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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
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To: Elsie

You are one of the most judgmental here Elsie.


2,381 posted on 06/15/2022 8:38:00 PM PDT by antceecee
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To: Mark17

Yes…
https://biblehub.com/matthew/7-3.htm


2,382 posted on 06/15/2022 8:46:00 PM PDT by antceecee
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To: SouthernClaire
https://youtu.be/z4uHIXObp4M

Allen Park snd Mike Winger
https://youtu.be/EptqzCzKFV8

More Allen Parr on 7th Day cult
https://youtu.be/VvXlQKBgSS0

More on it
https://youtu.be/umBu2OvAZnk

More
https://youtu.be/GN9HkxDInGc

Set free from SDA
https://youtu.be/uIYDILMmffo

More set free
https://youtu.be/MrezZdNBH_0

2,383 posted on 06/15/2022 9:19:53 PM PDT by Mark17 (Retired USAF air traffic controller. Father of USAF pilot. USAF aviation runs in the family )
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To: antceecee

Whatever bro.


2,384 posted on 06/15/2022 9:24:16 PM PDT by Mark17 (Retired USAF air traffic controller. Father of USAF pilot. USAF aviation runs in the family )
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To: antceecee

Elsmeister, I didn’t know you were so judgmental. I am surprised and disappointed in you. I wonder if this means you will undergo the investigative judgment, be weighed in the balance, and be found wanting. I see the handwriting on the wall here. 😀😂 Sorry, the investigative discovery will jump up and bite you. You might need rabies shots after that. 😀😂🤭🤗


2,385 posted on 06/15/2022 11:33:11 PM PDT by Mark17 (Retired USAF air traffic controller. Father of USAF pilot. USAF aviation runs in the family )
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To: aMorePerfectUnion; Elsie; boatbums; SouthernClaire; metmom; MHGinTN; Luircin
SDA cultists do not know how to laugh
You might think they are taking a polygraph
Don’t pity them
I’ve got a gem 💎
I’ll just go eat the great meat from a calf. 🐄

Elsie, we are in rare form bro. Keep the Limericks coming. 😀😂☝️🦪🥩🥓

What a thread 🪡

2,386 posted on 06/15/2022 11:49:10 PM PDT by Mark17 (Retired USAF air traffic controller. Father of USAF pilot. USAF aviation runs in the family )
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To: Philsworld

I’m not sure you understand what “hearsay” really means, Phil. Look it up.


2,387 posted on 06/16/2022 3:54:49 AM PDT by SouthernClaire (God Help America)
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To: Mark17

The limerick is excellent, Mark!


2,388 posted on 06/16/2022 3:55:42 AM PDT by SouthernClaire (God Help America)
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To: Mark17

Thank you so much for the links, Mark. I’m putting them in my watchlist. THANK YOU.


2,389 posted on 06/16/2022 4:00:54 AM PDT by SouthernClaire (God Help America)
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To: SouthernClaire; Mark17; Luircin; aMorePerfectUnion; Elsie

Spiritual food for thought…….

God Himself declares all foods clean.

Acts 10:9-16 The next day, as they were on their journey and approaching the city, Peter went up on the housetop about the sixth hour to pray. And he became hungry and wanted something to eat, but while they were preparing it, he fell into a trance and saw the heavens opened and something like a great sheet descending, being let down by its four corners upon the earth. In it were all kinds of animals and reptiles and birds of the air. And there came a voice to him: “Rise, Peter; kill and eat.” But Peter said, “By no means, Lord; for I have never eaten anything that is common or unclean.” And the voice came to him again a second time, “What God has made clean, do not call common.” This happened three times, and the thing was taken up at once to heaven.

Acts 11:1-10 Now the apostles and the brothers who were throughout Judea heard that the Gentiles also had received the word of God. So when Peter went up to Jerusalem, the circumcision party criticized him, saying, “You went to uncircumcised men and ate with them.” But Peter began and explained it to them in order: “I was in the city of Joppa praying, and in a trance I saw a vision, something like a great sheet descending, being let down from heaven by its four corners, and it came down to me. Looking at it closely, I observed animals and beasts of prey and reptiles and birds of the air. And I heard a voice saying to me, ‘Rise, Peter; kill and eat.’ But I said, ‘By no means, Lord; for nothing common or unclean has ever entered my mouth.’ But the voice answered a second time from heaven, ‘What God has made clean, do not call common.’ This happened three times, and all was drawn up again into heaven.


2,390 posted on 06/16/2022 5:10:05 AM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith….)
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To: Mark17

I’ve been thinking about Cephas.


2,391 posted on 06/16/2022 5:14:23 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: antceecee
You are one of the most judgmental here Elsie.

At your service!

In the same manner, you may judge me: it's biblical.


Sigh...
 
Jesus has commanded us to judge!
 

"Dare any of you, having a matter against another, go to law before the unrighteous, and not before the saints? Do you not know that the saints will judge the world?... And if the world will be judged by you, are you unworthy to judge the smallest matters?... Do you not know that we shall judge angels?... How much more, things that pertain to this life?.. If then you have judgments concerning things pertaining to this life, do you appoint those who are least esteemed by the church to judge ? (1 Corinthians 6:1-5).


Many commands of God require the exercise of righteous judgment.


"But we command you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you withdraw from every brother who walks disorderly and not according to the tradition which he received from us" (2 Thessalonians 3:6).

"And if anyone does not obey our word in this epistle, note that person and do not keep company with him, that he may be ashamed. Yet do not count him as an enemy, but admonish him as a brother" (2 Thessalonians 3:14,15).

"Teach and exhort these things. If anyone teaches otherwise and does not consent to wholesome words, even the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which is according to godliness, he is proud, knowing nothing, but is obsessed with disputes and arguments over words, from which come envy, strife, reviling, evil suspicions, useless wrangling of men of corrupt minds and destitute of the truth, who suppose that godliness is a means of gain. From such withdraw yourself" (2 Timothy 6:2b-5).

"Now I urge you, brethren, note those who cause divisions and offenses, contrary to the doctrine which you learned, and avoid them. For those who are such do not serve our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly, and by smooth words and flattering speech deceive the hearts of the simple" (Romans 16:17,18).


All these commands require the careful exercise of righteousness judgment. Do not be deceived by smooth words and flattering speech. Beware of wolves who come to you with a sheep's skin.

We must be careful not to make unqualified judgments. But we must judge appropriately when commanded to do so.


 "Do not judge according to appearance, but judge with righteous judgment."  (John 7:24).

2,392 posted on 06/16/2022 5:18:17 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: metmom

Praise be to God, Metmom! And yet we have those who decide God didn’t know what He was talking about. It will take them 3,000 words to make it say what it doesn’t say.


2,393 posted on 06/16/2022 5:19:12 AM PDT by SouthernClaire (God Help America)
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To: Mark17
Links for free
 
https://youtu.be/z4uHIXObp4M
 

Allen Park snd Mike Winger
https://youtu.be/EptqzCzKFV8

 

More Allen Parr on 7th Day cult
https://youtu.be/VvXlQKBgSS0

 

More on it
https://youtu.be/umBu2OvAZnk

 

More
https://youtu.be/GN9HkxDInGc

 

Set free from SDA
https://youtu.be/uIYDILMmffo

 

More set free
https://youtu.be/MrezZdNBH_0

2,394 posted on 06/16/2022 5:20:29 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: metmom

—> “But the voice answered a second time from heaven, ‘What God has made clean, do not call common.’ This happened three times, and all was drawn up again into heaven.”

For a true believer, God’s statement to Peter, that He has made all foods clean, is sufficient.

To those pridefully thinking they can earn their way to heaven by keeping the Law and dietary rules, it must be denied. It invalidates their life experience and self-righteousness to the 4th generation.


2,395 posted on 06/16/2022 5:25:06 AM PDT by aMorePerfectUnion (Fraud vitiates everything. )
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To: Mark17
Elsmeister, I didn’t know you were so judgmental.

I'm used to being called ugly by toads, I'll rely on my buckler over this; too.

2,396 posted on 06/16/2022 5:30:39 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Mark17

I never eat meat from cow babies!
And a BAT? I just might get rabies.
And I don’t eat a goat
(Might get stuck in my throat)
But preserves and some Oysters? Both maybes.


2,397 posted on 06/16/2022 5:36:27 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: metmom

Did GOD really say...


2,398 posted on 06/16/2022 5:37:05 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: SouthernClaire
It will take them 3,000 words to make it say what it doesn’t say.
 
 
 

2,399 posted on 06/16/2022 5:44:30 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Elsie

LOL, Elsie! Too funny!


2,400 posted on 06/16/2022 5:45:25 AM PDT by SouthernClaire (God Help America)
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