1 posted on
11/21/2005 11:58:30 AM PST by
NYer
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Girding up for the holiday season :-)
2 posted on
11/21/2005 11:59:32 AM PST by
NYer
(“Socialism is the religion people get when they lose their religion")
To: NYer; jo kus
5 posted on
11/21/2005 12:33:15 PM PST by
HarleyD
(Joh 8:36 "So if the Son makes you free, you will be free indeed.)
To: NYer
Moslty great post (I'd debate what primacy meant then and now...)
I especially like the calling out of the History Channel.
After they decided a good Christmas special was one about whether the Virgin Mary was raped by a Roman soldier I am shocked that the church hasn't called for boycotting the channel. (Attacking the virgin birth is a direct attack on Christianity).
6 posted on
11/21/2005 12:35:13 PM PST by
x5452
To: NYer
To paraphrase Hilaire Belloc, there was no such thing as a religion called "primitive Christianity." There is and always has been the Church, founded by Christ around the year 30 A.D. Excellent article!
This, in a nutshell, is the reason I am compelled to be, and remain, a Catholic. What else is there? Where else can we go?
"Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life; and we have believed, and have come to know, that you are the Holy One of God."
7 posted on
11/21/2005 12:36:15 PM PST by
TotusTuus
To: NYer
"The culture is now flooded with bogus scholarship whose main purpose is to put...orthodox Catholicism on the defensive. But most Catholics have no idea how to respond, and more than a few take these books and documentaries at face value. After all, they have the imprimatur of the History Channel or a large publishing house like Doubleday. Why should believe the History Channel or Doubleday when we have the Catholic Church to give us the OBJECTIVE view of Church history? ;O)
8 posted on
11/21/2005 12:38:45 PM PST by
HarleyD
(Joh 8:36 "So if the Son makes you free, you will be free indeed.)
To: NYer
"And yet most Catholics know very little about their own history.: Thanks to Land O'Lakes and other goofy kooky wreckovators of Catholic higher education.
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The media have a sharp appetite for this recycling of 19th-century, anti-clerical scholarship, and so books by scholars like Gary Wills and Elaine Pagels get maximum exposure. And then there is The Da Vinci Code, which has sold a staggering nine million copies. Both the New York Times and National Public Radio seem to think that it is based on historical fact. Even its author appears to think so. But a book that claims that Christians did not believe in the divinity of Christ until the fourth century, that a Roman emperor chose the four Gospels, that the Church executed five million witches, and that Opus Dei has monks is obviously little more than a farrago of nonsense. Yeah. And that's putting it lightly.
More could be said about the retarded nature of modern liberal secular humanist culture.
To: NYer
To: NYer
"Long before there was a New Testament, there was a deposit of faith concerning the nature of God, His threefold personality, His purpose in making man, the Incarnation."
This is one of the primary reasons I'm becoming Catholic!
To: NYer
You know, the problem with articles like these is that they often devolve into a piece of ROMAN Catholic apologetics. It is disengenuous, no actually dishonest, to lead Roman Catholics themselves, let alone Protestants and others, to understand that the early Church was the self same thing as the Roman Church is today and has been since the Great Schism. This is not to say that the Roman Church is not a particular Church within The Church, it certainly is, but it is not itself alone The Church.
21 posted on
11/21/2005 4:02:59 PM PST by
Kolokotronis
(Christ is Risen, and you, o death, are annihilated!)
To: NYer
Thanks so much for the ping list. I converted five years ago, and these threads really help me "catch up" on all that I've missed the first 30 years of my life!
I find that I am very interested in the history of the Church - do you have any recommendations on a book to read this holiday season?
To: Coleus
40 posted on
11/22/2005 4:41:11 AM PST by
MattinNJ
(Allen/Pawlenty in 08-play the map.)
To: NYer
Thanks for posting this! I've printed for later reading and I sent the link to a friend.
50 posted on
11/22/2005 5:44:51 AM PST by
Convert from ECUSA
(It really, truly is a "religion of peace", and the jihadistinian rioters in France prove it!)
To: NYer
How the Church Saved Civilization That leaves little work for the creator of the universe.
96 posted on
11/22/2005 11:29:19 AM PST by
Uri’el-2012
(Y'shua <==> YHvH is my Salvation (Psalm 118-14))
To: NYer
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b'shem Y'shua
118 posted on
11/22/2005 1:14:46 PM PST by
Uri’el-2012
(Y'shua <==> YHvH is my Salvation (Psalm 118-14))
To: NYer
Good post. I have always taken issue with the "Constantine" foundng of Christianity..
131 posted on
11/22/2005 5:01:02 PM PST by
cardinal4
("One man gone and another to go....")
To: NYer
To: NYer
188 posted on
11/26/2005 8:48:47 PM PST by
Ciexyz
(Let us always remember, the Lord is in control.)
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