Posted on 12/05/2010 6:14:57 PM PST by RnMomof7
Follow the rules, Judith. One closed thread is enough for the day.
((Sigh))...so much precious time and energy wasted on attacking the true Church of Jesus Christ.
How do you guys know what long dead saints looked like and whose image it is you're seeing?
Don't forget....
2 Corinthians 11:14-15 And no wonder, for even Satan disguises himself as an angel of light. So it is no surprise if his servants, also, disguise themselves as servants of righteousness. Their end will correspond to their deeds.
Yes, indeed, and God willing, Rome will stop doing that right now.
Grow some skin or leave the thread.
By the way, the previous thread was restored.
Hey, quix set the standard.
I wasn’t posting to you.
What brazen balderdash.
Such attitudes help me understand the Inquisition and burnings at the stake much more clearly.
1. As I’ve noted recently, I came into such frays because nastily harsh RC’s assaulted MetMom and RNMomO7 most unwarrantedly, most personally assaultively etc.
2. I have posted well within the rules IN CONTRAST TO A LIST OF RC’S PERSONALLY ATTACKING AND WAILING RELENTLESSLY TO THE MODS AND NOW JIMROB.
3. Yet I get accused of all manner of untrue stuff.
4. What an example of untrue mangling of reality just as they mangle Scripture and history.
5. However, except for possibly some loose ends sorts of closing posts, This is bothersome enough, distasteful enough and wearying enough, I’ll attend to some other priorities at least for a while.
6. Y’all could let such things die away by going to 7/11 and buying a case of clues or just growing up a dozen years or so. I won’t hold my breath.
7. You might think twice next time if you’d like to avoid having your trashy theology and low brow intellectual clocks adjusted. Don’t dish it out if you can’t stand it. Get out of the kitchen if you can’t stand the heat. Quit causing, triggering, initiating such brickbats if you can’t handle the results with maturity and sanity . . . not to mention basic honesty.
8. Sheesh.
True -- it is really quite fascinating. The Monks who traveled to Latin America had to build a conceptual bridge to the paganism. After attempting to (frustratingly) instill the idea of One God and His Son and what the Saints were, they eventually sort of gave up.
The result was a veneration of the Saints as a substitute for the previously-venerated gods. Thus even to this day, Catholic churches have altars to the different saints and people place "offerings" to them. The difference is that today, these are done as a token of love and respect.
The story of the appearance of Our Lady of Guadalupe has some serious historical legs. The Manta is there for all to see (I have seen it) and there are other artifacts (such as the bent cross that threw itself in the way of a mad bomber many years ago).
I believe Mary came to St. Diego to bring God's word to Latin America and I am not alone.
How anyone could say that a message of love from God and veneration of Jesus (John 3:16) is anything less than a message from God is bad is beyond me.
But FR has its haters and they pop out when least desired.
Are you trying to get this thread locked, too? If so, don’t expect people to trade ugly personal remarks with you, as you’ve spewed out all day long.
The good thing about stupid personal comments like so many you’ve made today which have nothing to do with the thread or the discussion is that lurkers can can read them for what they are — a pathetic lack of a solid defense of the Roman Catholic system.
INDEED TO THE MAX.
Tough night, eh RM?? :) ;)
Thanks for showing restraint.
Lots of rude behavior is acceptable. Proddies seem happiest when they can make Catholics angry, therefore....I vote we all laugh at all of them.
The more vicious the slander against the Blessed Virgin Mary, the happier they are, particularly when we defend the Holy Mother of God.
Years ago, I thought the Religion Forum might be a great place to hang out, here on FR. What a joke! The RF is the sewer of the site.
Good. Now the nasty posy about the Virgin Mary can again be seen.
Get over it...
The mature poster would realize that two wrongs do not make a right.
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