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To: philly-d-kidder

Christ did not start the Roman church. And even the Catholic church has sects within it.
And a Mexican Catholic, a Chinese Catholic, an African Catholic, and a French Catholic are so different that to call them the same denomination is quite a stretch.
That’s why this whole 32,000 sect propaganda never sticks.
99% of the differences are in esoteric details such as age of the earth, the culture of the church, ceremonial details that Christ didn’t care about, how they support or use missionaries, but not in the core issue of salvation.


17 posted on 04/30/2015 4:27:20 PM PDT by DesertRhino (I was standing with a rifle, waiting for soviet paratroopers, but communists just ran for office.)
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To: DesertRhino

South American Catholics, African Catholics, Asian Catholics and even Eastern rite Catholics hold the same core beliefs.

The external approach to how religion is expressed varies according to customs, but the core beliefs don’t.

If I receive the Eucharist at a mass said under a tree in Chilimanzi, at a mass with guitars ina 500 year old church in Bogata, or in an open air chapel here in Santa Cruz, I am receiving Christ’s body and blood, as are those around me.


23 posted on 04/30/2015 8:42:18 PM PDT by LadyDoc (liberals only love politically correct poor people)
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