Marjorie Taylor Greene: I Was Raised Catholic, but Wicked Bishops Have ‘Driven Me Away’ from the Church

LifeSite News ^ | 5/4/22 | Claire Chretien

[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.......

[af_vet_1981]

Definitely not cursing Jews or Catholics.

That is not how you come across. For example, "The Joooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooos, as a group, are out as His chosen people." is antisemitic and against scripture; the Apostle Paul warned against such conceit. The constant Catholic bashing aside, were it not for the Jews and the Catholics, there would be no Bible for you to read and use to be holy, which is evidently not occurring on this thread. Of all the SDA folks I"ve known, no one has ever behaved this way, either to me or to others in my presence, despite no small dissension and disputation with them. I'm very disappointed in this behavior.

[Elsie]

2 and bring it to Aaron’s sons the priests. And he shall take from it a handful of the fine flour and oil, with all of its frankincense; and the priest shall burn this as its memorial portion upon the altar, an offering by fire, a pleasing odor to the Lord.
3 And what is left of the cereal offering shall be for Aaron and his sons;
it is a most holy part of the offerings by fire to the Lord.

4 “When you bring a cereal offering baked in the oven as an offering,
it shall be unleavened cakes of fine flour mixed with oil,
or unleavened WAFERS spread with oil.

(accentuation mine)

 

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Likewise...

[Elsie]

If it’s mushy or full of bugs, I don’t eat it.

This does not slow my goat down a bit! Heck, he'll even eat a wasp!

[Elsie]

"They blew it and never more will they represent God's chosen people. WE are now "Israel", Abraham's seed and heirs according to the promise."

Someone should ell them.

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Revelation 7:3-4

 

³ Saying, Hurt not the earth, neither the sea, nor the trees, till we have sealed the servants of our God in their foreheads.

⁴ And I heard the number of them which were sealed: and there were sealed an hundred and forty and four thousand of all the tribes of the children of Israel.

 

[Elsie]

...and the Catholics?

[Philsworld]

---->Someone should ell them.

I'll tell "T"ell them

Israel. Those who insist that the 144,000 are literal Jews contend that the application to Christians as spiritual Israel cannot be reconciled with the division into 12 specific tribes. However, if “children of Israel” must be taken literally, what reason is there for not taking vs. 5–8 and ch. 14:1–5 literally as well? Aside from the fact that the Jews have long lost their tribal distinctions, the fantastically remote likelihood of an actual identical number being redeemed from each tribe—but not a single soul from Dan—and the requirement that they all be celibates (ch. 14:4) would put too great a strain on one’s credulity. If, however, the 144,000 are not literal Jews but figurative Israelites, spiritual Israel, the Christian church, then the tribal divisions and other details are also figurative, and the difficulties vanish.

These Israelites thus sealed are then to be understood as belonging to spiritual Israel, the Christian church (see Rom. 2:28, 29; 9:6, 7; Gal. 3:28, 29; 6:16; cf. Gal. 4:28; 1 Peter 1:1; see on Phil. 3:3). Spiritual Israel, in Bible figure, is represented as also being divided into 12 tribes, for the 12 gates of the New Jerusalem have engraved upon them the names of the 12 tribes of Israel (see Rev. 21:12).

SDA Bible Commentary on Rev 7:4

[Philsworld]

First of all, I’m just hyper emphasizing the word Jew because a group of people on this site keep accusing me of being one, or legalizer, etc.... my intent is never to be antisemitic. I’ll clean it up in the future. But, it is not antisemitic to scripture. The Jews are certainly out as a chosen people, according to scripture. Your interpretation differs from mine, obviously.

Second, I’m not anti Catholic people. I’m anti Catholic system. Because, that system is Babylon. The Reformers were correct. Tough to hear but it’s true.

[Cronos]

Read my posts, I refer to Jesus as God .

Mary is the mother of God Jesus.

Jesus was God in the womb. You refuse to acknowledge that.

And we call ourselves Christian’s, followers of chr. you prefer to call yourself Lutheran.

[Luircin]

No apology for your fslsehood about me? Typical.

Beyond that, your attempt to change the subject is laughable and another obvious falsehood as well.

I always knew that you Catholics never took mortal sins seriously.

[Elsie]

Mary is the mother of God Jesus.

Jesus was God in the womb. You refuse to acknowledge that.

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Mary is the mother of God Jesus.

You refuse to acknowledge that.

Rightly so.

This sentence is not needed: Jesus was God in the womb.

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That Catholic mantra - Hail Mary, mother of GOD... - is really imbedded deep into your soul; isn't it?

[Elsie]

No need to when you can bind and loose.

[Luircin]

Just look at you, so eager to insult me that you happily violate the same Commandments you claim to love so dearly.

If you can’t take Catholicism seriously, even to the point where you happily throw yourself into Hellfire for the sake of an Internet argument, why should I?

[Mark17]

I always knew that you Catholics never took mortal sins seriously.

I didn’t take them seriously either, when I was a Catholic. I committed, probably a thousand mortal sins a day, then I also committed mortal sins of sacrilege. That’s the worst mortal sins of all.
I wasn’t really trying to set a land speed record, for the number of mortal sins I could commit, but I seemed to be powerless to stop. I wonder if I would have committed less mortal sins, if I had paid closer attention in Catechism class. 🤗

[Luircin]

That’s a good question! Probably would have become more aware of your sins, and then either A: Gave up on the Christian faith altogether, or B: tried to make excuses for your behavior like most of the usual suspects seem to do.

But in the end, you chose option C: Seek God’s grace and mercy, which is the only right choice.

[aMorePerfectUnion]

Placemarker

[MurphsLaw]

No apology for your fslsehood about me? Typical.


As I have asked of prideful, liberal, acquaintances in the past about their feelings...

Do you think victimhood looks attractive on you?

Be careful, Thats a slippery slope for any brother, or sister, in Christ...
Woe is not us...
For Christianity is a fighting religion.
(CSL)

[MurphsLaw]

Trust me when I say this...

You did not have the market cornered on mortal sins back in the day...LOL..
Acutually, you're in some good company..
You'd feel much better if you read about pre-Christian St. Augustine... or other saints for that matter...

In fact it was St. Augie who wrote:
"There is no saint without a past, no sinner without a future.".
I myself... am lucky to be alive today...

A few weeks back I made reference to Fr. Don Calloway- who went from atheist Heavy metal, satanic worshipping druggie... to becoming a Priest.
(With the help of some very good Filipino Nuns no less!)

Anything IS possible with God.

[MHGinTN]

You display your invincible ignorance and are proud oof it! God CANNOT lie and CANNOT contradict Himself, for starters, catholic. You select a profile phrase which further displays your dead soul as you are ignorant of the words the ones who walked away. The very insistence that Jesus qave His flesh to the disciples on the night before His crucifixion is a gordian knot you simply cannot unravel so you just post the blasphemy as a proud promoter of same.

[MurphsLaw]

You've been a little busy of late...and not wanting to distract… I've delayed... so hey there....

Your comparison of Jesus on the cross as something to be physically eaten for empowerment, to the physical Tree of Life in the physical garden, bearing physical fruit which could cause Adam's physical body to never die is so satanic that I could almost hear the demons cackling as you posted that fraud.

When Jesus said he would rebuild the Temple in 3 days...
21 But he spoke of the temple of his body.

You do not understand -
It's NOT a comparison... it's typology...
Similar to how St. Paul refers to Christ as the "New Adam".... its NOT a comparative analysis....
So because God gives Adam the Tree of Life to eat from, for everlasting life...
You have we to see the parallel in John 6 where Christ himself is saying...

51 I am the living bread that came down from heaven. Whoever eats this bread will live forever. This bread is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world....

Symbolically OR literally.... for Bible sake man... the connection is right there, inerrantly.
For what purpose then would Christ be using Bread and Wine- as reference to HIS Body?.
Demons maybe cackling.
But I can assure you it's not over the Promises Christ made of His Body.

That you would even entertain in your heart such a nasty comparison indicates something about the heart of Catholicism that the Holy Spirit wants exposed ... again and again. Your religion is carnal, pure carnality.

Well that is just an affront to God.
Is Jesus carnal then? St. Paul ? The early Church Fathers?
Where did the idea come about then that the Eucharist was consecrated into Christ's Body and Blood with the eraly Christians who confessed just that?
WHERE DID IT COME FROM?
Passover. More appropriately, The New Passover.

God has always found it important to feed his creatures, feed them physically. What was the purpose of the miracle in feeding of the 5000?
What did Christ parallel in doing that?
Yes the Manna...
Why does Jesus tell us to pray like this...
"Give us this day, our "Daily" Bread..."?
WRONG
You think that's about a DAILY- everyday need of food?
NO ! Look it up... epiousios Gk.- IS THE WORD used in that verse....
(not hemeras Gk. That is used almost 400 times in Scripture to reference day or "daily")

Epiousios has been MISTRANSLATED as "Daily" - and this SPECIAL Word that Christ asks us to pray... is only found in ONLY TWO PLACES in sacred scripture...IN The Lord's Prayer as given to us by Christ.... AND The Didache !

Now dontcha think that's a bit odd for a word like “epiousios” to ONLY appear 2 times like this if it did not have some special meaning?
It HAS to be used in a special way here…
Breaking down this Greek word – you learn it actuallys is a combo of 2 words- ”upon & essence” , or “upon & substance”....
Properly translated:

"Give us this day, our supernatural Bread".

This could be debated forever- but Luke or Matt could have used the common word for "daily" - not one that was so rare.
Either way...it ain't just "Daily" bread we are praying for.., but something more substantial....

Keeping with the feeding theme -
Christ told Peter 3 times to promise to feed his flock.

And then of course - The Word made Flesh.

ABSOLUTELY the definition of carnal. [In a non- sexual context of course.]

Where God gives us instruction on spiritual matters, your religion of catholiciism twists it to be carnal. Purgatory is a case in point: your mythos of purgatory is focused upon cleansing the flesh so it can go into God's Presence in Heaven, but it is the spirit that needs cleansing and the gracing of eternal life, not the flesh, not the behavior mechanism which is trained in sin.

Purgatory will have to wait...( pun intended)

The little comparison you posted of Jesus being physical fruit on a crucifixion tree, to be physicallty eaten, is just another satanic lie meant to confuse and capture dead souls befiore they understand their doom. Your little lie focuses upon the physical when the Cross is about the sacrifice of innocent body, behavior mechanism AND spirit so that descendants from Adam may be redeemed in SPIRIT and given a real, physical body and real soul fit to carry the eternal life now in their spirits by God's Grace glorifying His Sacrifice for our spirits renewal.

Again, was not comparing Jesus as a piece of Fruit.
I was showing the typology that God shows us in scripture how we were created to consume from him, Everlasting Life.
And what you say Cross is about the Sacrifice of the Lamb of God- Catholics are right there with you.
Although we would say that Sacrifice began in the Last Supper, during the New Passover, for the New Exodus for the purposes of our own bodily resurrection into Heaven.

Your pretend -which you believe is reality- to eat the actual flesh, blood, soul and divinity of Jesus is a carnal focus proving your focus is not on the spiritual but on the carnal, the flesh.

No Pretending. Real Presence.
Jesus blessed the Bread-
The Priest blesses and consecrates the Bread:

Be pleased, O God, we pray,
to bless, acknowledge,
and approve this offering in every respect;
make it spiritual and acceptable,
so that it may become for us
the Body and Blood of your most beloved Son,
our Lord Jesus Christ.

The Eucharist is Both substance and spiritual. It’s the complete Body, Blood- SOUL and Divinity that Christ wants to give us. His body may have been restrained to physical entity on Earth (sans miracles)- but immediately after the Resurrection- he’s Body- “don’t cling to me” and Spirit- disappearing before Clopas in Emmaus - This is how he has revealed himself to Us. And not just to a single people or nation - but throughout the world in every nation -
He is alive- and his presence is in the Tabernacles on Altars all over HIS world -
just as the Bread of Presence was in the Ark of the Covenant-
so that God is with us.

For the Incarnation within us.

[MHGinTN]

Lots of words ... to support demonic foolishness.

You CAtholics have been taught to conflate, so you conflate the flesh with the spirit, as if eating fruit to maintain the physical body is the same as spiritually consuming SPIRITUAL bread. And you have such elaborate lies and distortions and twists to defend such blasphemy! NOTHING you can post in that frame of demonic deception is going to have any spiritual merit. You fail