I scored 51 out of 71.
<and a big 'Howdy!' to any employees of the NSA monitoring this thread.>
I have this awful feeling that they don't even have employees read our extremist writing, that they just have a gigantic search engine search through all of our writings for key terms and expressions and just store the information on a huge database. Bastards.
Agreed. Isn't that Edward Snowdon's (docuмented) point?
I just pray my persecution will be for my faith and not something stupid.
Excellent point, Cera! St. Maximilian Kolbe was martyred but he has not been considered a martyr because they didn't kill him for being a faithful Catholic.
Perhaps God sees it otherwise.
Anyway, now we have the insanity afoot of making non-Catholics martyrs when they're killed for any reason whatsoever, which banalizes the whole category of martyrdom into irrelevance.
By that standard, Matthew Shepard, or James Dean, or Martin Luther King, Jr., or Abraham Lincoln, or JFK or even Lee Harvey Oswald would be a 'martyr'.
About that, we can be sure that God sees it otherwise.
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