Posted on 07/14/2007 12:22:58 PM PDT by franky1
(CNN) -- Non-Catholics who are up in arms of the proclamation by Pope Benedict XVI that the only true church in the world is that of Catholicism shouldn't even bother getting upset. Just chalk it up to an old man trying to get a little attention.
For him to even suggest that only the Catholic Church can provide true salvation to believers in Christ shows that he is wholly ignorant of the Scriptures that I have known all my life.
Sorry, let me take that back. I've really only known the Bible for the last 13 of my 38 years. That's because those first 25 years were spent as a die-hard Catholic.
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I am not debating dogma with you.
Don’t change the subject. You are hoping from thread to thread slandering this document, intentionally posting poison.
Now is the time to stop.
I’m a dues paying, card-carrying Freeper. I don’t “hop from thread to thread.” I enter the forum and discuss. I post. I do freepmail. I ask. I answer. Just the stuff that normal freeper types do.
You’ve been a freeper for a long time. You know what I’m talking about.
BTW, my previous post did not debate dogma. It said that Levada’s diocese (Portland) was convicted in a court of law. They had to pay a huge settlement.
That’s not religious dogma.
That’s just the facts that were reported in the newspapers.
Your previous post said this....
>>Actually, he didn’t say they’d make it to heaven.<<
And it’s a lie. I’m not debating Levada either. Changing the subject won’t change your words. I’m telling you that you are coming onto threads about this document and slandering it. You can call it whatever you like.
Time to stop.
When you reverently bow your head or kneel and ask someone or something to do something for you, you are PRAYING to that someone or something.
Do you bow your head and kneel before your friends when you ask them to pray for you?
I thought not.
Carry on.
Perhaps right here on Free Republic. Perhaps on the dusty wasteland between East Egg and West Egg.
I’m so glad you’re here.
When I consider someone to be above my status, I sure do bow my head while asking. We’ve even been known to kneel.
Maybe it’s a Polish thing.
Thanks. You are among my very best Catholic Freeper friends.
DV
Ditto! And your lovely wife. How’s the laundry going for her?
In the words of the late great Jim Morrison, “Deep and wide.”
Ask cyborg about how I dragged her up the hills in Pere Lachaise to see Morrison’s pitiful little tomb.
Where did he say only Catholics would make it to heaven?
Without the real thing, they’ll spend a long time in hell or it’s kissin’ cousin, Ma Purgatory.
The same is for Catholics. Are you saying the Pope should think non-Catholics are better off?
Really, are you just looking for a fight? Will you next be bringing your libel of Levada to this thread?
Discuss the issues all you want, but do not make it personal.
So what am I to do when a poster is misrepresenting someone else?
This is outright slander. I have posted the actual document and where this poster continually and intentionally misquotes it. Now what.
>>Ask cyborg about how I dragged her up the hills in Pere Lachaise to see Morrison’s pitiful little tomb.<<
LOL! Did she appreciate it in the end?
Worthwhile indeed, though I was too pooped out to hunt for the resting place of Edith Piaf.
Calling the other poster a slanderer or liar is "making it personal."
Okay, I’m genuinely asking here, stating that the statement is slander is okay then, right?
And how about if it is constantly repeated, even aftr eproven to be that way on many threads. Should I just default to you?
Fixed it.
That's pretty much the case with me. I couldn't care less what the pope has to say. He's completely irrelevant as far as I'm concerned.
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