Posted on 09/17/2015 12:42:53 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
No apologies necessary. I read your other posts to the thread and figured it was just a misunderstanding. Have a great weekend!
If you want to continue to be blinded by reality and truth, far be it from me to try to change your mind.
Rome and it’s institutions have had Catholics in chains and at it’s mercy since at least the 4th century.
You can think whatever you want about my “views”, but if you’re not at all moved by this Pope’s motives and stances, then there’s not much more to say.
I used to be a Catholic for decades, I know a whole lot more about it than you think.
It is not what ex-Catholics know that is the problem, it what they think they know that is just plain wrong that is the problem.
And what’s that?
That you have to be a “member” to go to Heaven?
That you’re not even encouraged to read the Holy Word of God, but have some priest or deacon do it for you?
That the excuses for priest pedophilia just keep coming no matter the number of accusers?
Are you a Francis supporter too?
If you think for one second that everyone who receives the Sacraments in the Catholic Church is worthy, you are kidding yourself...anyone can walk up the aisle and do so....
By the way, if you don't believe in the actual presence of Christ in the Eucharist, what do you care who receives it???
Can’t you tell good from evil? Sin from righteousness?
If you can’t tell that those men are the worst of your popes, then your discernment is not simply bad, it is non-existent.
You bury yourself deeper with every post you make.
So whatever you believe is correct?? O.K., I guess....Baptism, for one thousand six hundred years made a person a Catholic...along came the revolutionaries and decided to change the rules....you can be baaptized a Lutheran, or a Methodist, or a whatever.....no you can't, the rules don't change because you don't like them....you are Baptized a Catholic....you either practice Catholicism or you don't.
For example, if a Baptized Christian of ANY denomination decides to rejoin the Catholic church, there is no need for him/her to be rebaptized....they are already Catholic.
You know nothing about it if you left it.
That’s all you’ve got?
Tell me why I know nothing about it?
Terycarl—you support Francis also?
Do you support child rape?
Do you support a “church” that says only “members” can enter the Kingdom?
Can you show me where in the Bible it mentions Purgatory?
Can you show me where in the Bible it mentions Marian worship or praying to “Mary”?
Saint worship or “praying to “saints”?
I expect crickets.....But, either way, I’ll patiently wait for your replies.
Not at all, we merely point out that Popes are people...are there bad ones, I guess so, but 14 in over 2,000 years hardly makes the church a den on iniquity...The church survived these bad apples, they made no attempt to change the INFALLIBLE teachings of the church...they fell to political and sexual temptations....good grief, Clinton fell to both.
What an inane post...no church, Catholic or otherwise supports crime or rape of anyone....sheesh...,p> all the other things that you mentioned come right after the two verses that explain sola scriptura and sole fide...
you just didn't read far enough......sigh.
LOL!
And you failing to answer anything shows me how shallow and blinded you are.
Keep following that harlot church tery! Francis has a OWG/NWO in store for you soon, and you’ll accept it hook, line, and sinker since you just do what you are told as a “Catholic”.
True to form, Terycarl!
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That’s hilarious! But I learned a LONG time ago to be sure to use the < /sarc> tag when I am posting SARCASM. I helps people who can’t tell the difference and it’s just plain polite to do so.
This Catholic has not. In fact, this Catholic has grown closer to the faith and to the Church in the past few years than in my entire life.
Polls are BS.
Verga's corollary to Godwin's law: When a prot brings up priestly sex abuse they automatically lose the argument. See my tagline.
One more time: Gor a catholic to believe a catholic eats the body, blood, soul AND DIVINITY of Jesus Christ in catholic mass is blasphemous. Some of us keep pointing this out to catholics because we want perishing catholics to be born from above and stop committing blasphemy toward The Lord Christ.
Some on this board were advancing the position that the victims of abuse by the priests were at fault. And it was a catholic.
And they were/ are wrong.
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