Posted on 04/07/2005 8:55:52 AM PDT by BigSkyFreeper
Shhh, you're spreading common sense--can't have that in an endless tirade of Catholic-bashing :)
It is unfortunate that many protestants think Catholics are not Christians, which is upsurd. After all Catholism is the oldest Christian religion
I do not pray to a dead person, but to Jesus.
Who was Jesus praying with at the Transfiguration but a couple of dead people? (Moses and Elijah)
I don't ask for anything in the name of Mary. I ask for her to pray for me and to receive for me the blessings of her Son. She dispenses graces, but all graces come from Christ.
Mary is dead, just like everyone else who will die.
Does not compute. Who could be more alive than those who have life eternal?
"sure isn't much of a will".
You know what? For an atheist, you are perty darned good when discussing topics of religion, lol. I don't know whether that's a good thing or a bad thing! LOL.
Was Jesus Mary's male clone? Did he have any non-Mary genetic material in him?
What he wrote in 2000, as far as I have seen, was a question as to how long God would have him serve. It didn't mention the word resignation, and I wonder if the press isn't manufacturing a story.
See Post 68 for an explanation.
Wasn't it Luther who broke away from the Catholic Church?
You might have a hard time convincing the Orthodox of that, especially the Antiochian Church.
Hardy-har-har-har.
They're destroyed upon the death of each Pope.
But who got the funny hats?
Okay, here goes nothing. I have been on FR on several years, but have never typed a word on one of these Catholic v/s Protestant threads. Can you please give me chapter and verse in the Bible where it says Mary was sinless, as you claim? Since it's beyond our comprehension, as you say, please enlighten us. Thank you.
There's no objective difference between Protestant worship of God and Catholic Marian veneration, I'll grant.
That's not because there's something wrong with Marian veneration, that's because Protestant worship is not true worship of God. Singing pretty songs and hearing a speech isn't worship. It might be a nice teaching opportunity, but worship, it isn't. Authentic worship requires sacrifice, and a priesthood, and the only sacrifice that matters is Calvary. Your Protestant creeds expressly deny that you do any such thing: you stand convicted by your own words.
The problem is not that Catholics venerate Mary. The problem is that you don't really worship God, and don't really know what the true worship of God looks like.
That seems a reasonable thing to do.
We've been killing each other over religion for thousands of years. We're not going to stop now just because it's reasonable.
Me, too. I guess it was just Associated Press B.S. as usual. The AP never did quote a single passage that justifed their "considered resigning" headline.
If you go to the news site, the sections of the testament goes through 2000...
Thank you for that. Can you imagine what would happen if the Catholics on this board started proclaiming that all who did not follow the Catholic Church's teaching to the letter were going to hell? Or if we started shouting that Protestants weren't really Christians? Or if we talked about getting 'satanic chills' from reading works by, say Billy Graham? The ignorance of some people is simply astounding.
Yes, thanks for thinking of me.
I am reading it now.
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