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To: xzins
My issues remain theological.

There are three things I really don't like about Catholicism, and think they would tend to pull someone away from God:
1 - The veneration, close to idolatry, of Mary;
2 - the praying to angles and saints;
3 - the supremacy of tradition, even over the scripture.

(However, I do not think that all Catholics are not Christians.)

19 posted on 05/06/2013 7:09:12 PM PDT by OneWingedShark (Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
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To: OneWingedShark

(However, I do not think that all Catholics are not Christians.)

Gee, I would hope not. Considering that the Catholic Church (all rites, Latin as well as the Eastern Rites) are the ORIGINAL and true Christian Church and can trace their existence in a direct line from the present to the Apostles of Christ and Christ himself.


31 posted on 05/06/2013 7:37:12 PM PDT by Jim from C-Town (The government is rarely benevolent, often malevolent and never benign!)
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To: OneWingedShark
2 - the praying to angles

What do you have against geometry?

88 posted on 05/07/2013 2:47:23 AM PDT by verga (A nation divided by Zero!)
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To: OneWingedShark

I think all true believers in any denomination are Christian, and that holds for every Trinitarian denomination.

I think each denomination has a bunch of straphanger attenders who are not believers. God will sort that out. Jesus said there were tares sown in the wheat field.

My theological concerns that have yet to be scripturally answered are: immaculate conception, assumption, the fine line between veneration and worship, and a non-scriptural personal issue, opulence (which Francis I might be ready to fix.)


101 posted on 05/07/2013 5:54:28 AM PDT by xzins (Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It! True supporters of our troops pray for their victory!)
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