The Reality of Romanism

The Riddleblog ^ | May 10, 2007 | Kim Riddlebarger

[pjr12345]

The bigger the number, the more dramatic the conclusion.

[Salvation]

I think we may have been through this before. Mary was the Ark of the New Covenant. She carried Jesus Christ, true God and true man, within her. It is a big deal.

And I can’t quite fathom why you wouldn’t say the same. Because I bet you believe that every birth is a big deal. (Let alone, the birth of Jesus Christ!!!!!!!!)

[RobbyS]

Just one thing. The logic is that “faith” is sometimes enhanced by reliance on physical objects. This obviously the is the basis of most superstittion, including things like lucky charms, or crystals aroubnd the neck. Of course is there is danger of idolatry when one associated the object with spiritual powers,but the spiritual danger is the identity of the spirit that is worshipped. The puritanical notion of eliminating all sacramentals works against the fundamental fact that we are composites of body and souls, and that we psychologically need tangible objects to give us confidence and we need to express our faith physically and that the faith is in the One God, not any false god.

[RobbyS]

Well, someone MADE that Bible you read. You would abolish printers and book binders?

[Alex Murphy]

Can I count Floyd being dropped on his head as an infant as persecution?

Huh huh huh huh huh

You said "Count Floyd"

[dangus]

So only Christ can work miracles? Peter couldn’t. Hmmmm...

[dangus]

>> You guys are and always will be the Roman Catholic Church because the bishop of ROME lives in ROME.<<

Uh, see that’s exactly it. The Bishop of Rome lives in exile from the City of Man, Rome. Although Martin Luther did not know this (making the slandrous nature of his claims obvious), the Vatican is on the OTHER side of the river from Rome, built on the site where the Romans dumped Peter’s body.

I have no problem with “Roman Catholic,” to distinguish from “Orthodox Catholic” but “Romanism” is plain and simply intended to be incindiary, and developed historically as an attempt to link the Catholic Church with the Whore Babylon. The use of the term pretty much signals to the rest of the world that the author is a polemic crackpot. The effect is like blogging in all caps or spelling America with a “k.”

[Alex Murphy]

33,000+ denominations of Protestantism and counting

You know, up until this year I kept hearing it was 30,000, then all of a sudden we zoomed up to 40,000, then dropped back down to 30,000 - in fact, we even had multiple reports claiming that number just in the last month - and now you say it's gone up to 33,000? BWA HAHAHAHA

Get your stories straight, Catholics. At one point this year, you were saying we had over a million....

[dangus]

I’m calling you on this one. I’d like to see a link to a post where a Catholic criticized you for referring to his church as the Catholic Church.

[pjr12345]

Old... tired... wrong...

[dangus]

>> As Harnack and many other historians have noted, popes Zephyrinus and Callixtus I, who were Monarchian Modalist heretics were the first Roman bishops to apply Matthew 16:18 <<

The sources you people will quote sometimes to back your argument are amazing. You seem to be referring to Adolf von Harnack, a German who promoted the “social gospel,” the Protestant equivalent of liberation theology, and who asserted, among other claims, that the Gospel of John was spurious and denied the existence of miracles. He’s about as credible as the Queer Theory “historians” who claim that Jesus and John were homosexual lovers.

[dangus]

As a Asian Greek preaching in France long before the era of swift transportation or telecommunication, wouldn’t it be downright odd for Irenaeus to specify an Italian bishop?

The point Irenaeus was making amidst the heresy was that when you don’t know WHICH bishop to follow, follow the one in Rome.

[timer]

Simple truth : Our lord Jesus was crucified on a THURSDAY, not friday, count on your fingers : THREE DAYS and THREE NIGHTS. Also, dec 25 is the roman god Jupiter’s “birthday”, Jesus was born in early january as the eastern orthodox believe. Many more truths to know, as the little book that tastes sweet in the mouth but bitter in the stomach.

[Jaded]

I rather think papistical has a nice ring to it.

[theanonymouslurker]

In all of the Christian era, Rome's remains the only exercise of organized religion in the West which is comparable to that of militant Islam who is still quite enthused over chopping off body parts, public massacres, torture, etc. Say, you don't suppose you could license your patents for public burnings at the stake to them? Sounds lucrative.

Real nice statement, you bigot. Say, don't you have to go to some soldier's funeral and wave your "God hates fags" banners or something?

[Religion Moderator]

Discuss the issues all you want, but do NOT make it personal.

[theanonymouslurker]

You got ‘em good.

[GoLightly]

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[George W. Bush]

Say, don't you have to go to some soldier's funeral and wave your "God hates f--s" banners or something?

Oh, gee, that really stings, coming from a supporter of a church who conducted an organized campaign to torture and murder homosexuals for centuries.

Apparently, you just don't like the competition.

[xzins]

There’s no way I can find that post, but it’s true. I was criticised for saying “catholic” instead of Roman Catholic. I’ve also been criticised for not capitalizing the first letters, something that I also don’t always do with methodist...my own denomination.

You’ll just have to trust my memory and my reputation.