Posted on 09/16/2014 6:10:03 PM PDT by markomalley
It’s turned out so well for the so-called Mainline Denominations(PCUSA, UCC, ECUSA, ELCA, etc.)/sarc
“the harsh opposition to civil gay marriage, the cluelessness of church teaching on contraception, and the refusal to consider women priests”
These young spoiled brats can always join the Episcopal Church and they’ll be quite happy.
That demonstrates just how brainwashed you are by the Roman Catholic Church. You couldn’t recognize the truth if it fell in your lap.
BTW, I guess you are unaware that the Protestant Reformation triggered a Catholic Reformation to address corruption in the RC. What was that all about?
I don’t know, but some people seem to have issues with bringing some abstract subject matter into discussions from time to time.
I would note the following ironies about how the Reformation has evolved.
1) Protestations of the power of the Catholic Church, yet you have government-run protestant churches nowadays (Denmark and Finland’s Lutheran Churches), and the case of the Episcopal Church.
2) Protestations about the Catholic Church falling away, yet numerous other Protestant groups have their giving up man-woman marriage to attract new followers.
3) People protest the Catholic Church’s opposite-gender marriage policy when they have the option of joining another church. Most of these people also have little to no interest in religion at all, anyways.
And some mainline Protestant churches seem to have given up their very belief in Jesus as Savior.
Crazy world nowadays.:-)
If what you’re talking about is playing out the miracles then that’s been true in a number of churches, the Episcopal Church included, for nearly 30 years. I attended an Episcopal service some time ago and the minister said that Noah’s ark was a symbolic story, like a fable. I found that pretty tough to hear, then I read about Jesus mentioning the days of Noah, and I realize, wow! Someone is falling off the edge pretty far. But sadly enough, it is not going to win in the long run.
Note to the students: A lot of Protestant schools hold their staff to very nearly equivalent codes of conduct. I know. I went to one.
The Onion needs to buy the Reporter and make it official.
well, actually it was more about semantics than anything else. The Catholic church changed NOTHING having to do with faith and morals...no changes whatsoever were EVER made in Catholic theology....methodoligy, perhaps, rituals, some maybe but not many....the Catholic church is very much the same today as she was when CHRIST personally founded her...
Some of them love the RC more than Jesus.
If you love Jesus, I love you and stand with you no matter what.
If you love the RC above Jesus...I pray for you to come clean.
But at the bottom line, Jesus loves you unconditionally...and I follow Him.
Ergo, I love you and will see you in the next world...the real world.
Love you.
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