“Stupidity is also a gift of God, but one mustn't misuse it.”

the words are in opposition to biblical and Christian thought.

Take it up with Bl John Paul-II if you ever meet him.



Incidentally, some have wonderful gifts from above and some of us are not as blessed. As Bl John Paul has said, don't misuse your own special “gift.”

I see the quotation below being repeatedly used on this site;
the words are in opposition to biblical and Christian thought.
Does anyone know where these words were sourced from?

“Stupidity is also a gift of God, but one mustn't misuse it.”

Pope John Paul II (attributed)

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“Every best gift, and every perfect gift, is from above,
coming down from the Father of lights, with whom
there is no change, nor shadow of alteration.”

Epistle of Saint James

It seems that the obvious CAN HIDE IN PLAIN SITE.

Of course! It's all so clear now. It was not the bishops who avoided shaking the pope's hand and who also had the temerity to avoid eye contact with the pontiff, it was the 6 ("simple country" -- read: rubes) bishops who did shake the pope's hand who were guilty of not knowing what they were doing.

Welcome to the domain of those suffering from a classic case of the “Authority Complex.” Similar to the fictional Alice in Wonderland, we find a world where:

"Nothing would be what it is,
Because everything would be what it isn't.
And contrary-wise
-what it is, it wouldn't be.
And what it wouldn't be,
it would.
You see?"

"You and yours would be better served to simply comment on the video or news story and avoid the patronizing remarks."

Hola, Amigo!

Some people never learn.

This is not a difficult concept. You and yours would be better served to simply comment on the video or news story and avoid the patronizing remarks.

hard anger
their utter ignorance
point out their prevailing vices
careless indifference
Depraved and perverse
they cannot be Children of earnest prayer
crass behavior
barbarous behavior
they remain as slaves to crass ignorance.

Some people never learn.

This is not a difficult concept. You and yours would be better served to simply comment on the video or news story and avoid the patronizing remarks.


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Logical Fallacy: Personal Attack

Also Known as: Ad Hominem Abusive.

A personal attack is committed when a person substitutes demeaning or insulting remarks for actual evidence when attacking another person's claim or claims.

This line of "reasoning" is fallacious because the attack is directed at the person making the claim and not the claim itself.

The truth value of a claim is independent of the person making the claim.

Legal action?



Therefore, in order to avoid legal action (as a result of their psychosis impinging upon the civility and good of all), they must first be admonished.

psychosis?

That wouldn't be a personal attack, would it?

To whom are you referring? "Admonish" away and let's see what happens.

Actually, you and yours would be better served to simply comment on the video or news story and avoid the patronizing remarks.

@greg & Ira- The mentally ill also have a place in the Church. However, when their psychosis impinges upon the good order and civility of human rights and human social norms, they must be censured and/or, in the language of the Regula Benedicte, have the "cauterizing action of the iron" brought to bear upon their social interface; they must be severely reprimanded. BUT! If this does not work, the "knife" must be brought to bear upon their social interface. This is not only for their good and their development, but also for the good of society - hence the Hospitals for the Mentally Challenged and the other Hospital Psychiatric Wards.

Here on Gloria.TV, when one encounters such individuals, one ought always to practice restraint and Christian Charity. However, is there a limit after which one, in good conscience, cannot continue? YES, this is the point whereupon the law is called into action.

Therefore, in order to avoid legal action (as a result of their psychosis impinging upon the civility and good of all), they must first be admonished, then severley reprimanded. If this does NOT work, then, as St Benedict prescribes, "the knife" MUST be applied - they are to be cut off from the community (for the aforestated reasons). Whether we see this happen on Gloria.TV or not is entirely up to the moderators, but let us hope and pray that only admonishment is needed.

Carissimos fratres pax vobiscvm semper sit.

From the German side of Gloria.tv, -- 14,300+ hits and counting.
Berlin: Pope gives communion on the hand

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Comments made on a legitimate news story that has been posted on numerous Catholic websites are not abuse. One is free to either agree or disagree with comments made and this is called “differences of opinions.” If you object to a particular comment then write a substantive rebuttal. It's as simple as that. Attacking the story itself because you personally don't like what it shows demonstrates nothing other than your own immaturity.

If you are incapable of writing a substantive comment or rebuttal (without plagiarizing it) then by you attacking the person making a comment, attacking the news story itself or attacking Gloria.tv for allowing it to be posted, demonstrates your own lack of competence and your infantile mentality. Such posters (you know who you are) are simply little cry-babies lacking the intellectual firepower to respond or to object substantively. Therefore, you respond the only way you are able...by whining and complaining like petulant little children in need of a spanking.

Look, for those of you who have a problem with Gloria.tv, with the videos that are uploaded, or with legitimate comments made about those videos, I have a common sense recommendation.

Leave!

Go, Go, Go!



Nobody is holding a gun to your head forcing you to stay at Gloria. If some of you are dissatisfied and if you prefer Fr. Z's blog, Go. If you despise Holy Cannoli and everything he writes, Go. I promise you that Holy Cannoli is going nowhere so if you want to be rid of him forever, Adiós.

“As many as 300 bishops in Austria ...”, Maggie McC

Sounds like serious over manning for such a small country.

15 active bishops would be a more accurate figure for Austria.

Hola, Amigo!

www.youtube.com/watch

vindictive drunks with a lot of time on their hands liquored up and ready to bash

Molly wastes no time writing him off even as she advertises her ignorance.



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Logical Fallacy: Personal Attack

Also Known as: Ad Hominem Abusive.

A personal attack is committed when a person substitutes demeaning or insulting remarks for actual evidence when attacking another person's claim or claims.

This line of "reasoning" is fallacious because the attack is directed at the person making the claim and not the claim itself.

The truth value of a claim is independent of the person making the claim.
www.nizkor.org/…/personal-attack…



“Stupidity is also a gift of God, but one mustn't misuse it”
Pope John Paul II quote

Hola, Amigo!

if only some would realize...

That may be a problem for the very sad cases of the incurably stupid. They don't know it and even if by some miraculous intervention they did, they wouldn't care to do anything about it anyway.

"Stupidity is a gift from God"

Now if only some would realize that they were given that gift of stupidity, all would get along quite nicely.

www.latinmasstimes.com

And Gloria tv can post whatever they wish. This is Not your site, so quite judging their choices of what they put onto Their site! Oh the arrogance of some.



“Stupidity is also a gift of God, but one mustn't misuse it”
Pope John Paul II quote