This is the fruit of prayers to saints and Mary.. utter spiritual confusion leading to spiritual death
If you don’t stand for something, you’ll fall for anything.
That a supposed clergy member doesn’t recognize the spiritual implications of prayer to anyone or any thing but God does not speak well for the education he got in seminary.
I wonder if he ended with “And may the Force be with you”.
You better run and tell the author of the next prayer thread that he’s killing everyone’s souls.
Be sure to tell everyone that asking for prayers is “utter spiritual confusion leading to spiritual death”.
Let us know how you get on.
You guys must all have incredibly fragile faiths, to need to constantly do this. Yeah, people who leave a religion usually like to assert that they are still faithful to it. Protestants call themselves Christian, but not Catholic; now Yaquis call themselves Catholic but not Christian. At least I’ll acknowledge that Protestants kept the more crucial part of the notion of Catholic Christianity, but the notion you can separate them is simply fictitious.
The fact that syncretism exists among people who call themselves Catholic, but defy the Catholic Church shouldn’t be surprising. In the U.S., there are plenty of syncretic, Protestant sects, like Mormons, Branch Davidians, Unitarians, etc. Being a well-educated and wealthy country, they are few in number. Head down to Brazil, and you can encounter all sort of bizarre syncretic cults which regard themselves as Evangelical, Baptist, Protestant, “World Christian,” Reformed, Charismatic, Fundamentalist, you name it. Baptists will, of course, be the first to declare that such “Baptists” aren’t really Baptist, but who’s to say who’s right? The Brazilian Baptists will swear up and down that the American Baptists are the ones misinterpreting scripture. However, because of the concept of catholicity, we can objectively state which Catholics are upholding the basic tenets of Catholicism and which are not.
So the Yaquis are somewhat more Christian than the Aztecs, and less Christian than Pope Benedict. Are they saved? This article sure doesn’t make it sound like this guy is, but I really have little idea. But even he might get to Heaven long before Martin Luther or Cardinal Mahony.
Oh, I didn’t realize this was a “make stupid arguments against Catholics” thread.
RnMom was Catholic and now renounces it. This buffoon of a doctor commits some kind of apostasy. One is the fault of Catholicism, but the other isn’t?
The Tea Party caused the shootings, though thousands have heard the party and committed no murder. Prayers for the intercession of the saints caused this man’s vapid paganism, though millions have prayed to the saints and not become pagans.
Unreasoning anger leads to the dulling of the faculties of reason. Si indicium requires, circumspice.
Carry on. Far be it from me to come between an anti-Catholic and hatred.
It is not truth-telling that leads to this enmity. It is lies, anger, and thoughtless accusation
Bump.
Yep. Never ceases to amaze: Romanists keep elevating the fantasy-number of Christian (non-Roman) denominations... what about all of the litte Roman Catholicities within the one behemoth?