[sweetliberty]

"So you DID know that many Baptist churches teach that the Catholic Church is 'The Great Whore of the Revelations'"

When I was a kid there were always arguments between the kids about whose "religion" was best. Of course it was denominations we were talking about, but what did we know then? I would often hear things that would send me running to my priest for a resolution complete with quotes from my friends. One of the most sweeping...and ignorant...responses I ever got to one of these questions was from an older priest who told me "don't believe anything a Baptist or a Catholic ever tells you." It wasn't long after that that I started arguing with priests.

[ValerieUSA]

One of my best friends on the west coast is married to an Episcopalian priest (together we fought Planned Parenthood of King County for a few years and really got under their skin hee hee hee) and she told me that the seminaries taught that Immaculate Conception was just a nice story, and that the priests could preach it at Christmastime because the people like to hear it, but no one "in the know" is actually expected to believe it.
I asked another man about it who I knew had studied for E. priesthood in California but became a community church pastor instead, and he said it was true - and much worse was being taught in the seminaries. He left with bad blood between himself and the teachers because he argued in class constantly that the Bible was either written by hands under guidance of the Holy Spirit or it wasn't, and if it wasn't then they should all pack up and go home; if it was, the teachers were blasphemous at best.