Friday, September 07, 2001

How to Handle "Jesus" in the Laundry

Since the development of idolatry depends on building lie upon lie, it's no surprise the Roman Catholic Diocese of Cleveland, Ohio is airing it's "dirty laundry" in a memorandum titled, 'The Care and Cleaning of Altar Linens.'

Because the "Jesus" of Rome (who is not at all the Jesus of the BIBLE), reduced to a state of liquid wine at the whim of a Roman priest, can be spilled and absorbed into various linens used at the altar and side altar during the mass, the care of such cloths is detailed in this memo.

For example, it says such cloth, "takes on a certain character both by the blessing it receives and the sacred function it fulfills," and, "are deserving of special respect." Also, "the manner in which we treat sacred things fosters and expresses our openness to the graces God gives to his church." Only the god of Rome could be impressed with the way a wine-stained cloth is handled!

However, the memo does not answer many handling and cleaning questions Catholics might have with regard to the linens the eucharistic "Jesus" (body, blood, soul, and divinity has been absorbed into: Does he prefer liquid or powder detergent? Does he like softeners? How about those really tough stains? Machine or hang drying? And if machine drying, can we use "Bounce?" Yes, what about static cling? Can he be dry cleaned? Does ironing hurt him? This is the logical conclusion that the devilish doctrine of the eucharist leads to - the Roman god stuck in a piece of cloth going through the spin cycle!

Finally, the memo says when these linens, "show signs of wear and can no longer be used, (they) should be normally disposed of by burial or burning." This is madness - going out back with a shovel and burying a worn piece of cloth. Or can this only be done in "consecrated" ground? The real Jesus of the BIBLE does not demand such foolishness. Ezekiel 13:3 says, "WOE UNTO THE FOOLISH PROPHETS, THAT FOLLOW THEIR OWN SPIRIT, AND HAVE SEEN NOTHING," - a good definition of the Roman priesthood! This, "Care and Cleaning of Altar Linens," is not from the heart of God but from the heart of man. I wonder what they do with the pope's old underwear?

1 John 5:21 says, "LITTLE CHILDREN, KEEP YOURSELVES FROM IDOLS." May Catholics heed the BIBLE'S warning about idolatry, confess the sin of belonging to a church that has it's god absorbed into a cloth, and may they forsake Romanism and receive the real Christ by faith ALONE.