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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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To: kinsman redeemer
I think our little alter boy suffers from Stockholm Syndrome!

There you go "thinking" again. That's when you're dangerous.

3,401 posted on 07/19/2022 2:34:18 PM PDT by ebb tide (Where are the good fruits of the Second Vatican Council? Anyone?)
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To: Elsie

Last time I checked, we were no longer under the Old Covenant/ceremonial/ law. Every person who has ever lived will be judged by God, according to their works. Some will be going to heaven, some won’t. Those who commit willful, unrepentant lawlessness, won’t.

And...”until heaven and earth pass away, not a single jot, not a stroke of a pen, will disappear from the law until everything is accomplished.”

With the New Covenant, God’s laws are internalized into our hearts and minds. Judgment for breaking these laws (”the law, and the prophets”) is delayed until the end.

Hebrews 10:
26For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins,

27But a certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indignation, which shall devour the adversaries.

28He that despised Moses’ law died without mercy under two or three witnesses:

29Of how much sorer punishment, suppose ye, shall he be thought worthy, who hath trodden under foot the Son of God, and hath counted the blood of the covenant, wherewith he was sanctified, an unholy thing, and hath done despite unto the Spirit of grace?

30For we know him that hath said, Vengeance belongeth unto me, I will recompense, saith the Lord. And again, The Lord shall judge his people.

31It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.

Practicing witchcraft is certain to end in damnation.


3,402 posted on 07/19/2022 5:30:24 PM PDT by Philsworld
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To: Elsie
Romans 2:11For there is no respect of persons with God.

12For as many as have sinned without law shall also perish without law: and as many as have sinned in the law shall be judged by the law;

13(For not the hearers of the law are just before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified.

14For when the Gentiles, which have not the law, do by nature the things contained in the law, these, having not the law, are a law unto themselves:

15Which shew the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and their thoughts the mean while accusing or else excusing one another;)

16In the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ according to my gospel.

3,403 posted on 07/19/2022 5:42:57 PM PDT by Philsworld
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To: kinsman redeemer

Keep thinking bro. 🤭😀🤗👍


3,404 posted on 07/19/2022 6:58:51 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
Last time I checked, we were no longer under the Old Covenant/ceremonial/ law.

Then why do you harp on Sabbath worship only?


Surely this preceded the other stuff I just posted:

Exodus 20:8-11

8 “Remember the Sabbath day by keeping it holy. 9 Six days you shall labor and do all your work, 10 but the seventh day is a sabbath to the Lord your God.
On it you shall not do any work, neither you, nor your son or daughter, nor your male or female servant, nor your animals, nor any foreigner residing in your towns.
11 For in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, but he rested on the seventh day.
Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy.

3,405 posted on 07/19/2022 7:27:26 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Elsie

——>Then why do you harp on Sabbath worship only?

Only? No, I “harp” on keeping all commandments of God. To willfully break them is lawlessness, INCLUDING the 4th. OSAS/OJAJ (like you?) say they are not required to keep God’s commandments (His law) in order to enter heaven. Big mistake.

God gave us His Sabbaths. They Belong to God, and we are told to keep them....Remember the Sabbath day by keeping it holy.

God gave His law to a people who never knew it (unlike Abraham, who PRECEDED the Israelites, and kept God’s commandments). They were captive in Egypt for 400 years. His law is the basis of the Old and New Covenants. It is also the basis of God’s Judgment. I just quoted Romans 2.
Soloman says the same thing:

Eccl 12:
13Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man.
14For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil.

Practicing witchcraft is lawlessness
Willfully breaking the Sabbath is lawlessness
Practicing Homosexuality is lawlessness
Eating unclean meat, as outlined in Leviticus, is lawlessness
Willfully breaking any of the moral 10 commandments is lawlessness
ETC...

Isa 8:
20To the law and to the testimony! If they do not speak according to this word, they have no light of dawn.

Matthew 5:
17Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil.

18For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.

19Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven: but whosoever shall do and teach them, the same shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.

20For I say unto you, That except your righteousness shall exceed the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, ye shall in no case enter into the kingdom of heaven.


3,406 posted on 07/19/2022 8:39:39 PM PDT by Philsworld
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To: Elsie

Last time I checked, we were no longer under the Old Covenant/ceremonial/ law.

——>Then why do you harp on Sabbath worship only?

The Ceremonial laws, Types and Shadows, etc..., were abolished at the cross. The 7th day Sabbath was not. It is part of God’s moral law. You seem to think that ANYTHING old covenant was abolished. Wrong.


3,407 posted on 07/19/2022 8:43:20 PM PDT by Philsworld
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To: Philsworld
No, I “harp” on keeping all commandments of God.

And then you do away with the very words of GOD for what reason?

Someone else told you they were done away with?


Yoda would say something on the order of the doublemindedness is great with this one.

3,408 posted on 07/20/2022 4:58:02 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Philsworld
The Ceremonial laws, Types and Shadows, etc..., were abolished at the cross.

Oh?

Show me that from the scriptures.

Heck, I'd take EGW saying it!

3,409 posted on 07/20/2022 4:59:46 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Philsworld
OUT! you two!!


Oh, BTW. GOD said you don't have to worry about the sweat of your brow every seventh day.

(HE said HE'll explain more later...)

3,410 posted on 07/20/2022 5:03:06 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Philsworld
It is part of God’s moral law.

Men getting killed for having sex with an animal seems pretty damn MORAL to me!

3,411 posted on 07/20/2022 5:05:18 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

What about the women and their poodles?


3,412 posted on 07/20/2022 5:09:40 AM PDT by sport
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To: Elsie

It was a sin THEN, and it’s a sin NOW.


3,413 posted on 07/20/2022 7:22:11 AM PDT by Philsworld
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To: Elsie

——>Show me that from the scriptures.

Colossians 2:
16Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days:
17WHICH ARE A SHADOW OF THINGS TO COME; but the body is of Christ.

Ref Ezekiel 45:17
17And it shall be the prince’s part to give burnt offerings, and meat offerings, and drink offerings, in the feasts, and in the new moons, and in the sabbaths, in all solemnities of the house of Israel: he shall prepare the sin offering, and the meat offering, and the burnt offering, and the peace offerings, to make reconciliation for the house of Israel.


3,414 posted on 07/20/2022 7:29:33 AM PDT by Philsworld
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To: Elsie

——>Heck, I’d take EGW saying it!

1 THE CEREMONIAL LAW ABOLISHED
1.a. Of what was the ceremonial law a shadow or type? Galatians 3:19; Hebrews 9:9, 10; 10:1; Hebrews 8:5

Note: “Men who claim to be teachers of the people blind the eyes of the ignorant by blending the moral law with the ceremonial, and using the texts which speak of the ceremonial law to prove that the moral law has been abolished. This is a perversion of the Scriptures. There are two distinct laws brought to view. One is the law of types and shadows, which reached to the time of Christ, and ceased when type met antitype in His death. The other is the law of Jehovah, and is as abiding and changeless as His eternal throne. After the crucifixion, it was a denial of Christ for the Jews to continue to offer the burnt offerings and sacrifices which were typical of His death.” The Signs of the Times, July 29, 1886

1.b. How long was the ceremonial law to be in force? Galatians 3:19

Note: “But there is a law which was abolished, which Christ ‘took out of the way, nailing it to His cross.’ Paul calls it ‘the law of commandments contained in ordinances.’ This ceremonial law, given by God through Moses, with its sacrifices and ordinances, was to be binding upon the Hebrews until type met antitype in the death of Christ as the Lamb of God … .” The Signs of the Times, September 4, 1884

2.b. What does the apostle Paul say about keeping the ceremonial sabbaths which were “a shadow of good things to come”? Colossians 2:14–17

Note: “We have the types and the shadows in the ceremonial laws, and these were to last until they should meet the reality. The sacrificial offerings were continually revealing the fact that Christ was coming to our world, and when type met antitype in the death of Christ, then the sacrificial offerings, typifying Christ, were no more of any value, but the royal law of God could not be changed. … There is no shadow in the precepts of the decalogue. The ten commandments are not a type.” The Review and Herald, July 15, 1890

“The Lamb of God was a complete and perfect offering. Types and shadows, offerings and sacrifices had no virtue after Christ’s death on the cross; but God’s law was not crucified with the Saviour.” Ibid., October 10, 1899

“In the death of Christ, the sacrificial offering ceased. The ceremonial law was done away. But by the crucifixion the law of ten commandments was established. The gospel has not abrogated the law, nor detracted one tittle from its claims.” Ibid., June 26, 1900


3,415 posted on 07/20/2022 7:37:56 AM PDT by Philsworld
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To: Elsie

——>Show me that from the scriptures.

Epheisans 2:15 Having abolished in his flesh the enmity, [even] the law of commandments [contained] in ordinances; for to make in himself of twain one new man, [so] making peace;


3,416 posted on 07/20/2022 7:44:33 AM PDT by Philsworld
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To: All
Wonderful day to not be a cultist, a false religionist, or any other trapped victim

PLACEMARKER

3,417 posted on 07/20/2022 10:57:38 AM PDT by aMorePerfectUnion (Fraud vitiates everything. )
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To: Philsworld
16Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days:
3,418 posted on 07/20/2022 1:08:11 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Philsworld
Note: “But there is a law which was abolished, which Christ ‘took out of the way, nailing it to His cross.’

Galatians 3:10
For all who rely on the works of the law are under a curse, as it is written: “Cursed is everyone who does not continue to do everything written in the Book of the Law.”
 
 
I wonder what these WORKS are?   I wonder what is actually IN the BotL?
 
 
(Someone will now probably try to convince me that Paul was writing about CEREMONIAL law here.)
 
 
 


 
 
Deuteronomy 27:26
‘Cursed is he who does not confirm the words of this law by doing them.’ And all the people shall say, ‘Amen.’
 
Deuteronomy 29:18-21
so that there will not be among you a man or woman, or family or tribe, whose heart turns away today from the Lord our God, to go and serve the gods of those nations; that there will not be among you a root bearing poisonous fruit and wormwood. It shall be when he hears the words of this curse, that he will boast, saying, ‘I have peace though I walk in the stubbornness of my heart in order to destroy the watered land with the dry.’ The Lord shall never be willing to forgive him, but rather the anger of the Lord and His jealousy will burn against that man, and every curse which is written in this book will rest on him, and the Lord will blot out his name from under heaven.
 
Deuteronomy 29:27
Therefore, the anger of the Lord burned against that land, to bring upon it every curse which is written in this book;
 
Deuteronomy 28:61
Also every sickness and every plague which, not written in the book of this law, the Lord will bring on you until you are destroyed.
 
Deuteronomy 30:10
if you obey the Lord your God to keep His commandments and His statutes which are written in this book of the law, if you turn to the Lord your God with all your heart and soul.
 
Deuteronomy 31:24
It came about, when Moses finished writing the words of this law in a book until they were complete,

 
Deuteronomy 31:24-26
It came about, when Moses finished writing the words of this law in a book until they were complete, that Moses commanded the Levites who carried the ark of the covenant of the Lord, saying, “Take this book of the law and place it beside the ark of the covenant of the Lord your God, that it may remain there as a witness against you.
 
 
 
 
 
Joshua 1:7-8
Only be strong and very courageous; be careful to do according to all the law which Moses My servant commanded you; do not turn from it to the right or to the left, so that you may have success wherever you go. This book of the law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do according to all that is written in it; for then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have success.
 
Joshua 8:30-31
Then Joshua built an altar to the Lord, the God of Israel, in Mount Ebal, just as Moses the servant of the Lord had commanded the sons of Israel, as it is written in the book of the law of Moses, an altar of uncut stones on which no man had wielded an iron tool; and they offered burnt offerings on it to the Lord, and sacrificed peace offerings.

Joshua 8:34
Then afterward he read all the words of the law, the blessing and the curse, according to all that is written in the book of the law.
 
Joshua 23:6
Be very firm, then, to keep and do all that is written in the book of the law of Moses, so that you may not turn aside from it to the right hand or to the left,
 
Joshua 24:26
And Joshua wrote these words in the book of the law of God; and he took a large stone and set it up there under the oak that was by the sanctuary of the Lord.
 
 
2 Kings 14:6
But the sons of the slayers he did not put to death, according to what is written in the book of the law of Moses, as the Lord commanded, saying, “The fathers shall not be put to death for the sons, nor the sons be put to death for the fathers; but each shall be put to death for his own sin.”
 
2 Kings 22:8-10
Then Hilkiah the high priest said to Shaphan the scribe, “I have found the book of the law in the house of the Lord.” And Hilkiah gave the book to Shaphan who read it. Shaphan the scribe came to the king and brought back word to the king and said, “Your servants have emptied out the money that was found in the house, and have delivered it into the hand of the workmen who have the oversight of the house of the Lord.” Moreover, Shaphan the scribe told the king saying, “Hilkiah the priest has given me a book.” And Shaphan read it in the presence of the king.
 
 
2 Chronicles 17:9
They taught in Judah, having the book of the law of the Lord with them; and they went throughout all the cities of Judah and taught among the people.
 
2 Chronicles 25:4
However, he did not put their children to death, but did as it is written in the law in the book of Moses, which the Lord commanded, saying, “Fathers shall not be put to death for sons, nor sons be put to death for fathers, but each shall be put to death for his own sin.”
 
 
 
Nehemiah 9:3
While they stood in their place, they read from the book of the law of the Lord their God for a fourth of the day; and for another fourth they confessed and worshiped the Lord their God.
 
Nehemiah 8:1
And all the people gathered as one man at the square which was in front of the Water Gate, and they asked Ezra the scribe to bring the book of the law of Moses which the Lord had given to Israel.
 
Nehemiah 13:1
On that day they read aloud from the book of Moses in the hearing of the people; and there was found written in it that no Ammonite or Moabite should ever enter the assembly of God,
 
Ezra 6:18
Then they appointed the priests to their divisions and the Levites in their orders for the service of God in Jerusalem, as it is written in the book of Moses.

Mark 12:26
But regarding the fact that the dead rise again, have you not read in the book of Moses, in the passage about the burning bush, how God spoke to him, saying, ‘I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob’?
 
Romans 2:27
And he who is physically uncircumcised, if he keeps the Law, will he not judge you who though having the letter of the Law and circumcision are a transgressor of the Law?

3,419 posted on 07/20/2022 1:35:38 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Philsworld
Note: “But there is a law which was abolished, which Christ ‘took out of the way, nailing it to His cross.’
 
 
 
Romans 2:27
And he who is physically uncircumcised, if he keeps the Law, will he not judge you who though having the letter of the Law and circumcision are a transgressor of the Law?
 
 Is the writer of Romans STILL talking about 'ceremonial' law AFTER the cross??

3,420 posted on 07/20/2022 1:38:17 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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