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To: ex-snook; boatbums; metmom; Iscool; ealgeone; caww; ADSUM; Elsie; annalex
>>If the Catholic Church disregarded God, they would not have been around for 2,000+ years and still going strong.<<

Of course they are still around even though they ignore what God said. So are other pagans who started back in Babylon. The oldest religions that are still widely practiced are Hinduism, Buddhism, Taoism, and Jainism. Then there is pantheism, Zoroastrianism, and Confucianism. If it's the oldest religion that you believe is right you should convert to one of any of those.

It's interesting to note that your MAGIsterium has it's origins in Zoroastrianism. So maybe unbeknownst to you Catholicism is simply part of Zoroastrianism which would make it one of the oldest. It's probably why the Catholic Church removed the name of Clement of Alexandria who curses the magi for their “impious” rites and rituals from it’s list of Roman Martyrology?

6,388 posted on 01/19/2015 9:54:47 AM PST by CynicalBear (For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus)
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To: CynicalBear
If it's the oldest religion that you believe is right you should convert to one of any of those."

Catholics are descendents of the Jewish religion which you did not mention.

6,395 posted on 01/19/2015 11:46:28 AM PST by ex-snook (God forgives because God is Love)
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I don't know why, other than they've been brainwashed to think so, that they keep playing the "we/ve been here thousands of years card"....as if catholicism is the only one that's survived. It's not a matter of years on the stage.....it's a matter of truth...which escaped them long ago and therefore there could be no end other than what we see they've become today. And it certainly isn't Christian....it's just decorated with Christian trimmings...the real story is underneath that picture they draw... and it's anything but Christian.

The Vatican revealed in May 2014 that over the past 10 years...it has defrocked 848 priests who raped or molested children and sanctioned another 2,572 with lesser penalties, and how it's handled the more than 3,400 cases of abuse reported to the Holy See since 2004....The figures only cover cases handled directly by the Holy See, not those handled by local diocesan tribunals, meaning the total number of sanctioned priests is likely far higher........Only in 2010 did the Vatican tell bishops and superiors to report credible cases 'to police' where local reporting laws require them to....the Vatican began also in 2010 resorting more and more to the lesser penalty of sentencing accused priests to a lifetime of penance and prayer rather than defrocking them!....and so it goes!


6,396 posted on 01/19/2015 12:24:25 PM PST by caww
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I don't know why, other than they've been brainwashed to think so, that they keep playing the "we/ve been here thousands of years card"....as if catholicism is the only one that's survived. It's not a matter of years on the stage.....it's a matter of truth...which escaped them long ago and therefore there could be no end other than what we see they've become today. And it certainly isn't Christian....it's just decorated with Christian trimmings...the real story is underneath that picture they draw... and it's anything but Christian.

The Vatican revealed in May 2014 that over the past 10 years...it has defrocked 848 priests who raped or molested children and sanctioned another 2,572 with lesser penalties, and how it's handled the more than 3,400 cases of abuse reported to the Holy See since 2004....The figures only cover cases handled directly by the Holy See, not those handled by local diocesan tribunals, meaning the total number of sanctioned priests is likely far higher........Only in 2010 did the Vatican tell bishops and superiors to report credible cases 'to police' where local reporting laws require them to....the Vatican began also in 2010 resorting more and more to the lesser penalty of sentencing accused priests to a lifetime of penance and prayer rather than defrocking them!....and so it goes!


6,397 posted on 01/19/2015 12:24:25 PM PST by caww
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