Can we please move the deluge of Catholic-related articles out of news/activism?

02/17/2017 | Self

[HonorInPa]

This morning, as has been the case for weeks now, over half of the articles have been about Catholic church inside baseball. While I'm sure that is of interest to some, it merely squeezes out stuff that is more interesting to others. While I appreciate the importance of the topics to a few, let's keep in mind that it is not at all to others. I don't want to start a flame war but the nuances of some Latin-named paper by some unknown cardinal in a village in Germany (just a hyperbolic example) are wholly unimportant to this good old Protestant. There is a specific forum for discussion of religion.

[Elsie]

... the toxic threads where Protestants and Catholics bash each other are sickening.

Romans 2:24 
As it is written: “God’s name is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you.”

[Elsie]

Conservative leaning people shouldn't be tearing each other apart over religious minutia.

Likewise...

Religious leaning people shouldn't be tearing each other apart over Conservative minutia.

[Elsie]

The Bible can be quoted for many purposes, including humor, and contains a LOT of down-to-earth human wisdom.

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Galatians 5:12 New International Version
As for those agitators, I wish they would go the whole way and emasculate themselves!

[Elsie]

; ^ )

[Elsie]

I think that FR should be even MORE fragmented so that no delicate natures be perturbed in any manner.

--Screwtape(Divide and conquer still works; Wormwood)

[I-ambush]

Yep

[Elsie]

(The Silent Majority Stands With TRUMP!)

Lots of religious folks in that 'Silent Majority'?

Millions of Catholics and Protestants find a voice there.

Is Trump going to be scorned when HE makes bible references in HIS newsworthy words?

[Elsie]

Yet when they are not telling us we need to submit to the pope ...

Which is laughable (or another word) when so MANY of our FR Catholic folk scorn him!

[Elsie]

?

[Elsie]

...bleeding over into News/Activism creates a problem because not all enjoy the debate and can become offended.

[Elsie]

Sue the little HATERS!!!

[EBH]

Sometimes it bleeds over into real life...

Christian florist loses religious liberty case, will appeal to US Supreme Court

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3526399/posts

[Elsie]

I agree as a Catholic; I sometimes wonder who is posting the articles that leads to anti- Catholic bashing.

Luther; the original.

He is being channeled by folks on FR just to show the Catholic bashing that occurred in the Middle Ages.

You know...

the iron maiden; boiling oil; the rack; molten lead.

Historical stuff...

[Elsie]

I may find the articles interesting - in the proper forum.

Yeah!

NO one wants to be in an elevator when someone ELSE farts!

[Elsie]

When you have a group of posters who hold that their particular church alone is the One True Church®, with distinctives are not even manifest in the NT church of Scripture, then we are not dealing with minor details.

Now now...

Our FR Mormons don't post THAT often these days.

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Orson Pratt proclaimed: "Both Catholics and Protestants are nothing less than the 'whore of Babylon' whom the Lord denounces by the mouth of John the Revelator as having corrupted all the earth by their fornications and wickedness. Any person who shall be so corrupt as to receive a holy ordinance of the Gospel from the ministers of any of these apostate churches will be sent down to hell with them, unless they repent" (The Seer, p. 255).

 

 

Questions put to Joseph Smith: "'Do you believe the Bible?' [Smith:]'If we do, we are the only people under heaven that does, for there are none of the religious sects of the day that do'. When asked 'Will everybody be damned, but Mormons'? [Smith replied] 'Yes, and a great portion of them, unless they repent, and work righteousness." (Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith, p. 119).

Joseph Smith: "for the teachers of religion of the different sects understood the same passages of scripture so differently as to destroy all confidence in settling the question by an appeal to the Bible" (from Pearl of Great Price 1:12). "What is it that inspires professors of Christianity generally with a hope of salvation? It is that smooth, sophisticated influence of the devil, by which he deceives the whole world" (Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith, p.270).

 

 

 

Brigham Young stated this repeatedly: "When the light came to me I saw that all the so-called Christian world was grovelling in darkness" (Journal of Discourses 5:73); "The Christian world, so-called, are heathens as to the knowledge of the salvation of God" (Journal of Discourses 8:171); "With a regard to true theology, a more ignorant people never lived than the present so-called Christian world" (Journal of Discourses 8:199); "And who is there that acknowledges [God's] hand? ...You may wander east, west, north, and south, and you cannot find it in any church or government on the earth, except the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints" (Journal of Discourses , vol. 6, p.24); "Should you ask why we differ from other Christians, as they are called, it is simply because they are not Christians as the New Testament defines Christianity" (Journal of Discourses 10:230).

 

 

 

 

Orson Pratt also said: "This great apostasy commenced about the close of the first century of the Christian era, and it has been waxing worse and worse from then until now" (Journal of Discourses , vol.18, p.44) and: "But as there has been no Christian Church on the earth for a great many centuries past, until the present century, the people have lost sight of the pattern that God has given according to which the Christian Church should be established, and they have denominated a great variety of people Christian Churches, because they profess to be ...But there has been a long apostasy, during which the nations have been cursed with apostate churches in great abundance" (Journal of Discourses , 18:172).

 

 

President John Taylor stated: "Christianity...is a perfect pack of nonsense...the devil could not invent a better engine to spread his work than the Christianity of the nineteenth century." (Journal of Discourses , vol. 6, p.167); "Where shall we look for the true order or authority of God? It cannot be found in any nation of Christendom." (Journal of Discourses , 10:127).

 

 

 

James Talmage said: "A self-suggesting interpretation of history indicates that there has been a great departure from the way of salvation as laid down by the Savior, a universal apostasy from the Church of Christ". (A Study of the Articles of Faith, p.182).

 

 

 

President Joseph Fielding Smith said: "Doctrines were corrupted, authority lost, and a false order of religion took the place of the gospel of Jesus Christ, just as it had been the case in former dispensations, and the people were left in spiritual darkness." (Doctrines of Salvation, p.266). "For hundreds of years the world was wrapped in a veil of spiritual darkness, until there was not one fundamental truth belonging to the place of salvation ...Joseph Smith declared that in the year 1820 the Lord revealed to him that all the 'Christian' churches were in error, teaching for commandments the doctrines of men" (Doctrines of Salvation, vol. 3, p.282).

 

 

 

More recent statements by apostle Bruce McConkie are also very clear: "Apostasy was universal...And this darkness still prevails except among those who have come to a knowledge of the restored gospel" (Doctrines of Salvation, vol 3, p.265); "Thus the signs of the times include the prevailing apostate darkness in the sects of Christendom and in the religious world in general" (The Millennial Messiah, p.403); "a perverted Christianity holds sway among the so-called Christians of apostate Christendom" (Mormon Doctrine, p.132); "virtually all the millions of apostate Christendom have abased themselves before the mythical throne of a mythical Christ whom they vainly suppose to be a spirit essence who is incorporeal uncreated, immaterial and three-in-one with the Father and Holy Spirit" (Mormon Doctrine, p.269); "Gnosticism is one of the great pagan philosophies which antedated Christ and the Christian Era and which was later commingled with pure Christianity to form the apostate religion that has prevailed in the world since the early days of that era." (Mormon Doctrine, p.316).

 

 

 

President George Q. Cannon said: "After the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was organized, there were only two churches upon the earth. They were known respectively as the Church of the Lamb of God and Babylon. The various organizations which are called churches throughout Christendom, though differing in their creeds and organizations, have one common origin. They all belong to Babylon" (Gospel Truth, p.324).

 

 

President Wilford Woodruff stated: "the Gospel of modern Christendom shuts up the Lord, and stops all communication with Him. I want nothing to do with such a Gospel, I would rather prefer the Gospel of the dark ages, so called" (Journal of Discourses , vol. 2, p.196).

[Elsie]

My beef is about individual posts of any topic that are a mile long that are an annoyance to scroll through on a phone.

Ooops!

Ignore the one I just posted!

Perhaps I should just TWEET stuff.

[Elsie]

It’s all Greek to me.

[Elsie]

We recently finished a 1,600+ thread with such.

People reading that thing on a phone would have to recharge three times!

[Elsie]

You’ve posted less than 40 articles on FR since your join date.

Oooooh!

How do I find THIS out about me?

[Elsie]

I don’t think it’s such a big deal, mostly (to me) the issue is reading through on an often-slow phone connection and tiny screen it can seem like the subject posts use up a lot of bandwidth and real estate.

I know the feeling!

My big old B/W tv console; hooked up to my digital converter box; doesn't show the HBO channel worth a darn!