About this user
Liberal, Humanist, Folk-Devotional Catholic. I believe the 'simple faith' that my forefathers adhered to; a downhome, but good-spirited, humane and compassionate philosophy grounded in the rich and colourful tradition of the Catholic proletariat. I believe Jesus Christ is the Son of God, the friend of man and the consoler of the downtrodden - both in spirit as in body - and the Light of reason, hope, compassion and harmony.
Inspirations: Jesus of Nazareth, St. Dismas, Pelagius, Caelestius, Origen, Anselm of Canterbury, St. Franciscus of Assisi, Dante, Jan van Eyck, Hans Memling, Hieronymus Bosch, Dieric Bouts, St. Teresa of Avila, Erasmus, Albert Pighius, Georgius Cassander, Gulielmus Gnapheus, Martinus Micronius, Balthasar Hubmaier, Dirk Volckertszoon Coornhert, Caspar Coolhaes, David Joris, Michael Servetus, Sebastian Castellio, Jerome Bolsec, Jacobus Arminius, Johan van Oldebarnevelt, Socinus, Hugo Grotius, Joost van den Vondel, Johan Uytenbogaert, Poppius, St. Francis of Sales, William Blake, Hans Scholl, Sophie Scholl, Pope John XXIII ('The laughing Pope'), Medgar Evers, John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy, Martin L. King, Lyndon B. Johnson, Hubert H. Humphrey, Ralph Yarborough, Joop den Uyl, Willy Brandt, Desmond Tutu, Job Cohen, Maya Angelou.
"I can never join Calvin in addressing his god... [...] The being described in his five points is not the God whom you and I acknowledge and adore, the Creator and benevolent governor of the world; but a daemon of malignant spirit. It would be more pardonable to believe in no god at all, than to blaspheme him by the atrocious attributes [given him by] Calvin." - Thomas Jefferson
"Compassion is not weakness, and concern for the unfortunate is not socialism." - Hubert H. Humphrey
"If by a "Liberal" they mean someone who looks ahead and not behind, someone who welcomes new ideas without rigid reactions, someone who cares about the welfare of the people -- their health, their housing, their schools, their jobs, their civil rights, and their civil liberties -- someone who believes we can break through the stalemate and suspicions that grip us in our policies abroad, if that is what they mean by a "Liberal," then I'm proud to say I'm a "Liberal"." - John F. Kennedy
"I do not fear Satan half so much as I fear those who fear him." - St. Teresa of Avila
"Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do." - Pope John XXIII
"To kill a man is not to protect a doctrine, but it is to kill a man." - Sebastian Castellio
"Let's put the jam on the lower shelves so the little people can reach it." - Ralph W. Yarborough
"Never succumb to the temptation of bitterness." - Martin Luther King
"One fifth of all the people are against everything all the time." - Robert F. Kennedy
"To represent man as sent into the world under a curse, as incurably wicked—wicked by the constitution of his nature and wicked by eternal decree—as doomed, unless exempted by special grace which he cannot merit, or by any effort of his own obtain, to live in sin while he remains on earth, and to be eternally miserable when he leaves it—to represent him as born unable to keep the commandments, yet as justly liable to everlasting punishment for breaking them, is alike repugnant to reason and conscience, and turns existence into a hideous nightmare." J.A. Froude, on Calvinism
Acts 4:32-5:11
Age
32
Hometown
Noord-Brabant
Country
Netherlands
Interests
Theology, Afro-American culture/art/politics, World History, esp. Medieval Europe, History of Catholicism, the Reformation era in Europe, Napoleonic era, the World Wars, the Holocaust, East-European studies (esp. Poland and Yugoslavia) and American History (esp. slavery, War Between the States, Civil Rights Movement and Afro-American music).
TennesseeOwnsMyBones
commented:
The fact of the matter is, WCOF shows his ignorance in the matter by bluntly stating that Servetus deserved to die according to the 'laws of the time'... The 'laws of the time' in Geneva did not call for the death penalty for blasphemy/heresy. It called for banishment. And yet Servetus was put to...