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To: conservonator

Simple. There are so many things the Catholic Church promotes as “faithfulness” to God which have nothing to do with God. Whether you want to eat hot dogs, steak, or bananas is irrelevant to “faith.” But when the church teaches, and its people embrace, the importance of eating hot dogs, or steak, or bananas as opposed to something else they detract from the core of Christianity, which is to love God with all your heart, and your neighbor as yourself, and involves telling the truth and preaching the gospel so the lost can come to true faith in Christ which is internal, though it manifests itself outwardly.

I didn’t compile the “list,” I just cut and paste it to show the silly, extra-biblical or anti-biblical teachings/traditions/practices the Catholic church has embraced (or unembraced) over the years. And, from time to time, executed other people of true faith who dared to disagree with her.


208 posted on 03/05/2010 12:58:07 PM PST by srweaver (Never Forget the Judicial Homicide of Terri Schiavo)
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To: srweaver
"For the time will come when people will not tolerate sound doctrine but, following their own desires and insatiable curiosity, will accumulate teachers and will stop listening to the truth and will be diverted to myths." 2 Timothy 4:3-4

"There are not over a hundred people in the United States who hate the Catholic Church. There are millions, however, who hate what they wrongly believe to be the Catholic Church.

210 posted on 03/05/2010 1:15:18 PM PST by Jvette
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To: srweaver

But that’s the problem, the list is ridiculous, most of not all are gross mischaracterization of events or practices. Stick with facts that can be agreed upon and debated like the the seven sacraments, Christological dogmas, scripture, etc. Don’t let you self be confused by silly lists. If you wan’t to “save” a Catholic be able to tell him why the sacramental economy of the Catholic Church is wrong, not that wax candles are used in an “un-biblical” manner.


213 posted on 03/05/2010 1:36:29 PM PST by conservonator
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