{"id":1135,"date":"2010-08-13T09:20:00","date_gmt":"2010-08-13T09:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/yimcatholic\/2010\/08\/because-winning-wars-takes-organization\/"},"modified":"2015-06-07T23:36:18","modified_gmt":"2015-06-08T04:36:18","slug":"because-winning-wars-takes-organization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/yimcatholic\/2010\/08\/because-winning-wars-takes-organization.html","title":{"rendered":"Because Winning Wars Takes Organization"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_-GKMR8mFGBs\/TGVCuaxZ6ZI\/AAAAAAAAA6o\/hWc-pB5h8w4\/s1600\/D_DayImage1.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"131\" src=\"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_-GKMR8mFGBs\/TGVCuaxZ6ZI\/AAAAAAAAA6o\/hWc-pB5h8w4\/s200\/D_DayImage1.jpg\" width=\"200\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>I could sit here and bore you in nauseating detail about why the Church is necessary, and why it is vital to the salvation of all mankind. I could fill\u00a0my\u00a0dissertation\u00a0with footnotes, and quotes from sources old and new. But really, that would be a colossal waste of your time and mine.<br><a name=\"more\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><br>A few high-placed people have questioned the legitimacy of organized religion of late. Are they right? Or are they wrong? Look at this picture\u00a0 and get a clue. Wars aren\u2019t won by individuals on their own. They are won by individuals united in a common purpose and with a unifying mission. To get to this point,\u00a0where these troops have crossed the \u201cline of departure,\u201d as you see here, thousands of hours and millions of lives have been at work together to bring the fight to a foe.<\/p>\n<p>Is organized religion necessary? Not when you are at peace. But when you remember that <a href=\"http:\/\/yimcatholic.blogspot.com\/2010\/01\/yimc-book-club-mere-christianity-week-2.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">we are at war<\/a>, and have been <a href=\"http:\/\/yimcatholic.blogspot.com\/2010\/02\/yimc-book-club-mere-christianity-week-3.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">since the beginning<\/a>, the question is moot. As someone I met recently would say, <a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=5qUBAAAAYAAJ&amp;lr&amp;pg=PA9#v=onepage&amp;q&amp;f=false\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">\u201cThink well on\u2019t.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Semper Fidelis<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/6738513599344023043-1110357174322131299?l=yimcatholic.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I could sit here and bore you in nauseating detail about why the Church is necessary, and why it is vital to the salvation of all mankind. I could fill\u00a0my\u00a0dissertation\u00a0with footnotes, and quotes from sources old and new. But really, that would be a colossal waste of your time and mine.A few high-placed people have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":140,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Because Winning Wars Takes Organization<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"I could sit here and bore you in nauseating detail about why the Church is necessary, and why it is vital to the salvation of all mankind. 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