A Catholic priest writes that, and then invokes Arianism as the evil being faced today?
Sometimes hypocrisy is so profound it leaves me breathless, and this is of those times. Because some of the most horrific "atrocities ever committed in the name of religion" was done BY the Catholic Church against the Arian Cathars. Forty years of systematic butchery of over a million people, the extermination of an entire race and religion, done just as brutally as anything the Muslims do. And this priest damn well knows it.
Well maybe, "father," one of the reasons we're having to deal with this liberal/Muslim atrocity now is because God is not pleased with this level of hypocrisy. That after all these years, Catholics STILL try to justify that savagery only proves how deeply they know they sinned - and how arrogantly they still refuse to admit it.
It's sickening. And it represents an unpenitant, condemning, hateful and hypocritical attitude that goes a long way in explaining the "mystery" of why so many liberals have turned away from Christianity.
The most blind are those who will not see.
But God is not mocked - there is no escape from Divine Justice by ANYONE.
Sometimes hypocrisy is so profound it leaves me breathless, and this is of those times. Because some of the most horrific "atrocities ever committed in the name of religion" was done BY the Catholic Church against the Arian Cathars. Forty years of systematic butchery of over a million people, the extermination of an entire race and religion, done just as brutally as anything the Muslims do. And this priest damn well knows it.
Well maybe, "father," one of the reasons we're having to deal with this liberal/Muslim atrocity now is because God is not pleased with this level of hypocrisy. That after all these years, Catholics STILL try to justify that savagery only proves how deeply they know they sinned - and how arrogantly they still refuse to admit it.
Which is only one example, though a profound one, of Rome using the sword of men to accomplish spiritual goal of dealing with theological dissent. Which includes papal sanctioned torture and instructions on it, of suspected "heretical" souls (some were, as is Rome) and possible witnesses, and death of those convicted under it.
While it may not be the millions ascribed by some research , it is one of the many departures from the NT church.
Meanwhile. Catharism did apparently wrongly hold that the good god was the God of the New Testament and the creator of the spiritual realm, as opposed to the bad god, whom many Cathars identified as Satan, creator of the physical world of the Old Testament. athars thought human spirits were the genderless spirits of angels trapped within the physical creation of Satan, cursed to be reincarnated until the Cathar faithful achieved salvation through a ritual called the consolamentum