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That Mary offered up Jesus at the cross

 Jesus said that he did not come to abolish the law but to fulfill it, and the law itself says: "honor your Father and Mother" and as such, Mary had Jesus ear.  Thus though Jesus is King, the tradition of the ancient kingdom of Israel was that the queen of Israel was not the wife of the King (for the king could have many wives) but rather the mother of the King (the גְּבִירָה‎ i.e. 'Gebirah', translating roughly to 'great lady' and often translatd as: "queen mother") hence Solomon had a throne set up at his right hand for his mother, whose requests he was willing to hear out (1 Kings 2:19-20) and this makes sense in light of how the King of Israel was still subject to the covenant of God with Israel, and so would himself be subject to the commandment of honoring father and mother.  In light of this, if the Kingdom of God is in any way reflected by the Kingdom of Israel (which seems to be, for the new covenant in the blood of Jesus (Luke 22:20) which ...

Meditations on the Wounds of Christ

 Christ was wounded by the nails which pierced his hands and feet, and the spear that pierced his side, the thorns which pierced his holy head, the scourges at the pillar, and perhaps in his heart at gesthemane in the loneliness in seeing his coming death.  Christ is the way, the truth, and the life. Christ is the light of the world. Christ is the Word, the Logos, the Son of the Father and who sends the Spirit.  The Way The hands and feet and side of The Way are pierced. The Way wears a crown of thorns.  The Way was scourged at the pillar.  The heart of The Way suffered at Gesthemane. The Truth The hands and feet and side of The Truth are pierced. The Truth wears a crown of thorns.  The Truth was scourged at the pillar.  The heart of The Truth suffered at Gesthemane. The Life The hands and feet and side of The Life are pierced. The Life wears a crown of thorns.  The Life was scourged at the pillar.  The heart of The Life suffered at Gestheman...

A passing thought

 G.K. Chesterton once said this: "Truth, of course, must of necessity be stranger than fiction, for we have made fiction to suit ourselves." (Heretics, Chapter IV. Mr. Bernard Shaw) which is of course to say, that we have not made reality to suit ourselves, and must rather learn to suit ourselves to reality; and there is some danger in this, but to the extent that we succeed, then what the Joker said surely becomes true: "What doesn't kill you makes you stranger." I suppose then the strangest of fictions are the fictions written by the realist of men.

Parts of G.K. Chesterton's Philosophy about Bigotry

Here are some quotes from some works of G.K. Chesterton giving some insight on his understanding of the notion of bigotry:  "Bigotry does not consist in a man being convinced he is right; that is not bigotry, but sanity. Bigotry consists in a man being convinced that another man must be wrong in everything, because he is wrong in a particular belief; that he must be wrong, even in thinking that he honestly believes he is right." - G.K. Chesterton, The Common Man, The New Bigotry "In real life the people who are most bigoted are the people who have no convictions at all [ . . . ] Bigotry may be roughly defined as the anger of men who have no opinions. It is the resistance offered to definite ideas by that vague bulk of people whose ideas are indefinite to excess. Bigotry may be called the appalling frenzy of the indifferent. This frenzy of the indifferent is in truth a terrible thing; it has made all monstrous and widely pervading persecutions. In this degree it was not t...