Posted on 01/25/2015 5:22:50 PM PST by RnMomof7
You realize that was a response to #52, not that you would ever let that get in the way. All I see from Catholics on religion threads is vile and nasty attacks against non-Catholics, against we infidel dogs. You might as well start issuing fatwas.
(sorry but this is going to ramble on and on because these attacks on Christians makes me mad)
Somehow those who follow Jesus and believe in HIM aren’t good enough for you. They must bow down to totems, idols, relics, ancestors, dead mortal humans, 45,000 dead people who aren’t Jesus are prayed to, pick a “saint”, they come in many flavors. No, the followers of Jesus and his WORD aren’t good enough, they must become part of a bureaucratic nightmare that worships tradition, sends up pink smoke from Rome and what-not.
Meanwhile Jesus and HIS word becomes an ever smaller and less important part of what you call your “faith”.
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At least I do not put 45,000 “saints” ahead of Jesus
Catholicism has many many flavors too, if you were not too BLIND to notice. You have your myriad groups and factions, some all-out socialists. You claim to be the one “true” church but it seems like everyone prays to a different “saint” to bug Jesus for them, since Jesus is hard of hearing or something. Who needs protestantism when you can have your choice of “saints” (who are dead mortals and nothing more)
As a matter of fact every insult and accusation thrown at “prots” and “protties” and “filthy mongrels” fits the Catholic Church just as well. That’s all.
The Catholic Church, home of the 45,000 flavors and the so-called “45,000” protestant denominations can be equated quite easily. “But they aren’t real Catholics” you say, but you refuse to hear “Those aren’t real Christians” on the non-Catholic side.
Can you not open your eyes to see and your ears to hear? Not me, see and hear yourselves. Catholics on FR have become a closed feedback loop, whatever blasphemy has become accepted “tradition” is good because it’s Catholic and all else is wrong.
Where Catholicism and the Bible differ, the Bible is wrong. Where Catholicism and Jesus differ, Jesus must be wrong too. If the Pope hails the Anti-Christ then those who deny the Anti-Christ will be your new heretics.
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At least I do not believe that dead mortal humans are more powerful than Jesus
“intercessors”... lol
Is your Jesus hard of hearing?
Oh wait, this is a church that thinks “tradition” is sacred. Hey, it ain’t Biblical but we’ve been doing it for so long it’s tradition now!
Put away your totems, your traditions, your devotion to “saints” and the biggest human “religious” bureaucracy ever, and have a good, long think on Jesus and his WORD. Just that.
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Catholics often vote for those things
It’s irrelevant what the RCC teaches when its adherents don’t follow it and vote liberal and espouse contrary beliefs.
>>Many Catholics vote for pro-abortion, pro-homosexual marriage politicians and have told me themselves, that they are pro-abortion and pro-homosexual marriage and said, *I know what the church teaches but......*, so how do you all square that?<<
>>Even the Catholic church’s own polls show disparity like that.<<
>>So how do Catholics excuse all the finger pointing?<<
Those “Catholics” are protestants, not unlike Luther and Calvin. I hope you welcome them with open arms.
Closed feedback loop, as I said.
Spent a lot of time reading them? Thought not considering the comparison.
It's not irrelevant at all. Those "adherents" you describe above are called "protestants".
What’s your flavor?
Don't be a hypocrite.
Don't demand that Prots own all those who support liberal causes and disown all the Catholics who do.
As long as the Catholic church refuses to take action in denying them communion and considers them members and and gives them Catholic funerals, as they did for Kennedy and Chavez, then they ARE yours whether you like it or not.
It is not up to the laity to determine who is Catholic and who is not. Or is that your own personal interpretation of the CCC?
Of what? Christian by the will of God, kept that way by the actions of God.
When your Catholic church starts ex-communicating practicing or non-practicing Catholics who support abortion and homosexual marriage, get back to me.
Until then, they’re yours and the laity has no say in the matter.
They aren’t not Catholic based on your or anyone else’s OPINION.
Anyone who ever says Allah and God are the same is not a Christian. That is one of the greatest blasphemies.
You must be looking in the mirror.
Fortunately,God has protected most of his word from the catholic church.
The majority of his word was written and archived by the ancient Hebrews. The rest was written and spread around the world centuries before Constantine invented the Satanic cult known as the catholic church.
There is no point denying history. May as well just admit that the Catholic Church collected and assembled the bible. Thank us later.
No, there were never multiple versions.
The Masorite text is the only version.
It is and has always been protected from the satanic influence of the catholic church.
In contrast to the anti-Protestant/non-Catholic Christian porn pathetically typical of the Catholic-dominated Religion Forum on a continual basis?
The Masoretic Text was finished in the 10th century AD.
The masoretic text is the continuation of and exact copy of the original writings.
As Paul declared, it is the oracles of God, and is given to his chosen people to preserve, not Satan’t catholic cult.
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