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Marjorie Taylor Greene: I Was Raised Catholic, but Wicked Bishops Have ‘Driven Me Away’ from the Church
LifeSite News ^ | 5/4/22 | Claire Chretien

Posted on 05/13/2022 6:01:41 PM PDT by marshmallow

‘Mrs. Greene's statement about leaving the Church is as enlightening as it is saddening,’ commented Michael Hichborn, president of the Lepanto Institute.

(LifeSiteNews) – Following criticism of comments she made about the U.S. Catholic bishops, conservative firebrand U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene revealed that she was raised Catholic but left the Church “with great sorrow” when she had kids because she had concerns about the left-wing hierarchy protecting abusive priests.

“With great sorrow, and unwavering faith in Jesus Christ, I stopped attending Catholic Mass when I became a mother, because I realized that I could not trust the Church’s leadership to protect my children from pedophiles, and that they harbored monsters even in their own ranks,” the now-evangelical said in a lengthy statement.

The Georgia Republican was responding to the Catholic League’s Bill Donahue, who slammed her for suggesting in an interview with Church Militant’s Michael Voris that “Satan is controlling the Church.”

“The Church is not doing its job. And it’s not adhering to the teachings of Christ,” she added.

“It’s the Church leadership I was referring to when I invoked the Devil,” Greene clarified on Twitter. “Just so we’re clear, bishops, when I said ‘controlled by Satan,’ I wasn’t talking about the Catholic Church. I was talking about you.”

“The Catholic Church must throw out these monsters instead of lecturing the people its own bishops have driven away,” she continued, blasting the U.S. Catholic bishops as “some of the worst in the world” and “scheming bureaucrats in miters.” It was the “bishops’ wickedness” that drove her out of the Church, Greene said, and her own refusal to “submit the spiritual and physical livelihood of my children to these monsters.”

Greene, who is sometimes referred to as “MTG” (à la “AOC”), went on to say what many faithful Catholics who.......

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TOPICS: Catholic; Ministry/Outreach
KEYWORDS: 2manypedopriests; abuse; bishops; catholic; churchlostitsway; donatism; evangelical; excuses; me3; mtg; wicked; wickedbishops; yupmetoo
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To: Mark17

——>Praise God for the OSAS, pre trib rapture. 👍

I think awhile back that was a Jeopardy question under the category of “Top 10 things Satan would say” (before Alex died)


1,341 posted on 06/07/2022 9:59:34 PM PDT by Philsworld
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To: Philsworld; MHGinTN; boatbums; SouthernClaire; aMorePerfectUnion; metmom; MayflowerMadam; ...
Praise God for the OSAS, pre trib rapture. 👍

Gee whiz bro, cut me some slack. I will give you credit. You know, if you post more than one sentence, I don’t even bother looking at it. Let me say it again. Praise God for the OSAS pre trib rapture. 👍 If that sticks in your gizzard, all I can say is sorry about that. Deal with it, and stop being in a cult.

1,342 posted on 06/08/2022 1:12:08 AM PDT by Mark17 (Retired USAF air traffic controller. Father of USAF pilot. USAF aviation runs in the family )
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To: Mark17

That’s funny.

What about all those poor Gentiles who never once learned all the Levitical laws, and were never told to do so, but believed the simple message of God’s precious saving grace? I guess the SDA condemns all of them to Hell with us.


1,343 posted on 06/08/2022 4:02:21 AM PDT by SouthernClaire (God help America!)
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To: Philsworld

So, the Jews are wrong and your SDA bunch are correct? It’s just a simple question, Phil.


1,344 posted on 06/08/2022 4:04:08 AM PDT by SouthernClaire (God help America!)
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To: MHGinTN

That’s really good, MHG!


1,345 posted on 06/08/2022 4:10:43 AM PDT by SouthernClaire (God help America!)
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To: Philsworld; MHGinTN; Mark17

“Ken Johnson is either a moron or a liar. Take your pick.”

You know what, Phil? There are boundaries that the Holy Spirit keeps me from crossing. You seem comfortable in condemning people to hell and speaking evil of a man who loves the Lord God Almighty.

What is the Investigative Judgment?


1,346 posted on 06/08/2022 4:17:44 AM PDT by SouthernClaire (God help America!)
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To: SouthernClaire

I’m not condemning anyone

But, you and your friends are no one to talk.


1,347 posted on 06/08/2022 4:34:34 AM PDT by Philsworld
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To: Philsworld

“I’m not condemning anyone”

Pardon me. I thought when you said that certain people would not be in Heaven that you meant they’d be in Hell.


1,348 posted on 06/08/2022 4:39:36 AM PDT by SouthernClaire (God help America!)
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To: SouthernClaire

“The Jews deduced from Scripture to not eat meat with dairy.”

Actually, that is not true. Read more of that history to find out why. It’s a gross story. The Jewish leaders often made up “God told us to stop doing that” kind of stories to get the people to stop terrible practices.

It is why Jews cannot have mashed potatoes and gravy with their meals and consider the rest of the world unclean because they do.


1,349 posted on 06/08/2022 4:43:27 AM PDT by CodeToad (Arm up! They Have!)
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To: SouthernClaire
I guess the SDA condemns all of them to Hell with us.

Ask me if I care. 😀😂🤭 Now, give me some space, so I can try to get ready for my investigative discussion. 🤗

1,350 posted on 06/08/2022 4:45:18 AM PDT by Mark17 (Retired USAF air traffic controller. Father of USAF pilot. USAF aviation runs in the family )
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To: CodeToad

Hey, CodeToad. I thought it was from the prohibition of not seething the kid in its mother’s milk. Is it something else entirely?


1,351 posted on 06/08/2022 4:47:50 AM PDT by SouthernClaire (God help America!)
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To: CodeToad

P.S. I had never heard of the ‘taters & gravy prohibition. Thanks.


1,352 posted on 06/08/2022 4:49:16 AM PDT by SouthernClaire (God help America!)
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To: Mark17

Is the “Investigative Judgment” just exactly what it sounds like it is? That you’re “investigated” by God? Or, is it something else entirely different?


1,353 posted on 06/08/2022 4:50:20 AM PDT by SouthernClaire (God help America!)
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To: SouthernClaire

Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mother’s milk....

What’s so hard to understand about this?

And, there are many other CHRISTIAN denominations that obey the Levitical dietary law of clean and unclean. It’s a command from God and has nothing to do with types or shadows (the Ceremonial law). God’s people are SANCTIFIED and therefore forbidden from eating unclean meats. The only way this law has been cancelled is if God is no longer Holy. Is that what you are saying? I hope not.

The Jews don’t have a very good track record. They missed our Savior. Yeah, those Jews.


1,354 posted on 06/08/2022 4:51:20 AM PDT by Philsworld
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To: SouthernClaire

Yeah, it was about boiling live animals in their mothers’ milk. Gross.


1,355 posted on 06/08/2022 4:53:19 AM PDT by CodeToad (Arm up! They Have!)
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To: SouthernClaire

——>Pardon me. I thought when you said that certain people would not be in Heaven that you meant they’d be in Hell.

You would have to take that up with God. He put it in the bible, not me. But, since you can’t sin, I guess you’re good.


1,356 posted on 06/08/2022 4:56:14 AM PDT by Philsworld
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To: SouthernClaire

P.S. I won’t say the ancient Jews were gross pigs for doing it as I am sure my own ancestors from the time might have done that or worse too. I do claim that the Old Testament of the Bible was written by Jews that added things to it to get the people to stop doing such practices. It is why I believe man wrote much of the Bible and it is not so much a divine intervention. The Jewish leaders of the time used God to scare the people into submission.


1,357 posted on 06/08/2022 4:58:08 AM PDT by CodeToad (Arm up! They Have!)
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To: CodeToad

The animal would have been killed according to their dietary laws, Code. All blood drained, etc.

What about the potatoes and gravy, Code? I’ve never heard that one before.


1,358 posted on 06/08/2022 4:58:21 AM PDT by SouthernClaire (God help America!)
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To: SouthernClaire
Is the “Investigative Judgment” just exactly what it sounds like it is? That you’re “investigated” by God? Or, is it something else entirely different?

I think we are supposed to be investigated by God, but I am not sure. I have no desire to ask any SDAer about it, since I don’t believe a word of it. I believe, if anyone waits till they croak, till they are investigated by God, I think they might be in deep kimchi.

1,359 posted on 06/08/2022 5:04:44 AM PDT by Mark17 (Retired USAF air traffic controller. Father of USAF pilot. USAF aviation runs in the family )
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To: CodeToad

Some of the laws were to make the children of Israel distinct from everyone else. The prohibition of not seething the goat in the mother’s milk probably derived from people doing it just the way you thought: a live kid. It was the cruelty factor that God condemned.

But pagans gonna pagan, ain’t they?


1,360 posted on 06/08/2022 5:07:05 AM PDT by SouthernClaire (God help America!)
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