Posted on 01/01/2015 12:42:41 AM PST by SweetAkitoRose
For the most intolerant and extreme religion in the world, this is a rather embarrassing statistic.
It appears that the Catholic Church, widely recognized as the most uncompromising and dogmatic among the world’s major religions, is about to close out the year without executing a single person.
As everyone knows, the Catholic Church is a religion of strict doctrine, ruling every aspect of each individual Catholic’s life from the Vatican with an iron fist, while at the same time relentlessly imposing its beliefs on the rest of society.
Yet for some reason the Catholic Church has had an abysmal year at the chopping block, failing to kill a single one of its billion-plus members for failing to live in strict adherence to her teachings. On top of that, the Vatican has put to death exactly zero people from other religions for refusing to convert to Catholicism.
Even some followers of Islam, universally known as a religion of peace and tolerance, have found time on the weekends to behead a few non-believers. And yet the Catholic Church, far from resembling anything having to do with peace or tolerance, has taken incompetence to a whole new level when it comes to imposing its beliefs.
Sure, 2015 is a new year and all, but let’s face it. When it comes to intolerance, we’re pathetic.
Just Damn.
Let the enquisition begin!
Happy New Year!
Hey, it just occurred to me....O’Malice is out and we’re getting a Republican gov!
How crazy is that?
A good omen, I hope.
Good one.
“When it comes to intolerance, we’re pathetic.”
When I was but a wee lad, the Church sure knew how to put the fear of “burning in hell for eternity” in you, early and often
The left loves the ROP because it loves intolerant, totalitarian anti-Christian systems of government.
LOL! Love it.
That is really horrible news! (sarcasm)
Well, it’s a long year.
Well, it’s a long year.
I have said many times over the last year, if the Pope would threaten to burn just one person at the stake for heresy, the credibility of the Church would increase a thousand-fold. He just needs to issue a statement to one abortion-supporting politician, for example, that he or she is excommunicated and will enter a Catholic Church again under pain of being burnt, there would be no need to carry it out.
But, no, the Church would seemingly rather have no credibility.
I have said many times over the last year, if the Pope would threaten to burn just one person at the stake for heresy, the credibility of the Church would increase a thousand-fold.
Skip over the emotional reaction to the prior statement and now put on your thinking cap. The issue is NOT P vs RC.
They came to the conclusion that there were 3 things essential to be called a Christian Church.
1) The Gospel is preached
2) The sacraments are administered
3) Discipline
Why do we call some “churches” non Christian? Because one of the three is missing. The easy ones are those that don’t preach the Gospel.
So the thinker is, if there is no discipline, is it a Christian Church, or is it something else?
Did you pray in front of an abortion clinic to stop abortions today?
As opposed to those bloodthirsty evangelicals.
You’re a little late with that.
Kant speil either...
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