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Intended Catholic Dictatorship
Independent Individualist ^ | 8/27/10 | Reginald Firehammer

Posted on 08/27/2010 11:45:13 AM PDT by Hank Kerchief

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To: OLD REGGIE

1,941 posted on 09/07/2010 12:20:31 PM PDT by Natural Law (Extra Ecclesiam nulla salus)
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To: wolfcreek

Apparently, they fear the Church more than they fear God.

It takes some many years of extreme/complex brainwashing to get to that point.


AGREED.


1,942 posted on 09/07/2010 12:21:24 PM PDT by Quix (C Bosses plans: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2519352/posts?page=2#2)
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To: OLD REGGIE

I think we do have to acknowledge that

some RC’s

are by far the Olympic Class, Nobel Prize level experts regarding some of the topics depicted in the images they post.


1,943 posted on 09/07/2010 12:23:55 PM PDT by Quix (C Bosses plans: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2519352/posts?page=2#2)
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To: maryz
LOL! Don't you have any idea how ridiculous that sounds?

How so?

And you tell us about what you think Protestants believe based on what?

1,944 posted on 09/07/2010 12:24:34 PM PDT by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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To: 1000 silverlings
and they defend it with the same two excuses they gave Jeremiah: It’s our tradition and we like it.

Too true - Except that it is a theme throughout the Bible - God demanding to be worshiped in spirit and in truth, and man, over and over, and over again, insists upon his idols, or in bolting on his own traditions to cause God's word to be made null.

BABYLON=CONFUSION.

1,945 posted on 09/07/2010 12:25:04 PM PDT by roamer_1 (Globalism is just Socialism in a business suit)
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To: Natural Law; OLD REGGIE

“Do you really believe that childish images in lieu of verbal insults are not a violation of “not making it personal”? Did you think that you could pull a Jedi mind trick on the mods so you could get in a cheap one? Or is that your idea of intelligent discourse? “ -NL

You chastise Ole Reggie for it, ping the mods to complain, and then turn right around and do the exact thing you just complained about.

You do know what the word *hypocrite* means, don’t you?


1,946 posted on 09/07/2010 12:28:30 PM PDT by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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To: maryz; metmom
why don't YOU guys provide what Catholic church doctrine really tells us?

The Catechism of the Catholic Church is readily available, both in print and on-line. Though it's only a start . . .

Your "help" is incredible. Thank you so much.

You must know you are dealing with a gaggle of ignorant non-Catholics who wouldn't know where to begin or end with the Catechism, let alone the "qualified" teachings of the fathers, Papal Bulls, and Papal Encyclicals.

Wouldn't it be the charitable thing to do to supply them with the links or quotes from the "correct" sources?

Or----you could say "The information is out there some place. Find it for yourself." Come to think of it, that's a much better alternative.

1,947 posted on 09/07/2010 12:30:03 PM PDT by OLD REGGIE (I am a Biblical Unitarian?)
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To: maryz; OLD REGGIE
The Catechism of the Catholic Church is readily available, both in print and on-line. Though it's only a start . . .

We've used it and we're still told that that is not what the Catholic church REALLY teaches.

Where have you been?

1,948 posted on 09/07/2010 12:34:06 PM PDT by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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To: metmom
And you tell us about what you think Protestants believe based on what?

AFAIK I have never made a general statement on what "Protestants believe" -- too much variation, for one thing. I have asked individual Protestants what they believe or what their church teaches on a particular point and I've discussed or argued that point; I have certainly never insisted to a Protestant (or anyone else) that I knew more about what he believed than he did.

1,949 posted on 09/07/2010 12:39:48 PM PDT by maryz
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To: Dr. Eckleburg
You mean this one?
This passage has been most improperly abused by the Anabaptists, and by others like them, to take from the Church the power of the sword.
So you then agree with the Calvinist persecution of Anabaptists?
1,950 posted on 09/07/2010 12:41:29 PM PDT by Cronos (Omnia mutantur, nihil interit. "Allah": Satan's current status)
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To: Dr. Eckleburg
So you deny this?

Frightful outrages perpetrated by the Huguenots in France

Persecution of Catholics by Huguenots In the areas of France they controlled, Huguenots at least matched the harshness of the persecutions of their Catholic opponents. Atrocities A, B, and C, depictions that are possibly exaggerated for use as propaganda, are located by the author in St. Macaire, Gascony. In scene A, a priest is disemboweled, his entrails wound up on a stick until they are torn out. In illustration B a priest is buried alive, and in C Catholic children are hacked to pieces. Scene D, alleged to have occurred in the village of Mans, was "too loathsome" for one nineteenth-century commentator to translate from the French. It shows a priest whose genitalia were cut off and grilled. Forced to eat his roasted private parts, the priest was then dissected by his torturers so they can observe him digesting his meal.
1,951 posted on 09/07/2010 12:42:21 PM PDT by Cronos (Omnia mutantur, nihil interit. "Allah": Satan's current status)
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To: maryz; RnMomof7; Iscool; boatbums

You do know, don’t you, that many of us were RAISED Catholic? You know, baptized, First Communion, confirmation, confession, catechism classes, Catholic family, Catholic classmates, Catholic co-workers?

Pinging some former Catholics, knowing I’ve missed some. Sorry to those I’ve missed.


1,952 posted on 09/07/2010 12:42:56 PM PDT by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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To: Dr. Eckleburg
Verifiable facts on Persecution by Calvinists
you can check 'em:


In the fall of 1561 the Calvinists of France, well supplied with money, took arms under Conde' and Coligny and began marching through the country to mobilization points, often under the leadership of preachers armed to the teeth.

While these men thundered against the Scarlet Women of Babylon and preached slaughter with a fervor more becoming to Mohammedans than to men who called themselves Christians... they had begun to sack bishop's houses and churches, to destroy altars and images of Christ and of the saints, and to deprive Catholics of their arms.

The storm of hate, which had so long been gathering, burst in all its fury. Almost simultaneously, as if by a concerted signal, well-organized bands of Calvinists fell upon the Catholic churches, convents, schools and libraries. At Montpellier they sacked all the sixty churches and convents, and put one hundred-fifty priests and monks to the sword. At Nimes they made a great pile of statues and relics in front of the Cathedral, danced around it while the flames arose, yelled that they would have no more Mass or idolaters, and then wrecked and plundered the churches. At Montauban they dragged the Poor Clare from their convent, exposed them half-naked to the jibes of the paid mob, shouted insults at them and told them to get married. At Castres, in December, a Reformed Consistory or Sanhedrin, ordered the city officials to take every one found on the streets to Huguenot sermons. Priests were dragged from the altars, the Poor Clare were scourged at the whip's end, peasants were driven with blows to hear the preachers inveigh with their peculiar nasal intonation against the Mass, Confession, the Pope. The fields and vineyards around Catholic villages where the people refused to listen to the preaching were burned or cut down.

Within a year the Calvinists, according to one of their own estimates, "murdered 4,000 priests, monks and nuns, expelled or maltreated 12,000 nuns, sacked 20,000 churches, and destroyed 2,000 monasteries " (Novuvelle Collection de memoires relatif a l'histoire de France, Ch. XI, p. 512)with their priceless libraries and works of art. The rare manuscript collection of the ancient monastery of Cluny was irreparably lost, with many others. Sacred vessels from the churches were melted into money to pay German mercenaries, who were urged to be ruthless.

Coligny took an active part in many of the atrocities. He displayed such cold and vindictive cruelty, especially to priests and nuns, that Catholics came to call him Holofernes.(21) In some places the entrails of the victims were plucked forth, stuffed with straw, and given to the horse of the Huguenot troopers to eat. Hundreds of cities and villages were burned. Lyons and its prosperous commerce were ruined.

This ancient fury, deliberately cultivated, spared not even the dead. Not only was the tomb of William the Conqueror destroyed, but the venerated bodies of holy men and women who had spent their lives in the service of God and of the poor were dragged from their resting-places, trampled, burned, thrown into rivers. A mob cast down the statue of Saint Joan from the bridge at Orleans. Other fanatics threw the remains of Saint Irenaeus and Saint Martin of Tours into the Loire. In Poiters they destroyed the relics of Saint Hilary and precious books written by his hand. Breaking into the tomb of Saint Francis of Paula at Plessis-les-Tours, they found the body whole and incorrupt after more than half a century; instead of being awed by the phenomenon, they dragged it at the end of a rope thought the streets, and burned it. A few of the saint's bones were found afterward by Catholics and preserved in various church of the Order of Minims.

Not only those who had laid down their lives for Christ, but Christ Himself, seemed a special object of hatred to these men who called themselves Christians and taught the damnation of infants and the predestination of many souls to Hell. As in all anti-Christian revolutions, statues of the Savior were spat upon, knocked down and demolished. The Body of Christ was often injured and reviled in the Blessed Sacrament. At Nimes, in Paris and others places, the tabernacles were broken open, and the Host thrown out and trampled upon, both by men and by horses.

Although these atrocities were perpetrated by a small minority in an overwhelmingly Catholic country, all the forces of the national and local governments seemed paralyzed and impotent for the moment. The Calvinists had majority in the States-General and friends in the Parliament of Paris. There seemed to be men everywhere in important positions to protect them and to sidetrack any attempt to punish them.

Catherine, inspired by L' Hopital, issued and edict in January, 1562, giving the Calvinists the right to worship as they pleased outside the cities, provided the churches were restored and both sides abstained from violence. This was intended to mollify the Calvinists. It had no such effect. Taking if for the surrender it was, the Calvinists rejoiced over the first breach of the union of Church and State in France. They promptly destroyed the Cathedral in Beza's city, and drove away all the clergy. In part of Gascony no priest could be found within forty miles. More nuns were dragged form convents, more tabernacles opened and profaned. In February, just after the opening session of the Council of Trent (with French delegates present, thanks to the determination of their leader, the Cardinal of Lorraine) seventy Calvinist preachers met in solemn synod at Nimes and deliberately planned to destroy all the Catholic churches in the city and the diocese. They promptly proceeded to put the plan into execution, burned the Cathedral, and drove away all the priests. The reign of terror was not the impassioned unthinking work of an ignorant mob, but a carefully engineered program of spoliation, destruction and assassination.

1,953 posted on 09/07/2010 12:44:36 PM PDT by Cronos (Omnia mutantur, nihil interit. "Allah": Satan's current status)
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To: Dr. Eckleburg
Actually, we despise Satan as well, so does that in your world view give Luci a thumbs up?

Your statement 'if it ain't Catholic, it's ok by me' - is symptomactic of the negativism of Calvinos. No wonder it's a dying breed. The OPC are only 28,000 people as of 2005 and still showing a downward trend in adherents, Their own website http://opc.org/GA/73rd_GA_rpt_topical.html says":
In 2005 three congregations withdrew from the OPC to join the Presbyterian Church in America, one of which was a rather large congregation, resulting in a net loss of members for the OPC in 2005. The membership of the OPC has remained at about 28,000 for more than two years, which is a cause of concern.
so they make a lot of noise for such a small grouping and don't regard even their fellow Presbyterians well -- I wonder what they think of the sub-groups that formed from them like the Bible Presbyterian C and the Evangelical Presbyterian C


1,954 posted on 09/07/2010 12:48:48 PM PDT by Cronos (Omnia mutantur, nihil interit. "Allah": Satan's current status)
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To: metmom

I do know that, and I’m sorry you weren’t better catechised. Of course, I’ve taught and I’ve found that students can be remarkably resistent — e.g., one student out of a class insisting I said the opposite of what I said, or another one getting the point backwards or missing it altogether. (If it were the whole class, I’d blame myself!) Then, too, a lot of “fallen-away Catholics” (for want of a better term), “fell away” with only a poor eighth-grade understanding and assumed there was no more to learn.


1,955 posted on 09/07/2010 12:52:45 PM PDT by maryz
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To: Dr. Eckleburg
Yes, Arminians dislike Calvin almost as much as Roman Catholics dislike him NO WONDER:

shortly after Arminius' death, the Reformed Church launched a crusade against all prominent persons who were considered "Arminian" in theology. The Council of Dort was allegedly convened for the Arminians to present their arguments against Calvinism in a fair hearing. They were not aware that in reality it was their "Protestant Inquisition" or "heresy trial." The Five Articles of Remonstrance (five grievances) were prepared by the Arminian defendants to present their disagreement with the Church's official Calvinist stand. The five articles outlined the main points where Arminians objected to Calvin's theology. Essentially, they affirmed that man has a free will and the God-given capacity to choose to accept or reject God's efforts to save Him. And, that Christ died for all men, not merely a select group.

The Five Arminian Articles of Remonstrance

I.That God, by an eternal and unchangeable purpose in Jesus Christ His Son, before the foundations of the world were laid, determined to save, out of the human race which had fallen into sin, in Christ, for Christ's sake and through Christ, those who through the grace of the Holy Spirit shall believe on the same His Son and shall through the same grace persevere in this same faith and obedience of faith even to the end; and on the other hand to leave under sin and wrath the contumacious and unbelieving and to condemn them as aliens from Christ, according to the word of the Gospel in John 3:36, and other passages of Scripture. 

II.That, accordingly, Jesus Christ, the Saviour of the world, died for all men and for every man, so that He has obtained for all, by His death on the cross, reconciliation and remission of sins; yet so that no one is partaker of this remission except the believers [John 3:16; 1 John 2:2]. 

III.That man has not saving grace of himself, nor of the working of his own free-will, inasmuch as in his state of apostasy and sin he can for himself and by himself think nothing that is good — nothing, that is, truly good, such as saving faith is, above all else. But that it is necessary that by God, in Christ and through His Holy Spirit he be born again and renewed in understanding, affections and will and in all his faculties, that he may be able to understand, think, will, and perform what is truly good, according to the Word of God [John 15:5]. 

IV.That this grace of God is the beginning, the progress and the end of all good; so that even the regenerate man can neither think, will nor effect any good, nor withstand any temptation to evil, without grace precedent (or prevenient), awakening, following and co-operating. So that all good deeds and all movements towards good that can be conceived in through must be ascribed to the grace of God in Christ. But with respect to the mode of operation, grace is not irresistible; for it is written of many that they resisted the Holy Spirit [Acts 7 and elsewhere passim]. 

V.That those who are grafted into Christ by a true faith, and have thereby been made partakers of His life-giving Spirit, are abundantly endowed with power to strive against Satan, sin, the world and their own flesh, and to win the victory; always, be it understood, with the help of the grace of the Holy Spirit, with Jesus Christ assisting them in all temptations, through His Spirit; stretching out His hand to them and (providing only that they are themselves prepared for the fight, that they entreat His aid and do not fail to help themselves) propping and upbuilding them so that by no guile or violence of Satan can they be led astray or plucked from Christ's hands [John 10:28]. But for the question whether they are not able through sloth or negligence to forsake the beginning of their life in Christ, to embrace again this present world, to depart from the holy doctrine once delivered to them, to lose their good conscience and to neglect grace--this must be the subject of more exact inquiry in the Holy Scriptures, before we can teach it with full confidence of our mind. 

The Council of Dort, led entirely by Reformed Calvinists, completely rejected all five Arminian articles. A persecution of Arminians even to death ensued. Of the Arminian defendants, John Wesley wrote, "some were put to death, some banished, some imprisoned for life, all turned out of their employments, and made incapable of holding any office, either in Church or State."1

when the once-persecuted Reformed Protestant Church obtained political power themselves, they became the persecutors. , killing and persecuting Christians who dared express a theology contrary to the new Protestant state Church. This behavior of the Calvinists was not an isolated incident. Calvin himself had people put to death in Geneva for having the gall to disagree with his theology.

1,956 posted on 09/07/2010 12:56:49 PM PDT by Cronos (Omnia mutantur, nihil interit. "Allah": Satan's current status)
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To: Dr. Eckleburg
John Calvin: Facts and extensive reading list
Perhaps not only irritability but also self-importance were exposed in 1545 when John Calvin by letter solicited Luther’s opinion on what John had written. Luther refused, arguing that his responses by letter were often carried around and exploited independent of Luther’s main writings. John was enraged. In a fury he wrote:

[Luther] allows himself to be carried beyond all due bounds with his love of thunder...in the Church we must always be upon our guard, lest we pay too great a deference to men...If this specimen of overbearing tyranny has sprung forth already as the early blossom in the spring-tide of a reviving Church, what must we expect in a short time...Let us therefore bewail the calamity of the Church...

         

         Calvin’s rage was unwise. In 1545 Luther was not only a dying man but one often immobile from excruciating bouts with kidney stones. Yet in 21st Century eyes even John’s self-important rage pales beside his intolerance of opposing views. For Calvin the persecuted became Calvin the persecutor. He particularly disliked a man named Servetus for his expressed views on Christian doctrines. In a letter to a friend John warned:

Servetus lately wrote to me and coupled with his letter a long volume of his delirious fancies...He would like to come here if it is agreeable to me. But I do not wish to pledge my word for his safety. For, if he comes, I will never let him depart alive, if I have any authority...

         That grim warning—‘I will never let him depart alive’—was not just rhetoric. Foolishly, Servetus did show up in Geneva. And John Calvin did have some ‘authority’. Servetus was arrested and condemned to die. Genevans feared no interference because the Catholics in France had also given Servetus a death sentence. Just what was John Calvin’s part in the execution? Could he have prevented it? It seemed his mercy extended only to recommending beheading instead of burning. Genevans burned Servetus to death in 1553.


[Sources: T.H.L. Parker, John Calvin: a biography. Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1975, and Jules Bonnet, editor, Letters of John Calvin. UK: Banner of Truth Trust, abbreviated English translation of 1855-57 edition in French, 1980.]

1,957 posted on 09/07/2010 12:58:08 PM PDT by Cronos (Omnia mutantur, nihil interit. "Allah": Satan's current status)
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To: Dr. Eckleburg
did not stop the Reformation with Luther. He continued to reform the church then, as He does today

Yup, after the first generation Lutherans and ANglicans, you had the second generation Presbyterians, then the third generation Anabaptists, the fourth generation BAptists and Unitarians, the fifth generation Seventh Day Adventists and Mormons and Presbyterian-conservationists, the sixth generation Christian Scientists, Pentecostals, Jehovah's Witnesses, the seventh generation like Machen's OPC, the eigth generation like the Bible Presbyterian C and the Scientologists and more extreme Mormons.

Great going! However, it wasn't God who directed this level to go down to Scientology and Mormonism..
1,958 posted on 09/07/2010 1:01:43 PM PDT by Cronos (Omnia mutantur, nihil interit. "Allah": Satan's current status)
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To: Dr. Eckleburg; metmom
Doc Eck (post #1773) Protestants argue with their enemies and try to persuade them by the weight of the Scriptures

You mean persuading them like:

Calvin and Persecution

" Calvin and Persecution "
Why the Silence!

"...that an end could be put to their machinations in no other way than cutting them off by an ignominious death" (John Calvin).

H.R Pike writes, "It was Scripture plus the sword of the state, hangings, burning at the stake, prison, tortures..." (The Other Side of John Calvin, p. 54).

Below is evidence that this is not overstatement!

Most who call themselves Calvinist say very little about the famous Reformer having a persecuting side. This reflects a selective silence that began quite early. Foxe, a contemporary and friend of Calvin (he outlived Calvin by 23 years), gives not one paragraph to the many persecutions that took place at Calvin's Geneva and elsewhere across Europe. Only those who suffered at the hand of Rome are mentioned (Pike, n.122).

CHRONOLOGY OF CALVIN'S LIFE


CALVIN'S STATEMENTS SUPPORTING PERSECUTION
PERSECUTIONS AT CALVIN'S GENEVA

The Minutes Book of the Geneva City Council, 1541-59 (translated by Stefan Zweig, Erasmus: The Right to Heresy):

Sources quoted in Philip Schaff's History of the Christian Church, vol. 8: From Other Sources: "Doth a fountain send forth at the same place sweet water and bitter?" James 3:11.


Compiled by Jack Moorman
www.BibleForToday.org

1,959 posted on 09/07/2010 1:04:07 PM PDT by Cronos (Omnia mutantur, nihil interit. "Allah": Satan's current status)
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To: Dr. Eckleburg
Yup, we all do pray for you to have eyes to see. As I said I’ve been a few times to Rome and to Chapel of the Virgin of the Grace at Saints Vincent and Anastasius Church in Rome and I’ve not seen any such sign in English that you indicate — your sources are wrong about this as they are about other things

1,960 posted on 09/07/2010 1:05:46 PM PDT by Cronos (Omnia mutantur, nihil interit. "Allah": Satan's current status)
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