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To: SoFloFreeper
Don't take this as criticism of the Pope or the Catholic Church, but the Pope's statement is basically just a repeat of what the Holy Spirit tells us in the bible.

For one example, the 1st chapter of Romans clearly identifies rampant homosexual activity by the antediluvians as the primary reason why God destroyed all mankind except righteous Noah's family with a worldwide flood. The Old Testament account of fire and brimstone falling on Sodom and Gomorrah also shows that God hates homosexual acts, not homosexuals themselves, and will eventually punish or even destroy the people of cities and even entire nations that allow and even promote those forbidden practices. God doesn't hate homosexuals, Jesus died to atone for all of man's sins. But He hates and forbids homosexual acts and will punish nations that legalize those acts. The US won't be an exception.

America's recent history indicates, to me at least, that God's judgment is already beginning to fall on the US because we as a nation have turned our collective back on God and His Holy Word. Review the major news events that have adversely affected the US within just the last decade or two if you doubt it. I believe that His punishment on our once-Christian** nation and it's people will become much more severe as time goes on unless we as a nation begin identifying and enforcing God's moral laws again, as most of our local and state governments did up until I was a young adult (mid-1950s).

**Not Christian in the sense of an officially Christian nation as Iran is as an officially Islamic nation, but in the sense of being predominantly Christian-oriented in law and practice.

27 posted on 07/05/2013 7:57:30 AM PDT by epow (Access to 70 virgins is conditional, muslims must also spend eternity in hell with allah, aka Satan)
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To: epow
Don't take this as criticism of the Pope or the Catholic Church, but the Pope's statement is basically just a repeat of what the Holy Spirit tells us in the bible.

That's basically what preachers are supposed to do.

28 posted on 07/05/2013 7:59:53 AM PDT by Sirius Lee (All that is required for evil to advance is for government to do "something")
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To: epow
Don't take this as criticism of the Pope or the Catholic Church, but the Pope's statement is basically just a repeat of what the Holy Spirit tells us in the bible.

Don't take this is as a personal criticism... it just hit me as funny (in an ironic sort of way). Protestants complain that Catholics "make stuff up". Now we're getting criticized for not making stuff up. Just funny.

29 posted on 07/05/2013 8:10:00 AM PDT by pgyanke (Republicans get in trouble when not living up to their principles. Democrats... when they do.)
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