[stylist] believing the unbelievable

Sun Aug 2 18:35:22 UTC 2015

How wise you are, smile.

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From: stylist [mailto:stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of William L
Houts via stylist
Sent: Sunday, August 02, 2015 12:37 PM
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Subject: Re: [stylist] believing the unbelievable

HI Debby,

Although I'm mostly an ex-Catholic, I keep mysaints around for backup.  
Especially, I sometimes pray to Saint Thomas More, the lawyer saint, to get
me out of scrapes and to intervene on my behalf when I'm too embarrassed to
go to Mother Mary for stuff.  I'm fairly well convinced that the saints have
always been provided as a kind of backup network when the pagan gods were
kicked to the curb.  Even when I was practicing, though, I still looked upon
springtime as the season of the Goddess, and now, having quit the Church, I
still go into my old church, Saint James Cathedral in Seattle, and visit
with the saints and take in a breath or two of incense. But nowadays I think
of God as the sapient ocean through whom we swim, so I'm a kind of religious
juggling act, practicing five or six relgiosities dpending upon my mood,
what time I got out of bed that morning, and other such variables. Mostly,
though, I just maintain an attitude of gratitude for my friends and family,
for the fact that that, on these hot summer days I can easily grab a bottle
of icy cold water from our ice box when there are many others in our world
who have to hike 20 miles in 115 degree heat to fill a 20 pound bucket of
lukewarm water for their family, and for the fact that I can rise late on
Sunday morning to write this pleasant email to my distant friend Debby and
all of our smart gifted friends.  As I recently said in a recent FB post, we
are emperors.

--Bill

On 8/2/2015 9:43 AM, Debby Phillips via stylist wrote:
> Well, okay, I am probably going to be the naysayer here.  I don't 
> disbblieve that things can happen.  I'm sure there are spirits.  But 
> there is only one Holy Spirit.  The Holy Spirit is quite of the 
> Trinity.  Part of God.  There are other spirits, there is Satan, 
> (father of lies).  There are powerful forces, spirits, (angels).  As a 
> charismatic Catholic, I have seen and experienced some interesting 
> things.  But I do not believe that all these spirits are good.  There 
> is a definite Evil that lurks in the world.  I have experienced that 
> evil.  I have also experienced God's angels overpowering that evil.
> As a Catholic, I also believe in the Communion of saints-that is, 
> asking for prayer from the saints.  I also know that you can find 
> writings, books, etc.  that will tell you that the Catholic Church is 
> evil because of this or that.  I wouldn't have said anything, but I 
> feel that Christianity has been maligned.  We didn't make up stuff, 
> twist things around to suit ourselves, or anything of the sort.  You 
> have the right to believe that, but to state it as truth is 
> questionable.  Lucifer "the angel of light" really is the angel of 
> darkness-he only wants people to think that they are walking in the
> light.     Debby
>
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