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Originally Posted by Matt
It's impossible to have 100% of people in any group 'lording it over' others. So, you need some subjects to be subjected to those who will act as 'lord'.
The responsibility appears to point to everyone. Those who acted as 'lord' and those who were willing to submit to this improper authority and receive the food sacrificed to these idols. (Think HWMR. It is the "processed" spiritual food handed out as a replacement to the Word of God which is the manna that God intended for us).
Matt
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Matt,
I'm not sure what you're saying here. It sounds like you're saying if you read things like HWMR, you're guilty of idolatry. I'm not buying that one bit.
I have read many Catholic works (well, some) and received some real benefit. Most everyone I know has read and even quote St. Francis of Assisi's prayer: "Lord, give me the strength to change what I can, give me the strength to resist what I cannot change and give me the wisdom to understand the difference between the two." Good stuff, right? Well, this is the same guy who, "claimed to have had a mystical experience in the Church of San Damiano just outside of Assisi, in which the Icon of Christ Crucified came alive and said to him three times, "Francis, Francis, go and repair My house which, as you can see, is falling into ruins"." [Wikipedia]
Does that make all of us who have read and even appreciated him idolators?
SC