With all respect to my freedom loving Catholic brothers in Christ...
As a radical Calvinist....why should I give a rats testicle what a capon priest for a clown costumed gang of rascals and thieves thinks? In the old world, these guys’ predecessors tried to burn my fathers at the stake.
But oh wait. My grandaddies were armed with BOTH the sword and the Word. Christian liberty and political liberty then ensued quite beyond the control of kings and cardinals.
The Catholic church as an organization has NEVER been an advocate for true liberty. Quite the opposite. Blind ignorant obedience to Pope and to Caesar has been their demand since Constantine.
Had the Catholic hierarchy caught and burned Luther and the German landsmen who supported him, we would still be bending knee to men, buying indulgences, hearing Latin masses memorized by illiterate priests, and if caught with a heretic common vernacular language Bible, would be officially damned then flayed.
Let Mr. Dolan lick what boots he may....and screw him.
Any Catholic that stands for liberty and arms is a brother. Any who do not....a foe. It is a duty we owe to our fathers and our God.
Then we stand together for liberty and arms.
As far as burning at the stake go, Medieval times were extremely dark in this regard. It is a stain on the times as well as the Catholic Church.
But, it happened many hundreds of years ago. Just as the Protestant witch burnings in America and in various European countries.
John Calvin put his doctrinal enemy Servetus to death at the stake and fire.
Now we move on and have many secular enemies, jihadist enemies, religious liberty enemies etc to fight. We have our differences in doctrine, but we have Unity in obedience to only Jesus Christ.
Good post and I say that as a fellow, unabashed Calvinist and descendent of Huguenots.
“The Catholic church as an organization has NEVER been an advocate for true liberty. Quite the opposite. Blind ignorant obedience to Pope and to Caesar has been their demand since Constantine”
Like all other faiths the Catholic Church has good pastors and bad pastors.
But let remind you that the Catholic Church came before the Gospels. Without the Catholic Church there would be no Bible.
Without the Catholic Church there would be no Western Civilization. For over 2,000 years the Catholic Church has
stood the test of time because it’s doctrine comes from the Holy Bible, not a show of hands like most protestant faiths.
http://www.amazon.com/Catholic-Church-Built-Western-Civilization/dp/1596983280