Why Rad Trads Don’t Get Invited to Parties

So I’m minding my own business the other day when this drops into my mailbox with me on the cc list. The author, one “David L.” who I do not know from Adam, is apparently arguing with some other rad trad, who has arraigned somebody named “Howard” for the grave sin of knowing somebody named “Mark Shea”. David writes to assure him that the Mark Shea he knows is not, God forbid, me. To prove it, he cc’s the other Mark Shea and then includes me on the cc list, so that Franco the Grand Inquisitor will be satisfied:

Franco you’re zeal is commendable, but I already had the talk with them, and
they assured me it’s not the same Mark Shea. The Mark Shea you wish to
denounce has the following email address: [email protected], which is not
the email address you have just denounced.

To the apostate Mark Shea who adheres to the Vatican II false religion: *SHAME
ON YOU FOR GIVING YOUR NAME A BAD NAME!!!*

—
David

On Sat, May 16, 2009 at 6:52 PM, XXX wrote:

>
> Howard,
>
> This guy Mark Shea you receive emails from is a total apostate, who teaches
> that the muslims worship the same god as the Catholics do. Below are links
> to blasphemous articles of his that teach the “allah” is the Catholic
> Trinity.
>
> http://catholicexchange.com/2007/05/16/90951/
> http://catholicexchange.com/2007/05/23/90953/
>
> This guy Mark Shea is total anti-christ.
>
> It’s very simple. The muslims reject Jesus Christ as God. You can’t take
> the Trinity piecemeal. I can’t just say, “Oh, I want to worship God the
> Father, but not God the Son.” No, that is blasphemy. God is One, not
> three. As Scripture and common sense teach, if you do not worship the
> Son, you do not worship the Father, either.
>
> John 5:23: “He who honoureth not the Son, honoureth not the Father, who
> hath sent him.”
> 1 John 2: “Whosoever denieth the Son, the same hath not the Father.”
>
> At this point, Howard, you are suspect of apostasy, unless you denounce
> this guy Mark Shea. Obviously, you keep secular communion with him. Do you
> denounce him as an apostate? We need to know your “faith”.
>
> -Franco

It’s really quite beyond parody. I can so Feel the Love of the true saints!