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To: dsc
We Catholics not only understand those written words, we understand the difference between bowing down to and serving an idol on the one hand, and kneeling down *in*the*vicinity*of* religious art to worship the Holy Trinity.

lolol. You're in fine form tonight. Lots of laughs. Perhaps you've missed the many many threads where Roman Catholics tell us they pray to Mary and to dead saints for intercession and mercy and even (gasp) yes, even salvation.

Your own catechism alludes to Mary's supposed responsibility for God's saving grace.

Rome gets so much wrong that it's no wonder its priestcraft is so...conflicted.

147 posted on 04/10/2010 10:46:17 PM PDT by Dr. Eckleburg ("I don't think they want my respect; I think they want my submission." - Flemming Rose)
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To: Dr. Eckleburg

“Perhaps you’ve missed the many many threads where Roman Catholics tell us they pray to Mary and to dead saints for intercession and mercy and even (gasp) yes, even salvation.”

Missed? No, time and again I’ve seen Catholics attempt to explain Catholicism to you, and then cringed at your total inability to understand what you were being told, and your unwillingness even to try.

It’s embarrassing, really. Like Rodney Dangerfield at a fancy restaurant, only not funny.

“Your own catechism alludes to Mary’s supposed responsibility for God’s saving grace.”

It’s an interesting intellectual problem, really: how to communicate to a person like you that he has misunderstood everything he thinks he knows.

Probably beyond mortal means.

“Rome gets so much wrong”

Fascinating. Dozens, or perhaps even hundreds of people took the time and trouble to explain your errors to you, with great patience and prayerful forbearance in the face of insult after insult and your obdurate refusal to hear, and after all that, you think it’s Holy Mother Church, the Spiritual Bride of Christ, who is wrong.

I have never seen anything analagous except in the behavior of schizophrenics.


154 posted on 04/10/2010 11:07:00 PM PDT by dsc (Any attempt to move a government to the left is a crime against humanity.)
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To: Dr. Eckleburg
"Your own catechism alludes to Mary's supposed responsibility for God's saving grace."

Make a citation or admit it is a lie.

182 posted on 04/11/2010 8:36:43 AM PDT by Natural Law
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