[Gamecock]

MD: ARE they in fact Biblical? Where? Joel Osteen’s shoppe? Swaggart’s? Graham’s? Within a ten mile radius of me there are easily a dozen Baptist churches, one Catholic, one Episcopalian, a few varieties of Methodist/Wesleyan, Brethren, DOC, Mennonite, Jehovah’s Witnesses, and more. Which is Biblical? None has a Pope. All have a Bible. Why are there so many?

Of course including the JWs is a red herring as they have changed the content of the Bible they claim as theirs.

But the interesting thing here is how FRoman Catholics claim to cling to the Pope, and yet they revile Frank for his Socialist, progressive leanings. If a system that requires a Pope is so important, why is contempt of the Pope by FRoman Catholics tolerated by FRoman Catholics? Sounds like many Catholics are really their own Pope, IOW more Catholic than Frank..

[Mad Dawg]

You and I think the JWs have monkeyed with the text. But that judgement has to go beyond Scriptire for its adjudication. And in any case THEY don’t think they monkeyed with it. How do we appraoch them on that?

[Mad Dawg]

SOME Roman Catholics revile .... what you said.

Those of us who not only can but do read and who can tell the difference between “capitalism” and “unfettered capitalism” and who don’t get our news of the pope from Rush OR NPR do not revile him.

Pelosi is not the only self-deceiving bozo or bozette who calls himself Catholic. There are plenty out there who haven’t even tried to read, say, the social encyclicals but are eager to tell us what they say.

And much as I love Rush, he really doesn’t get Catholicism. On Monday he said something quite untrue about disagreement with the Pope.

[metmom]

And passing judgment on their pope also demonstrates the *every man his own pope*-ness they revile in others.