Posted on 01/05/2002 8:35:41 PM PST by Theresa
I believe most Protestants are Christian. However, I believe Satan is more threatened by the unity of the Catholic Church as compared to the relative disunity of Protestantism's thousands of different denominations.
By your logic you should revise your remark to read "Christians get over yourselves."
Oh I thought you were referring to exactly what you wrote, "Hint: it begins with John Hus, Menno Simons, etc." Now I realise you were reffering to something entirely different "fake bonds." I should have read your mind.
I said what I intended.
Of course not! But you know I get as tired of hearing about the "Inquistion" as I do about "reparations for slavery." There will be no more slavery in America. The Inquistion was what 400 or 500 years ago? Still you would think it happened yesterday. Can't we move on just a little bit? Catholics today had nothing to do with the Inquistion and there is a lot of exaggeration surrounding the history of the Inquistion.
Oh you have a right to trash anyone or anything. Just as I have a right to point out that I don't like it.
Everything you said is exactly the way I see it too. You can tell some people 1000 times that we don't pray to the Pope or worship Mary and for some reason it does not soak in. What do they think.. that we really do pray to the pope but are denying it or are too stupid to know it? Do they think we would lie to them and deceive them. What do they take us for anyway?
If I am telling them the truth and I can prove it and they still don't accept it then there's more there than meets the eye. More likely they can't accept the fact that they are wrong and had mistaken ideas all their lives. And they can't accept that they learned these wrong and inaccurate things in Sunday school or at Sunday Service from their own pastors and teachers.
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I don't mind if someone's religion includes the tenet that the Pope is the anti-Christ, because it seems to me all religions that theirs is the only way to get to heaven, literally or figuratively. It doesn't mean the people cannot live in tolerance of each other.
I do mind when it is stylish among powerful people to use the world of art and politics to ridicule Catholics and sound off against Catholicism like latter-day KKK. I condemn these actions with protest and returned ridicule.
What should be eradicated world-wide is physical harm from slaughter elsewhere to vandalism here. Those of us who care about a tolerant society should work to make sure authorities do not allow physical crime against Catholics go by the board. That, I think is where the real danger lays: in government kowtowing to the opinions of rich and stylish leftists.
I don't care about the Church being criticised for bad institutional behavior. I could join right in. I am talking about this kind of garbage: "And the leaders of Bob Jones University, where Gov. George. Bush appeared during his presidential campaign, call Pope John Paul II the "Anti-Christ," and the Catholic Church "satanic" and the "Mother of Harlots."
I do not belong to a Satanic church. A thinking Christian knows what a terrible and serious accusation this is and shows that he/she is a true Christian by calling it what it is... an insult and a dangerous smear and demanding that it stop. And I think the "reparations" analogy was a good one in many ways. I never met a Protestant who feared and loathed the Founding Fathers or the US because 100 years ago slavery was legal. But with some you would think the Inquisition was yesterday and and also right around the corner. I am pleading for a little sense of historical perspective. I think it is entirely reasonable to ask for this small consideration.
Very true.
It would be a miracle. And a blessed one too.
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