Father Dan Reehil
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And they think that that protects them.
Like, I'm good.
I'm not getting involved with this.
But Jesus told us, if you're not with me, you're against me.
Definitely, it's one of the reasons.
I mean, I think if you look at the global religions, of course, and I'm not saying Muslims hate Jesus, but what they do is they deny who he is.
They say he's a great prophet.
Well, he said he was the son of God, so he's either a liar or he's God.
He can't be a great prophet, because a great prophet doesn't lie.
But they haven't really thought it through.
The Jews are still waiting for the return of the Messiah, so they're also in a different kind of camp, like, well, that's not our guy.
But what if you miss the boat?
I mean, the temple's gone.
It's over.
What are you waiting for?
If you really thought about it, you'd have to say, maybe we did miss this.
So we believe, as Catholics, that before the created matter of the universe, the stuff that we can touch, he created all the angels in one single moment.
And Aquinas writes a lot about this.
But he had to give them a way to test their allegiance, and so this plan of God with man was kind of in some way leaked or shown, and that's when they said, we will not serve this cause.
A third of them, we think.