” Roman Catholics own their obedience to the Pope, as the direct descendant of Christ..”
I think you mean “owe?”
That statement would be true for matters of religion/faith, not civil law. You know, the old “render unto Caesar....” business. That’s Christianity. It’s NOT Sharia law. To claim otherwise is just plain ignorance.
I also think the Pope is recognized by Catholics as the descendant of St. Peter, not Jesus Christ. Otherwise, you get A for accuracy ;)
That’s Christianity. It’s NOT Sharia law. To claim otherwise is just plain ignorance.
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Nah. Religions demand obedience, see my post #304. Which is why JFK, circa 1960, had to go before a bunch of Protestant.\\
I believe in an America that is officially neither Catholic, Protestant nor Jewish; where no public official either requests or accepts instructions on public policy from the Pope, the National Council of Churches or any other ecclesiastical source; where no religious body seeks to impose its will directly or indirectly upon the general populace or the public acts of its officials; and where religious liberty is so indivisible that an act against one church is treated as an act against all.
For while this year it may be a Catholic against whom the finger of suspicion is pointed, in other years it has been, and may someday be again, a Jew— or a Quaker or a Unitarian or a Baptist. It was Virginia’s harassment of Baptist preachers, for example, that helped lead to Jefferson’s statute of religious freedom. Today I may be the victim, but tomorrow it may be you — until the whole fabric of our harmonious society is ripped at a time of great national peril.