Posted on 11/08/2015 11:19:38 AM PST by SeekAndFind
I attended a Confirmation by Bishop Daugherty in Logansport Indiana today, about 30 teens, all of whom went through a pretty extensive orientation period.....the future of our Parish looks O.K. to me.
Zip down to your local Catholic Parish, they have been the ONLY source of TOTAL truth for 2,015 years.
Martin Luther is possibly responsible for the loss of more souls than any other person in history.
With all respect, Martin Luther was the best worst thing that ever happened to The Catholic Church.
Otherwise we would still all be Catholic and there wouldn't be 30,000+ configurations of Luther's ideas.
The Church is NOT doing their job.
Does any church openly, actively speak out against Planned Parenthood and the harvesting of babies?
Answer: No
Does the church speak about Gay marriage openly and actively?
Answer: No
Do they speak out about ISIS and the U.S. government arming them while they butch Christians?
Answer: No
All they do is hen peck their congregation about tiny crap compared to much larger issues globally, never say squat about all the spending, high taxes, spy on their congregation, and then report them the people that are acting out immorally against the Bible doing far worse things that go against God for a tax deduction.
And they wonder why people are leaving the church?
What an utterly ridiculous thing to say! No man...not even your religion’s top ten most wicked popes can prevent the Holy Spirit from revealing the truth to those who are diligently seeking it. Get a grip.
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With all respect, Martin Luther was the best thing that ever happened to The Catholic Church.
ah...a wonder I’ve survived thus far without this piece of useful input...
Otherwise we would still all be Catholic and there wouldn’t be 30,000+ configurations of Luther’s ideas.
Since ‘Luther’s ideas’ are themselves configurations of Catholic precepts, any sequential iterations are as well...
Luther’s Mass is the Catholic Mass, minus the aspect of oblation, which he believed perverted the essential synapse of man to deity...this may seem as a large distinction, and it is, but his notion proceeds from a Catholic tenet, and is not made up out of wholecloth...
Spiritual Correctness, it is.
And it works because Christians are strangers to their own bibles.
Care to list the Church “rules” that are evil?
Playing musical chairs with pedophiles. Thats a ‘rule’ that the upper echelon of the church put in play many times around the world. They protected their own at the expense of children.
This ridiculous ‘he was misquoted’ line they (leadership) drag out which has quite literally happened every time their leftists say something that flies in the face of the Bible’s teachings.
The rule that the only people excommunicated seem to be those defying the leadership, rather than those defying God. Nancy Pelosi and Ted Kennedy spring immediately to mind. It’s either a rule or they are incompetent and shouldn’t be leading the church because of it.
Then there is this fiasco of a Synod that had more liberalism spoken and pushed by the leadership than a GOP convention. Which are very much ‘rules’. And as always, they will enact the rules that were shot down, just as the Democrats they support do when the voters tell them ‘No”. Gay acceptance being the biggie here.
You may say ‘These are not rules’. Obviously they are rules because they are employed consistently and demanded/carried out by the leadership/Vatican...who MAKE whatever rules at whatever time they feel the need to. At some point, the RC Church is going to find itself with a not sizable core group of true believers because with each passing day, more Catholics become ex-catholic as a matter of soul searching. And that core group that insists on denying fidelity to the unchanging word of God is and will remain free to so so.
None of which changes the reality that the leadership of the modern church is following someone/thing other than the God described in their very own book. Denying it is something all are free to do. But it does not change the facts that we can all see with our own eyes and hear with our own ears.
It is the absolute truth...Luther has led millions away from Christ's true church into whatever fate might await them....the Holy spirit did not just start revealing Himself in the 17th century....don't you think that Christians, for the first 1,600 years were inspired by the Holy Spirit, and if so, what made Him change His mind....Luther?????????????I don't think so....he was in error and convinced many that he was the true way.......he wasn't.
My quip was with your statement “Almost all church attendance is a waste of time and insult to anyone with intelligence.”
How do you arrive at that?
They do not because of the oppressive government just waiting to take away the non-profit status of any church preaching against the administration’s policies.
By sitting through years of church services in various churches and by having extensive contacts with evangelical “leaders”. I also have read a great deal of what pastors and “leaders” write (books, articles), almost none of which meets even basic standards of intellectual rigor. Exceptions include “family integrated churches”, churches that have predominantly homeschool families, some very conservative Presbyterian churches, a few non-affiliated Reformed churches, and a few others. There are some parachurch ministries of value, too.
I assume you aren’t thinking that mainline church attendance is worthwhile - Episcopalian, PCUSA, ELCA, etc. They are all obviously apostate.
Mark Noll, in his book The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind, correctly concluded that the “scandal” is that there isn’t much of a mind there.
One church lost a number of members because it started to support illegal aliens and wanted more Somalis to this country. The ex-members felt betrayed by this treasonous acts.
It's like saying "I'm disgusted with Judaism because of David and Mrs. Uriah." "I'm don't believe in the Constitution because of Ruth Bader Ginsburg." "I'm leaving Jesus because of Judas Iscariot."
The spectacle of sin makes you suffer. Join the club. The only question before you is "In the face of their infidelity, do I leave, or stay? Be unfaithful, or faithful?"
I guarantee you cannot make the Catholic Church be more faithful by leaving.
The severed hand can not heal the body.
A severed hand can most assuredly save the body when that hand is gangerous or otherwise infected beyond treatment.
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