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To: petconservative

Thats a real Christian attitude you have there.


9 posted on 07/07/2005 8:06:05 AM PDT by malos
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To: malos; petconservative
Thats a real Christian attitude you have there.

What's so un-Christian about standing up for what is right?

If anything...the world needs more Christians who will stand up for what is right and put those beliefs in action.

43 posted on 07/07/2005 8:18:48 AM PDT by BureaucratusMaximus (Socialists are blessed with the desire to serve others. That's why most of them work @ McDonalds)
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To: malos
Thats a real Christian attitude you have there.

Thank you.:)
48 posted on 07/07/2005 8:22:44 AM PDT by petconservative (4 more years (ilovemybush))
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I assume the removed post ridiculed the Catholic belief in the "real presence."

I spent six years in the Catholic Church and had no problem whatsoever with the doctrine of the real presence precisely because of my Fundamentalist background that never questioned the supernatural. However, I found Catholicism riddled with naturalism, scientism, evolutionism, and Biblical modernism. If Fundamentalists interpret all the Bible literally except for the words "this is my body; this is my blood," then the Catholic Church has come precariously close to interpreting only those words literally.

I agree that in a sense the chickens have come home to roost, but not because of the doctrine of the real presence. It is because the Church has spent over forty years promoting people like Karl Rahner and Raymond Brown and questioning everything in the Bible a la 19th century liberal Protestant criticism. I found it absolutely stupefying to find the Catholic Church bristling hostility toward the very culture that made easy for me to accept transubstantiation. When the six day creation, Noah's flood, the splitting of the Sea (etc. etc.) are all questioned and reinterpreted in light of what we "now know," why do you expect the incarnation or the real presence to be exempt? It is only in the sense that the Church has given aid and comfort to modern attacks on the Bible that it has invited charges of hypocrisy on this issue. If it had retained simple faith in the Bible's inerrancy and not sought to "reinterpret" everything then the Catholic faithful would not be so full of skepticism towards those things the Church soght to exempt from modern critique.

I predect that some Catholic FReeper will immediately deny my observations on the Catholic Church--and then defend evolution! (That or reassert Biblical inerrancy while defining it out of existence!)

165 posted on 07/07/2005 10:34:07 AM PDT by Zionist Conspirator (Vehu' yihyeh pere' 'adam, yado vakol veyad kol bo.)
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