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To: SVTCobra03

You wrote:

“It is Roman Paganism that is the man-made sect and kidnapped the early Church.”

Roman paganism was extinguished by the Catholic Church 1400 years ago.

“It is the RCC that enticed pagans into their religion by telling them that they didn’t have to give up their multiple gods;”

False. There are numerous examples of Catholic missionaries destroying idols (Sts. Boniface, Ansgar, etc). What enticed pagans to join the Catholic Church was its teachings about Christ, heaven and its acts of charity.

“the RCC invented “saints” that were pagan gods with different names.”

No. Secularists and other morons make that claim but have never once actually demonstrated it. Take, for instance, how the same secularists say that the Mithraic Mysteries are the actual source of the Christian ideas about baptism and a savior. They’re wrong, of course. And so are you.

“And the pagans didn’t have to give up their goddess worship; they could now worship Mary otherwise known as Asteria.”

Again, no. First, they were not worshipping Mary. If you worshipped Mary you were a Collyridian and you were excommunicated.

“It was the RCC that invented another pagan concept known as purgatory.”

False. First, it is no invention. Second, clearly Jews believed in such a concept as 2 Maccabees 12 shows. Third, since in Catholic theology, the God who created purgatory is the Trinity, the God who cleanses souls there is the Trinity, and the God who won that grace to cleanse souls with in purgatory is Jesus, there is no rational reason to call purgatory anything but Christian.

“It was the RCC that murdered people that wanted to read the Bible in their own language instead of the vulgate Latin.”

Nope. Nevere happened. Not even once. I have a PhD in Medieval History and have researched this in at least six languages and there is no proof whatsoever that any such thing ever happened even once. The simple fact is translating the Bible into the vernacular was never viewed as a criminal act by the Catholic Church. Those two or three regions which had laws restricting translations never banned them outright and never executed anyone for translating or possessing a vernacular Bible.

“And when scholars translated the original Hebrew and Greek and discovered the many, many errors of the RCC bible, then they were murdered.”

Again, no. NEVER happened. Go ahead and list the two or three examples which don’t actually prove your claim. I don’t mind refuting them yet again here on FR. I’ve done it dozens of times before.

“And that is but a fraction of the history of blasphemy, heresy and apostasy of the RCC.”

You’re posting fantasies, not facts. And of course you post no actual examples of sources.


148 posted on 06/23/2012 11:58:32 AM PDT by vladimir998
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To: vladimir998

Vlad — did not leaders of the Roman Catholic Church kill Reformers during the so-called “Protestant Reformation”? Did they not call for and affirm the murders of those who denounced the heresies of the Roman Catholic Church?


199 posted on 06/24/2012 1:22:02 PM PDT by Theo (... with Liberty and Justice for all.)
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