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Originally posted by EricD
Originally posted by Clearskies
There are christians within the catholic church, but for anyone to be obedient to Jesus, they must focus on him and his word. Not the traditions of men.
The vicar of christ(The pope),
according to church dogma is Christ until christ returns.
One definition of vicar is "instead of"
Beware.
That is completely untrue. I would appreciate it if you could find any statement from a Catholic source that supports the belief that the Pope is Christ until Christ returns.
Thanks,
Eric
Originally posted by undo
Originally posted by undo
kacen,
the big difference appears to be that it's thoroughly patriarchal and instead of many gods, it has saints, who you treat just like you would God anyway
they follow the same template for worship as the babylonian, medo-persian, grecian and roman empires did. their holidays are babylonian pagan holidays. to be more precise, it's a Nimrod-based system. the christmas tree is a pagan symbol, ringing in the death of the old year (god) and the birth of the new year (god). yada dada.
[edit on 17-10-2007 by undo]
Originally posted by Kacen
Well, the things the Catholic church did to mutilate the Bible irritate me, for one; if it wasn't for the Catholic Church Christianity might not be generally so intolerable to me.
Even Protestants, who have the right idea, don't have everything right due to the parts of the Bible that were permanently destroyed/changed in the past by the Catholic Church.
The Abrahamic God in both Judaism and Islam is gender-neutral; Jews just use male terms in English due to the common rule of defaulting to the male term when there is a lack of a gender-neutral term. The Catholic Church made the Abrahamic God a male because they were/are chauvinistic sexist pigs; many protestants don't even know that God has no gender, and have sexist rules also along with the Catholics as a result. The fact is, it seems to me that the things lost due to the Catholic Church's meddling are permanently gone and true Christianity seems lost forever.
Now, I am a pagan, why should I care so much? I shall tell you why; these glaring mistakes are so obvious that I have a hard time believing that the Catholic church is unaware of their mistakes; they are phony and just get high with power off of it; in fact I think they want to take over the world.
Catholicism has secretly supported the Nazi regime and I heard conspiracy theories that they may have secretly supported communism but outwardly opposed it, in an attempt to manipulate people. And we all know about the Crusades; the Catholic church killed more people than any other religion.
Catholicism is a horrendous cancer and needs to be cleansed from society by any means necessary. It is scum, it is pollution, simple as that.
Originally posted by Kacen
Catholicism has secretly supported the Nazi regime and I heard conspiracy theories that they may have secretly supported communism but outwardly opposed it, in an attempt to manipulate people. And we all know about the Crusades; the Catholic church killed more people than any other religion.
Catholicism is a horrendous cancer and needs to be cleansed from society by any means necessary. It is scum, it is pollution, simple as that.
Originally posted by ModernDystopia
Just watch Zeitgeist already and stop being a zombie drone. It's all a bunch of nonsense.
But hey, if you are happy worshiping personified balls of gas in space, fine. Keep living in the Stone Age.