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Cut your time in purgatory by following pope on Twitter
C/Net ^ | 16 July 2013

Posted on 07/17/2013 8:05:06 AM PDT by Gamecock

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1 posted on 07/17/2013 8:05:06 AM PDT by Gamecock
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To: Alex Murphy; metmom

That’s good to know!


2 posted on 07/17/2013 8:05:34 AM PDT by Gamecock (Member: NAACAC)
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To: Gamecock

Some of the most vile tweets on twitter are posted in response to the pope’s tweets. It’s a “honeypot” for the deranged.


3 posted on 07/17/2013 8:09:32 AM PDT by smokingfrog ( ==> sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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To: Gamecock

I believe the church used to sell pre-emptive indulgences.

Say I saw a young girl in my neighborhood I thought was really hot. I could pay the church to grant me forgiveness for the rape I was ABOUT TO commit.

Kinda makes one want to be rich...


4 posted on 07/17/2013 8:11:21 AM PDT by cuban leaf (Were doomed! Details at eleven.)
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To: Gamecock

I really like Pope Francis’s “sermons” (or whatever our Catholic brethren call them). I follow him somewhat here and on the web simply because I like the way he preaches.

However, my Bible doesn’t say anything about “indulgences”. Or “purgatory”. Those are fabrications of men. Harmless perhaps, but definitely not binding on me!


5 posted on 07/17/2013 8:11:59 AM PDT by Nervous Tick (Without GOD, men get what they deserve.)
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To: smokingfrog

It’s a “honeypot” for the deranged.


It is also a honeypot for the biblically informed. Though their tweets should not be vile.


6 posted on 07/17/2013 8:12:22 AM PDT by cuban leaf (Were doomed! Details at eleven.)
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To: cuban leaf

>> I believe the church used to sell pre-emptive indulgences.

Martin Luther had some issues with those...


7 posted on 07/17/2013 8:12:50 AM PDT by Nervous Tick (Without GOD, men get what they deserve.)
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To: Nervous Tick

Does your bible say Mary was perfect? Does it say she died a virgin?

You may disagree with the pope on those as well.


8 posted on 07/17/2013 8:17:31 AM PDT by cuban leaf (Were doomed! Details at eleven.)
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To: Nervous Tick

Martin Luther had some issues with those...


He’s fortunate nobody got a pre-emtive indulgence for killing him. Must have been really expensive.


9 posted on 07/17/2013 8:18:23 AM PDT by cuban leaf (Were doomed! Details at eleven.)
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To: cuban leaf

>> You may disagree with the pope on those as well.

Matter of fact!

I also never read anywhere in there that I should pray to her, so I don’t.


10 posted on 07/17/2013 8:20:09 AM PDT by Nervous Tick (Without GOD, men get what they deserve.)
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To: Gamecock

Utter heresy and depravity.


11 posted on 07/17/2013 8:21:09 AM PDT by Dr. Thorne ("How long, O Lord, holy and true?" - Rev. 6:10)
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To: cuban leaf

Not true today.


12 posted on 07/17/2013 8:21:51 AM PDT by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: cuban leaf
I could pay the church to grant me forgiveness for the rape I was ABOUT TO commit.

To gain a plenary indulgence you must be in the state of grace and have the interior disposition of complete detachment from sin, even venial sin.

Rape being a mortal sin, your little thought experiment here won't merit you anything but Hell.

Nice try though!

13 posted on 07/17/2013 8:26:16 AM PDT by Claud
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To: Gamecock

It’s stuff like this that causes my Protestant friends to believe that I belong to some weird, creepy cult.

From Twitter? Seriously??


14 posted on 07/17/2013 8:26:19 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: cuban leaf
Cuban leaf, you are in error. First, indulgences do not involve the forgiveness of sin --- indeed they have nothing to do with unconfessed, unrepented sin.

And you sure can't repent a sin in advance. :o|

15 posted on 07/17/2013 8:33:35 AM PDT by Mrs. Don-o (Double-plus-meh.)
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To: Gamecock
Sooo, will any of these indulgences be accepted at Judgement City ...?
16 posted on 07/17/2013 8:33:40 AM PDT by oh8eleven (RVN '67-'68)
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To: Dr. Thorne; Gamecock
"Utter heresy and depravity."

He just forgot the \s tag. I can see his grin from here.

17 posted on 07/17/2013 8:34:26 AM PDT by Dutchboy88
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To: Mrs. Don-o

And you sure can’t repent a sin in advance. :o|

Well, you can’t NOW. ;-)

Things were interesting a dozen or so centuries ago.


18 posted on 07/17/2013 8:37:22 AM PDT by cuban leaf (Were doomed! Details at eleven.)
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To: Salvation

ot true today.


Yeah. That is old stuff. Kinda like the Mormons didn’t allow black into the church at first since their skin color “is the mark Gode gave Cane for murdering his brother”.


19 posted on 07/17/2013 8:38:42 AM PDT by cuban leaf (Were doomed! Details at eleven.)
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To: cuban leaf
Say I ...

Don't know that an indulgence is not a permission to commit sin, nor a pardon of future sin.

20 posted on 07/17/2013 8:38:49 AM PDT by D-fendr (Deus non alligatur sacramentis sed nos alligamur.)
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