the same mumbojumbo as all the other piglets squirming for a taxpayer teat.
It’s just a little undignified to hear them deny that they are Jesuit, or Catholic, or Christian.
It makes me think of the denial of so-called Peter.
Publicly denying Christ proved no impediment to Peter’s rise to power. I should remember this when I take umbrage at former Nazis becoming pope.
There was a high school massacre a while back where the kid-perp shot up a pre-class Christian prayer group. Reports had him asking one girl, “Are you a Christian?” When she said, “Yes,” he shot her dead.
She was a true martyr. Or just dumb? Where would the church be today if Simon-Peter had been as brave as that young girl?
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