Posted on 04/11/2013 6:40:37 AM PDT by Vermont Crank
Dear Daniel. It is too bad you chose not to engage over the undeniable reality that there has always been only one religion.
Dear muawiyah. I will leave the matter as a measure of our disagreement over your assertion that religion was more politics than faith
That alone reveals that race is immaterial when it comes to religion; the crucial reality is whether or not one accepts Jesus as Messias
Dear Daniel. Yes, and so does the Angelic Doctor, Saint Thomas Aquinas
Dear APatientMan. Springfield. I was a communicant at Saint Mary’s and every Sunday after Mass I went to Cote’s Bakery for Jelly Sticks
Dear MortMan. Either Jesus was telling the truth or Jesus was lying when He chose to build His church upon Peter - the weakest link in the chain of Apostles.
Dear Religion Moderator Sorry. I thought in drawing distinctions within that parallel example I was defending the defensible Inquisition and I didn’t understand that that is considered “flamebait.”
Dear ArrogantBustard. Thank you
There were a few exceptions ~ a couple of the more recent anti-popes in that age ~ BTW, also of Breton origin, though living in Spain!
But, we digress. Just remember, the Second Amendment reflects an event that happened in the mid 1500s in France. At the cessation of hostilities the Catholics (Guise faction) stacked arms. The Protestants (the Huguenot faction) refused to do so!
Although personal firearms were relatively new, the participants in those first wars that saw their widespread use UNDERSTOOD.
The first act of the new government under Henry IV was the promulgation of the Edict of Nantes, the first statement respecting freedom of thought and worship.
Without personal ownership of firearms, not just 'arms', there can be no freedom of worship, nor of thought, nor of speech, nor of assembly, .......... they are all inextricably linked.
It's not that the French Huguenots invented the concepts ~ even their opponents, the French Catholics, immediately recognized THE DISCOVERY OF A NEW WAY OF LIFE.
The Catholics changed their minds on the matter over the years ~ except for some like Biden, Malloy, Pelosi and a whole host of others everyone agrees need to be excommunicated and dragged down from their high estates in the world of politics.
At least I hope you share those beliefs ~ or you are on the wrong board!
Leon Morris has the advantage of 1600 years to make his assertion. He is reasoning from his conclusion
David Dunbar confirms the authority of the Church.
"Do you believe in one Lord Jesus Christ, the only begotten Son of God, begotten of the Father before all ages, Light of Light, true God of True God, begotten not made of one essence with the Father, by Whom all things were made.....?"
Do you hold this belief?
Dear Crank. It is too bad you choose not to believe the one religion is not nor ever could be Catholicism. From the Garden of Eden to Moses to Jesus, the one religion has always faithfully kept Gods Commandments, including the fourth which states the seventh day is to be kept holy. Not Sunday, as the Catholics believe.
The counter Reformation was a fulfillment of Ga. 4:29, and pushing papal infallibility thru, which makes an individual the supreme authority - as is wrongly charged of Protestantism - was part of that countering of the needed reformation.
***So your line of reasoning only works in and among those like yourself who basically don’t know what they are talking about and or place the actual Word of God at the bottom of their summer reading list.***
I grew up Presbyterian, so I probably know more Scripture than you do. It was reading and studying the Bible which convinced me to convert to the Catholic Church, because it is has the only interpretation that makes any cohesive sense.
By the way, where do you think the Bible came from, anyway?
Just so you know, I do not respond to posts whose only content is an attack on the RCC. She has worthy defenders here. I also will not engage in the difference that the Orthodox have with her. This forum is not the place for that. If I seem to be “defending” the RCC, it is because there is much common belief that I can do so, based on a thousand years of common history.
Have you given up on hammering the Mormons?
Good luck with that. How does a magician pull a rabbit out of his hat? (Distraction is involved)
Ahh, those sneaky Presbyters, always looking for a nice neat pile ~ then they creep in on their host and eat out their innards ~ or something.
For a Catholic, there can be no surrender to the declaration of the war against God, His unity and His sanity that is "freedom of worship."
As it was Our Triune God who instructed man how He wished to be worshiped in the one religion (there has always been only one religion) and then when, in the fullness of time, The Second Person of the Blessed Trinity became man and He taught us how to worship God and and so there can be no "freedom" to do other than what God Himself has taught is the only right way to worship Him.
Said otherwise, the "freedom to worship" God as man desires to worship Him and not worship God as Jesus Himself taught man to worship God (Through the Holy Sacrifice of The Mass) in no freedom at all; it is the slavery of Satan
But which massacre were you concerned with? There are two that affected the non nobles ~ one in the Religious Wars and one in the French Revolution. You must be specific!
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