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Protestants: It's time to come back
http://littlecatholicbubble.blogspot.com ^ | September 9, 2011 | Leila Miller

Posted on 07/14/2014 9:20:18 AM PDT by NKP_Vet

To my Protestant brothers and sisters:

It's time to come back to Mother Church. We want you, we need you, we love you.

I've spent a lot of time in dialogue with activist atheists recently, and the direction we are going is not pretty. We are witnessing a rapid cultural decline into amorality.

Satan seeks the ruin of souls through the destruction of marriage and family, and the quickest route to his goal is the profanation of sex. The truth and meaning of human sexuality is our era's cultural fault line, and unfortunately, Protestant denominations have been tumbling into its widening crevace at an alarming pace.

The first cracks denying the sacred nature of human sexuality began mere decades ago with the first tentative acceptance of contraception by a Christian church (the Anglicans). After 1,900+ years of unbroken Christian teaching on the immorality of contraception (including 400+ years of unbroken Protestant teaching), a moral evil was suddenly declared good. The entirety of Protestantism, although horrified at first, soon followed suit.

"Woe to those who call evil good" -- Isaiah 5:20

Then came other issues -- sterilization, masturbation, abortion, fornication and cohabiting, homosexual activity and homosexual "marriage". One by one, Protestant communities have broken from Christian teaching and sided with the secular culture. Many Protestant communities do not accept all the aforementioned evils as good, of course, and some are making a valiant attempt to fight one or more of them. However, there is no guarantee that those denominations won't eventually accept other sexual sins in the same way they accepted contraception, sterilization and masturbation. A majority vote by church leaders could launch an unsuspecting Protestant from the Spirit of the Gospel right into the spirit of the age -- the Planned Parenthood age.

Look where you are standing. Unless you stand with the Catholic Church, you may already have one foot off the cliff.

How to guarantee that you'll stand firmly on the ground of moral Truth? Come back home to the Catholic Church.

For over two thousand years:

The Catholic Church has never taught that contraception is a moral good, and she never will. The Catholic Church has never taught that sterilization is a moral good, and she never will. The Catholic Church has never taught that masturbation is a moral good, and she never will. The Catholic Church has never taught that abortion is a moral good, and she never will. The Catholic Church has never taught that fornication is a moral good, and she never will. The Catholic Church has never taught that homosexual activity is a moral good, and she never will.

The moral teachings of the Church have never changed, and they never will.

Human sexuality is transcendent, life-giving and sacred, and the Catholic Church will teach that Truth till the last day.

Dear Protestant, a church with a changing morality is a church built on shifting sand. If you want to build your life and eternity on something solid, build it on the Rock of Peter. Don't be carried about by every wind of social change; come back to the Catholic Church and stand strong with us -- one united Body as Jesus intended.

America may not survive many more generations at the rate we are going, but the Church and her teachings will stand regardless, speaking the same Truths, undisturbed, till the end of time. Believe me, it's a really nice place to be in a storm. Extremely peaceful.

So, come on. You'll like it here, living in peace and joy and certainty. It's your rightful home anyway.

Come back to Holy Mother Church. It really is time.


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To: metmom

I’ve seen that picture before. It’s very sad.


621 posted on 07/15/2014 3:49:15 PM PDT by CatherineofAragon ((Support Christian white males---the architects of the jewel known as Western Civilization).)
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To: metmom

you wrote:

“Yes, muslims CLAIM to worship the God of Abraham. The CCC however, states that Catholics and muslims DO worship the same God of Abraham.”

Just as I said: “Okay, and yet they profess to follow the God of Abraham. We’re stuck with that.”


622 posted on 07/15/2014 3:50:10 PM PDT by vladimir998
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To: verga
"And then send him that bag of M&M's"

Sorry, changed my mind. They're dark chocolate, and I'm keeping them.

623 posted on 07/15/2014 3:50:23 PM PDT by CatherineofAragon ((Support Christian white males---the architects of the jewel known as Western Civilization).)
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To: verga

verga, you wrote:

“We are not allowed to bring previous threads over here, but you might want to ask two of your most virulent female anti-Catholics both of which claim to be ex-Catholics about their feelings about the actions of Queen Elizabeth I in dealing with the supporters of Mary Queen of Scots. And then send him that bag of M&M’s”

You’re right. I’ve seen that sort of thing myself - several times. By rights the M&Ms would be mine! Maybe I’ll just treat me and mine to ice cream with M&Ms on top.


624 posted on 07/15/2014 3:52:07 PM PDT by vladimir998
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To: vladimir998
>> The Catholic Church committed no atrocities.<<

Bwhahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha! Now that there is funny, I don’t care who ya are.

625 posted on 07/15/2014 3:52:18 PM PDT by CynicalBear (For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ)
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To: CynicalBear; verga

CB, that’s not what verga is saying. Read.


626 posted on 07/15/2014 3:53:13 PM PDT by vladimir998
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To: CynicalBear

Bless your heart.


627 posted on 07/15/2014 3:53:31 PM PDT by vladimir998
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To: vladimir998
>>CB, that’s not what verga is saying. Read.<<

Anytime someone points a finger saying but look at what they did it’s what they are saying.

628 posted on 07/15/2014 3:56:09 PM PDT by CynicalBear (For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ)
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To: CynicalBear

Well if you insist on pointing fingers at us it is only reasonable to remind you that three Are pointing back at you.


629 posted on 07/15/2014 3:56:28 PM PDT by verga (Conservative, leaning libertarian)
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To: vladimir998
Show me.

He says with an arrogant grin, standing in the blood of his own words on this thread, defying anyone to remember or read them, willing their minds to shut down before the brazenness of his lies.

How thin the veneer, eh nemesis?

630 posted on 07/15/2014 3:57:53 PM PDT by Talisker (One who commands, must obey.)
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To: CatherineofAragon
Sorry, changed my mind. They're dark chocolate, and I'm keeping them.

Hypocrites and prots (oops repeating myself there) do that a lot.

631 posted on 07/15/2014 3:58:33 PM PDT by verga (Conservative, leaning libertarian)
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To: editor-surveyor
Let's back up a verse to see if you are indeed righteous as you seem to claim.

Can you claim that you commit no sin as noted in verse six?

6No one who abides in Him sins; no one who sins has seen Him or knows Him.

632 posted on 07/15/2014 4:00:31 PM PDT by ealgeone (obama, borderof)
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To: verga
"Sorry, changed my mind. They're dark chocolate, and I'm keeping them."

"Hypocrites and prots (oops repeating myself there) do that a lot."

LOL

Sweetheart, you are in dire need of a sense of humor.

Lighten up.

633 posted on 07/15/2014 4:03:55 PM PDT by CatherineofAragon ((Support Christian white males---the architects of the jewel known as Western Civilization).)
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To: NKP_Vet
What is wrong with Daniel1212 when he can’t add up these numbers. Did you fail 1st grade arithmetic?

Insolence, which simply repeats the fallacy of invoking "Protestants" to impugn what I or other evangelicals believe, in concurrence with historical Prots, as well as ignoring inconsistency of Rome herself.

So once again, 6 out of 7 justices that voted for abortion on demand were protestants

Which proves they were more like the majority of the fruit of Rome, and contrary to those who hold most strongly to Prot. distinctives which defined it. Thus once again your arguments are vain,.

634 posted on 07/15/2014 4:05:25 PM PDT by daniel1212 (Come to the Lord Jesus as a contrite damned+destitute sinner, trust Him to save you, then live 4 Him)
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To: CatherineofAragon
Lighten up.

That's problemmatic - it would require Light.

635 posted on 07/15/2014 4:06:18 PM PDT by Talisker (One who commands, must obey.)
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To: CynicalBear; verga; CatherineofAragon

“Anytime someone points a finger saying but look at what they did it’s what they are saying.”

That’s not what verga was doing about the issue at hand. You seem to be attacking him for doing something he did not do.

You accused verga of this: “Ah yes!!!!! The old Catholic defense. “they did it tooo”.”

What verga said was this: “We are not allowed to bring previous threads over here, but you might want to ask two of your most virulent female anti-Catholics both of which claim to be ex-Catholics about their feelings about the actions of Queen Elizabeth I in dealing with the supporters of Mary Queen of Scots. And then send him that bag of M&M’s”

In other words, verga was pointing out that there ARE cases on FR of Protestant anti-Catholics celebrating the executions of Catholics in history. This was in response to CatherineofAragon’s claim to the contrary. It had nothing to do with any historical claim that Protestants executed Catholics; it had to do with Protestant anti-Catholics here at FreeRepublic CELEBRATING THE FACT THAT THOSE EXECUTIONS HAPPENED. Those are two DIFFERENT things.


636 posted on 07/15/2014 4:06:52 PM PDT by vladimir998
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To: vladimir998

Once again you simply distort reality and try to twist. I’m pretty much done with you.


637 posted on 07/15/2014 4:10:23 PM PDT by CynicalBear (For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ)
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To: vladimir998

You make a lot of mistakes, but I must say that you would make an excellent anti-Christ. You know what it is about, don’t you?


638 posted on 07/15/2014 4:17:14 PM PDT by Karl Spooner
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To: vladimir998
...it had to do with Protestant anti-Catholics here at FreeRepublic CELEBRATING THE FACT THAT THOSE EXECUTIONS HAPPENED.

You mean like when YOU said, on this thread, as your current convictions as representing both the teachings of the Catholic Church and your own heartfelt beliefs and feelings, "And yes, Catharism has been settled. Permanently. Praise be to God! ...you better believe I celebrate its demise."

What an amazing hypocrite you are. You're setting some kind of record on this thread, you know that, right? Because by "settled," "permanently" and "demise" there is no way you are talking about the Cathars accepting Catholicism or changing their beliefs. No, you are praising God for their murders - all million-plus of them. THAT is the "final solution" you are representing as the proper teaching and acts of the Catholic Church, of which you heartily approve.

What I want to know is since when did openly bragging supporters of mass murder get to jabber freely and repeatedly slander the teachings of Catholicism on Free Republic?

639 posted on 07/15/2014 4:17:57 PM PDT by Talisker (One who commands, must obey.)
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To: daniel1212

Quit tap dancing around the fact that a very protestant US Supreme Court gave this country abortion on demand.


640 posted on 07/15/2014 4:19:25 PM PDT by NKP_Vet
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