I have to say BS to this. I am a Catholic myself so I believe I can address this. The CATHOLIC CHURCH can learn alot from Luther. Catholic church goers did not offer absolutions for cash nor did they try to hide pedophile priests, the CATHOLIC CHURCH did. I love my religion. I detest my Church.
Since Jesus had NO CHOICE but to leave His Church to humans, he KNEW that there would be MANY problems.
Even PETER denied Jesus THREE times.
Besides, we are called to LOVE the sinner and HATE the sin.
Sin is part and parcel of the human experience so if you don't know that by now then you haven't been out of the barn in quite a while.
At least the Church has tried to repair the damage done within the Church. The other Christian faiths don't all have that kind of damage repair. All they can do is FIRE the unwanted reverend and send him/her on his/her way.
Or maybe there is NO room for ANY ERROR in "your" church and thus you will continue to DETEST her.
Maybe you WOULD have cast that first stone!
SO CHANGE. Being a non-Catholic Christian is easy as pie.
*No confession. You just say or think "Sorry, Lord" and you are forgiven even if you commit the same sin 100 times a day.
**No repentance for sins since saying "Sorry, Lord" is always sufficient.
***No REQUIRED Sunday service attendance, EVER, not even Christmas and Easter.
****No holy days of obligations.
*****No fasting.
******No abstinence.
*******Divorce-remarriage as MANY TIMES as you want. Liz Taylor beat out Henry VIII in that category.
********Homosexual unions? SURE, why not? See the article on the lesbian bishop.
*********Abortion on demand for the unwanted fetus. Girls and women always have the right to cut out that little sucker whenever they want, as many times as they want.
**********No more tedious rosary recitations.
***********No required Confession and Holy Communion twice a year.
************You may interpret God's words in the Bible AS YOU LIKE.
Those TEN COMMANDMENTS simply become
those ten suggestions.
You don’t know what you’re saying. Jesus Christ didn’t found a religion. He founded the Church.
You don’t know what you’re saying. Jesus Christ didn’t found a religion. He founded the Church.