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 Posted: Mon Oct 19, 2009 2:59 pm
Came across this languid quote from a Catholic girl. Quote: gah I forgot what the priest said yesterday at our retreat...something how Catholics are people of the mind and Protestants are people of the book. Condemn oneself with one's own words, anyone? The human mind & heart are fallible. The Bible, the Word of God, is not fallible. Guess which group I'd rather be in.
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Posted: Tue Oct 20, 2009 4:00 am
...I had the idea, from somewhere, that you were Catholic. Huh.
I'm sure there are good Catholics out there, but the religion itself seems very odd to me. It doesn't help that the Catholics I know in real life tend to speak largely in four letter words. And then there's the priests/boys thing.
Is it just me, or does that quote imply that protestants are Bible-thumpers?
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Posted: Tue Oct 20, 2009 3:16 pm
Ex-Catholic, and my family converted before I got any damage from that direction.
Yes, thumper would be a logical guess. It implies they have no heart as well, and blindly follow a set of rules without accounting for circumstances.
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Posted: Wed Oct 21, 2009 1:01 am
I'm still wondering how they reconcile confession, the church hierarchy, and the Mother Mary thing with the Bible.
...But then, wondering that would make me a Bible-thumper, wouldn't it? blaugh
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Posted: Thu Oct 22, 2009 10:27 pm
[playing along]It would make you a heretic against Holy Mother Church and you would burn in eternal darkness. How dare you read your own Bible when there are appointed priests that will save your soul from hell![/play]
In the Bible, Jesus tells them "call no man Father but THE father" (paraphrase of Matthew 23:9). Even that small allusion to how we should not dedicate ourselves to a man, but to our Heavenly Father, is ignored by HRE (I mean HRCC) because people who want temporal power know they have to make you think they are God, or at least the next best thing.
(EDIT because I felt bad about bashing) I believe there are those among the Catholics, laypeople and clergy alike, who sincerely believe in God and the message of redemption through Jesus the Son. And, as a vehicle to move the nations of Europe from paganism to Christianity, it is a good human effort that would have failed if it had not been for the Holy Spirit. So it's not wholly without merit. Faint praise from me, but honest.
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Posted: Mon Dec 28, 2009 11:29 am
Anyone else notice that no one seems to care about the verse out of Revelations that says "Whatever you add to this book shall be added to your plagues in the coming days, and whatever you take away from this book shall be taken away from your share of eternal life"?
Not exact quoting, but ah Im too lazy to go find it xP
Read the Bible, ask people you know to be intelligent about the subject, and if you find anyone who is outright hating people because of their faiths you'll know they're not a Christian. The Bible is a message of love, not hate. A message of redemption, not damnation. That's the main problem I have with alot of preachers, regardless of faith.
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Familiar Conversationalist
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Posted: Mon Dec 28, 2009 6:46 pm
Uninformed people can't tell the difference between hating sin and ungodly practices, and hating the individual person.
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Posted: Mon Dec 28, 2009 7:17 pm
Too true. Would anyone like to hear a funny story that happened to my Bible teacher back when he was a preacher? I won't share if no one wants to hear it. ^^;
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Familiar Conversationalist
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Posted: Sun Jan 03, 2010 1:29 am
Jibiki Too true. Would anyone like to hear a funny story that happened to my Bible teacher back when he was a preacher? I won't share if no one wants to hear it. ^^; Yes! Post away! (And how does one go from being a preacher to a Bible teacher? Isn't that a demotion of sorts?)
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