Posted on 10/31/2010 11:59:22 AM PDT by RnMomof7
“Paul, an apostle, (not of men, neither BY MAN, but BY JESUS CHRIST, and GOD THE FATHER, who raised Him from the dead;). Galatians 1:1.
Did he really claim that?
then Luther’s followers can do the same
That's what you get when you follow men, like Catholics do.
When you compare your life to Scripture and the standards set therein, you see whether your life matches up to God's standards or not and don't depend on feelings. The conscience can be deceitful. God's word never changes.
and so naturally the non-stop “reformation” began, creating millions of popes - each man his own.
It is simply beyond the comprehension of Catholics that people don't blindly follow other men. They have this *pope* mentality that they don't realize others don't have.
We follow Christ, not any man who sets up himself as such or is elected by another group of men. The old boy network is alive and well.
That's funny coming from a church which has given us the Inquisition and priests preying on little boys and nothing being done about it without outside pressure to, and a big block of Democratic voters.
What is it with Catholics not being able to grasp the idea that every man is equal to every other man, CREATED EQUAL?? Do Catholics also, by this standard, reject the Declaration of Independence or the U.S. Constitution? Every man is his own captain, responsible for his own ship. If I didn't know better, I would think Catholics are not comfortable with freedom of any kind...perhaps the reason they don't understand that democrats take freedoms AWAY...and just keep voting them in. Or perhaps they DO understand that, and just want to be controlled in everything they do. Tell them what to do, and they will follow, smiling all the way. Give them their freedom to decide, whether in politics or religion, and they coil into a fetal position in a corner, confused and afraid to move.
Sounds like Calvinists to me. Yes, there was an aggressive and vengeful Protestant Inquisition. Yes, there are a significant number of abuse victims whose plight is denied daily by Protestant apologists. And yes, those paragons of Christian faith, the Protestant Rev. Jesse Jackson, the Rev. Al Sharpton, Jimmy Swaggart, the Rev. Wright, and the like all conspired with other Protestants to elect those Protestant pillars of virtue Bill Clinton and Barak Obama.
Why don't you get off your high horse and visit any military cemetery and see how many Catholics are buried there. I have a suspicion that you never served a minute and don't know anything about the Catholics who served so you could spout that nonsense. While you are at it why don't you check the percentage of Catholic soldiers that fought for the Union as compared to the percentage of Confederate soldiers that were Catholic.
Silly us. We keep forgetting that Catholics are perfect.
And the Roman Catholic Church gave us priests raping children, and your tithes are paying the damages.
Enjoy!
What does this have to do with every man being created EQUAL? Catholic soldiers/Protestant soldiers, all who have given their lives for the freedom we enjoy are to be honored. But that freedom comes FROM GOD. Not man. And our salvation comes FROM GOD. Not a religious institution. You need to get off your high horse. Are you now reduced to going to military cemeteries and counting Catholics as opposed to Protestants?
INDEED.
Wrong again. Our rights come from God, our freedom comes from the blood of the soldiers, sailors, marines and airmen who have fought, bled and died to secure them. If freedom came from God all would be free.
Silly Gamecock, you forget that the Catholics have assured us that it wasn't rape - the sex between the boys and the priests was all very legal and consensual at the time! Moreover, all those poor innocent doe-eyed priests were seduced by organized gangs of demonic 14 yr old boys harboring secret agendas!
What man does with that freedom is up to man. They may be like-minded and come together to form a great nation of free men. Who fight and die to protect that freedom from the enemy. Or they may reject that freedom for greed, ignorance, power, glory, or religions of men. They may be born into a system that has been corrupted for years, yet if they have freedom in their hearts, their souls cannot become enslaved by evil men. And then there are those who live in a free society, given by God, and secured by patriots, who reject that freedom as coming from God and instead look to other men to guide their destiny.
How dare Catholics bring up the subject of sexual abuse by Protestant Clergy. Even though all churches are victimized by wayward clergy who hide within their ranks and even though it is equally bad in scope and higher in scale, it doesn't serve the anti-Catholic agenda. The victims of Protestant abuse must be re-abused over and over again by the silence of their church members for the advancement of the reformation.
Hey, who's complaining? Not me! Perhaps you'd like to post a thread or two on the subject? You never know - it might make you feel better about the amount of rape paedophila ephebophilia abuse consensual activity between male priests and male minors that has taken place within your own church.
I don't feel good about the abuse of children by anyone, but to pretend that sexual abuse by clergy is exclusively a Catholic problem is beyond naive, it is evil. It selectively ignores the victims of Protestant abuse and thereby tacitly condones it.
Since it is not the policy of any church to condone the practice why do you? Do you have something to hide or do you just think that the kids need to take one for the good of the reformation?
Sounds like Obama defense, since this is really not very complicated. You are scaring me. Since when my quotes qualify as FRoman Catholic????
You are quoting me as a "Roman Catholic" and I am not a Catholic. Hello! I don't care if you quote me, in fact the more the merrier, thank you very much, but at least have enough gray brain matter to put me in the RIGHT CATEGORY (hint: how can an Agnostic be a Roman Catholic???). Is that too much to ask for?
I will tell you what: if you continue to include me as a Roman Catholic, I will list you on my home page as an Atheist. How's that for you?
I feel your pain, haven't you realized yet that to the malignantly anti-Catholic the truth is irrelevant.
Thomas Jefferson was a believer. He believer with all his heart in a Creator. You must be confusing Thomas Paine with Jefferson. Didn't go to school that day? :)
I mentioned him in order to illustrate the fact that quoting Jefferson as a "Catholic" is as misleading as quoting me as a Catholic.
I know this is not too difficult.
Must be. But it could be worse. I tried to make it simple enough for a 5 year-old to comprehend, so I didn't expect a snag! But, I was wrong! :)
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