To: SoothingDave
***America is not perfect and we see today the continuing ill effects of the extreme individuality taught by Protestants in general.***
Where Calvinism is taught, we see prosperity, where Catholicism reigns, we see poverty.
You figure it out.
245 posted on
06/08/2005 12:29:56 PM PDT by
Gamecock
(We don't beat "nice" people to a bloody pulp, nail them onto a cross and then watch them suffocate.)
To: Gamecock; SoothingDave
Where Calvinism is taught, we see prosperity, where Catholicism reigns, we see poverty. Yeah, we can see what a holy effect Calvinism has had on prosperous nations like the Netherlands.
To: Gamecock
Where Calvinism is taught, we see prosperity, where Catholicism reigns, we see poverty. Matt 16:26For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?
SD
To: Gamecock
Where Calvinism is taught, we see prosperity, where Catholicism reigns, we see poverty. Hmmm.... Catholics are the largest Christian denomination in the USA, Italy, France, many parts of Germany, Poland, Argentina, Chile etc. etc. Hardly what I would call poor countries.
290 posted on
06/08/2005 12:56:23 PM PDT by
Modernman
("Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made." -Bismarck)
To: Gamecock
Where Calvinism is taught, we see prosperity, where Catholicism reigns, we see poverty.
You figure it out.I think I figured it out:
Post hoc ergo propter hoc
318 posted on
06/08/2005 1:14:03 PM PDT by
Petronski
(How do you solve a problem like Petronski?)
To: Gamecock
So youve already started on the anti Catholic attacks.
Youre not a good Christian.
356 posted on
06/08/2005 2:12:57 PM PDT by
Selkie
("There is nothing more galling to angry people than the coolness of those on whom they wish to vent)
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