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1 posted on 11/29/2015 7:06:15 PM PST by ebb tide
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To: ebb tide

Hitler was a German/Austrian Catholic at one time, wasn’t he?


2 posted on 11/29/2015 7:08:11 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (TED CRUZ. You can help: https://donate.tedcruz.org/c/FBTX0095/)
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To: ebb tide

Ignorance speaks from these bishops’ mouths. They wouldn’t know wisdom from ignorance. God bless our African bishops!


3 posted on 11/29/2015 7:10:22 PM PST by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: ebb tide

Sounds like some Bishop has congregation envy, someone needs to do some confessin and penitence.


4 posted on 11/29/2015 7:19:02 PM PST by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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To: ebb tide

Matthew 18:3

And he said: “Truly I tell you, unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.”

Such is the state of Christianity in Europe.


6 posted on 11/29/2015 7:38:02 PM PST by Some Fat Guy in L.A. (Still bitterly clinging to rational thought despite it's unfashionability)
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To: ebb tide
If he had any balls he would have said this:

German Bishops’ Conference Says Islam in Africa Growing Only Because of Ignorance and Poverty.

8 posted on 11/29/2015 8:04:21 PM PST by BBell
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>> It grows because the people are socially dependent and often have nothing else but their faith.

I would point out that the Church in Africa is growing under the influence of the Holy Spirit. When the bishop denies this and states that the church is growing for unholy reasons, he is committing blasphemy against the Holy Spirit, which is the unpardonable sin.


9 posted on 11/29/2015 8:09:38 PM PST by Nervous Tick (There is no "allah" but satan, and mohammed was his demon-possessed tool.)
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To: ebb tide
And even the growing number of priests is a result not only of missionary power but also a result of the fact that the priesthood is one of the few possibilities for social security on the dark continent.

From where does the good German priest think his social security comes from? Certainly not offerings collected in empty cathedrals on Sundays.

10 posted on 11/29/2015 9:06:06 PM PST by fso301
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To: ebb tide; Cicero; Nervous Tick

Advent Mass this week here in the UAE had lots of Asian and African folks in attendance. Don’t know about the ignorance part but everybody sure looked joyful, thankful and in love with Christ. Maybe I need to go to Germany next week to see how Mass is supposed to be done.


11 posted on 11/29/2015 9:13:56 PM PST by Shark24
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To: ebb tide

“I think it is a great cheek of the Germans to try and teach the rest of the world anything about religion. They should be in perpetual sackcloth and ashes for all their enormities from Luther to Hitler.” Evelyn Waugh


14 posted on 11/29/2015 10:25:57 PM PST by Unam Sanctam
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To: ebb tide

Is that how they view their own religion? As food for the ignorant?


15 posted on 11/29/2015 10:53:33 PM PST by montag813
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To: ebb tide

In other news:
Pharisees Say Jesus Only Popular With Sinners and Tax Collectors


17 posted on 11/30/2015 1:14:57 AM PST by pke
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Cause the African Church has kept its morality while much of the west has turned its back on morality, they gots to keep that money coming in ya know.


19 posted on 11/30/2015 1:50:10 AM PST by Joe Boucher (the only good mooselimb is a dead mooselimb.)
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Church history shows the persecuted church is a growing church.


21 posted on 12/01/2015 4:49:18 PM PST by elpadre (AfganistaMr Obama said the goal was to "disrupt, dismantle and defeat al-hereQaeda" and its allies.)
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