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To: Elsiejay
The word “protestant” is derived from the Latin words describing “to testify for.”

oh please...a protestant is one who protests....nothing wrong with that, but that's what they are...they protest against true Catholic Christianity...

106 posted on 01/24/2015 7:09:30 PM PST by terycarl (common sense prevails over all)
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To: terycarl
oh please...a protestant is one who protests....nothing wrong with that, but that's what they are...they protest against true Catholic Christianity...

Let's all PRACTICE true Catholic Christianity!!!



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

187 posted on 01/25/2015 3:49:47 AM PST by Elsie ( Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: terycarl
....”a protestant is one who protests....nothing wrong with that, but that's what they are...they protest against true Catholic Christianity”...

Well there are many others who would not be categorized as Protestant who also 'protest' against catholic-ism. Though the term did originate with the 'Protestant' Reformation of course, and for obvious reasons we understand, but I think that today it means moreso rejection of the Palpacy Authority, Priesthood, and the various rites and rituals practicied within catholicism and it's teachings of many other issues they've added on since the reformation.......until they've become "something else" today entirely then that which Jesus called them to be...and in fact very much seperated from.

200 posted on 01/25/2015 4:06:31 AM PST by caww
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