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To: Salvation; Gamecock

If you put it on the internet, it’s fair game.

And trying to coerce people into behaving a certain way by accusing them of not acting in a *Christian* manner is manipulation, plain and simple.


62 posted on 09/02/2014 2:13:42 AM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: metmom
And trying to coerce people into behaving a certain way by accusing them of not acting in a *Christian* manner is manipulation, plain and simple.

And so selective; too!

Oh! to have the forgiveness shown THESE folks have received:



Pope Stephen VI (896–897), who had his predecessor Pope Formosus exhumed, tried, de-fingered, briefly reburied, and thrown in the Tiber.[1]

Pope John XII (955–964), who gave land to a mistress, murdered several people, and was killed by a man who caught him in bed with his wife.

Pope Benedict IX (1032–1044, 1045, 1047–1048), who "sold" the Papacy

Pope Boniface VIII (1294–1303), who is lampooned in Dante's Divine Comedy

Pope Urban VI (1378–1389), who complained that he did not hear enough screaming when Cardinals who had conspired against him were tortured.[2]

Pope Alexander VI (1492–1503), a Borgia, who was guilty of nepotism and whose unattended corpse swelled until it could barely fit in a coffin.[3]

Pope Leo X (1513–1521), a spendthrift member of the Medici family who once spent 1/7 of his predecessors' reserves on a single ceremony[4]

Pope Clement VII (1523–1534), also a Medici, whose power-politicking with France, Spain, and Germany got Rome sacked.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bad_Popes

92 posted on 09/02/2014 6:34:19 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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