From: dicksilk@gmail.com   
      
   On Friday, August 21, 2020 at 10:20:35 AM UTC-5, sandy  wrote:   
      
   > Hello Dick,    
   > Isn't the Lutheran Church an off shoot of the Catholic Church which you are   
   [criticizing] and don't you belong to the Lutheran Church??    
   > Sandy$   
      
   *That* is an *excellent* point! (from a particular perspective....)   
      
   Great Britain, circa 1775, may be viewed as "pregnant" with  America,  back   
   then was just a collection of colonies, much like a *fetus* is a colony of   
   (living, not yet "breathing") cells.  The Revolutionary War was equivalent to   
   the "birth cries" of a    
   new nation (the USA) which eventually learned to feed and fend for itself in   
   the World (*and* defend!)  In that same sense, Christianity is the child of   
   Judaism, and Lutheran (well, ALL protestant) denominations are the offspring   
   of the Catholic Church,    
   so in keeping with the (4th or 5th) Commandment, thou shalt honor [thy   
   ancestry.]   
      
   So *thank you* for helping clarify that for me, just a bit!   
      
   As to "criticizing," however, pointing out one's mother's features is not   
   "criticizing" (in my opinion) but "honoring" *would* seem to work better in   
   general. √   
      
   Now:  where did *this* come from?  Have you been reading my earlier stuff?    
   (Now I need to go back and re-edit an entire chapter!... maybe.)  (Please   
   note:  "you are" is *always* duality.)   
      
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