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To: CynicalBear

To what are you referring?


43 posted on 11/24/2014 11:28:48 AM PST by SpirituTuo
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To: SpirituTuo
>>To what are you referring?<<

Surely you know that the Catholic Church admits to incorporating Babylonian paganism into it's beliefs and rituals.

The use of temples, and these dedicated to particular saints, and ornamented on occasions with branches of trees; incense, lamps, and candles; votive offerings on recovery from illness; holy water; asylums; holydays and seasons, use of calendars, processions, blessings on the fields; sacerdotal vestments, the tonsure, the ring in marriage, turning to the East, images at a later date, perhaps the ecclesiastical chant, and the Kyrie Eleison, are all of pagan origin, and sanctified by their adoption into the Church.[Cardinal Newman - Development of Christian Doctrine, pg 373]

57 posted on 11/24/2014 12:21:15 PM PST by CynicalBear (For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus)
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