What the **** is it with all this religious ****?
On Jan 15, 5:25=A0pm, Reinhard Zwirner <reinhard_zwir...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> be punished, if
> they refuse to seek or follow Him.
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> 585. That God has willed to hide Himself.--If there were only one
religion=
,
> God would indeed be manifest. The same would be the case if there were
no
> martyrs but in our religion.
>
> God being thus hidden, every religion which does not affirm that God is
> hidden is not true; and every religion which does not give the reason of
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> is not instructive. Our religion does all this: Vere tu es Deus
> absconditus.[102]
>
> 586. If there were no obscurity, man would not be sensible of his
> corruption; if there were no light, man would not hope for a remedy.
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> it is not only fair, but advantageous to us, that God be partly hidden
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> partly revealed; since it is equally dangerous to man to know God
without
> knowing his own wretchedness, and to know his own wretchedness without
> knowing God.
>
> 587. This religion, so great in miracles, saints, blameless Fathers,
learn=
ed
> and great witnesses, martyrs, established kings as David, and Isaiah, a
> prince of the blood, and so great in science, after having displayed all
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> miracles and all her wisdom, rejects all this, and declares that she has
> neither wisdom nor signs, but only the cross and foolishness.
>
> For those, who, by these signs and that wisdom, have deserved your
belief,=
> and who have proved to you their character, declare to you that nothing
of=
> all this can change you, and render you capable of knowing and loving
God,=
> but the power of the foolishness of the cross without wisdom and signs,
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> not the signs without this power. Thus our religion is foolish in
respect =
to
> the effective cause and wise in respect to the wisdom which prepares it.
>
> 588. Our religion is wise and foolish. Wise, because it is the most
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> a
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