Happy to hear the bishops are objecting to the part of the health care plan that requires a one size fits all plan. It will force Catholic institutions to provide contraceptives that violate the teachings of the Catholic Church. We need the bishops to speak out on this but where they when all this got started? They were all for health care for everyone and they thought they could control what was in it even though the Democratic support for abortion is no secret to anyone. What did they expect?...

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but it is still important that you vote

the democrats are still killing babies
and
the only way to correct that is to vote republican

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was, and is not, and yet is

This is from chapter 17 verse 8 of the Apocalypse and it is very significant in that it ties together Satan of chapter 20, the dragon of chapter 12, the beasts of chapter 13, and the seven heads and ten horns of chapter 17.

Revelation 17:8 (KJV)
8The beast that thou sawest was, and is not; and shall ascend out of the bottomless pit, and go into perdition: and they that dwell on the earth shall wonder, whose names were not written...

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Recapitulation is a theory developed to improve our understanding of the Apocalypse. Victorinus of Pettau in the third century was the first to show the same events were being repeated in different visions. Therefore the sequence of chapters cannot be considered necessarily in chronological order. Most commentaries on the Apocalypse have adopted this theory. It has also been described as parallelism

What is even more interesting about Victorinus is that in his commentary, which is...

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“In this inquiry I shall unfold the events that rescued our ancestors of Britain, and our neighbours of Gaul, from the civil and religious yoke of the Koran; that protected the majesty of Rome, and delayed the servitude of Constantinople; that invigorated the defence of the Christians, and scattered among their enemies the seeds of division and decay.”

The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon

I will always remember the first time I read this. It was...

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