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[ealgeone]

Hey, elsie,

got any of those pics showing Roman Catholics showing their love towards the protestants?

The writer of this article seems to think RCs have been the only ones who have been "hated" in history.

[infool7]

The author left out the six five pals here at FR

The One True Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church founded by Christ Jesus
                                                                                                                            , that built Christendom(western civilization.)

          The Nicene Creed
          I believe in one God,
          the Father almighty,
          maker of heaven and earth,
          of all things visible and invisible.
+10 One God
          I believe in one Lord Jesus Christ,
          the Only Begotten Son of God,
          born of the Father before all ages.
+10 Christ Jesus
          God from God, Light from Light,
          true God from true God,
          begotten, not made, consubstantial with the Father;
          through him all things were made.
+ 1 Consubstantial with the Father
          For us men and for our salvation
          he came down from heaven,
+ 1 For our salvation
           and by the Holy Spirit was incarnate of the Virgin Mary,
          and became man.
+ 1 Virgin Birth
          For our sake he was crucified under Pontius Pilate,
          he suffered death and was buried,
          and rose again on the third day
          in accordance with the Scriptures.
+10 Suffered, Died and Rose
          He ascended into heaven
          and is seated at the right hand of the Father.
+ 1 Ascended, Seated
          He will come again in glory
          to judge the living and the dead
          and his kingdom will have no end.
+10 Come Again in Glory to Judge
          I believe in the Holy Spirit, the Lord, the giver of life,
          who proceeds from the Father and the Son,
          who with the Father and the Son is adored and glorified,
          who has spoken through the prophets.
+10 Holy Trinity
          I believe in one, holy, catholic and apostolic Church.
+10 One Visible Church
          I confess one Baptism for the forgiveness of sins
+ 1 One Baptism
          and I look forward to the resurrection of the dead
          and the life of the world to come.
+10 Resurrection of the Dead

          The Ten Commandments:
          1. I am the LORD your God. You shall worship the Lord your God
              and Him only shall you serve.
          2. You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain.
          3. Remember to keep holy the Sabbath day.
          4. Honor your father and your mother.
          5. You shall not murder.
          6. You shall not commit adultery.
          7. You shall not steal.
          8. You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.
          9. You shall not covet your neighbor's wife.
          10.You shall not covet your neighbor's goods.
+10 The Ten Commandments

          The Greatest Commandment
          1. Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with thy whole heart, and with thy
               whole soul, and with thy whole mind, and with thy whole strength
          2. Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.
+ 2 The Greatest Commnadments

          The Seven Sacraments Catholic Church:
          1. Baptism.
          2. Eucharist.
          3. Confirmation.
          4. Reconciliation.
          5. Anointing of the sick.
          6. Marriage.(XY+XX, Till death do us part)
          7. Holy orders.
+ 7 The Seven Sacraments

          The Precepts of the Catholic Church:
          1. You shall attend Mass on Sundays and on holy days of obligation
               and rest from servile labor.
          2. You shall confess your sins at least once a year.
          3. You shall receive the sacrament of the Eucharist at least during the
              Easter season.
          4. You shall observe the days of fasting and abstinence established by
               the Church.
          5. You shall help to provide for the needs of the Church.
+ 5 The Precepts

          The seven chief corporal works of mercy:
          1. To feed the hungry.
          2. To give drink to the thirsty.
          3. To clothe the naked.
          4. To visit the imprisoned.
          5. To shelter the homeless.
          6. To visit the sick.
          7. To bury the dead.
+ 7 Corporal Works

          The seven chief spiritual works of mercy:
          1. To admonish the sinner.
          2. To instruct the ignorant.
          3. To counsel the doubtful.
          4. To comfort the sorrowful.
          5. To bear wrongs patiently.
          6. To forgive all injuries.
          7. To pray for the living and the dead.
+ 7 Spiritual Works

          Pro-Life - From Conception Until Natural Death
+15 Pro-Life

          _____ How Catholic am I?
                                   < 40 Stil searching?
                                   40-87 Good Candidate for RCIA
                                   88-100 Impressive
                                   > 100 You are on the Way.

                                                            * Click the pic to learn how to say it in Latin

Sáncte Míchael Archángele,
Saint Michael the Archangel,
Sahn tay Me kale ark ann ja lay

defénde nos in proélio,
defend us in battle.
de fen day nos en pro leo

cóntra nequítiam et insídias diáboli ésto præsídium.
Be our protection against the malice and snares of the devil.
contra neh-queet ee um et in cid e ah s dee ob lay esto pray sid ee um

Ímperet ílli Déus,súpplices deprecámur:
May God rebuke him we humbly pray;
Im pair et ee lay Day-ews soup-lay-chase day-pray-che-more

tuque, prínceps milítiæ cæléstis,
O Prince of the Heavenly host
too quay pren-cheps may-lee-tea-a che-lace-tees

Sátanam aliósque spíritus malígnos,
Satan and all evil spirits
Say tan um ah lee o squeece spear ee toose mah ling nos

qui ad perditiónem animárum pervagántur in múndo,
who wander through the world for the ruin of souls
quee ard per dits ee own um ani mon um prev a gon tour en mundo

divína virtúte,
by the divine power of God,
day vee nay ver-toot-tay

in inférnum detrúde.
thrust into hell
en in fair num day-too-tay

Ámen.

Lord, keep us strong. Keep us bold and filled with love for our enemies and for all those who are troubled and in need of healing. Never allow us to hide or to be concerned for our own safety, but rather concerned only that your glorious and Holy Name bring healing and grace, conviction for our sins, repentance, and therefore mercy. Help us, Lord, to stay faithful, courageous, and bold no matter the threats, the hardships, the persecution, and even the ruthless attempts at suppression. May no one who looks at us conclude anything less than that we “have been with Jesus. -Dr. Mary Healy

Amen

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[MuttTheHoople]

Over the centuries, the Catholics dished it out as well...

I am a Protestant. However, if one confesses that Jesus Christ is Lord, is going to heaven. When we all get to Heaven, THAT is where the Perfect Church will be.

For now, I believe that Catholics and Protestants sniping at each other, when we should be united against the evils of this world (Islam, Communism, etc.).

[Pontiac]

And finally, here in North America, we had the Protestant English, who in their perpetual protest against apostolic authority, saw fit for 300 years to wage physical and cultural war to drive out the Spanish and French Catholics from this realm, clearing the field to make way for a Hebraic -Puritan oligarchy that we now know as the United States.

I will disagree with this statement.

Christianity of any form in the United States has all but been banished to the dark corners of the United States.

For any Christian morality to be uttered in public is to bring down on your head such vitriol as to make one crawl in to the nearest sewer to escape.

Even a few Catholic Bishops might join in on the attacks if you speak out against the LBGT mafia using Christian dogma.

The First Amendment and Free Speech are all but dead.

[sauropod]

...clearing the field to make way for a Hebraic -Puritan oligarchy that we now know as the United States.

Really? Is that how Jesus would look at this country as originally founded? A "Hebraic - Puritan oligarchy?"

[aMorePerfectUnion]

Love for the Savior converted me from Roman Catholicism to Christianity.

[Zionist Conspirator]

The author was also converted to anti-Semitism at the same time. His article indirectly mentions the Jews twice and contains a hyperlink to an anti-Semitic web site.

There was already a true religion and already an accursed nation. Neither one needed to be replaced.

[firebrand]

“whoever that was to be”

[firebrand]

I was prompted by all the hatred towards Trump and Trump supporters to do a vanity about hate, and how it is part of our heritage. Hate has helped us win battles against our enemies, so it is a vital part of who we are. The one who hates the most is the winner, so it becomes part of us. And how can we change that?

Anyone want to steal the idea?

[foreverfree]

Bump

[daniel1212]

So, when I left Protestantism (I was Southern Baptist*) and I was looking for the True Church—whomever that was to be—I knew that the main players for good and evil would be located in places where there was furious battle. To put it metaphorically, in an air raid the bomber pilot knows he’s over the enemy when he’s taking fire. The more enemy fire he takes, the closer he is to being above the target.* So therefore, in order to find the True Church on Earth, I would have to find the group that was severely attacked, ridiculed, and subverted. Yet, to qualify as the True Church, this same persecuted organization would have to simultaneously be fruitful and have spread worldwide.

Based upon that principal, all Catholics should have joined the Reformers, since they were severely attacked, ridiculed, and subverted by Rome and pagans, yet simultaneously became fruitful and have spread worldwide - with much martyrdom.

Yet rather than using the persecution principal as the definitive mark by itself, the author should examined the core beliefs of churches in the light of the only wholly inspired-of-God and substantive record of what the New Testament church believed which is Scripture, especially Acts thru Revelation. Which shows how they understood the OT and gospels). In which distinctive Catholic teachings are not manifest .

But the Catholic Church—the word “Catholic” coming from the Latin language, meaning universal—has spread across the globe in spite of all attacks against it.

Actually, its spread much depended upon the unholy use of the sword of men in order to obtain power (even in the 4th c., pope Damasus 1 employed a murderous gang in order to obtain his papal chair, and then used the secular sword against theological competition).

And finally, here in North America, we had the Protestant English, who in their perpetual protest against apostolic authority, saw fit for 300 years to wage physical and cultural war to drive out the Spanish and French Catholics from this realm, clearing the field to make way for a Hebraic -Puritan oligarchy that we now know as the United States.

300 years in North America to make way for a Hebraic -Puritan oligarchy? Is he brainwashed? More delusion by an anti-America RC whom you evidently sanction. Obedience to the pope required RC rulers to exterminate all those she declared were heretics (which I think many TradCaths would like to do, or at least censor them), and thus, among other worthy reasons, many colonies opposed Catholicism obtaining a foothold.

Yet in contrast to Catholic countries such as Spain, it was here in America that Catholics obtained freedom of worship, and even predominated in many areas (now liberal), in a country that established separation of church and state. And Catholics also argue that the Revolution was wrong.

And so here we are. I was looking for the True Church, and I have found it.

Actually, based on his testimony and sophistry, he found delusion preferable to Scriptural Truth, and became an anti-American heretic, who attacks those in the one true church.

For the only one true church is the body of Christ, (Colossians 1:18) to which He is married, (Ephesians 5:25) the "household of faith," (Galatians 6:10) for it uniquely only and always consists 100% of true believers, and which spiritual body of Christ is what the Spirit baptizes ever believer into, (1Co. 12:13) while organic fellowships in which they express their faith inevitably become admixtures of wheat and tares, with Catholicism and liberal Protestantism being mostly the latter.

[boatbums]

Hatred Converted Me To Catholicism

Funny...it was the truth of the gospel that converted me FROM Catholicism into the genuine and biblical Christian faith and I never looked back.

[familyop]

Isaiah, Chapter 34.

[Al Hitan]

Interesting article. Thanks for posting it, as I wouldn’t have seen it otherwise.

[HarleyD]

This is nothing more than self-righteous garbage that has permeated the churches today. Everyone sees evil everywhere other than themselves. God is love. We are evil and rebellious towards that love. We hate the light. We need to honestly confess OUR sinfulness towards God and others. It doesn't do us any good to see the twig in our brother's eye when there is a log in our own.

I would suspect if you suggested to this person that he examine the sins in his own life and focus his prayers on eradicating his sins, he would become indignant. Too many people play church these days.

[MrChips]

I think we should just put the Church back in charge. They might boil us in oil and burn us at the stake, but heck, they only charge 10%!