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I have seldom ever seen a thread so thoroughly derailed.
From "CathInfo granting mercy to banned users in 2019", to "Corporal punishment on wives within marriage"
Could the topics have anything less to do with each other?
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I've been on forums where anyone who dares to step over the narrow limit lines of what constitutes "THE CURRENT TOPIC" gets punished with demerits or points, which they keep track of, and after a member gets too many zingers he's automatically put into quarantine (read-only mode), for a time, shorter or longer, or perhaps permanently.
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Mercy to banned users and how Adam could have dealt with Eve might be related through the mystery of how the saints of heaven will interact with Adam in paradise. Adam not only became a "banned user" of the Garden of Eden, he took the entire human race out of that perfect world along with him. Msgr. Perez said in his last sermon that
"there must be a line going around the block in heaven -- all the people who are waiting to have a word with him" for having committed Original Sin. Surely Adam and Eve didn't have a wedding, nor was there a priest to officiate the sacrament, nor did they have ANY sacraments in the old dispensation; but Eve was Adam's wife, nonetheless. And if there has
ever been a wife who was
deserving of corporal punishment, certainly Eve takes the cake.
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