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To: paladin1_dcs
Ad Hominem attack much? That's such a strawman that I'm surprised your post doesn't start singing "If I only had a brain".

Is it now? Have you ever attended a Pentecostal snake service? I have.

Pentecostals don't worship snakes and you full well know it. Next time, try an attack that's at least somewhat rooted in reality.

Here's what I full well know: no Catholics worship Mary. I also know that the regard for Mary goes back right to Apostolic times, including the early Church Fathers. I know that the Eucharistic celebration goes back to the Apostolic Fathers as well. I know that the Gospel and Acts writer Luke wrote the first icon of Mary. I know that the Septuagint was the OT of choice of Jesus and the Apostles, as well as the Church to this day. I know that those who reject the Church given full authority by Christ differ from Simon Magus, those who rejected Jesus after being told about eating His body and drinking His blood, those who create or listen to another gospel not told to them by the Church and those who attack the Church incessantly and with the vilest untruths, only in degree and tactics, but not in motivation.

In dealing with those who spurn the Church, especially those who were of the Faith and then rejected it, I have normally seen at least 4 of the 7 deadly sins indulged in, and sometimes all seven. I shall list them for you:

Pride. Envy. Gluttony. Lust. Anger. Greed. Sloth.

To take this to the impersonal, I will say that I think that Martin Luther only showed six. Calvin, arguably five. I don't think that Calvin indulged in either gluttony or sloth. But he more than made up for it in the remainder...

103 posted on 04/14/2011 12:48:52 PM PDT by MarkBsnr (I would not believe in the Gospel if the authority of the Catholic Church did not move me to do so..)
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To: MarkBsnr
Is it now? Have you ever attended a Pentecostal snake service? I have.

I'm going to call your bluff here. Time, date and location or it didn't happen. I, personally, have grown up around Pentecostals and even snake-handlers and I know, from 30 years of personal experience, that you're lying about Pentecostals worshiping snakes.

The rest of your post is, frankly, Roman Catholic claptrap unfit for lining a birdcage. I never said that we, as Christians, shouldn't call Mary blessed, just that she wasn't sinless. Your little screed about Simon Magus, Calvin and Martin Luther matter little to me as well, since I'm not a Calvinist, Luthernist or any other type of traditional Reformed Protestant. If you actually did know as much as you claim to know about Pentecostals and other Fundamentalists like myself, you'd know we reject Catholic, Orthodox and Protestant doctrines equally if they don't line up with Scriptures.

So until you come back with something more than that, I'm finished with you. You've proven that you have no clue as to what you're talking about and debating you is, literally, throwing pearls before swine.

112 posted on 04/14/2011 1:01:19 PM PDT by paladin1_dcs
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