[Quix]

“Actually we destroyed the idols of the ancient world and we have no idols.”

Actually, that assertion is quite wrong on both counts.

The record of the Vatican organization/ Roman Catholic church

is quite consistent.

Latin America is probably the most glaring case in point.

Numerous idols were . . . Romanized/Vaticanized and incorporated into the worship rituals of the local Roman Catholic church.

Dr. Eckleburg is probably more expert on that than I, however.

Truth can be a very enlightening experience . . . particularly after a long and pervasive darkness.

[vladimir998]

You wrote:

“Actually, that assertion is quite wrong on both counts.”

Nope. What I posted is irrefutably true. At Eschwege St. Boniface destroyed the statue of the idol Stuffo, for instance. And there’s the famous story of S. Sebastan urging Chromatius, the proconsul of Rome under the Emperor Diocletian, to destroy the idols in his home.

“The record of the Vatican organization/ Roman Catholic church is quite consistent. Latin America is probably the most glaring case in point.”

And yet there are no idols there worshipped by Catholics. We have wonderful at works, and some have been used by God for miracles or are miracles themselves (Our Lady of Guadalupe, for instance), but then again Protestants have paintings, statues, stain glass windows, etc. too.

“Numerous idols were . . . Romanized/Vaticanized and incorporated into the worship rituals of the local Roman Catholic church.

No. We have no idols. We do not worship idols and never have.

“Dr. Eckleburg is probably more expert on that than I, however.”

Dr. Eckleburg is not an expert on anything that as ever been posted here about the Catholic faith.

“Truth can be a very enlightening experience . . . particularly after a long and pervasive darkness.”

True. And that’s why so many Protestant ministers have become Catholic over the last few decades.

[Dr. Eckleburg]

Just like some Roman Catholics on this forum are vainly trying to justify the pope's idiotic, scandalous, repugnant, fascist comments about a world economic authority (God forbid), so, too, do some Roman Catholics try to justify falling down to the stock of a tree and praying to dead people as something proper and without error.

Dangerously wrong on both counts.

They swallow this stuff wholesale and never bat an eye. They defend the indefensible. They march in lock-step. They follow orders.

Thankfully, by our fruits we are known.