Posted on 01/13/2012 8:47:57 AM PST by DogwoodSouth
If you've seen the video "Jesus>religion" (aka "Why I Hate Religion, But Love Jesus"), you probably nodded your head in agreement with some of the, thoughts... er, lyrics. It has a strong emotional appeal (not to mention great video editing). But is it all true?
Bad Catholic has a thought-provoking response to the video that's burning up the ether around the net:
(Excerpt) Read more at southernfriedcatholicism.com ...
Thanks for your note. I believe that from a RC worldview or Orthodox worldview, you are singing the only thing they know. That doesn’t make it so. It is just what they can see from where they sit. I understand and wish them all blessings in Christ.
Yeahh.. didn’t mean to imply that you’d necessarily agree with that system of classification, just explaining the breakdown from Catholic/Orthodox perspective.
I understand entirely.
Blessings in Christ to you.
There’s no “Catholicism” in the Word Of God. Nothing even close.
Even if your premise were true (and it's an oversimplification), your conclusion doesn't follow. If Christ had founded a church that lost all connection to him when its leadership sinned, it would have lost that connection long before the 1520's. Around AD 33 and a couple of months, in fact.
Not only that, but to this day, they persist in reading from it every time they get together. Why do you suppose they'd do that?
You wrote:
“A book called Martyrs Mirror clearly exposes your argument as myth.”
No, actually it doesn’t. It never could since there is no myth involved.
“In the 1520’s, the Catholic Church was killing anyone who disagreed with them - which shows they were no longer connected to Christ.”
False. Not only was the Church not killing everyone who disagreed with it, but even such killing occured it would not be proof or demonstration of a wholesale loss of connection to Christ by the Church’s members. First, the Church killed no one for it had no authority, ability, or power to take human life. Second, even if Catholics, whether representing the Church, or representing the state, took human life (whether justly or unjustly) this in no way shows a single Catholic doctrine to be untrue or removes proper authority from the Church. Third, there were plenty or obvious saints, holy men and women, recognized as great saints who loved God and were favored with great grace and miracles, throughout the Protestant Revolution.
Martyrs’ Mirror is a wonderful piece of anabaptist propaganda, but proves nothing about Church history other than the fact that people - even baptized Christians - are sinners.
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