Posted on 05/06/2011 2:36:31 PM PDT by NYer
Ping!
Very inspiring. Reminds me of His First Commandment! (now no longer valid obviously.)
Amen!
Why I am not a Catholic, by Dutchboy88
Never mind, the list is too long to post and the book is not out yet.
Knowing you it will appear under “New Fiction” anyway.
Well, the trying-to-be-an-ex-homosexual that heads for Rome Sweet Home is likely to be some good company with the pederast priests that love the little boys. And that, my FRiend, is no fiction.
Too bad he didn’t just stick with the Gospel that the 5 men in Ecuador believed. It was biblical and sufficient. Unfortunately, many folks think they need something more than Christ.
Where is the Outrage? (protestant pedophiles)
Penn State professor Philip Jenkens reported that between 2 to 3 percent of Protestant clergy are pedophiles. His same study reported that less than 1.7 percent of Catholic priests are pedophiles. There is simply no reason to think that clergy child molesters are solely a Catholic problem. The results of this survey were reported in the book, Ministerial Ethics by Joe Trull and James Carter (2d ed. 2004), and in The Baptist Standard editorial, “Churches must act to prevent clergy sexual abuse,” 4/22/2002. (source: The voice of SNAP Baptist).
http://stopbaptistpredators.org/alarmingnumbers.html
I suppose that without the little altar boys and without the cloistered celibacy that problem is not really happening among biblical Christians. Since all manner of non-catholic kooky cults, television “evangelists”, and emerging church heretics are usually included under the term “Protestant”, I have no idea how bad the situation might be in those errant groups. But, it is at epidemic proportions in the Roman crowd.
“Well, the trying-to-be-an-ex-homosexual that heads for Rome Sweet Home is likely to be some good company with the pederast priests that love the little boys. And that, my FRiend, is no fiction.”
Where is the Outrage? (protestant pedophiles)
stop baptist predators ^ | 01-01-2011 | staff
Posted on Saturday, April 23, 2011 1:27:57 AM by bronxville
So many Baptist clergy could not possibly get away with so much abuse unless many others were complicit in turning a blind eye. Why do Baptist leaders tolerate the presence of ministerial colleagues who sexually abuse the young and vulnerable? Why do people in the pews not rise up and demand that their leaders be held accountable? Where’s the outrage?
Why don’t people at Bellevue Baptist in Memphis demand the resignation of Pastor Steve Gaines, who admittedly kept quiet about a staff minister’s sexual abuse of a kid?
Why don’t people at Trinity Baptist demand the resignation of Pastor Tom Messer, about whom there is significant evidence that he knew of a minister’s serial sexual abuse of kids?
Why do so many people act as though clergy-abuse cover-ups are no big deal?
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“I suppose that without the little altar boys and without the cloistered celibacy that problem is not really happening among biblical Christians. Since all manner of non-catholic kooky cults, television “evangelists”, and emerging church heretics are usually included under the term “Protestant”, I have no idea how bad the situation might be in those errant groups. But, it is at epidemic proportions in the Roman crowd.”
Mainline Protestants have followed the excellent Catholic program started a decade age and are doing fine. I suggest you do your own research on the rest. I’ve given you a heads start.
“By this point I had my fill of old-school Christian talk radio, especially the anti-Catholic sentiments often expressed, and on occasion, l found myself watching Catholic television instead. I was surprised to hear almost none of the bigotry I had been listening to and was amazed at the level of kindness and respect shown to everyone, friend or foe—while maintaining traditional Catholic stances.”
EWTN does show the utmost respect to all of our fellow Christians. I can’t say whether it’s returned as I don’t listen to any other religous media tough do notice a distinct uncharitable flavor towards Catholics from some groupies on this forum.
I agree that both the Catholic and evangelical churches are responsible to watch for pedophile behavior of their priests and pastors. Both will be judged by God at the end. I would hate to stand before the Lord being accused and judged guilty of this.
With the above out of the way, the Bible says very clearly when you become a new Christian, you are a new person. That means that Christ has made you a new person. He comes to live in you. That doesn’t mean that a new Christian is not going to have the sinful desires, he or she probably will. They may experience what is known as a bounce, they will bounce between doing right to please God and doing wrong to please their old sin nature. As a person grows in Jesus, there should be less and less desire to please the old sin nature. He becomes dependent on the Holy Spirit to set him free from homosexual or whatever desires that are wrong. God can set a person free of lust, but they must learn to abide in Jesus, too, and not return to the old ways of life.
That is something that I never knew. I remember reading "Chance or the Dance" roughly two decades ago.
Protestant ministers who have sexually abused minor children
You wrote:
“Well, the trying-to-be-an-ex-homosexual that heads for Rome Sweet Home is likely to be some good company with the pederast priests that love the little boys. And that, my FRiend, is no fiction.”
Yeah, actually it is. First, all those who gave an indication of being “pederast priests that love the little boys” are gone. Most have been gone for decades. Some were thrown out 8 years ago. Those few who do anything like that now (less than 10 cases in the year 2010 or perhaps 2009) are instantly ousted from ministry. Second, it seems clear this man is trying to live a moral life. Even if he is afflicated with homosexual desires, that does not mean he will take up with pedophiles.
“Too bad he didn’t just stick with the Gospel that the 5 men in Ecuador believed.”
Why stick with a false gospel?
” It was biblical and sufficient.”
Actually it was neither.
” Unfortunately, many folks think they need something more than Christ.”
No, many just want the whole Christ and not the less-than-whole Protestant version.
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Is that in the YOPIOS catholic version of the Bible?
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