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To: Natural Law; 1000 silverlings; Alex Murphy; bkaycee; blue-duncan; boatbums; caww; ...
It still puzzles me, though, why anyone would spend so many waking moments in a finite life dredging up false accusations and misinterpretations of the inner workings and dearest beliefs of an organization they don't belong to and don't intend to join.

You tell us. Your posting history is replete with that.

I think malicious busybodies accurately characterizes them.

And Catholics by the standard you just set up in the previous sentence.

Powerless in their own lives and powerless to make changes in that which they criticize they make strawmen that they can feel superior to, even when deep inside they realize the irony of the lie.

And you (again) by the standard you just set up in the sentence before last.

It seems that you also fail to see the irony in the statements you made about non-Catholics.

1,289 posted on 11/10/2010 5:50:08 PM PST by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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To: metmom
"It seems that you also fail to see the irony in the statements you made about non-Catholics."

Somethings never change. Calvinists are incapable of accepting that others reject their beliefs and are completely intolerant of the existance of opposing thought. Its been around for a long time and is not an opinion shared exclusively by Catholics. I'll let you ponder the following Thomas Jefferson quotations:

"I had no idea, however, that in Pennsylvania, the cradle of toleration and freedom of religion, it [fanaticism] could have arisen to the height you describe. This must be owing to the growth of Presbyterianism. The blasphemy of the five points of Calvin, and the impossibility of defending them, render their advocates impatient of reasoning, irritable, and prone to denunciation"

"Their ambition and tyranny would tolerate no rival if they had power. Systematical in grasping at an ascendancy over all other sects, they aim, like the Jesuits, at engrossing the education of the country, are hostile to every institution they do not direct, and jealous at seeing others begin to attend at all to that object."

"I join you, therefore, in sincere congratulations that this den of the priesthood is at length broken up, and that a Protestant Popedom is no longer to disgrace the American history and character."

"The Presbyterian clergy are the loudest, the most intolerant of all sects; the most tyrannical and ambitious, ready at the word of the law-giver, if such a word could now be obtained, to put their torch to the pile, and to rekindle in this virgin hemisphere the flame in which their oracle, Calvin, consumed the poor Servetus, because he could not subscribe to the proposition of Calvin, that magistrates have a right to exterminate all heretics to the Calvinistic creed! They pant to re-establish by law that holy inquisition which they can now only infuse into public opinion"

"His [Calvin's] religion was demonism. If ever man worshiped a false God, he did. The being described in his five points is ... a demon of malignant spirit. It would be more pardonable to believe in no God at all, than to blaspheme him by the atrocious attributes of Calvin"

1,293 posted on 11/10/2010 5:57:05 PM PST by Natural Law (lex orandi, lex credendi, lex vivendi)
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