BALDERDASH!
THE RCC
IS RIFE TO THE GILLS, TO THE BRIM
SATURATED AND SPEWING FAR AND WIDE
WITH GROUP-THINK
MASS MANIPULATIONS!
metmom: I don't know. You'll have to ask them [sic].
And you are not Protestant?
It's called mob emotion and it happens in every rally that every greasy tent preacher with something to sell with shills in the audience does his best to ensure has happened. It happened with such as Mussolini and Hitler and Lenin who were trying to get people to give them power. It happened with such as Jim Jones and Joseph Smith and Rex Humbard who were after people's souls - and money. It happens all the time and it is a substitution for reason or belief.
That is why the Liturgy is reverent. We do not permit mob emotion - it is a detraction from the worship of Almighty God, not a requirement.
And we see over and over the appeal to Paul over Christ. The old heresies that we stamped out 1700 years ago have retaken root and are flourishing in the children of the Reformation.
Hi. I'm back after a delightful vacation and happened to noticed this. I'm sorry but there have been a number of posts that have gone by and I have not read all of them. However, this did catch my attention.
Surely you are not saying that the Catholic Church has never been about people's souls and money? It should be noted how the Vatican was virtually penniless after the "Holy Wars" and the cash needed to build the Vatican. It was all that "jiggling" of cash that was the driver of the Reformation.
When will the Vatican open up the Vatican vaults so that we can see what's in it?
I think that sums it up very well, Mark.
How do you differentiate such worship form, say, a rock concert, the electric guitars and all...?