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Text Box: are the intolerant who impose their will on others. They cry “intolerance” when their desires are opposed, but in truth they are the intolerant. They also are without courage, for their main target is the defenseless. What do some Jews and some Roman Catholic clergy have in common? An opposition to the Good Friday liturgy wherein there are prayers for the conversion of the Jews. (These prayers generally are not in the RC Novus Ordo.) An aversion and opposition to parts of the Orthodox Gregorian (Western Rite) Divine Liturgy and the Roman Gregorian and Tridentine Masses which contain passages some say are offensive to Jews. To even consider the opposition is to deny belief in the correctness, accuracy, and Divine direction which established Chris-tianity. If Christians are to omit praying for the conversion of those who are not Christians, then the teachings of Christ are being disobeyed. If a person decides to follow the desires of those Jews who do not wish to have prayers offered for their conversion to Christianity, then the person is not a follower of Christ, is not a Christian, for that person places the desires of a creature in a position of greater importance than the expressed desires of the Creator. Such a person may be a politician, or a heretic, or an apostate, but such a person is not a Christian. Journalistic idiocy found its way into a piece under the by-line of Tom Johnson (Newhouse News Service) wherein he wrote the recent postal rate increase “will boost the cost of mailings for homeowners and raise business expenses for legal services, newspapers, insurance companies, and other types of businesses . . .” Focus on the part that reads, “will boost the cost of mailings for homeowners . . .” Are renters exempt? And God forbid a “journalist” should ever attribute Christian precepts to anyone who does something good, especially a nun. Well, there are a few journalists left, and not even all “journalists” (the species with the “”) are of this bent. But! Perhaps the

Text Box: inability of “journalists” to attribute a desire to follow Christianity to those who so do, is the reason a recent article about the conviction of Vitalmiro Bastos del Moura, for the murder of seventy-three year old Sister (Mary ?) Dorothy Stang. The “journalist” wrote that del Moura had the nun murdered because she attempted to halt “rampant jungle clearing by loggers and ranchers that has destroyed some 20 percent of the forest cover.” In actuality Sister Dorothy was murdered because she helped build schools, attempted to assist the impoverished which reduced the number of virtual slaves the wealthy could use for plantation and other work at starvation wages, and attempted to infuse a devotion to The Way taught by Christ. OK, One more Journalistic whatever: Headline reads, “Police say slain man was target of attack” (T-P B-2, Sep. 26, 2007). Duuhh! And . . . the headline stated: Chinese Paddies go back 7,700 years. Does this mean the Chinese are Irish? :-) Or, perhaps, the Irish are Chinese? :-) :-) The Hmong fought besides U. S. forces in Vietnam, but are now prevented from obtaining refuge in the U. S. A. because their fighting on the side of U. S. forces classifies them as terrorist under the Patriot Act and the Real ID Act. Sometimes the level of governmental insanity . . . Change the law you dummies! Louisiana usually is such a great source of governmental, social, cultural, and practical stupidity that when Louisiana OVERCOMES stupidity (all-be-it is a single instance) the event is worthy of notice. One of the Louisiana hurricane recovery agencies whose purpose is to provide housing intended to spend $2.6 million on additional staff. Louisiana State Treasurer John Kennedy was able to persuade the agency to spend the money on housing, telling the agency board members, “You’re building a bureaucracy here, and the money is coming out of housing.” He further stated, “This is not a social program. This is a housing program.” What is

Text Box: doubly amazing is, the board listened to what he said, and followed his suggestion, that they spend the money on its intended purpose. +

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