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500 years after the Reformation: End the schism!
National Catholic Reporter ^ | March 1, 2017 | Hans Kung

Posted on 03/01/2017 9:40:57 AM PST by ebb tide

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To: Texas Fossil
The Catholics MADE us Prots this way!

Why do their panties get in a wad when we actually DO what was done back in the early days?

101 posted on 03/05/2017 3:33:58 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: ebb tide
If all chose wisely, all would be Catholics.

Indeed we would!


102 posted on 03/05/2017 3:36:33 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: terycarl
.....There are thousands of Protestant "denominations", all of which think that they are the right one.....

You are losing your touch!

Isn't it 30,000?

Or 50,000

or 80,000 like you USED to post?

103 posted on 03/05/2017 3:38:07 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: terycarl
...they were protesting a SCREWED UP 1,600 year old religion ...

That John wrote about in the last book of the BIBLE!

7 CATHOLIC 'churches' teaching all manner of; shall we say; CRAP!

104 posted on 03/05/2017 3:40:03 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: metmom
If all chose wisely, all would choose JESUS, not religion.


105 posted on 03/05/2017 3:45:41 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: aMorePerfectUnion
He should clearly post that Catholics idolize dear blessed Mary and turn her into a demigoddess by making her into more than God did.

Ya THINK??



Let's try some easy math:


There are approximately 1.2 billion Catholics world wide;

If merely 1% of them  'ask' Mary for help just once each day;

that means that 12 million separate prayers are headed Mary's direction every day.

Given that there are 86,400 seconds per day... (24 hours times 60 minutes times 60 seconds)

...that means that Mary has to handle approximately 139 'requests' per second!

Purty good fer someone NOT 'divine'!

106 posted on 03/05/2017 3:46:54 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Elsie

There are a lot of things I cannot understand about them.

It’s OK. Am comfortable with where I am. Not the least interested in arguing with them about anything.

I have friends in their camp, we get along fine.


107 posted on 03/05/2017 3:50:00 AM PST by Texas Fossil ((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
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To: Elsie

Many of those who can, leave the Middle East. One from near Cairo explained to me that even in Egypt, the radicals are still there waiting for their opportunity again. He told me that the only path out was to leave. Have not heard from him for a while. He was young enough when I first talked with him that he still had military service ahead of him. Last talked with him about a year ago. He had finished his military stint, don’t think he actually served on front where the terrorists were.


108 posted on 03/05/2017 3:58:31 AM PST by Texas Fossil ((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
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To: Arthur McGowan; mrobisr
Well, arty....care to try to refute any of this? It's all from Roman Catholics.

This is why Christians know Roman Catholics worship Mary.

109 posted on 03/05/2017 5:22:18 AM PST by ealgeone
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To: ealgeone; metmom; boatbums; aMorePerfectUnion
This is why Christians know Roman Catholics worship Mary.

I can't speak for other Catholics, but when I was a Catholic, I know I worshipped Mary.
There is no doubt that she was blessed among women, but after giving birth to Jesus, she and Joseph had sex, like other married couples, and had other children, one of whom (James) became the leader of the Jerusalem church, not Peter. 😀

110 posted on 03/05/2017 7:45:03 AM PST by Mark17 (20 years a USAF Air Traffic Controller, RETIRED. A career that will make you old before your time)
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To: ealgeone; Arthur McGowan; mrobisr; Mark17
Semantic gymnastics aside concerning whether they are actually *worshiping*, the plain fact is that the second commandment says this.....

Exodus 20:4-6 “You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth.

You shall not bow down to them or serve them, for I the Lord your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and the fourth generation of those who hate me, but showing steadfast love to thousands of those who love me and keep my commandments.

God doesn't actually say *Don't worship them* and I'd guess that it's because of those very same semantic gymnastics, but what He does here is address the outward actions, which are objective and can be objectively seen.,P> Catholics have made graven images and they bow down before them.

That is objectively seen disobedience to God's clear command.

111 posted on 03/05/2017 12:15:05 PM PST by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: Elsie; terycarl

Even the 30k figure has been demonstrated to be wrong as they’ve been told on numerous occasions.


112 posted on 03/05/2017 12:56:06 PM PST by ealgeone
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To: ealgeone; Elise

Unless, of course, a Protestant denomination has been corrupted by leftist infiltration.

Then all Protestants are the same.

At least once, I’ve been quoted that 30000 or a similar argument, only to have the heresy of the ELCA thrown at me a second later, as if we were the same.


113 posted on 03/06/2017 2:20:27 PM PST by Luircin (Dancing in the streets! Time to DRAIN THE SWAMP!)
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To: ebb tide

Torpedo Trent and fire your current Pope and maybe we will talk.


114 posted on 03/06/2017 5:35:47 PM PST by redleghunter (Truly my soul waiteth upon God: from him cometh my salvation. He only is my rock and my salvation)
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To: redleghunter

If you want to see the Council of Trent torpedoed, I have no idea why you would want this current pope fired. He’s on your side.


115 posted on 03/06/2017 6:15:53 PM PST by ebb tide (We have a rogue curia in Rome)
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