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Posted on 10/26/2009 4:16:56 PM PDT by Patrick Madrid
A few years ago, I slipped into the back of a large Methodist church in the area to hear a sermon delivered by the pastor which had been advertised for several days on the marquee on the lawn in front of the handsome Neo-Gothic stone edifice. I really wanted to hear what he had to say on that particular Sunday.
The occasion of this sermon was what Protestants celebrate as "Reformation Sunday," in remembrance of the sad, tragic rebellion against the Catholic Church. Of course, that's my take on what Reformation Sunday symbolizes. The pastor whose sermon I heard that day had a much different view. . . .
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What comment would that be?
You're mistaken if you think any of my comments are predicated on some kind of retaliation for the obnoxious comments tossed at me personally. IMO they are just dander on the head of those spewing them.
Any comment I make is because I believe that statement to be true. So again, what comment of mine are you labeling "over-the-top?"
***Actually, they believe in Sola Interpretura — they interpret any way they want to. You can call it the Sola I doctrine too — everything is about themselves, no worries about a community of believers, they just want their own thang!***
You have coined a great description, my friend.
If the sculpture in that photo has doctrinal authority, what it teaches is that Christ, Mary and the baby Jesus were crucified...all three of them.
Ludicrous.
As Göbbels wills.
***That information deserves its own thread.***
Make sure that you dress it up nicely and give it a gooooooood intro. :)
***I mean, I knew Machen was evil, but I had no idea how many distant provinces of evil constituted his dark, dank little mind.***
I’m sure that we’ve only just scratched the surface.
***The founder of the Orthodox Presbyterian Church was a racist segregationist?***
The Reformed limousine only stops for white people.
Delusion is not your friend.
Just pick one.
Any comment I make is because I believe that statement to be true.
What about the quote that you fabricated out of thin air and said could be found on "thousands" of Catholic websites? Help me understand, did you think that saying it enough times would somehow make it come true? Because the reality is that the quote didn't exist ANYWHERE and you subsequently accused me of "picking at inconsequentials" and suggested I "remove the quotation marks and the sentence still stand in a variety of wordings". In an attempt to bolster your claim you found a link to a bigot who would fit in well on some of these threads and you later tried to label as a "Catholic website" a personal homepage of a Jewish psychic who communicates with an entity she calls "Z" (though to your credit you seemed to have backed off of Crystalinks.com since it was proven to be anything but a Catholic website).
And finally, feel free to accuse me of "slander" (even though you wouldn't know the sound of my voice if I was in the room with you), because I have links to all of this.
Did we ever identify where this came from?
you know what’s strange is that I’ve been to Rome thrice and I have never seen this at all in the Church of Mary Maggiore
If you believe that she was crucified, that is your choice, it doesn’t make it true.
It comes from some bigot’s website.
Especially because anyone who looks at that picture can CLEARLY see that only ONE SIDE is a crucifix. Only Jesus is nailed to the Cross. The other side shows the Madonna and Child with the Cross as the Background. The reason for the Birth of Christ was the Cross. The reason for the Madonna and Child was the Cross. The Madonna and Child aren’t nailed to the Cross, there are no nails.
***Any comment I make is because I believe that statement to be true.***
I thought that you guys were heavily into the ‘knowing’. Now you’re into the ‘believing’. Do you understand the difference between the two?
That's because it's not from there. My guess is some bigot (one that is too stupid to realize that we would NEVER use a lampost crossarm as a Crucifix) made it himself.
Here are actual pictures from the Basilica:
***It comes from some bigots website.***
The question that I would have is whether or not the website belonging to the bigot is a product of somebody more, or less, bigoted that J. Gresham Machen.
***It comes from some bigots website.***
The question that I would have is whether or not the website belonging to the bigot is a product of somebody more, or less, bigoted than J. Gresham Machen.
This bigot hates everyone, Catholics, Calvinists, Evangelicals, even Southern Baptists.
***Machen an his peeps. Was he from the hood?***
Judging from some of his associates, he probably wore a white one.
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