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I will assume from the above that you're not Catholic. Please explain why you believe it is good manners to visit the thread of another religion and insult it. Is that what your religion teaches you?
Two reasons:
This is a public forum...This is not a 'caucus' thread...
And secondly, I don't care about any religion...We're talking about influencing the souls of sinners and I believe your church's teaching will lead folks to Hell...
Sorry to be so blunt...I have nothing at all against Catholics personally...
I see the connection between the Catholic church, the muzlim religion and some of the other Eastern religions as well as pre-Christian pagan worship...This connection is Mary, the Queen of Heaven...It is leading to an ecumenical, one-world religious movement...We can see the recent Popes moving in this directions as well...
With your church relying on 'tradition', as the major factor in it's existance, that makes your pope a modern day prophet...I believe the pope, whether this one or the next, is the 'false phrophet' the bible talks about...
(By the way, calling the above article propaganda is not an insult, it is at minimum someone's thoughtful opinion, and may also, in fact, be the truth. These threads are open to anyone who wishes to join the discourse. Sorry of you disagree, but that doesn't make it hate speech.)
Articles like this have an agenda, which is to justify someone's set of beliefs and set out to provide proofs that they are correct, and that other views are wrong.
Not picking on Catholics, by the way -- a lot of sects do the same thing... We're the REAL Christians, our way is the BEST way, we have a SPECIAL claim to truth, tradition, doctrine, etc. that YOU don't have.
I would like to see more Christians on FreeRepublic preach Jesus and his gospel, instead of re-posting other people's scholarship and regurgitated, long-winded volumes on doctrines of secondary or no importance.
There is a world out there to be redeemed, loved, saved and rescued from hell. The real followers of Jesus are out there doing his work. The others are arguing about doctrine and trying to prove that they're right.
"If Jesus came back and saw what's going on in His name, He'd never stop throwing up." -- from Hannah and Her Sisters