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Speak Scripture on the sin of homosexuality: loose you job!

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Cover of Bill O'Reilly Lest I be accused of being 'judgmental' or 'intolerant' by the words I used in the last part of my title of this article, I will begin with proper attribution. "Ignorance of Scripture is ignorance of  Christ " was a phrase written by a fifth century monk and bible scholar, a man acknowledged as a Saint in the  Catholic Church ,  St. Jerome .  In fact, the phrase has become one of the favorite quotes used by the Catholic Church in her continual efforts to encourage the Catholic faithful to not only listen to the Bible at  Sunday Mass  - but to read, pray with it and come to know the  written Word of God , in order to be changed in the encounter with the Living Word to whom it points,  Jesus Christ  . For example, in Article III of the Catholic Catechism, entitled "Sacred Scripture" the famous saying of St Jerome is quoted: The Church forcefully and specifically exhorts all the Christian faithful to learn the surpass...

Ignorance of scripture has confused some Christians over the Duck Dynasty Dumping

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speaking at the Values Voter Summit in Washington D.C. on October 7, 2011. (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) Lest I be accused of being 'judgmental' or 'intolerant' by the words I used in the last part of my title of this article, I will begin with proper attribution. "Ignorance of Scripture is ignorance of Christ " was a phrase written by a fifth century monk and bible scholar, a man acknowledged as a Saint in the Catholic Church , St. Jerome . In fact, the phrase has become one of the favorite quotes used by the Catholic Church in her continual efforts to encourage the Catholic faithful to not only listen to the Bible at Sunday Mass - but to read, pray with it and come to know the written Word of God , in order to be changed in the encounter with the Living Word to whom it points, Jesus Christ . For example, in Article III of the Catholic Catechism, entitled "Sacred Scripture" the famous saying of St Jerome is quoted: The Church forcefully and spe...