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Bridget's avatar

Eternal rest grant unto them, O Lord.

Wikipedia says Ehrlich is still alive and has not changed his mind when he predicted something that never happened, which I find very interesting. Science requires humility, because it requires a greater desire to know the truth than to have been right; it requires a scientist's willingness to admit to having been wrong, "rising on stepping-stones of his dead self to higher things" as Bertie Wooster has more than once flippantly quoted. I will pray for him too (Ehrlich, not Wooster. But perhaps I ought to pray also for the repose of the soul of Wodehouse.)

What they were not wrong about (the scientists, not Wodehouse) was that there are people who are very poor, and people who are comparatively very rich, and that there will in time be some kind of reckoning. We are created with hearts that feel compassion for others and desire justice for others, but these movements in our hearts are opposed by self-love and the strong desire not to be any less comfortable ourselves.

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And yet St Paul VIs predictions were well and truly prophetic! Contraception is, with abortion, the key weapon that The Evil One has successfully unitised in the fifty plus blitz against the family! Those who protested against it were Satan,s stool pigeons! Yes pray for them like Bridget, below calls us to do, but many of them, their pride in defence of this evil may be their eternal undoing!

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