Bad things are immoral because they're bad for you and for others. Prostitution is obscene. The legalization thereof, which is almost already a reality in many respects, wouldn't be a victory in anywise.
I inadvertently wrote a thesis for a goddess religions course sourced from what ended up being a white nationalist book on Hyperborea. I might still have it around here.
Not hoping to reenter another debate. So I've removed the other attributions. I hope that is acceptable to you.
I wasn't particularly interested in converting anyone. I have tried in this fashion before, and if I've ever been successful in changing hearts it was probably an accident and God did all the real work anyways.
My only intent was to do something that was proximate to what is within my reach. If someone should defame the Bride of Christ, certainly I can raise my voice in protest. I can't change anyone's mind, but certainly I can place my body between pharisees and our Savior.
>Praying for each other is primarily for those you know; I would say that those who died long ago do not know us. I am not certain of this, for presumably they have similar perspective into our world as God does, being in heaven. But I still think there is a distinction there, effectively calling out to a stranger to ask for prayer...
This jumped back into my memory a few moments ago. I've been reading the works of Saint Teresa of Avila lately. And just time and time again, what I'm reading seems more a process of remembering than learning. And time and time again, I feel like I know the author of these works very intimately. I don't think I've actually ever prayed to Saint Teresa. Saints Gertrude of Nivelles, Joseph, Barbara, Gerard, and my guardian angel are those I commonly make appeals to, not to mention the Blessed Virgin Mary herself. But I feel that I know Teresa as if she were a sibling. She only died five hundred years ago. That's a relatively short time in the life of the Church.
These are just selections from the entire article. It is a summary and restatement of the tradition.
>Well, I think that much is fine, but that is different to venerating and praying to them.
Christ through His servant the Blessed Virgin Mary, through the means of the Holy Rosary devotion, has saved my life. I have not laid my hands upon a tool that was as effective against sin as the rosary.
Before this, my life would have been over if not for an intercession granted through Saint Jude.
I have been myself led straight into the hands of Christ by the direction of His saints. I have not seen any evil in the practice. Far from it. I was led into despair and they answered me and helped me cultivate a faith and practice that wasn't there in me before.
This is all anecdote. But it wouldn't be right if I could just explain my faith to you and have you immediately understand everything I say.
>You didn't answer the question. Only because you asked nicely.
>The faith of the Church is that the saints are not really dead, but are fully alive in Jesus Christ, who is life itself (John 11:25; 14:6) and the bread of life who bestows life on all who eat his flesh and drink his blood (John 6:35, 48, 51, 53-56). The saints are alive in heaven because of the life they have received through their faith in Christ Jesus and through their eating of his body and blood.
>The book of Revelation shows the saints worshipping God, singing hymns, playing instruments, making requests to Christ to avenge their martyrdom, and offering prayers for the saints on earth (Rev. 4:10, 5:8, 6:9-11).
>In a dream, God commanded King Abimelech to ask Abraham to intercede for him: “For [Abraham] is a prophet and he will pray for you, so you shall live” (Gen. 20:7). When the Lord is angry with Job’s friends because they did not speak rightly about God, he tells them, “Let my servant Job pray for you because I will accept his [prayer], lest I make a terror on you” (Job 42:8).
>Paul wrote to the Romans: “I exhort you, brothers, through our Lord Jesus Christ and through the love of the Spirit, to strive with me in prayers to God on my behalf, that I may be delivered from the disobedient in Judaea and that my ministry may be acceptable to the saints in Jerusalem, so that in the joy coming to you through the will of God I may rest with you” (Rom. 15:30-32).
>James says: “Therefore confess your sins to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous man has great power in its effects” (James 5:16-17). Thus, according to Scripture, God wants us to pray for one another. This must mean that prayer for one another cannot detract from the role of Jesus Christ as our one mediator with God.
>Second, the reason that Christians have the power to pray for one another is that each person who is baptized is made a member of the Body of Christ by virtue of the Holy Spirit’s action in baptism (1 Cor. 12:11-13). It is because the Christian belongs to Jesus Christ and is a member of his Body, the Church, that we can make effective prayer.
>The reason we pray to the saints is that they are still members of the Body of Christ. Remember, the life which Christ gives is eternal life; therefore, every Christian who has died in Christ is forever a member of the Body of Christ. This is the doctrine which we call the Communion of the Saints. Everyone in Christ, whether living or dead, belongs to the Body of Christ.
>From this it follows that a saint in heaven may intercede for other people because he still is a member of the Body of Christ. Because of this membership in Christ, under his headship, the intercession of the saints cannot be a rival to Christ’s mediation; it is one with the mediation of Christ, to whom and in whom the saints form one body.
Let me ask you something. And you don't have to answer because I already know the answer. Should God send the Archangel Michael, defender of His Church, to you with the message, "It is unseemly to loathe the seat of Peter," would it change your attitude?
I have seen enough of this attitude already. You're not a Christian. You are not a Christian. You're an anti-Catholic. You misuse vernacular translations of Holy Scripture, which are the fruits of the Church that Christ Himself founded, as the prosecutor's testimony against His own faithful.
So seamlessly you blend usurpation with persecution. He that did so before you is waging war against the Church still.