Sunday, 20 July 2014
Because of the craziness
...of moving about so much in the last eight months, I have not re-posted Doctors of the Church posts on certain feast days. All are labelled and tagged. But, St. Laurence will be re-posted tomorrow.
Touring Churches in New York State
Humans Acting Like Animals
http://news.yahoo.com/dutch-banks-act-mh17-credit-card-looting-reports-155839417.html
Looting, which is stealing, and a mortal sin if the items are large and not small, indicates a society which has descended to the depths of what it means to be human-subhuman, in fact. Consumerism, greed, and the denial of the eternal soul leads to this disdain and disrespect for the dead. This denial of eternal life causes a person not even to respect one's self.
To steal is a horrible crime, but to steal from the dead and their grieving families is despicable.
Looting, which is stealing, and a mortal sin if the items are large and not small, indicates a society which has descended to the depths of what it means to be human-subhuman, in fact. Consumerism, greed, and the denial of the eternal soul leads to this disdain and disrespect for the dead. This denial of eternal life causes a person not even to respect one's self.
To steal is a horrible crime, but to steal from the dead and their grieving families is despicable.
Ukrania, Mosul and Syria Tweets-Sorry for Overlapping
Lorries driven by separatist militiamen took dozens of bodies of #MH17 passengers to undisclosed location #Ukraine pic.twitter.com/fovtq9JTXE
And this MT @zaidbenjamin: Christians are told to walk out of #Mosul without taking anything with them. About 200 have fled the city.
While we're looking away: RT @AlArabiya_Eng: #ISIS burns 1,800-year-old church in Mosul http://ara.tv/8s37n pic.twitter.com/er76yg7Aui
MT @MatthewJLB: Today, ISIS burned down the seat of the Syriac #Catholic Archdiocese of Mosul, Iraq pic.twitter.com/qKBCkXa0Uj
Retweeted by Vihar Georgiev