Author Topic: Protestantism comes to St.Kilda (Read 815 times)

Belloc · « **on:** January 21, 2010, 11:13:12 AM »

Reading about this isolated island off Scottish coast, found this pasage interesting and shows how Protestantism destroys culture:

The Sabbath was a day of intolerable gloom. At the clink of the bell the whole flock hurry to Church with sorrowful looks and eyes bent upon the ground. It is considered sinful to look to the right or to the left."[78]

The interior of the church at Oiseabhal, St KildaTime spent in religious gatherings interfered seriously with the practical routines of the island. Old ladies and children who made noise in church were lectured at length and warned of dire punishments in the afterworld. During a period of food shortages on the island, a relief vessel arrived on a Saturday, but the minister said that the islanders had to spend the day preparing for church on the Sabbath, and it was Monday before supplies were landed. Children were forbidden to play games and required to carry a Bible wherever they went. The St Kildans endured Mackay for 24 years.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Kilda,_Scotland

greenhill · « **Reply #1 on:** January 21, 2010, 11:32:21 AM »

Compton Mackenzie, Catholic convert and Jacobite, wrote a marvellous satire on this type of Calvist nuttiness called "Whisky Galore" in 1947.

There is a dire whisky shortage on the little Scottish island of Todday. But a ship sinks founders in the bay and is abandoned. The cargo is.........30,000 cases of whisky! The ship is about to sink and the islanders would be able to rescue some of the cargo. There is only one problem......tis the sabbath. How can they get round this horrible dilemma???

Belloc · « **Reply #2 on:** January 21, 2010, 12:48:32 PM »

calvinists are modern day Pharisees and we can see in them how the "reformation" was no more than a тαℓмυdic black ops

trad123 · « **Reply #3 on:** January 21, 2010, 10:18:40 PM »

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calvinists are modern day Pharisees

Seriously, and although Protestants boast of reading the Bible more often than Catholics (which is sadly true for many) it is rightly said of them (and all non-Catholics):

http://www.papalencyclicals.net/Leo13/l13provi.htm

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.....For although the studies of non-Catholics, used with prudence, may sometimes be of use to the Catholic student, he should, nevertheless, bear well in mind -- as the Fathers also teach in numerous passages41 -- that the sense of Holy Scripture can nowhere be found incorrupt out side of the Church, and cannot be expected to be found in writers who, being without the true faith, only gnaw the bark of the Sacred Scripture, and never attain its pith.

Matthew 1:1-7:

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At that time Jesus went through the corn on the sabbath: and his disciples being hungry, began to pluck the ears, and to eat.
And the Pharisees seeing them, said to him: Behold thy disciples do that which is not lawful to do on the sabbath days.
But he said to them: Have you not read what David did when he was hungry, and they that were with him:
How he entered into the house of God, and did eat the loaves of proposition, which it was not lawful for him to eat, nor for them that were with him, but for the priests only?
Or have ye not read in the law, that on the sabbath days the priests in the temple break the sabbath, and are without blame?
But I tell you that there is here a greater than the temple.
And if you knew what this meaneth: I will have mercy, and not sacrifice: you would never have condemned the innocent.

What also comes to mind when Protestants say good works are not necessary, one has to think to themselves, are they blind when they read the Epistle of Saint James?

or when they read in the Gospel of St. Matthew 25:41-46:

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Then he shall say to them also that shall be on his left hand: Depart from me, you cursed, into everlasting fire which was prepared for the devil and his angels.
For I was hungry, and you gave me not to eat: I was thirsty, and you gave me not to drink.
I was a stranger, and you took me not in: naked, and you covered me not: sick and in prison, and you did not visit me. Then they also shall answer him, saying: Lord, when did we see thee hungry, or thirsty, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and did not minister to thee?
Then he shall answer them, saying: Amen I say to you, as long as you did it not to one of these least, neither did you do it to me.
And these shall go into everlasting punishment: but the just, into life everlasting.

trad123 · « **Reply #4 on:** January 21, 2010, 10:37:02 PM »

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Matthew 12:1-7:

I forgot to put the 2.