Posted on 06/15/2007 5:33:53 AM PDT by Between the Lines
You're free to do the same.
"Am I therefore become your enemy, because I tell you the truth? -- Gal. 4:16
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You do yourself a disservice with this statement, friend.
Well then.......good news, Doc!
A Church "literally filled" with "sexual deviates" (sic) is unlikely to last too long, wouldn't you say? A church so deeply rotten will undoubtedly self-destruct......and soon.
Are we agreed?
Good.
Here's a suggestion; hold your breath and don't let it out until it happens.
Are these priests teaching something counter to the magisterium about their priestly role in the church?
Where do you disagree with the statements of those priests? Where have those priests erred?
It’s always good when we’re able to hold our tempers and not make the discussion personal.
So far all I've heard is RCs who refuse to see it.
Which, of course, just seems to be more of the same old blindspot. For parents, this is a dangerous evasion.
If the Catholic Church is as bad as you describe, we're surely done for. And soon, wouldn't you say?
Are we now discussing these things as a service to ourselves?
I didn't know.
I apologize, but I’ll have to get back to you on this.
ROTFLOLOL!!!
Must I salute, too? I could also click my heels, if that is of any benefit to you.
There will always be error in this world. As God wills.
"For there must be also heresies among you, that they which are approved may be made manifest among you." -- 1 Corinthians 11:19
The RCC is not known for consistency. Perhaps one day the Holy Spirit will lead it into the merciful full light of the truth of Christ risen, made known to us by the word of God and the power of God.
You know the most recent per year number for the RCC, don't you?
The fact that only some of the 260 per year are clergy isn't much of a comfort.
Beyond all that, my point is that none of us can relax our guard. The predators are unrelenting so we have to deny them the opportunities to abuse.
The only thing any Protestant really wants is for a member of the RC to return to the Bible and read from it. We're content in knowing God gives ears to hear and eyes to see and a new heart to whom He wills.
Always in every prayer of mine for you all making request with joy, For your fellowship in the gospel from the first day until now; Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ" -- Philippians 1:3-6"I thank my God upon every remembrance of you,
I don't "edit for shock value"
Uh huh.
So 2 posts later, in #78 I read this:
Unlike the RCC clergy whose ranks are literally filled with sexual deviates.
"Literally filled". No hyperbole or shock value there, of course. Then, on a roll now, 3 posts later we have this:
I speak against some of the doctrines of the RCC which are anti-Scriptural fables.
Again, no shock value there.
So.......our clergy is "filled" with perverts and and our doctrines are "anti-Scriptural" fables.
Rather than attempting to refute this, which as others have pointed out, is an exercise in futility in your case, I'm running with it. Agreeing with you.
Ours is a Church full of sexual deviants engaged in teaching fables. Give us your medical prognosis, Doc. Don't be shy. Definitely a terminal illness, no? God's blessing could never be with such an abomination, surely?
How long to live?
And as we've seen from the article by the priest I posted, the RCC teaches that priests are "another Christ."
Thus, can you imagine for a moment the paralyzing fear of a child who is being molested by a man whom his parents and church are telling him is "another Christ?"
That lie is not told in Protestant churches. Children who might be abused by a Protestant clergy would run from him as they would run from any other man.
The problem is deep inside the RCC. As long as it insists priests are "another Christ," they are preaching "another Gospel."
BTW, I, for one, fully agree with that priest and his article.
Your extracts are another matter.
The actual quote was "edit for shock value."
But I bet you knew that.
I don't mind my posts being seen as "shocking." The errors of the RCC are massively shocking and do far more damage than anything I might inflict on the magisterium's confusion.
You'll note also, for the sake of the truthfulness of your comments, that I was speaking of the immorality of the clergy. I never once made that assessment of the congregation.
But you probably knew that, too. And yet you still chose to misquote me...again.
Thank you for that excellent Scripture. May we all have our moment of clarity by the hand of God as Paul did on the road to Damascus.
So you believe that "priests are another Christ."
Thanks. Your agreement has been noted now from heaven to all parts of the earth and below.
Wow. You even post your invective against the Catholics in a thread critical of the Protestants. You don’t stop. But nice try to point the floodlights in the other direction.
The article reads that there are upwards of 260 reports of sex abuse in the protestant churches per year. In the Catholic church, however, the article points out that there has been 13,000 cases of child molestation since 1950. Whipping out the ole calculator and figuring out the average per annum for the Catholic Church reveals 232 cases per year (13,000/56).
Oh, but those doing the fact gathering must be papists right? Or the supposed victims of the Protestants are liars?
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