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What Is The Brown Scapular
Eternal Life Blog ^ | August 29,2014 | Eternal life

Posted on 05/09/2015 7:44:31 AM PDT by RnMomof7

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To: BeauBo; RnMomof7
If millions of people practice using a small brown scapula to try to improve their behavior, that is a great thing.

Would you say the same thing if people were facing Mecca five times a day to "improve their lives"??

41 posted on 05/09/2015 9:21:01 AM PDT by ealgeone
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To: Resettozero

I didn’t claim I was forced to do anything. I saw a thread about the brown scapular and I clicked it of my own free will.

Nor was I the least bit indignant. It doesn’t bother me all that much (as evidenced by my lack of history posting on these threads). It’s something I’ve come to expect from adherents of the man-made faiths.


42 posted on 05/09/2015 9:23:09 AM PDT by WhistlingPastTheGraveyard (The greatest trick the Soviets ever pulled was convincing the world they didn't exist.)
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To: dp0622

“If someone can be talked out of their faith this easily it wasn’t much of a faith to begin with.”

Rationality has its limits, for sure. It is said you can’t be reasoned out of something you weren’t reasoned into. There’s some truth in that, but I’ve seen exceptions.


43 posted on 05/09/2015 9:24:35 AM PDT by sparklite2
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To: BeauBo

I applaud your post.

You will find it falls on either deaf ears or on those who would seek to justify themselves, though.

Catholics coined the phrase “invincible ignorance,” for a reason.


44 posted on 05/09/2015 9:25:46 AM PDT by papertyger (Gun fighting is the American martial art.)
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To: ealgeone
"When I’m being lectured on the perils of the brown scapular by a member of a Presbyterian Church" is as clear as it needed to be.
45 posted on 05/09/2015 9:27:17 AM PDT by WhistlingPastTheGraveyard (The greatest trick the Soviets ever pulled was convincing the world they didn't exist.)
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To: WhistlingPastTheGraveyard
I didn’t claim I was forced to do anything. I saw a thread about the brown scapular and I clicked it of my own free will. Nor was I the least bit indignant. It doesn’t bother me all that much (as evidenced by my lack of history posting on these threads). It’s something I’ve come to expect from adherents of the man-made faiths.

Thanks for clearing everything up.

8>)

R2z
46 posted on 05/09/2015 9:29:32 AM PDT by Resettozero
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To: RnMomof7

*duties*?

That’s what Catholicism is all about..

Doing your duty to try to merit enough grace to attain heaven.

What futility.

I notice that there’s no mention of Jesus in there, or if there was, it was so fleeting that it was easy to miss.

But who needs Jesus when we have Mary?

They’re *Mary’s children* not children of God.

She protects and watches over them. Who needs the Holy Spirit when you have Mary. (And whatever happened to asking Mary to pray FOR her, as in they are not asking her to do things for them. I’d say that her watching over them and protecting them is doing something....)

The *Lady’s promise of salvation*?????

Who needs Jesus?

Jesus who?


47 posted on 05/09/2015 9:30:19 AM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: ealgeone

LOL, so wearing a brown scapular is the same thing as being a Muslim now?

Ponderous man, ponderous.


48 posted on 05/09/2015 9:32:23 AM PDT by FourtySeven (47)
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To: ealgeone
I sure hope you not an attorney or teacher of young minds with your logic skills.

No, I'm not.
49 posted on 05/09/2015 9:32:56 AM PDT by mlizzy ("Tell your troubles to Jesus," my wisecracking father used to say, and now I do.......at adoration.)
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To: Salvation

What truth?

Linking to a closed caucus thread?

Don’t waste the time or bandwidth.

If the thread is labeled caucus to keep outsiders out, then don’t post it to us to reference.

Don’t tell us you don’t want our input and then expect that we’ll go running to see what it says.


50 posted on 05/09/2015 9:33:17 AM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: Vermont Lt

Then answer this question.

Can Mary save anyone?


51 posted on 05/09/2015 9:34:10 AM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: BeauBo
Lighten up Francis.

Who ya talking to? The pope? Your mule? Who be Francis in your discourse that led nowhere?
52 posted on 05/09/2015 9:34:24 AM PDT by Resettozero
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53 posted on 05/09/2015 9:36:33 AM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: FourtySeven
Nope....the poster was making a claim that wearing the brown scapular helped people lead better lives. The muslim could make the same argument.

In either case, it's a false god.

54 posted on 05/09/2015 9:37:48 AM PDT by ealgeone
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To: Resettozero
Somewhere, deep inside, some are not sure this mass and eucharist deal is adequate enough...or even prayers to Mary the mother of Jesus to forward at some point to her son...or even hearing an unknown and dead tongue such as Latin spoken in solemnity during very peculiar (Christian?) worship rituals and practices...or priests doing this and doing that and swinging this smoker and that and chanting the religious talk...and the Lord Jesus Christ is still either a little child or a corpse on a cross forever.

Of course not.

Otherwise, they would be sure of where they're going to end up instead of thinking they'll find out when they get there.

Can you imagine? Ooops, you're three acts of mercy short. Too bad for you.....

55 posted on 05/09/2015 9:38:21 AM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: FourtySeven
Ponderous man, ponderous.
56 posted on 05/09/2015 9:39:00 AM PDT by Resettozero
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To: WhistlingPastTheGraveyard; ealgeone

When mainline Prots start posting on these threads, let us know.....


57 posted on 05/09/2015 9:39:06 AM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: RnMomof7

Mary is a God?


58 posted on 05/09/2015 9:39:48 AM PDT by Dallas59 (Only a fool stumbles on things behind him.)
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To: Dallas59

If she’s the mother of a god, how can she not be a god herself? And Queen of Heaven, for goodness sake.


59 posted on 05/09/2015 9:43:05 AM PDT by sparklite2
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To: metmom
Linking to a closed caucus thread?

WE should have a private caucus room...

Oh! WAIT! We don't have anything to hide. In, fact: We are commanded to proclaim the Truth to the whole world.

I forgot.

< /sarc>

60 posted on 05/09/2015 9:43:18 AM PDT by kinsman redeemer (The real enemy seeks to devour what is good.)
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