" St. Patrick Was a Baptist"

Don Boys "Common Sense for Today News" ^ | March 14, 2015 | Don Boys

[impactplayer]

Unless you can show that he re-baptized people who had already been baptized, then he was not an anti-baptist. That is the real heresy of the baptist.

[Regal]

The idea of St. Patrick being a Baptist is just plain silly. Everyone knows he was a Christian.

[CommerceComet]

How did Saint Patrick walk 200 miles to get to the Irish coast? The distance from Derry to Cork is 220 miles. There is no place in Ireland that is 200 miles from the coast.

Perhaps he didn't walk a straight line? If you are seeking a ship, what good does it do to walk directly to the coast if there is no port there? If you are an escaped slave, you might have to take an evasive and circuitous route. In my opinion, there seems to be some reasonable explanations for what appears to be an inaccuracy. But even if this is inaccurate, it doesn't necessarily invalidate the entire story.

[Dutchboy88]

"GET A LIFE."

I have a life...actually I have eternal life. Unlike much of the Romanist cult. If you would like to know more about what Patrick actually taught, let me know. You, too, may be set free from the chains of Rome.

[WayneS]

Does that make the author of this article an Ancient Baptist Theorist?

[HiTech RedNeck]

There are so many temptations to be “Christian” for the sake of some worldly reward and it isn’t all in the evangelical camp either.

[HiTech RedNeck]

A circuitous route would make sense for a man on the run. Everybody is going to be looking for you on the beeline.

[HiTech RedNeck]

I often see an irony where evangelicals believe it impossible for Roman Catholics to be Christian, but they do not realize they are projecting back what they perceive Roman Catholics to think.

These are the real “FUNDAMENTALIST” issues, if your “FUNDAMENTAL” is actually Christ which it ought to be. C. S. Lewis comes very quickly to mind here because he kept the issues tightly about Christ and wrote many books with pan-denominational appeal as a result.

[namvolunteer]

Happy Birthday. I grew up with Jesus as my Savior as a Catholic and I’ll die one. Many of my FReepers grew up with Jesus as their Savior in their non-Catholic Christian homes. I don’t fret about other denominations’ practices or theology. To me, we’re Christians, devoted to Christ.
Have fun tomorrow and don’t drive. That’s why we bought our house in walking distance of a watering hole!

[lastchance]

I had no idea the Onion had a religious section.

[lastchance]

Ouch.

[Dutchboy88]

CS Lewis was a fabulous writer. His theology, however, was flawed. He considered the story of the Garden to be allegorical and clung madly to "free will". Unfortunately, because his best buddy JRRTolken was a Catholic, he did not consider the dramatic differences in doctrines between biblical Christianity and Catholicism something to scrutinize carefully. If he had, it would have been clear that they are incompatible.

But, no "evangelical" I have met believes it "impossible for Roman Catholics to be Christian". I believe many of them are, in spite of the error taught by the organization. God knows His own elect and they will be rescued at His decision...not Rome's.

[Georgia Girl 2]

“I want to come too!!!!!”

I wish I could invite all the Freepers.

Potato Soup in puff pastry
Corned beef finger sandwiches
Bleu cheese cole slaw
Mixed berry dessert
Assorted tea cookies
Barry’s tea and Apricot tea

And of course lotsa wine and Crème Sherry :-)

[safeasthebanks]

Nutter says what???

[Mrs. Don-o]

That would be true if he walked in a straight line. Consider that with winding trails and trackless wilderness to cross, he could have easily trekked 200-300 miles to cover 100 as the crow flies.

[Mrs. Don-o]

I think the Druids were the first Protestants.

Rowan Williams.

I rest my case.

[Banjoguy]

I know a few who are as faithful to Church Canon as they can humanly be. Just a couple; My neighbor, who should have became a nun when her husband died, and my cousin who is a priest. The faithful are out there...but getting harder to find.

[RnMomof7]

I know

[RnMomof7]

Saint Patrick was ordained a Bishop of the Catholic Church before being sent to Ireland and obviously before being declared a Saint. There is no doubt that Ireland is a solidly Catholic country. In fact, the Irish spread the faith to all corners of the world. To learn more on this subject, read Thomas Cahill's How the Irish Saved Civilization.

He was never canonized

[Servant of the Cross]

It is true that St. Patrick was never canonized. The reason for that is St. Patrick lived in the 5th century and the process we now know as canonization did not exist until centuries later. Up until that time holy men and women were declared saints on the local level and the local Bishop would add them to the local liturgical calendar. By the time the formal canonization process we know today came about St. Patrick was already renown as a Saint so there was no need for the process. Since St. Patrick has a feast day (March 17) in today's universal Church liturgical calendar you can rest easy that the Church truly considers him a saint.