Was St. Patrick a Baptist?

The Reformed Reader ^ | 1952 | Rev John Summerfield Wimbish

[B-Chan]

"Fragen" indeed means "to ask", but it also has a secondary, if old-fashioned meaning -- "to pray", as in "pray, tell us what you're thinking". Thus the joke — "Fragvergnügen", or "Praying Fun", similar to "Fahrvergnügen" — "Driving fun".

Okay, maybe it's not so funny even in German. Pray, forgive me.

[vladimir998]

This is nuts.

It is also proven wrong by the Protestant Church historian, James McGoldrick, in his book Baptist Successionism. McGoldrick very deliberately exposes this and other Protestant phony histories as exactly that -- phony, concocted histories engineered by Protestant desperate to believe they had some history they didn't actually possess.

[Tax-chick]

Pat was outside on the swings, and anyway, he hasn't yet taken an interest in Ireland.

I take it that "synergist" and "syncretist" aren't the same at all?

[Kolokotronis]

"I take it that "synergist" and "syncretist" aren't the same at all?"

Only in the minds of synthesists!

[trisham]

:) Thanks.

[Tax-chick]

I thought synthesizer music went out around 1991. Thank goodness neither Anoreth nor Bill has decided to play synthesizer ... the everlasting drumming is bad enough!

(Howya! Happy Tuesday!)

[trisham]

All one big CATHOLIC family. All we need now is a fist fight and some floozies. We got a snake dancer! And even a lecher or two.

*************

Ah, it feels like home. :)

[Kolokotronis]

"I thought synthesizer music went out around 1991...."

That's what they want you to think. Actually there are small cells of them here and there, mostly keeping body and soul together writing music for the NO Liturgy and playing in praise bands down at the local "Church of What's Happenin' Now" Wednesday nights and Sundays.

"(Howya! Happy Tuesday!)"

Getting ready to head for the office...wayyyyy too much work. 3 below zero here right now. I'm getting sick of this and burning 160 gallons of oil every 12 days is getting expensive.

[Tax-chick]

Eeeew. You should move to the South!

It's 33 here this morning, and the forecast says 55 and sunny later. Have a nice day!

[Kolokotronis]

"It's 33 here this morning, and the forecast says 55 and sunny later."

Sunny here too; highs in the mid teens with winds to 40+mph! That'll suck the oil right out the chimney! I'm ready to move down to my land in Greece (but She Who Must Be Obeyed says NO)!

[Tax-chick]

Oh, too bad. You could go into the olive-oil-and-goat business in sunny, warm Greece!

[jo kus]

The Baptists were an off-shoot of the Anabaptist Reformation. You will search in vain for a credible antecedent to the Baptists before John Smyth, a Puritan separatist. Reformed Christianity simply did not exist when St. Patrick was roaming fair Ireland. In AD 500 (when St. Patrick died), there weren't any other churches worth considering. There was the One Church, and a few splinter churches you wouldn't recognize as Christian either (mostly non-Trinitarian).

Agreed. Even the Southern Baptist page refutes this idea that they come from John the Baptist. This linkage is ridiculous. Unless Baptists believe in the Real Presence and celebrate the Mass...

More Christians need to read the history of their Church.

Regards

[Kenny Bunk]

Kind of hard to claim that a man who was consecrated as a priest and bishop, who studied in monasteries, ordained priests, set up groups of dedicated virgins like St. Bridget, could be considered a Baptist.

You, and the author of this anti-papist screed are both in error, my son.

St. Patrick was actually a Mormon. To set your mind at ease upon this theological conundrum, merely purchase a Tabernacle Choir album containing the selection "O Danny Boy," and play it backwards at 45 RPM. It will all be made clear.

[Kenny Bunk]

I take it from your tag line that you hang around Harlingen awaiting the Second Coming of the Emperor Maximilian*?

* I do happen to agree that he was Mexico's last best chance to become a real country.

[Kenny Bunk]

He sure doesn't look like a Baptist!

Where would have St. Patrick stood on the filioque clause. Before I buy another shamrock, I must know!

[ArrogantBustard]

To set your mind at ease upon this theological conundrum, merely purchase a Tabernacle Choir album containing the selection "O Danny Boy," and play it backwards at 45 RPM.

NNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOo!!!!! Fer the luv of Mike, Don't Do It!

My friend did, a while back, and he heard it plain as day: Ozzy Osbourne's voice, telling him to bite the head off a bat.

What happened next was just too terrifying to recount.

The horror.

The horror.

[Kenny Bunk]

Biting bats, now, is it?

May the Lord heal the wounds with which my shillelagh is about to customize your head. This sort of nonsense a mere week before the Day of the Greatest Saint the Church hath ever produced!

Go now. Sin no more, ya bluudy heathen.

[Tax-chick]

If a French Emperor is the answer, it must be a very unusual question.

[Kolokotronis]

"Where would have St. Patrick stood on the filioque clause. Before I buy another shamrock, I must know!"

Undoubtedly our Great Saint never heard of the filioque clause and I suspect it pains his ears when he hears that innovation in the Liturgies prayed on his feastday in the West (not in the East, though!):)

You are now free to buy more shamrocks!

[ArrogantBustard]

I post a friendly warning, and you threaten me ... sweet.

Alright, go ahead. Do it. PLAY THE RECORD BACKWARDS. Just don't do it anywhere near me. Once was more than enough.

And I gotta tell ya, you'll need more than just your shillelagh to deal with it.