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To: WOSG
LOL, Episcopalians are fleeing their church to come to the catholic church to grab a lifeline of orthodox Christianity.

The Catholic Church isn't far behind. It'll find itself at the same place the Episcopal Church is in now, perhaps much sooner than you think. And it began the same way in the Episcopal Church--downgrading the Word of G-d to didactic mythology.

The Catholic Church has been endorsing science advance for 2 millenia, dont confuse that support for abandonment of Christian faith in any way shape or form. The Nicene Creed remains undisturbed for 1700 years.

As I understand it, the "official" beliefs of Catholicism don't reduce to the text of the Nicene Creed, which is very flexible or else it still wouldn't be around in a church that has changed so radically over the centuries.

I'm not complaining about "abandonment of the chr*stian faith." Chr*stian faith is part of the problem. No wonder most chr*stians think the Torah is nonsense!

58 posted on 07/22/2009 8:04:32 AM PDT by Zionist Conspirator (Be`ever haYarden be'Eretz Mo'av; ho'iyl Mosheh be'er 'et-haTorah hazo't le'mor.)
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To: Zionist Conspirator

“As I understand it, the “official” beliefs of Catholicism don’t reduce to the text of the Nicene Creed, which is very flexible or else it still wouldn’t be around in a church that has changed so radically over the centuries.”

The Catholic Catechism is much more substantive than the Nicene Creed, and reflects the fuller expression of the “official” beliefs of the Catholic church. If you look at the Catholic Catechism, you will see it has NOT changed radically over the centuries. Vatican II was a change to sacraments and many other things, but not substantially to core Catholic doctrine afaik.

The Catholic Church has been far more rock-solid than most any of the ‘mainline’ Protestant churches, and part of the reason for that is that the Catholic Church was and is able to lean on 20 centuries of tradition to deflect the leftists infiltration and demands to ‘modernize’. Protestant mainline churches were more exposed to the attack, which in those churches has led to lesbian bishops, abandonment of Christian orthodoxy, substitution of liberal feelgoodism for true moral teaching, and empty pews.

The leftist virus is strong, so I wont claim the Catholic church is fully immune.


59 posted on 07/23/2009 9:07:36 AM PDT by WOSG (Why is Obama trying to bankrupt America with $16 trillion in spending over the next 4 years?)
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