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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: MHGinTN

I think a person would have to be born into it to believe it. They would have to want to believe lies. There’s too much information on the SDA now with the Internet that it’s hard to see a person try to defend the nonsense. There are so many coming out of it now, though, so I thank God for that. They’re learning the word of God is not quite the same as the word of Miss Ellen.


3,241 posted on 06/28/2022 11:25:57 AM PDT by SouthernClaire (God Help America!)
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To: SouthernClaire

She must have laughed at her gullible sycophantic followers, as she slurped down oysters and pork chops, while they ate veggies and twigs!


3,242 posted on 06/28/2022 11:26:28 AM PDT by aMorePerfectUnion (Fraud vitiates everything. )
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To: MHGinTN

—> you wonder how dumb someone has to be to continue in that cult?

Half their victims leave before a year is out


3,243 posted on 06/28/2022 11:27:32 AM PDT by aMorePerfectUnion (Fraud vitiates everything. )
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To: aMorePerfectUnion

“Veggies and twigs!”

Too funny, AMPU!


3,244 posted on 06/28/2022 11:28:24 AM PDT by SouthernClaire (God Help America!)
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To: aMorePerfectUnion

I now have visions in my head of Phil peeling bark from trees in the dark of night.


3,245 posted on 06/28/2022 11:32:54 AM PDT by SouthernClaire (God Help America!)
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To: SouthernClaire

And I see a SADventist stripped down to his a wet girdle, bald head wrapped in wet towels, submerged in his Ellen White Soaking Barrel™️, nibbling a twig as he listens to….

“The Best Visions of Ellen White!” On CD!

“Then I found myself flying through space, approaching a planet with many moons. The Jupiterians greeted me with an amazing feast - vast plates of space pork and galactic oysters!

“ We ate, and ate, and ate until we could hold not another oyster!

“Enoch was seated right next to me! He explained this was an unfallen race of very tall peoples.

“Sin hadn’t entered until I arrived. Oh well! The food is great!!”

Our SADventist sighs as he nibbles his stick, wondering if he is saved or unsaved at that moment… hoping he is cool enough to avoid temptation and all diseases that result.


3,246 posted on 06/28/2022 11:43:11 AM PDT by aMorePerfectUnion (Fraud vitiates everything. )
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To: aMorePerfectUnion

You color such a vivid picture, you’ve got me crying in laughter!!!


3,247 posted on 06/28/2022 11:51:44 AM PDT by SouthernClaire (God Help America!)
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To: MHGinTN

You gotta read AMPU’s post!


3,248 posted on 06/28/2022 11:57:18 AM PDT by SouthernClaire (God Help America!)
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To: SouthernClaire; imardmd1; Luircin; Mark17; aMorePerfectUnion; boatbums; metmom; caww; ducttape45; ..
LOL, yeah I read it. It is a good parody on the fantasies the SAD promote. But what would we expect from a cult?

ALL cults focus upon the flesh (body and behavior mechanism of soul) in one way or another. Jesus did not go to that cruel cross to redeem the sin-laden flesh. He died to cleanse the spirit of sin debt, for any who will believe. That wrong focus in the flesh is why the catholiciism org demand their adherents believe they can eat the blood, body, behavior mechanism and DIVINITY when their priests feed them a wafer and some wine. They demand that we believe the 'real presence' means their priests can feed the divinity of GOD to them. That is pride run amok!

Other cults believe they can make GOD owe them eternal life because they have such fealty to rituals or special days. Paul addressed all of that in one of his earliest letters, to the foolish Galatians. Jesus made it plain that the flesh is of no profit to the spirit, for it is the Spirit which give life and the words that He spoke to thepushy seekers after signs were spirit and life.

There is real Presence. Jesus said plainly that where two or more are gathered in His name, there is He in the midst of them. SPIRITUALLY PRESENT, just as He was in Spirit Body, Glorified body in their Presence in the Upper Room BEFORE He appeared physically to them.

There is not a wafer int he whole Universe that is the physical Presence of Jesus. He appears whole when He manifests among them/us. And He is about to manifest to those God transforms int he twinkling of an eye, when the Believers are transformed to be like HIM at the Rapture of the Body of Christ Believers since the Day of Pentecost when Jesus established The One Ture Church/Eklesia/ Body of Believers. And folks, that is not encompassed in any ORG, Catholic, Seventh Day Advetnist, Mormon, Baptist, or Lutheran, etc. The One True Church is a Spiritual Body made up of ALL Believers for whom Jesus is Lord.

3,249 posted on 06/28/2022 1:07:56 PM PDT by MHGinTN (A dispensation perspective is a powerful tool for discernment)
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To: MHGinTN

EXCELLENT post, MHG.

If cults could understand this one thing that you posted, seems to me they’d have to see the truth: “ALL cults focus upon the flesh (body and behavior mechanism of soul) in one way or another. Jesus did not go to that cruel cross to redeem the sin-laden flesh.” God is spirit.

“Other cults believe they can make GOD owe them eternal life because they have such fealty to rituals or special days.”

God will not be debtor to a single soul. They can’t earn salvation no matter how hard they try or what they do. I know cults don’t like to hear it, but Jesus really did do it all because He was the only One Who could.


3,250 posted on 06/28/2022 1:29:40 PM PDT by SouthernClaire (God Help America!)
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To: SouthernClaire

Amen! Only God can reach the spirit in each of us. I cannot even touch the spirit in me, so nothing that comes into my mouth and goes out through the draught is going to get God into my spirit.


3,251 posted on 06/28/2022 1:32:32 PM PDT by MHGinTN (A dispensation perspective is a powerful tool for discernment)
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To: MHGinTN

+1


3,252 posted on 06/28/2022 1:32:41 PM PDT by aMorePerfectUnion (Fraud vitiates everything. )
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To: MHGinTN; SouthernClaire
After reading all the false prophecies and lies and plagiarism and deceit of the ‘prophetess ‘ of the SDA, you wonder how dumb someone has to be to continue in that cult?

Probably about as dumb as anyone who follows the angel Moroni. 😀🤭🤓

3,253 posted on 06/28/2022 3:32:31 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; MHGinTN

The order of the weekdays has NEVER changed since Jesus Christ created this world and rested on the 7th-day-Sabbath.

***

So you were lying when you said that the Sabbath is independent of any calendar.

After all, MHGinTN showed you evidence that there was disagreement in ancient Judiasm between the Pharisees and Essenes about which day actually was the Sabbath.

And you’re claiming that the Pharisees were correct and we have to stick with their calendar, in spite of your claims about independence.

You remain a lying LAWLESS sinner, Phil.


3,254 posted on 06/28/2022 3:53:05 PM PDT by Luircin
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To: Luircin

—> And you’re claiming that the Pharisees were correct

The Pharisees are like a bug light to other legalizes.


3,255 posted on 06/28/2022 5:14:16 PM PDT by aMorePerfectUnion (Fraud vitiates everything. )
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To: Mark17

That was an unfortunate name that Joseph Smith dreamed up.


3,256 posted on 06/28/2022 6:40:23 PM PDT by Luircin
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To: Luircin

Moron (i) Yes, ole Joe Smith really picked a winner, didn’t he?


3,257 posted on 06/28/2022 6:49:13 PM PDT by Mark17 (Retired USAF air traffic controller. Father of USAF pilot. USAF aviation runs in the family )
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To: Luircin; MHGinTN; boatbums; SouthernClaire; aMorePerfectUnion; metmom; Elsie

Good morning dudes and dudettes. 😀😁


3,258 posted on 06/29/2022 4:42:31 AM PDT by Mark17 (Retired USAF air traffic controller. Father of USAF pilot. USAF aviation runs in the family )
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To: Luircin
Clueless calendar keepers don’t consider the concept that we are not using the same calendar that God told Moses to keep.

How do they know that people have not miscounted the number of days in a week at some point along the way?

Or that an error was made in conversion between one calendar and another?

And what about adjustments for leap years and and other adjustments every fee hundred years to keep the calendar on track?

Colossians 2:16-23 Therefore let no one pass judgment on you in questions of food and drink, or with regard to a festival or a new moon or a Sabbath. These are a shadow of the things to come, but the substance belongs to Christ. Let no one disqualify you, insisting on asceticism and worship of angels, going on in detail about visions, puffed up without reason by his sensuous mind, and not holding fast to the Head, from whom the whole body, nourished and knit together through its joints and ligaments, grows with a growth that is from God.

If with Christ you died to the elemental spirits of the world, why, as if you were still alive in the world, do you submit to regulations— “Do not handle, Do not taste, Do not touch” (referring to things that all perish as they are used)—according to human precepts and teachings? These have indeed an appearance of wisdom in promoting self-made religion and asceticism and severity to the body, but they are of no value in stopping the indulgence of the flesh.

3,259 posted on 06/29/2022 5:21:26 AM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith…)
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To: metmom

It’s like the Holy Spirit knew what would happen, isn’t it?


3,260 posted on 06/29/2022 5:24:54 AM PDT by Luircin
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