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Study: Catholics losing the faith
Medill Reports ^ | Feb 27, 2008 | Greg Trotter

Posted on 03/01/2008 7:26:21 AM PST by Alex Murphy

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To: Quix
The RC edifice has been around approximately 1600 years.

The Roman Catholic Church is merley a continuation of the very church founded by Jesus Christ 1,500 miles southeast. New headquarters, same church with an unbroken line of apostle leadership going back to Peter himself.

41 posted on 03/02/2008 10:08:22 AM PST by Barnacle (Reagan Republicanism R.I.P.)
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To: Quix
And that 1600 years has been a very, VERY checkered existence, (to be kindly putting it).

And, the record of your church over the last 1,600 years is...?

Come to think of it, what is your church? Hopefully you, like so many Catholic bashing cowards on FR are not afraid to say.

42 posted on 03/02/2008 10:15:16 AM PST by Barnacle (Reagan Republicanism R.I.P.)
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To: Barnacle; wmfights; fortheDeclaration; Dr. Eckleburg

UTTER RUBBER HISTORY HOGWASH.

Christ MOST RAILED

at the religious hierarchy of His dusty pathed days.

He was NOT AT ALL interested in establishing another such

fleshy, !!!!TRADITION!!!! bound, arrogant, political, power mongering, rigid, narrow, prissy, pontifical

little club

of RELIGIOUS leaders who’d load the serfs with burdens they weren’t willing to shoulder themselves.

Seems to me biases are clouding the eyes virtually totally.

Rubber histories do not = truth.

######

Even if one believed the lie as promulgated . . .

the anointing, authority and power of God wholesale left the RC edifice long ago—if it ever resided there at all.


43 posted on 03/02/2008 10:16:27 AM PST by Quix (GOD ALONE IS GOD; WORTHY; PAID THE PRICE; IS COMING AGAIN; KNOWS ALL; IS LOVING; IS ALTOGETHER GOOD)
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To: Barnacle

I’m basically a Pentecostal/Charismatic.

AS I’ve noted hereon fairly endlessly.

I manage the END TIMES/ DREAMS/ VISIONS/ PROPHECY ping list, BTW.

Perhaps you’re new here?


44 posted on 03/02/2008 10:17:58 AM PST by Quix (GOD ALONE IS GOD; WORTHY; PAID THE PRICE; IS COMING AGAIN; KNOWS ALL; IS LOVING; IS ALTOGETHER GOOD)
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To: Barnacle

BTW,

Christ’s Church Universal

[vs the Roman club]

has ALWAYS had at least a remnant from Pentecost, on.

The members have been part of other congregations and often enough without a formal congregation of any ‘legal’ sort.

Thankfully, Holy Spirit has always had their addresses.


45 posted on 03/02/2008 10:19:32 AM PST by Quix (GOD ALONE IS GOD; WORTHY; PAID THE PRICE; IS COMING AGAIN; KNOWS ALL; IS LOVING; IS ALTOGETHER GOOD)
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To: Quix
He was NOT AT ALL interested in establishing another such fleshy, !!!!TRADITION!!!! bound, arrogant, political, power mongering, rigid, narrow, prissy, pontifical little club of RELIGIOUS leaders who’d load the serfs with burdens they weren’t willing to shoulder themselves.

Of course He wasn't.

Instead, he founded His Holy Roman Catholic Church.

46 posted on 03/02/2008 10:20:02 AM PST by Petronski (Nice job, Hillary. Now go home and get your shine box.)
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To: Petronski
QX:
He was NOT AT ALL interested in establishing another such fleshy, !!!!TRADITION!!!! bound, arrogant, political, power mongering, rigid, narrow, prissy, pontifical little club of RELIGIOUS leaders who’d load the serfs with burdens they weren’t willing to shoulder themselves.

Of course He wasn't.

Instead, he founded His Holy Roman Catholic Church.

THAT'S A GOOD ONE!

I gather that all the RC edifice mirrors are still shattered! LOL.

BTW, May God's mercy, wholeness, guidance, knowledge, wisdom and blessings be with you and those you Love this Resurrection season.

47 posted on 03/02/2008 10:25:53 AM PST by Quix (GOD ALONE IS GOD; WORTHY; PAID THE PRICE; IS COMING AGAIN; KNOWS ALL; IS LOVING; IS ALTOGETHER GOOD)
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To: Quix
fleshy, !!!!TRADITION!!!! bound, arrogant, political, power mongering, rigid, narrow, prissy, pontifical little club of RELIGIOUS leaders who’d load the serfs with burdens they weren’t willing to shoulder themselves.


48 posted on 03/02/2008 10:26:10 AM PST by Hacksaw (I support the tiger.)
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To: Quix
God said no more water based global destruction. This time, it’s by . . . fire...

That won't be a problem since I'll be out at sea.

As to any on board fires that might break out...


I have a crew member to handle that too.

49 posted on 03/02/2008 10:26:23 AM PST by Barnacle (Reagan Republicanism R.I.P.)
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To: Hacksaw; Dr. Eckleburg; DarthVader; wmfights; fortheDeclaration

I certainly never claimed the RC edifice had a monopoly on such evils.

BTW, Jim B served time and repented wholesale and has shown fruits of repentance in his behaviors since.

Which Pope ever did that for their wholesale evils?


50 posted on 03/02/2008 10:28:32 AM PST by Quix (GOD ALONE IS GOD; WORTHY; PAID THE PRICE; IS COMING AGAIN; KNOWS ALL; IS LOVING; IS ALTOGETHER GOOD)
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To: Barnacle

I thought you said

putting fires . . . . OUT!


51 posted on 03/02/2008 10:29:08 AM PST by Quix (GOD ALONE IS GOD; WORTHY; PAID THE PRICE; IS COMING AGAIN; KNOWS ALL; IS LOVING; IS ALTOGETHER GOOD)
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To: Quix
I manage the END TIMES/ DREAMS/ VISIONS/ PROPHECY ping list, BTW.

Perhaps you’re new here?

I am hardly "new here".

Perhaps I haven't heard about it because I don't give a rat's ass about...



52 posted on 03/02/2008 10:37:56 AM PST by Barnacle (Reagan Republicanism R.I.P.)
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To: Quix

LOL


53 posted on 03/02/2008 10:39:57 AM PST by Barnacle (Reagan Republicanism R.I.P.)
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To: Barnacle

You won’t need to ‘keep that post in mind’ because at a certain future point in time,

you’ll most vividly remember it . . .

BTW, are you US Navy or some other sort of sailor?


54 posted on 03/02/2008 10:41:19 AM PST by Quix (GOD ALONE IS GOD; WORTHY; PAID THE PRICE; IS COMING AGAIN; KNOWS ALL; IS LOVING; IS ALTOGETHER GOOD)
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To: Quix

Only evil could drive one to laugh at His Church like that. I pity you.


55 posted on 03/02/2008 10:41:37 AM PST by Petronski (Nice job, Hillary. Now go home and get your shine box.)
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To: Quix
I certainly never claimed the RC edifice had a monopoly on such evils.

Yet you singled them out for attack - for doing something that appears to be quite popular among evangelicals. That is being a hypocrite.

BTW, Jim B served time and repented wholesale and has shown fruits of repentance in his behaviors since.

Good for him.

Which Pope ever did that for their wholesale evils?

I don't recall any Pope being jailed for accounting fraud. Your question is a non-sequiter anyway.

I'm also wondering why you pinged all those people. Can't you, Dr. Eck, and all the others make a single post without other people's help?


56 posted on 03/02/2008 10:41:45 AM PST by Hacksaw (I support the tiger.)
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To: Barnacle
Perhaps I haven't heard about it because I don't give a rat's ass about...

LOL! You're going to go straight to hell for that.

57 posted on 03/02/2008 10:43:22 AM PST by Hacksaw (I support the tiger.)
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To: Petronski; Dr. Eckleburg; wmfights; fortheDeclaration; DarthVader; Alamo-Girl

Actually,

Scripture speaks of God having the evil folks in derision.

and, the most evil folks Christ railed at the most

were hierarchical pontifical political power mongering

RELIGIOUS leaders.

Scripture is rife with satire, hyperbole, and particularly of the puffed up getting sharp pokes.

BTW, I haven’t laughed

AT

The Church Universal . . . The Believers increasingly of every tribe and nation . . . in and out of every Christian Club.

I have absolutely no respect for those who delude the innocent and lead the young ones into idolatry, blasphemous idolatry and the like. They will be held most accountable.

But ALL CHRISTIANS will be increasingly challenged to let go of their respective

CHRISTIAN CLUBS

and cleave utterly and ONLY TO CHRIST ALONE.

As I’ve noted . . .

folks in the RC edifice cannot authentically sing the song line . . .

” HE ALONE IS WORTH ALL OUR PRAISE. “

Sad . . . utterly sad and horrific, that.


58 posted on 03/02/2008 10:46:30 AM PST by Quix (GOD ALONE IS GOD; WORTHY; PAID THE PRICE; IS COMING AGAIN; KNOWS ALL; IS LOVING; IS ALTOGETHER GOOD)
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To: Quix
I have absolutely no respect for those who delude the innocent and lead the young ones into idolatry, blasphemous idolatry and the like.

You have no self-respect at all?

Pity that.

59 posted on 03/02/2008 10:48:25 AM PST by Petronski (Nice job, Hillary. Now go home and get your shine box.)
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To: Alex Murphy; Quix
Thanks for the ping, Quix, and for the thread, Alex.

Bookmarked.

"Their sorrows shall be multiplied that hasten after another god" -- Psalm 16:4

60 posted on 03/02/2008 10:50:34 AM PST by Dr. Eckleburg ("I don't think they want my respect; I think they want my submission." - Flemming Rose)
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