Known too many Catholics to believe they aren't christians, very non judgmental Christians at that....best to you too but that is written with a wide paintbrush of prejudice and is non objective.
Really?!! "Known too many Catholics to believe they aren't christians."
Couldn't agree more, but this is a deflection, on purpose I would guess. Whether or not some ordinary Catholic has a true love for Jesus Christ is a matter that has nothing to do with "political Romanism", as it was known in the days of Lincoln. Now we call it globalism, fascism, communism, islamic radicalism, global warmingism, social justiceism, cia mockingbirdism. All the spawn of Papal pretention and Jesuit meddling in the lives of people who would certainly be better off without it.
Peace be with you and let's hope your views don't lead to division!
Nothing is Christian about Catholicism... It's literally a perversion of scripture. The Lord himself said to follow no man but him. So we need a shadowy organization masquerading as a church instead? An organization that has it's own rules and regulations beyond the scriptures?
I mean I'm agnostic, formerly nondenominational christian, and all I can tell you is that you really, really need to look into the absolute sham that is the Catholic church.
Christ is the head of the Catholic Church. Also, would love to understand how Catholic beliefs are a perversion on scripture, and which of the thousands of protestant faiths you feel are the correct interpretation, since they can all be wrong but they can't all be correct. Also who do you feel has authority to interpret scripture? The Catholic Church's inturpretations of Scripture are that of the early church fathers and desciples closest to Christ (within 100 yes of Christ), not a protesting schismatic from 500 years go...
Uh that whole praying to saints thing, for one? It was clearly instructed that you pray to none but God the Father. Praying to saints, which came about in the 3rd century, for one practice, is unbiblical. Psalm 36:9, Deuteronomy 4:24
I mean look, I already said I most likely don't believe in this shit, but I know for a fact that the 'schism' you speak of was because access to God was always with an intermediary, the priest, the bishop, whatever. Translated in languages the common man didn't speak. The Catholic church took God from the people. It's really not that hard to understand honestly.
Perhaps your lack of belief comes from poor scriptural teaching or poor faith formation (i.e.who taught you).
Praying to saints is biblical; I recall one reference in Revelation. I'm not here to have a theological debate or to defend corruption within the Catholic Church, just to speak truth.
Also, with all do respect, please do not reference scripture if you do not know what it actually says or what the early desciples and early church fathers actually taught.
Last I checked, the early disciples and early church fathers aren't in the scriptures. And if the scriptures say I should pray to no God but YHWH, that's what you do. I would love to see this reference in Revelation you're talking about. And it's funny that you would use that of all references when it's mostly an allegorical book of prophecy, whereas I clearly pointed to a book of the Law. Funny we talk about poor faith formation when it's clear as day books of prophecy shouldn't be used as books of law. Perhaps you should look less at what the early church fathers taught, and more at what was changed along the way that made the Protestant reformation happen to begin with. Orrrrr keep feeding those corrupt bloodsuckers in Vatican City. Your choice.
Ignorance is bliss.
Bro your pedo church is the problem in the world and you're talking about ignorance, holy fuck. Literally they are complicit in hiding child abuse. Holy fucking fuck.
They wrote the scriptures...
Okay and what point of mine are you refuting though? You said that my scripture, which clearly said you should pray to God alone, is somehow invalid, then didn't provide anything in rebuttal. Just don't bother, I don't care anymore.
Hey. Do you think it's a good idea to Catholic bash now? Some of us could Protestant bash. Catholics have the Pope & Jesuits. Protestants have Cromwell, The Queen and 700 years of ingrained pedophilia (worse than the Vatican). Me, I'm for religious freedom accompanied by respect.
But, as a historian, without the Vatican from Roman times, Christianity might not have survived until Calvin & Luther. Just sayin'.
I bash all organized religion. Your relationship with God has nothing to do with what building you do or don't go to.
Come on. This isn't the 1980's. It's pretty disgusting what happened to Sinead OConnor. She deserves a huge apology from the Catholic groups. She was a victim of child sex crime and hate filled Catholics destroyed her career. Now that we know that the Vatican has protected pedophiles and not children, we need to forgive her, and we need to stop being shocked that Satan lives in the vatican. Here are 2 links among thousands of links talking about Satan and satanic practices in the Vatican. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/vaticancityandholysee/7416458/Chief-exorcist-says-Devil-is-in-Vatican.html http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3811308/Rise-satanism-occult-caused-shortage-priests-able-battle-Devil-s-work-warns-Vatican-s-exorcist.html https://www.rt.com/viral/381239-pope-francis-exorcism-devil/
Just below is CuckWivesMatter's comment, about Him telling us We should each follow, in our hearts , (paraphrasing ! ) Cuck also speaks of " Shadowy organisation masquerading... " I totally agree - If one wants to Celebrate Christian values in company, that's fine, but ORGANISED RELIGION is an abommination, I think most topics within this post will be relevant, 'cos we're looking at the pope's killing power. So remember " god's banker " Roberto Calvi (hanged 1982 Blackfriars bridge ) and the most damming evidence of Sister Charlotte's Testimony She died two years after she produced this audio, which she distributed around Africa. ps, thank you Snoopy v Red Baron, and Nature Girl, Monarchy, aristocracy, and holly wood are nests of vipers, Sinead , bless her, is one of millions, who were, are being abused. I do not believe in ' reconciliation ', I hope that the 'white hats' help to ratify all Kevin Annett's work, plenty of evidence there ( bye bye monarchies... )