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tolerate. The Church, having been cleansed by the blood
of the Redeemer through the mysteriously sanctified
waters of Baptism, has become the Bride of the Lamb
and his body; the Church, being herself the body of the
Lamb, feeds upon his body in the mysteriously hallowed
bread and wine, and transubstantiated into the real flesh
and blood of the Bridegroom. The Bride -Church- has
particular devotions to the “sacred hearts” of Jesus (pbuh)
, of Mary, and of St. Joseph (pbuh) ; to the fourteen stages
or mansions of the Crucifixion; to the statues and images
of hundreds and hundreds of saints and martyrs; to
thousands of authentic or fictitious bones and relics of the
same; and adoration to the consecrated wafer exactly as to
God the Almighty! Still there is no peace; all sins, grave
or otherwise, must be confessed to the priest; and it is
the absolution that the sinner obtains from that “spiritual
father” that produces peace and tranquillity in his heart,
and fills it with good will !!!

If we turn to the evangelical group of diverse creeds
and tenets, we shall find them endeavouring to procure
an internal peace by praying directly to the three persons
of the deity individually -now to Jesus (pbuh) , now to the
Spirit, then to the Father- with closed eyes, but with
oratorical gestures and movements; by reading the
Bible, and by other practices private or in public; and
then they believe that they are filled with the Holy Spirit
and are at peace! But I assure the reader that all these
“penitent” Christians, who through their real or artificial
devotions pretend to have obtained “peace,” and to
have possessed “good will” towards their neighbours,
instead of becoming docile, meek, and peaceful like
their pretended Master, become extremely bigoted
and intolerant. Whether an orthodox or a heterodox,
when a Christian comes out from the church where
he has “shared” the “Lord’s Communion” which they