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The Reformation is over. Catholics 0, Protestants 1
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| April 13, 2015
| Jerry Walls
Posted on 04/25/2015 10:33:08 AM PDT by RnMomof7
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posted on
04/25/2015 10:33:08 AM PDT
by
RnMomof7
To: Alex Murphy; bkaycee; blue-duncan; boatbums; CynicalBear; daniel1212; Gamecock; HossB86; Iscool; ...
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posted on
04/25/2015 10:34:03 AM PDT
by
RnMomof7
To: RnMomof7
There's only Catholicism. There ain't Liberal Catholicism or Conservative Catholicism. Just as there is only right and wrong.
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posted on
04/25/2015 10:37:03 AM PDT
by
miss marmelstein
(Richard the Third: "I should like to drive away not only the Turks (moslims) but all my foes.")
To: RnMomof7
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posted on
04/25/2015 10:39:11 AM PDT
by
2ndDivisionVet
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To: RnMomof7
I believe that what the author of this article describes is a uniquely American phenomenon: the desire of many people to retain a nominal Catholic identity without caring much about it in their habits and practices.
I give Europeans credit for at least being more honest about it. People who would fit this description over there don't even pretend to be Catholic anymore.
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posted on
04/25/2015 10:40:54 AM PDT
by
Alberta's Child
("It doesn't work for me. I gotta have more cowbell!")
To: RnMomof7
>>Perhaps this is just another sign that the Reformation isdespite the pope's best effortsfinally taking hold within the Roman Church.<<
Now that outa make some heads spin!
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posted on
04/25/2015 10:41:38 AM PDT
by
CynicalBear
(For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus)
To: miss marmelstein
That’s a perception that the Roman Catholic organization labors hard to maintain.
Truth be told there IS one church, which is the body of all believers. Sadly, they now fall into contentions based upon what shingle is outside the door of their worship halls. Yes, doctrines are disputed too, but in practice it is the name — the denomination — that gets the highest level of concern. Get the right NAME and then you can sail along blindly with the DOCTRINE local to that NAME. Or so the purveyors of NAMEs would tell you.
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posted on
04/25/2015 10:44:46 AM PDT
by
HiTech RedNeck
(Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
To: CynicalBear
have know Catholics just like you for years...
I have always called them protestants, because that is exactly what they are.
One thing is for sure they certainly aren’t Catholic.
Ad Majoram Dei Gloriam
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posted on
04/25/2015 10:45:18 AM PDT
by
LurkingSince'98
(Ad Majoram Dei Gloriam = FOR THE GREATER GLORY OF GOD)
To: CynicalBear; RnMomof7
>>Perhaps this is just another sign that the Reformation isdespite the pope's best effortsfinally taking hold within the Roman Church.<< Now that outa make some heads spin!
One can only hope...I pray that many will be called out of the apostasy and heresy that is Catholicism!
Hoss
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posted on
04/25/2015 10:46:54 AM PDT
by
HossB86
(Christ, and Him alone.)
To: RnMomof7
My quick reaction to the article: it is not that the Catholics are "Protestant"
per se, but that they are Americans. Part of what it means to be American, however, is the willingness to reason for oneself on the basis of evidence and logic, and if one aspect of acceptable evidence is what is found in the Bible, in that sense Americans think like Protestants, even when they believe like Catholics.
I would add that this is why so many of us on FR despair of the future of America, because what we see in the administration in particular, and progressivism in general, is an unwillingness to reason for oneself. Liberals today are like the Catholic Church was at the height of its post-medieval corruption and depravity--the corruption and depravity that led to the rise of prophetic utterance culminating in the Reformation and Counter-Reformation. OTOH, this should give us a sense of hope, since it was when the Church was at its worst that God raised up those who would prophetically speak to reform it, and it did reform: not only the Protestant denominations that came from the Reformation, but the cleaned-up Catholic church that then set about evangelizing the world.
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posted on
04/25/2015 10:49:20 AM PDT
by
chajin
("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
To: LurkingSince'98
>>have know Catholics just like you for years...<<
You thought I was a Catholic? ROFLOL!
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posted on
04/25/2015 10:50:49 AM PDT
by
CynicalBear
(For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus)
To: HiTech RedNeck
hi Hi,
I don’t believe you are even close to being right.
While there IS One Church, no NAME on that Church has anything to their beliefs, nor whether those beliefs are anything close to what Christ asks us to believe.
DOCTRINE has everything to do with faith.
NO DOCTRINE, no FAITH, no matter what NAME you put on it.
Ad Majoram Dei Gloriam
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posted on
04/25/2015 10:51:27 AM PDT
by
LurkingSince'98
(Ad Majoram Dei Gloriam = FOR THE GREATER GLORY OF GOD)
To: CynicalBear
NO I know you to be prot thru and thru.
However my point is I know lots of nominative Catholics just like you which I have always call protestant.
AMDG
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posted on
04/25/2015 10:53:28 AM PDT
by
LurkingSince'98
(Ad Majoram Dei Gloriam = FOR THE GREATER GLORY OF GOD)
To: miss marmelstein
There's only Catholicism. There ain't Liberal Catholicism or Conservative Catholicism. Just as there is only right and wrong.
Just as there is only one approved flavor of ice cream, miss marmestein. There is no other flavor than your favorite that will gain your approval. Just the one you like is right and others are wrong.
To: HossB86
Yes, those Catholics should join the billion plus protestants. Oh, that’s right. After 500 years, the Protestants keep splitting and are in aggregate still much smaller. I guess the “gates of hell” have not prevailed, but we do have plenty of diversions from preachers that handle snakes, to Bill Clinton claiming (Sola scriptura, as “everyman is his own priest” Bill sees it) that fellatio isn’t a sin or adultery, to a million other crackpot theories. It seems the only thing holding some of these people together is their contempt for Christ’s Church.
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posted on
04/25/2015 10:55:46 AM PDT
by
elhombrelibre
(Against Obama. Against Putin. Pro-freedom. Pro-US Constitution.)
To: LurkingSince'98
>>NO I know you to be prot thru and thru.<<
Nope, sorry, wrong again.
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posted on
04/25/2015 10:56:07 AM PDT
by
CynicalBear
(For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus)
To: elhombrelibre
Now was a wild bronco of a post!
To: elhombrelibre
Now THAT was Galaxy Quest type of post. One end of the universe to another.
To: Resettozero
The constant Ian Paisley wing, the Westboro wing, the weird chauvinism threads is getting old. These people split Christianity into a thousand pieces and now want to bring that hairsplitting to FreeRepublic to split it up too. They’re short on Christ and long on rancor.
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posted on
04/25/2015 11:01:03 AM PDT
by
elhombrelibre
(Against Obama. Against Putin. Pro-freedom. Pro-US Constitution.)
To: RnMomof7
Birth control reduces marital relations to mutual masturbation. Protestants apparently do this a lot, and now thousands of Catholics are following suit and likewise engaging in what amounts to mutual masturbation.
Yeah, that's definitely a win worth crowing about. Whoever said victory had to be glorious.
What the author cannot change is Church teaching, which remains constant regardless of whether people follow it. His insistence that popular opinion de facto amounts to the teachings of the Church is both laughable and erroneous.
"The truth is the truth even if nobody believes it, and error is error even if every everyone believes it." ~ Bishop Fulton Sheen.
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