I recently read “The Force is Middling in this One: And Other Ruminations from the Outskirts of the Empire” by Robert Kroese which is a collection of humorous essays from his mattresspolice.com blog. Ironic Catholic introduced me to this author and I greatly enjoyed and laughed throughout this book. One passage I found particularly funny.
I have nothing against Jehovah’s Witnesses, of course. I would feel exactly the same way about any group that bases their identity on an English mistransliteration of a Hebrew word, hates holidays and birthdays, has falsely predicted the apocalypse like eighteen times, denies the divinity of Christ and won’t leave me the hell alone.
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and really cheesey art on their tracts, especially the ones depicting Jesus with short hair.
I love that line too. I need to go back and read some Diesel after this week!
You forgot to mention that some of their teaching seems to have come from Jack Chick.
If you can manage to get your hands on historical info about JW’s then you begin to see what whimsical and changing it really is. I swear the founder must have been just plain ignorant!!
There are so many so called gods nowadays and I don’t want to put any of them down as long as they stay out of me, myself and I’s highway. Now I can’t officially speak for my soul and spirit in reality but after this seed does die, I’ll hear what their host has to say before I convince them that if their God is someone other than Jesus The Christ then we’re out of here and back to the drawing board so in other words, there’s no need to even mention asking Papa to “DROP THE FILIOQUE.” if you know what I mean?
I hear ya! “The life of a Christian is nothing but a perpetual struggle against self; there is no flowering of the soul to the beauty of its perfection except at the price of pain” (saying of Padre Pio) who is praying for all of U>S who seek with a sincere heart.
God Bless,
Peace
Reminds me of the dread pirate Wesley:
Life is pain, Highness. Anyone who says differently is selling something