Posted on 07/02/2010 6:56:08 PM PDT by Desdemona
“ahhh, so it’s the SPIRIT of the law, not the LETTER of the law. Or is it the opposite? It’s very difficult to understand which trumps what in your church.”
LOL, reading comprehension makes it easier to understand.
How fast does light travel in your universe?
I’m curious, because there are apparently vast differences between where you’re from and the current reality the rest of us inhabit.
I have news for you, friend. “Protestants”, or Evangelicals if you’d like to use a more accurate term, don’t think about the Roman Catholic church any more than they think about Mormonism or any other lost cult awash in dead rituals and manufactured theology.
And as for the “glory” of the Catholic church, I guess the rest of us sorta missed it, what with all the pedophilia, earthly power-mongering, and a Hitler Youth pontiff blocking our view.
When you’ve got the Holy Spirit guiding your life, Jesus paying for all your sins once and for all regardless of any works on your part, and the Father welcoming you as if you were his own perfect child without any earthly intercession, the RC organization just isn’t important enough to care about. Sorry.
We’re just not that into you.
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Now now.
Some world travelers have very tender
FEEEEEEEEEEEEEELINGS!
Without all the gold lame, rosary wraps, magicsterical scripts, STATIONS OF THE WHITE HANKY, plastic marble and wood to fondle . . .
They’d freak.
One man's "beauty" is another man's apostacy. It can be dressed in silk, laden with jewels, bathed in 'holy water', surrounded with soot-covered art from a billion candles, and presented with glorious authority.
It is an illusion. Created by man for man's vanity.
It is drunk on power, bloated by tradition, enveloped by evil, and blind by vain-glory.
It is missing the one thing that could save it: the FINISHED WORK OF CHRIST.
And yet, the usual suspects hang on the Catholic threads posted every single day, hour after hour, minute after minute posting rant after screed after Big Blue Font and then say it’s not important to them.
I don’t see Catholics hanging all over the Protty threads. If there is anything noticed here, it is that the Prottys are on Catholic threads in outrageous disproportion. LOL..
It’s like white on rice, Like flies on honey..
Were that is was that simple. It's not about comprehension. It's about deception.
Wonderful post, yet I cannot at all be bothered with our Church’s critics.
Like light on darkness...
Well Jesus did not come to confuse us with more religion..
Man made...
Well Jesus did not come to confuse us with more religion..
Man made...
I am Catholic and not the follower of some heretical protestant sect.
I am definitely not the follower of some snakeoil peddling salesmen of the end times persuasion.
“It’s not about comprehension. It’s about deception.”
Studies indicate that the lack of intelligence is also closely related to conspiracy theories, things that the unmature mind can wrap around easily.
That’s a very interesting study. I’ve seen studies that indicate that the lack of intelligence is closely related to being involved in false religions. Letting others do the thinking while defending their obvious lies. It’s a very interesting study on defending the indefensible.
Which is why Catholics pray for heretics to come back to the His Church. The Church he promised and let His Apostles lead.
That would be the "Holy C".
""Protestants", or Evangelicals if you'd like to use a more accurate term, don't think about the Roman Catholic church any more than they think about Mormonism or any other lost cult awash in dead rituals and manufactured theology."
You mean they spend countless hours lurking on FR searching for Mormon and Lost Cult threads and post tens of thousands of false and insulting posts about them too?
Which is why we pray for Catholics, to see the Finished Work of Christ and the Gospel of the Grace of God.
Great post! My observations exactly.
Catholics prefer the Fullness of Christ’s Words. Heretical cherrypicking doesn not count.
And if you were Israel, that would be wonderful. But you aren’t and it isn’t.
Indeed, the Catholic Church relies on the entire Revealed Word of God. That includes the Apostolic Tradition in addition to the entire written Scripture.
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