…or so you’d think if you got all your information about Catholicism from blog comboxes.
Not surprisingly, Pope Francis has been in the news lately. The media jumped on his offhand comments about homosexuals, breathlessly reported on a letter he wrote to an atheist, and made much hay over an interview given by the Vatican’s new Secretary of State (the media was apparently under the impression that Pope Francis is a very clever ventriloquist, and he was the one talking while the new Secretary’s mouth was moving – at least, that’s what they reported).
A common refrain I’m observing in the comboxes of various Catholic bloggers lately, when said blogger discusses one of these media reports, goes something like this:
“The Pope needs to stop making remarks like this! They’re too easily misunderstood! No one should have to write an article after the fact explaining what the Pope actually said/meant. The Pope needs to deliberate for hours on end before so much as opening his mouth! Every word must be crafted with the utmost perfection so that the media doesn’t get the wrong idea!” etc., etc.
And, my favorite:
“This kind of thing never happened when Benedict XVI/John Paul II was Pope!”
To these people, I respond:
Really? That’s some pretty amazing selective memory you have going on there. Granted, I’ve only been Catholic for the last ten years, but I remember:
The Condom Kerfuffle, in which the MSM proclaimed that Pope Benedict said condoms were perfectly okay for everyone to use (when he actually said that in certain situations, the use of a condom could indicate that someone was trying to act in a moral fashion by not spreading disease, and that trying to act morally could be a good first step on the road to repentance).
Pope Benedict’s speech at the University of Regensburg, in which (according to the media) the Pope said that Mohammed was evil incarnate and all Muslims were going to hell. (The Pope later explained that his words had been misunderstood by Muslims.)
The publication of Benedict’s encyclical Caritas in Veritate, in which the MSM announced that the Pope attacked capitalism as always evil in any circumstance and wholeheartedly supported the Occupy Wall Street movement.
The motu proprio Summorum Pontificum was, according to the media, Pope Benedict’s last ditch attempt to revive a dying church by resurrecting a dead language.
John Paul II’s release of Dominus Iesus in 2000 spawned dozens of newspaper headlines (one of which I remember seeing in my college newspaper) proclaiming that “the Pope says non-Catholics aren’t really Christians!”
In Ordinatio Sacerdotalis, John Paul II stated unequivocally, “Wherefore, in order that all doubt may be removed regarding a matter of great importance, a matter which pertains to the Church’s divine constitution itself, in virtue of my ministry of confirming the brethren […] I declare that the Church has no authority whatsoever to confer priestly ordination on women and that this judgment is to be definitively held by all the Church’s faithful” (emphasis mine). Seems pretty straightforward, but the MSM headlines in response? “Pope’s words about women’s ordination spark debate” or similar.
I’m sure I could list hundreds of examples dating back decades, if not centuries, about how the media flagrantly and deliberately misrepresents a pope’s statements, leading to a need for the Vatican et al to issue a clarification. This is not a new phenomenon. The media does not exist to tell the truth – it exists to make people rich. Juicy headlines sell newspapers and garner millions of website hits, which generate revenue. “Pope Reiterates 2,000-year-old Teaching of the Church” doesn’t make money; “Pope Declares that All Atheists Go to Heaven” does. Truth has nothing to do with it, and this type of misrepresentation for personal gain is something that’s been happening as long as the papacy has existed.
Indeed, St. Peter himself could have been speaking about the mainstream media when he said, “But there were also false prophets among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you. They will secretly introduce destructive heresies, even denying the sovereign Lord who bought them—bringing swift destruction on themselves. Many will follow their depraved conduct and will bring the way of truth into disrepute. In their greed these teachers will exploit you with fabricated stories. Their condemnation has long been hanging over them, and their destruction has not been sleeping.” (2 Peter 2:1-3)
Of course, in every combox you find at least one person lamenting that the current Pope is destroying the Catholic Church. One example:
“This is doctrinal immodesty, if I may use the phrase. Rather than clothe the precious doctrine of the Body of Christ in garments of sobriety, modesty and Prudence, the truths of the Church are being sold away [by Pope Francis, presumably] cheaply to the moral perverts and enemies of Christ.”
I’m very curious what the commenter in question would have had to say about some of the Church’s earlier Popes:
- Pope Stephen VI (896–897), who had his predecessor Pope Formosus exhumed, tried, de-fingered, briefly reburied, and thrown in the Tiber.
- Pope John XII (955–964), who gave land to a mistress, murdered several people, and was killed by a man who caught him in bed with his wife.
- Pope Benedict IX (1032–1044, 1045, 1047–1048), who “sold” the Papacy
- Pope Boniface VIII (1294–1303), who is lampooned in Dante’s Divine Comedy
- Pope Urban VI (1378–1389), who complained that he did not hear enough screaming when Cardinals who had conspired against him were tortured.
- Pope Alexander VI (1492–1503), a Borgia, who was guilty of nepotism and whose unattended corpse swelled until it could barely fit in a coffin.
- Pope Leo X (1513–1521), a spendthrift member of the Medici family who once spent 1/7 of his predecessors’ reserves on a single ceremony
- Pope Clement VII (1523–1534), also a Medici, whose power-politicking with France, Spain, and Germany got Rome sacked.
(The preceding examples are taken from E. Chamberlain’s book “The Bad Popes,” as summarized by Wikipedia.)
We once had a Pope who was murdered while engaging in the act of adultery – and the Church survived! After that, can anyone honestly believe that the Church will be utterly decimated and destroyed simply because the current pope made statements about atheists that were deliberately misconstrued by the media in order to boost ratings?! Perhaps the Holy Spirit is insulted by the implication that His protection of the Truth was considered so weak and ineffective.
So please, fellow Catholics, the proper response when reading a MSM headline about the Pope changing a long-held doctrine of Catholicism is not panic or rage or despair. Rather, it’s a yawn, an eye-roll, and a resigned sigh – as well as a realization that we’re once again called upon to engage in the new evangelization for the sake of the Kingdom in the realm of social media and among our friends and family.
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First of all you’re title is ridiculous. Secondly you haven’t dealt with what Pope Francis actually said. I’m open to thinking that he is unwise, imprudent, etc. but you’re article hasn’t addressed anything he has said in his own words. Try again. I’m open to the discussion.
I think you may have missed the point, Matt? Her title was facetious.
Leila, you are exactly right. That’s what I get for skimming instead of reading. Thanks for correcting me.
No problem, Matt! I know your work, so I knew it was a mistake. I’ve done the same thing myself.
OK, I’m sorta going to ruin the party here Joana but anyhoo, I think your argument is invalid!
There is a difference in a Pope committing a heresy and a Pope involved in other sins!
All those bad Popes you mentioned did horrible things but they did not claim what they did was good or changed Church teaching to suit their purposes!
The reason why so many rad-Trads are so angry with this Pope is because he continues to say things that literally lie on the verge of a heresy or atleast sound like he’s close to declaring a Church teaching a heresy!
It doesn’t help that even before he was made Pope, he seemed to make life tough for those wanting to celebrate the pre-Vatican 2 Tridentine Mass in their parishes and now a Traditionalist group has been blocked from saying that Mass under his watch while clown Masses and other weird masses have still not been condemned by him.
I like the Pope but noting that the media continues to completely rehash his views and misinterprets them, you’d think our dear Pope would get the message and start being a bit more careful about the way he talks and writes!
The
private morality of any Pope is not protected by the charism of infallibility –
Popes are not impeccable – however; the public relation of the Pope to the
teaching of the universal Church is protected in the sense that if he teaches
heresy as a “private theologian” – which is what Francis is doing by
his “off the cuff” statements; he “ipso facto” loses the
Pontificate. Cardinal Billot in his theological treatise “De
Ecclesia” states that: “…the Roman Pontiff is the proximate rule of
faith for the universal Church [proxima regula fidei];” if he falls into
heresy as a private theologian [because he cannot define heresy when he speaks
ex cathedra]; he loses the Pontificate. A heretic cannot be the proximate rule
of Catholic faith and morals if he publicly denies this rule; which, being
public Revelation [whether by Scripture or Tradition] is easily known by all,
“…even in the present condition of the human race.” [cf. Vatican I,
Const. Dog., De Revelatione; and Vatican II, Const. Dog., Dei Verbum, Proemium.]
Please illustrate where Pope Francis has changed Church teaching to suit his own purposes. As a matter of fact, Pope Francis has never said anything that contradicts Church teaching (in fact, the entire point of the article is that the media wants you to THINK he did when in fact he did not). Oh, and regarding your second-to-last paragraph, it’s untrue. Please get your news from sources that aren’t run by uber-radical Traditionalists bordering on being sedevacantists.
He said that the Word became incarnate to give an example of brotherly love. This is not Catholicism – it’s Masonry. The Word became incarnate to redeem the human race from the Fall of Adam and Eve and its consequences for all of us – excepting Jesus and Mary. He did say “…in the end, God will be all in all;” this is exactly the heresy of apocastasis taught by Origen and condemned by the Church. It is the Christological Pantheism taught by Teilhard De Chardin, and condemned by Pope John XXIII in 1962 (Holy Office “Monitum”)
He says he does not believe in a “Catholic” God. This makes no sense. If he means by this that the Catholic doctrine on God is no better than any other religion – then this too is heresy. Trinity, Incarnation, and Redemption – all consigned to the bonfire. And in the centre of this fire is God Himself.
Your attitude and that of some on this blog is flippant to the point of mockery of Christ and His one true Catholic Church. [cf., Lumen gentium, 8, and Dignitatis humanae, Proemium.]
Carl, I’m very happy to be able to report that the Holy Father did NOT say what you think he said. The interview in question was very badly translated into English. This is what Pope Francis actually said:
“The Son of God became incarnate to infuse into the soul of men [could say “the human soul”] the feeling of brotherhood.” (source: http://romans8v29.blogspot.com/2013/10/francis-interview-2.html)
How have I mocked the Church??
You’re a sanctimonious Bitch
As I said, it’s not that he has changed the teachings of the Church but that his statements – many of them – fall on the verge of either full blown heresy or or not clear enough. Maybe it’s just his style and maybe he believes his listeners know enough of the Faith for him to not make his statements clear.
Either way, he needs perhaps better people to manage the translation of his words because its getting really messy out there in Medialand, when every time he says something, it ends up with faithful Catholics having to desperately explain what he actually meant to say!
Please, illustrate where anything Pope Francis has said “falls on the verge of heresy.” As for being “not clear enough,” that’s also an accusation made about Popes Benedict XVI and JPII (see examples above).
What did Benedict say?
What did he say?
“…he actually said that someone was trying to act in a moral fashion by not spreading disease, and that trying to act morally could be a good first step on the road to repentance.”
Why do you have to spew forth a mouthful of rhetoric when explaining what he really
said? This shows that Benedict is disingenuous. It would have been better if he
said that condoms are ok for all. The use of a condom by a homosexual does not
in any way change the morality of the act; which, according to Catholic moral
doctrine, is intrinsically evil.
Some moral theologians would even say that it increases the malice of the act,
because it invites one to commit sin with impunity – without consequences,
moral or physical. This is not what John Paul II taught the Church in
“Veritatis Splendor.” He stated that an intrinsically evil act
remains “irremediably evil;” regardless of intentions or
circumstances. Benedict contradicts this teaching
point blank.
As for Francis, he is destroying the entire objective moral order revealed by God
and infallibly proposed by the Church.
It is time for a heresy trial.
I recommend a hot bath and a glass of wine. It might help you relax.
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Francis is a modernist, and a universalist: God’s mercy and grace redeems everyone… repentance, faith, and holiness are not required. This is also known as the preaching of a false gospel by a false prophet. He’s an ear-tickler… and a prophesier of pleasant things…
“For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions” ~ Saint Paul (2 Timothy 4:3)
“For they are a rebellious people, lying children, children unwilling to hear the instruction of the LORD; who say to the seers, “Do not see,” and to the prophets, “Do not prophesy to us what is right; speak to us smooth things, prophesy illusions, leave the way, turn aside from the path, let us hear no more about the Holy One of Israel.” (Isaiah 30:9-11)
I guess the Catholic Church is also modernist and universalist, as the CCC also teaches that God’s mercy and grace redeems everyone. See here: http://littlecatholicbubble.blogspot.com/2013/05/pope-francis-knows-difference-between.html
Whether or not people choose to respond to God’s gift of mercy and grace is a different question entirely. Some choose not to do so and thus do not attain heaven.
In his October 1 interview with “La Republicca,” Francis does in fact
propose the heresy of universal Salvation, not Redemption: “Our Species (sic – !) will cease to exist; but in the end God will be all in all…the spark of the divine within each one of us…each one must do Good and avoid Evil as he sees it…” This is utterly unCatholic, and everybody knows it.
Sorry, I’m not seeing where that quote says that everyone will achieve salvation. It’s also not a quote in full context.
I used to be a Catholic for over 30 years, but I am now a born-again Christian. The reason why I left was because after I started reading the Bible and the Catholic Catechism, I discovered many serious problems and contradictions. I also believe that this transformation of the Catholic Church you are seeing with the current pope is in fulfillment of the Bible prophecy. I will leave with two points to ponder. 1.The book of Revelation speaks of two women, which represent churches in the last days. The true church shall be persecuted. Revelation 17 says that there shall be a political/church system called the Mystery Babylon, the Mother of Harlots and Abominations and she will be riding the beast, and all the wicked people will follow it. I believe this is the Catholic Church/New World Order which you see forming today, and is a revival of the Roman system. 2. Jesus says in Matthew 7:13 to enter through the narrow gate, because wide is the gate that leads to destruction, and many people go there. The true church is very small, and it will be persecuted for the truth. The Catholic Church is the largest religion in the world and is also far from persecution. God bless, those that want to know the truth.
Did someone mention “rolling eyes” and “yawn” recently?
Mark, Catholics are Christians too! It seems pretty evident that you did not know your Catholic faith when you left it. Everything you said above has been thoroughly debunked.
The Catholic Church isn’t persecuted? Really? Tell that to the nuns living in Syria, who are in danger of their lives.
Did you know what was coming today when you wrote this one?
I did not. Ironic, no?
Thank you JoAnna. But I’m not sure I would say the proper response is a yawn, since he’s challenging us, Catholics. He is refocusing the entire Church from moralism and orthodox triumphalism to the love of Christ! I cant yawn after that! It’s a challenge to me!
the yawn is in response to the media twisting, not the challenge involved in evangelizing 🙂
Great! I have one quibble. You claim that the media exists to make people rich. It would seem to me that if this were the case, our scribes and talking heads would spend less time deliberately antagonizing the consumers of mass media. Yes, some want to get rich, but there are many others who just want a platform from which to talk down to the ignorant rabble.
Like so many aspects of Catholicism – it’s not either/or, it’s both/and 🙂
***”Rather, it’s a yawn, an eye-roll, and a resigned sigh – as well as a realization that we’re once again called upon to engage in the new evangelization for the sake of the Kingdom in the realm of social media and among our friends and family.”***
The truth of the matter is that we Catholics have to learn to realize that the “new evangelization” actually involves re-evangelizing those brother and sister Catholics who are consistently being “othered” by offensive labels such as those in the above links.
Any of our panicked and fearful fellow Catholics who don’t yet “get” our new Holy Father often are being met with personal ridicule and contempt leveled by those of us who are actually called upon to help re-evangelize them, not by our anger and derision, but rather by our example of *charitable* and patient truth-telling.
I would suggest that the work of evangelization is about planting seeds, seeds that are as healthy as they can possibly be–seeds not soaked in the poison of anger and personal animosity and labels and othering.
I am actually encouraged that your post, Joanna, steers clear of this kind of othering and instead brings substance and context to the issue of the MSM coverage of the pope. Thanks for that. Now my prayer is that readers and commenters take a similar high road and speak truth charitably to one another instead of stooping to personal rancor and name-calling, something all too commonly found in the Catholic blogosphere….
Yet the readers of this website could certainly take heed of much of what the Holy Father has said in his interview the day after this original article was published. For example:
In this quest to seek and find God in all things there is still an area of
uncertainty. There must be. If a person says that he met God with total
certainty and is not touched by a margin of uncertainty, then this is not good.
For me, this is an important key. If one has the answers to all the
questions—that is the proof that God is not with him. It means that he is a
false prophet using religion for himself. The great leaders of the people of
God, like Moses, have always left room for doubt. You must leave room for the Lord, not for our certainties; we must be humble. Uncertainty is in every true discernment that is open to finding confirmation in spiritual consolation. Our life is not given to us like an opera libretto, in which all is written down;
but it means going, walking, doing, searching, seeing … We must enter into the adventure of the quest for meeting God; we must let God search and encounter us.
And also:
We cannot insist only on issues related to abortion, gay marriage and the use of contraceptive methods. This is not possible. I have not spoken much about these things, and I was reprimanded for that. But when we speak about these issues, we have to talk about them in a context. The teaching of the church, for that matter, is clear and I am a son of the church, but it is not necessary to talk about these issues all the time.
The dogmatic and moral teachings of the church are not all equivalent. The church’s pastoral ministry cannot be obsessed with the transmission of a disjointed multitude of doctrines to be imposed insistently …
We have to find a new balance; otherwise even the moral edifice of the church is likely to fall like a house of cards, losing the freshness and fragrance of the Gospel. The proposal of the Gospel must be more simple, profound, radiant. It is from this proposition that the moral consequences then flow.
I say this also thinking about the preaching and content of our preaching.
amen
So this pope is not bad because he is not as bad as other popes? That is relativism defined and exemplified.
Hey, Brian, you seemed to have missed this paragraph: “We once had a Pope who was murdered while engaging in the act of adultery
– and the Church survived! After that, can anyone honestly believe that
the Church will be utterly decimated and destroyed simply because the
current pope made statements about atheists that were deliberately
misconstrued by the media in order to boost ratings?! Perhaps the Holy
Spirit is insulted by the implication that His protection of the Truth was considered so weak and ineffective.”
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well done Joanna.
Great point Joanna…but you were frightfully nice to Pope Alexander VI. Nepotism looks nice when placed near his actual life choices.
Pope Francis’ actions speak beyond the headlines – showing us Jesus’ example of fraternizing with those the religious consider to be sinners, sharing Christ’s light beyond the walls of our sparsely attended churches. Most importantly he focuses on replacing greed with love and humility. By following these examples, in imitation of Christ, we would have less poverty, hunger, and war, just as God intended.
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Bam! Rock on, girlfriend.
In the past, misrepresentations were usually pretexts for Church bashing by the usual suspects. Lately they seem to be pretexts for pushing liberal agenda. Quite different phenomena. I think the latter is worse, your patronizing insouciance and exaggerations notwithstanding.
And you mistakenly cite Caritas in veritate (published in 2009); instead, the document that got the reaction you mention was NOT the encyclical (which was generally understood and well-received, having come out at a time — the wake of the 2008 financial crisis — when politicians themselves started to sound like moral theologians). The document in question was a MUCH less authoritative “note” released by a Pontifical Council in 2011; this is explained in the article to which you yourself link… Oh right: but you’re in the media, so you’re just interested in making a splash. Never mind.
Actually, Caritas in Veritate was heralded quite a bit as “the Pope hates capitalism,” from what I remember. See an example here: http://al007italia.blogspot.com/2009/12/of-course-msm-is-ignoring-this.html
I’m trying to figure out the purpose of your comment. Do you think the media is being forthright and honest when it reports on the Pope, and you object to my viewpoint?
“your patronizing insouciance and exaggerations notwithstanding” – care to give an example? What am I indifferent to, and what did I exaggerate?
No, you’re completely correct JoAnna, the Encyclical garnered a lot of criticism from people who thought it was too anti-capitalist. Remember George Weigel going through the thing trying to figure out which parts were written by the Pope?
By the way, a tip of of the hat to my fellow “media” member.
Terrible comment. JoAnna is dead-on accurate.
Great article! Thanks for writing it. All it takes is a little research to find out what was actually said. But like my kids say “Haters gonna hate.”
Well done, young lady. Well said; well written. mGrby
Fantastic! Sheldon Vanauken said that the “Bad Popes” were the keys to his conversion: the Church survived them, yet Protestants are constantly splitting up over scandals. People often quote John Chrysostom that “the floor of hell is paved with the skulls of bishops,” but there’s also what the Cardinal-Archbishop of Paris reportedly said to Napoleon when the latter threatened to destroy the Church: “Popes and bishops have been trying to do that for 1800 years; what makes you think you’ll succeed?”
Alexander VI not only practiced nepotism: he created his son a cardinal and was the great-grandfather of St. Francis Borgia. The infamous Lucrezia was his daughter. When sedevacantists talk about JPII “kissing the Koran,” I point out that that was, at worse, a personal sin (and I don’t think it necessarily was), but it did not amount to Heresy any more than the adulteries and murders committed by Alexander VI and others.
Kissing the Qu ‘ran is an act of public apostasy. This book states that whoever believes in the Most Holy Trinity is worse than fecal matter.
It wasn’t a sign of belief, it was a sign of love, which heathens especially need and deserve.
Pope Benedict said what about condoms???? No wonder the Church is in such a mess! Just kidding, JoAnna. You explained this very well. And you’re right. Popes should watch what they say, but even when they do the MSM will misreport it. It’s the Church contra mundum, a perennial problem.
For the prevention of the spread of AIDS, Pope Benedict should have said even more than he did say. The Church should have recommended condoms for that purpose and made it clear that such use is not a sin.
Church teaching is quite clear that such use is sin, as is any other artificial separation of the procreative from the unitive act. That applies both ways: IVF as well as contraception and sterilization.
Use of condoms for the purpose of preventing the spread of AIDS in places like Africa is not a sin according to Pope Benedict. Do you think the Church went out of its way to spread that news in Africa? If it didn’t it is responsible for untold suffering and death among Catholics who thought it was a sin to take this simple protective measure.
Did you read the article above? And actually, teaching abstinence in Catholic countries has actually been far more effective than condoms. Apparently, one million condoms sent to Africa from the UN (which had contracted with the lowest bidder) where found to be breaking because they were bought on the cheap.
Simple question. A woman tells her husband that, not that she doesn’t trust his fidelity, but the only way she will have sex with him is if he wears a condom. She is not doing it to avoid pregnancy but to avoid an STD. So they make love with him using a condom. Is that a sin? According to Benedict, it isn’t. If it isn’t, why don’t more Catholics know that it isn’t?
Yes it is a sin. The safest sex is between two monogamous partners and they don’t have to wear condoms if they don’t sleep around. Again, the statistics are against you. Regions with the highest condom use have the highest rates of STDs (New York City and London for instance).
For the example that I gave you, I really don’t care if you think it is a sin. “Sin” really loses all meaning when it is used by people like you who see everything as being potentially sinful. I’ve enjoyed my life because I haven’t let people like you tell me what I should and shouldn’t do.
Why would she be having sex with him if she doesn’t trust that he has always been faithful? Just asking. Of course, if I thought my husband were unfaithful I wouldn’t be deciding whether or not to use a condom. I’d be deciding which coffin to by for him & which non-extradition treaty country I’d be living him once he was buried. 😉
I’m sure you could imagine a scenario where a woman might be pressured to have sex with her husband and would want him to use protection. We don’t live in a perfect world.
The use of a condom by HIV/AIDS victims does not
in any way change the morality of the act; which, according to Catholic moral doctrine, is intrinsically evil. An intrinsically evil act remains “irremediably evil;” [cf., John Paul II, Veritatis Splendor] regardless of intentions or circumstances. The Pope cannot negate the sinfulness of an intrinsically evil act by his private theological opinion stated in a book-interview. The SCDF clarified this point [cf., Note on the Banalization of Sexuality in the Book, “Light of the World.”].
You people need to get real. First the Pope says it is ok then somebody else says it isn’t. It is ok.
“Far be it from Christians to be led to embrace another opinion, as if the Council taught that nowadays some things
are permitted which the Church had previously declared intrinsically evil. Who does not see in this the rise of a depraved moral relativism, one that clearly endangers the Church’s entire doctrinal heritage?” (Paul VI, Address to Members of the Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer, September 1967:
AAS 59, 962)
That is the problem. Only the Catholic Church can be right about morality and all other views are ” relativism”. And once a pope says that something like contraception is “intrininsically evil” we’re supposed to be stuck with that opinion forever. It can never be corrected. Sorry, that’s not how it works in the real world.
Why don’t you get off this web-site…you are not Catholic. NSA?
You shouldn’t chase him away. The ones who seem the most angry and bitter are often the ones most questioning and ripe for conversion.
I hope you realize that what the pope says about faith and morals comes through the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, right? So its really God telling us what is right and wrong, not the Pope. Oh and there’s that pesky thing about Peter being told “whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven…”
That is a Catholic tenet. There is very little chance that God speaks to us directly through the Pope. All you have to do is look at the history of the papacy to know that it doesn’t work that way.
You seem to be a confused and bitter man. I’m not sure why anyone would trust your strange beliefs.
The Church will always stand against popular sin, even if it appears to waver at times, no matter how much that upsets sin-loving secularists like yourself.
“Sin-living secularists”. Love it.
For you to say that about me says more about the way you see life than it does about me. You don’t even know me but that doesn’t keep you from judging (and condemning) me.
You’re on the record glorifying sin. I’m not condemning anyone. That’s your straw man to try to paint me as a persecutor in order to avoid real debate. You have no argument except for that you really, REALLY want sin to be ok.
If recommending condom use translates to “glorifying sin” to you, then I can’t help you. Live with your religious obsessions as best as you can. That’s the only advice I can give you.
Your love of sin is making children miserable.
How does that work? Does using condoms keep children from being born thereby making them miserable? I don’t get it.
Perverting children in order to try to get them to support your sin politically makes them miserable. Forcing pornography on them to “prove something” to religious folk makes them miserable. Forcing condoms on them to “prove something” to religious folk makes them miserable.
Your satanic beliefs make them miserable.
You are taking condom use by a married man to bizarre extremes. You just can’t accept that there is nothing wrong with it. Therein lies your problem. It has to be wrong or your whole belief that the Church is always right goes up in smoke. Deal with it. There is nothing wrong with it.
I think you’re enslaved by your sin. I suffer too! I’ll pray for you!
You’re not getting it. Condom use is not a “sin” anywhere except in the minds of deluded folks like you.
You’re not getting it. Condom use is a sin, no matter how much you abuse sex for pleasure and tell yourself lies about the “benefits of condom use”.
Ok. According to your worldview and the Catholic Church, condom use is a sin. Let’s just say that a sin is something that the Church says is wrong and leave it at that.
Don’t take offense at that title. Plenty of us are sin-loving Catholics. Sin always presents itself as lovable. If it wasn’t something that looked good, and sounded like a lot of fun, who would do it? Seriously. If you know that a sin is prohibited by God who made you and loves you, would you do it if you thought it was going to be something rotten, nasty and ugly? Of course not. That’s why sin is always something that looks attractive and gives momentary pleasure even as it brings about long term unhappiness.
I like you, Opinionated. You’re a hoot.
It’s exactly the way He speaks to us, although not the only way.
No. The popes are men who make everyone think that God is speaking through them. Knowing that there are no gods, angels, demons, etc., it is plainly obvious to me that these men are frauds.
BXVI told the truth, that condom use increases dangerous sexual habits exponentially and thus INCREASES all STDs and unwanted pregnancy and he was supported by many experts, including the head of the Harvard Public Health Project.
It was the sex obsessed mob that crucified him because the demons want their sin to continue. Satan fights back hard when you threaten his grip on a huge number of souls.
It was the sex obsessed mob that crucified him because the demons want their sin to continue.
With that kind of outlook on life, you are not someone to whom I am going to be able to have a logical and sensible conversation. You sound like one of those “more holy than the Pope” types.
There are plenty of situations where one should use a condom. If you have a problem with that then you probably have problems with a lot of things that are just part of living one’s life the best one can.
Regular condom use INCREASES one’s chances of getting all STDs, including HIV/AIDs. You’ve been sold a great lie.
I’ve used condoms for practically my whole life. Needless to say, I find your opposition to it to be silly and symptomatic of a religiously induced phobia.
I get it. You love your sins more than the truth. That’s where you and me are different. I hate my sins.
Your calling my use of condoms “sins” is just plain silly. It’s also none of your business.
You love your sins. I hate them. And it is most definitely my business when you and your ideological brethren destroy my society with them.
They are not my “sins”. You have a concept of sin that is based on a very narrow interpretation of life that most of us do not accept. It’s your problem not mine.
“There are plenty of situations where one should use a condom”
They make great water balloons.
I was thinking more utilitarian than that 🙂
No, that is not what he said. What he DID say is if a person who is a prostitute uses condoms to prevent the spread of a disease that indicates that that prostitute is moving toward trying to act morally and that should be encouraged because it is a good first step.
That isn’t the same as saying “using condoms is a good thing”.
So we learn…
Being a prostitute, whether you use condoms or not, is NOT living a moral life. Recognizing that giving someone a disease that could kill him and trying to not do that is a step toward the moral life. It is that recognition and not wanting to kill someone else that is the good part – not the prostitution or the use of the condom part. Hopefully, if the prostitute is thinking about the morality of killing someone they may later recognize other problems about their behavior and correct them as well.
p.s. AIDS was spread so widely in Africa because husbands very often leave the family to go work a great distance from their homes because there are no local opportunities. While away from home they frequent prostitutes, contract HIV, bring it home to their wives who in turn gave birth to children with this disease.
Thank you for that clarification. That was the one glimmer of hope I had that Bennecict wasn’t a complete moron. Now my opinion of him is complete.
If I have The flu, I’m not going to take a sip of someone else’s coffee or a bite of their donut because that would be selfish and I could possibly make that person sick. If I have AIDS, I’m not going to have sexual intercourse with that person because I could kill them and that would be selfish. Condoms are not full proof, and your playing Russian roulette with someone else’s life.
That kind of ethical and health related decision must be made by a couple. The fact is that condom use for AIDS prevention is not a sin and the Church has not been forthcoming in informing people that the practice is allowed as per Pope Benedict’s not widely publicized statement.
You’re lying. Using condoms is a sin and even Pope Francis isn’t confused about the issue.
People who are smart enough to think for themselves know that there is nothing wrong with condom use. Benedict did make a statement that has been taken to mean that condom use to avoid AIDS is preferable to not using a condom in that case.
Nonsense. BXVI was frequently on the record and was even persecuted for making the claim that condoms INCREASE the number of AIDs victims. The head of the Harvard Public Health Project even came out to defend him. The statistics all point to the fact that condoms give people a false belief in invincibility which makes them have sex over and over again until the condom fails.
BXVI did give one example of when use of a condom would be less immoral (or whatever he said) than not using one. It wasn’t very helpful anyway. If what you say is true, it is just by dumb luck that the Church is right about condom use. It opposes it for a completely different reason.
Here we go… I found it.
“On the pages in question, the Holy Father refers to the completely different
case of prostitution, a type of behaviour which Christian morality has always
considered gravely immoral (cf. Vatican II, Pastoral Constitution Gaudium et spes, n. 27; Catechism of the Catholic Church, n. 2355). The response of the entire Christian tradition – and indeed not only of the Christian tradition – to the practice of prostitution can be summed up in the words of St. Paul: “Flee from fornication” (1 Cor 6:18). The practice of prostitution should be shunned, and it is the duty of the agencies of the Church, of civil society and of the State to do all they can to liberate those involved from this practice.
In this regard, it must be noted that the situation created by the spread of
AIDS in many areas of the world has made the problem of prostitution even more serious. Those who know themselves to be infected with HIV and who therefore run the risk of infecting others, apart from committing a sin against the sixth commandment are also committing a sin against the fifth commandment – because they are consciously putting the lives of others at risk through behaviour which has repercussions on public health. In this situation, the Holy Father clearly affirms that the provision of condoms does not constitute “the real or moral solution” to the problem of AIDS and also that “the sheer fixation on the condom implies a banalization of sexuality” in that it refuses to address the mistaken human behaviour which is the root cause of the spread of the virus. In this context, however, it cannot be denied that anyone who uses a condom in order to diminish the risk posed to another person is intending to reduce the evil
connected with his or her immoral activity. In this sense the Holy Father points
out that the use of a condom “with the intention of reducing the risk of
infection, can be a first step in a movement towards a different way, a more
human way, of living sexuality.” This affirmation is clearly compatible with the
Holy Father’s previous statement that this is “not really the way to deal with
the evil of HIV infection.”
http://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/congregations/cfaith/documents/rc_con_cfaith_doc_20101221_luce-del-mondo_en.html
Having successfully used condoms my entire adult life (over 40 years) I can only chuckle at a buffoon who comes up with long and convoluted explanations that have zero use or relevance. What a crock !
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This is great Joanna! Thank you for setting the record straight. It’s maddening whenever the secular press jumps on whatever the Pope says…..but I’m glad we have people like yourself to defend and explain our Catholic faith. By the way, I recently “un-friended” Kirk Cameron on Facebook because just the other day he posted: “The Pope Says Atheists Can Get To Heaven On Their Own Consciousnesses.’ I responded, basically saying – “As a Catholic I can say…no he didn’t….” I so wish people would research what they put out there as truth. Kudos to you on a great article. And I’m praying for a safe arrival of your new little one!
Being a Protestant, he’s likely to get his Catholic news from crappy sources like that. Sadly, they also tend to believe it given what most denominations teach about the Church.
I try to explain these kinds of things, but it ain’t easy when all the info a Protestant gets is anti-Church. Sometimes I feel that the best way to get through is by associating at joint functions such as pro-life and religious freedom rallies. You see items in common there.
Agreed. Commonalities is what we need…not more strife!
the roman catholic church will soon be destroyed despite u guys using language of commonalities…. the city of seven hills will be destroyed specially vatican…
Richard, I disagree. The Catholic Church will endure.
Richard the gates of hell will not prevail against it!! Our catholic church has stood thru good and bad times!! Many protestant churches have closed. God bless.
I agree the Catholic/universal church will endure. Pope Francis brings Christ’s message into the full light of reality especially when it comes to the poor of the world.
The best part about Pope Francis is how he riles up the Republican Religious Reichers. I love it! They need his tough love!
Do you come from Portland Oregon????
The public newspapers have comments like that all time time…sounding like silly teenagers.
Or simple people that are sick of the religous trying to force everyone to live as they( the religous right ) want.
Silly teenagers only believe in santa claus tooth faries and god if their silly parents adamantly teach them to.
Who is forcing pornography, free sex and the std’s on young kids, filthy talk, drugs, campus sexual assault, infantidice, domestic violence on people??
It sure isn’t the Church.
Nobody I know. Is there some reasoning to these questions.I will get back to you tomorrow I am written out now and this is going to be a long answer.
It sure isn’t atheist. We are not organized nor do we have an agenda other than to live in peace. Let people live their own lives by their own morals as long as it does not harm others in any way.What organization has been caught many times sweeping the rug over the fact that their god fearing righteous leaders have been sexually molesting little boys.
Oh yeah THAT would be the church.Write more tomorrow have a good night.
The biggest consumers of kiddie porn is American men…they are waiting for you.
Don’t bother getting back…because you sound like all those who turn a blind eye to what the sex obsessed culture is doing to our people and how it is affecting people around the world….
Peace be with you. Sometimes the truth hurts and apparently it has hurt you deeply.Sex obsession as you state is one of the least of mankinds problems.
Sex is neither wrong nor filthy the human body is beautiful in all of its sizes and shapes. Children start thinking about sex naturally about age three and continue usually until death.
I forgive you for insinuating I am a child molester.I do wonder what traumatic event has happened to you or a loved one for you to strike out with such ferocity attacking me in such a specific sexual manner. Was it an sexual assault?
No matter what it was I am sorry for your pain and suffering.There are things that can help with those suffering PTSD. I wish you well in life.
You are not viewing all the form licentious sex has done to our children, to women, and to men making men themselves abusers.
Abuse always separates the person from their own humanity.
Religion means to bind in Latin…and that pertains to only one religion — that instituted by Christ in defining His only Church — the universal Christian Church.
Christ restored us to God, to others, and to ourselves.
If you would only look at authentic church history and not the spins of the atheistic death culture that believes it can destroy religion…aka the Catholic Church…the name given it by St. Ignatius of Antioch in 107 AD, you will see that it is the Church that set down the framework of universal care for all people….caring for the dying pagans in ancient Rome who were thrown out on the streets to die, the hospitals and hospice, schools, the establishment of universities for the common people, the value of children as human beings, the right of women to be educated and not used as chattel, the framework of common law as we know it today, the arts and music, the contributions to philosophy and the employ of reason, the monasteries that developed agriculture and irrigation for the common people, I could go on and on.
Instead…free sex, sexually transmitted diseases we see now in young teens, bullying, nudity, abortion, infanticide, suicide, profanity, stealing, lying, murder…all for personal freedom.
No sorry, you are very misguided and you are basing your opinions on propaganda.
Civil and secular entities have caused more deaths than true religion…any day.
The greatest death is the loss of the human soul.
If you would only look at facts. Abuse has been with us a long time for probably hundreds of thousands of years.your mythical god seems to look the other way. That is likely due to his non existence.
Your church has not prevented it. There are have been and likely will be bad peoplefor as long as humans survive.Such is our species with all of its flaws. Sad but true.
If your god exist he could have stopped it anytime. He she it whatever has not. In fact he left every one hanging leaving it up to (well noone for hundreds of thousands of yrs) a Few people to convince everyone else of an absolute miraculous story. Never even showedhis face. Very strange and even twisted and sick. Freewill wod only work if one knew the truth. It is simply another of the many strange myths invented by man to try and understand what they csnnot undersand. Love and compassion empathy these are traits needed to prevent sexual abuse. Not belief in myths.
It is belief in the myth of evolution – ie that there is no God who will judge us.
Evolution makes us think that only the strongest will win – there is no fear of God’s judgement . This very thing has driven people like genghis khan ,stalin , mao , pol pot hitler etc to murder 100’s of millions throughout history.
You have the wrong end of the stick. God intervenes when we repent and believe in Him. Jesus preached love and forgiveness.
It is atheism that results in cruelty far more than even fake christianity of which there is much.
The devil worshipping tribes were cruel – like the aztecs sacrificing thousands in their ceremonies – alive with hearts still beating.
Without this we just have empty and merciless time and chance – your false God without evidence.
“Dr. Gray goes further. He says, `The proposition that the things and events in nature were not designed to be so, if logically carried out, is doubtless tantamount to atheism.’ Again, `To us, a fortuitous Cosmos is simply inconceivable. The alternative is a designed Cosmos… If Mr. Darwin believes that the events which he supposes to have occurred and the results we behold around us were undirected and undesigned; or if the physicist believes that the natural forces to which he refers phenomena are uncaused and undirected, no argument is needed to show that such belief is atheistic.’ We have thus arrived at the answer to our question, What is Darwinism? It is Atheism. This does not mean, as before said, that Mr. Darwin himself and all who adopt his views are atheists; but it means that his theory is atheistic, that the exclusion of design from nature is, as Dr. Gray says, tantamount to atheism.”
Hodge, Charles [late Professor of Theology, Princeton Theological Seminary, USA], in Livingstone D.N., eds., “What Is Darwinism?”, 1994, reprint, p.156
“Thus, a century ago, [it was] Darwinism against Christian orthodoxy. To-day the tables are turned. The modified, but still characteristically Darwinian theory has itself become an orthodoxy, preached by its adherents with religious fervour, and doubted, they feel, only by a few muddlers imperfect in scientific faith.”
Grene, Marjorie [Professor Emeritus of Philosophy, University of California, Davis], “The Faith of Darwinism,” Encounter, Vol. 74, November 1959, pp.48-56, p.49
You keep referencing all these talks and professors as I have stated their are hundredz and hundreds of professors scholars and scientist that dispute them .Geez you are the party meme.
Polpot hitler stalin you truly believe they and hundreds of othrrs acted so ruthlessly because they were atheist. What a shock. Not surprised at all. Heard that before probably from the same meme that has indoctrinated yoh with such illogical nonsense.
So according to your logic there simply arent any decent people if they do not bieve as you. There lies the problem. I guess by the same logic jim baker jimmy swaggart and many many others caught cheatinv molesting children ( catholic preist and those that did not care enough for those boys to help them, such fear of god). Weregod fearing gentlemen. The crusaders the conquistidors the british. King leopold and on snd on all atheist? Nope Christians. You are writing the same old crap one can getfrom any sunday school. The same rhetoric the christians have been preaching for decades.Rubbish.
If you or anyone else need to be scared to death in order to keep you from murdering on a genocidal scale you and they are even more scarier than I believed. I need no twisted deity to thraten me in ordr to prevent me from committinv genocide.Christians have killed indigenous people on an inconceiveable scale FACT (of course those do not deter you from the party line .Repeating something over and over does not make it true it means you are brainwashed).Enough already I am tired of typing for no reason.
Besides your God could have prevented pol pot stalin whatever. HE IS EVERYTHING!!! Must be quite sick himsels ( itself or whatever) . Your post id illogical and predictable so lets just call it a day. It is getting old. Have a great night.I am going to watch some football and see who your God favors thid week Lol
So you are supporting the Islamic Caliphs that murdered so many Christians….Egypt, Syria, Palestine were teeming Christian populations until Islam wiped them out. You will never be taught that…for 400 years Christians in those lands cried out for help and finally the Crusaders were called out.
You don’t want to be educated except by Hollywood?
Islam killed 270 million in the name of Allah. Communism killed close to 100 million if you combine USSR, China, Pol Pot, Vietnam. These are beloved atheistic governments that killed their own people.
LOL….go watch tv…the wasteland.
Weird that such a loving all knowing all seeing Deity such as your christian god. would just sit and watch all of that cruelty suffered upon “his people”. I guess he simply cannot get enough gratuitous violence from hollyweird. I know you have the answers. Freewill God works in mysterious ways, All part of Gods plan. What a sick and twisted CRUEL plan. Oh I forgot the boogeyman Satan it is all the work of Satan. Whom God created and allows to perpetrate such unfathomable cruelty.( at least to most humans including your hated non believers.) Of course you do not blame God nor Satan no you blame Atheist. Illogical IMO
God allowed his own innocent son in whom was not a single sin , who is God in the flesh , to suffer like a lamb before slaughter. God and the Holy Spirit would also have felt the pain of evil as Jesus was crucified in the most painful torture devised by evil men.
Mary watched her son crucified and felt a sword going through her heart.
This was done so that Jesus would conquer evil and the power of sin – not for His sake but for our sake since God cannot allow anyone in His presence who is tainted by sin . The only way is for one to repent from sin and accept Jesus as your lord and saviour and follow all His commandments.
So God watched evil men torture His son to death for our benefit.
You cannot grasp what it is all about since you cannot accept the spiritual but are only interested in the things of the world like your own survival.
Gods only begotten son. That has always been turbid to me. What is so difficult about a GOD sacrificing someone? He had already allowed the slaughter of millions of his ” beloved”. He could also have created Jesus without taking Josephs wife. He could have trillions of sons every second of every day.Not really much of a sacrifice if one thinks about it. Seems like a strange way to conquer “evil” which incidently was created by GOD.
Yes Jesus said that God could raise up sons of Abraham from stones .
God can do anything – He could have taken Noah and the other seven in his family to heaven until the flood was over – BUT he didn’t and told Noah to build an ark as an act of faith taking over a hundred years. This is 400 man years
of work if you assume the wives did the cooking and housework.
It is about love and self sacrifice – the condition of one’s heart which is something you cannot comprehend.
You think your unthinking comments are clever :-
“For the word of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.
19For it is written, “I WILL DESTROY THE WISDOM OF THE WISE, AND THE CLEVERNESS OF THE CLEVER I WILL SET ASIDE.”…
Angry sir, suffering is part of life. Suffering drives us to overcome, suffering leads to development to relieve that suffering. Now imagine will you a movie/video game/ or a novel with no conflict, nothing to overcome and nothing to save or change no ambition for something greater.
Would that be enjoyable, no it wouldnt. Likewise life would not be as deep and precious without pain. Pain drives us to care for one another for fear of losing each other, it drives us to cling to what happyness we do have increasing it’s value. All aspects of life, science, nature, and divinity is sacred as they exist because of God and serve a purpose only truely known to God and the Catholic Church in which he leads to the right path.
The Church and science and shouldn’t be in conflict because both were created by God.
Angry Madam, yes suffering is part of (human) life. One does not need to suffer to overcome an obstacle. One must simply be motivated to do so.
Life is not a novel nor movie or game. I can assure you that if you were the human suffering a mass murder of your family, torture rape etc… you would not be thinking, I am so glad I get to suffer through a brutal rape and then be doused with fuel and set ablaze. Life would just not be “enjoyable” if Not for this horriffic suffering. Now when I am happy my happiness will feel happier!!
Happiness is not created by suffering. Absurd. Science and religion are in conflict . Religion is based upon myth science upon evidence . Thatcreates a conflict. angry madam .Catholisism is just another myth just ss the myths that it is formed upon. You may call yourself truthsayer but a more accurate name would be belief sayer. There is no evidence of God much less the christian story. Nor any of the hundreds of other religions that claim “TRUTH”
Hope you and family have a h
You conveniently left out the numbers of people have been killid in the nameo christinity. I am sure there is a most extraordinary reason such as it has never happened. Just as I suppose the Catholic church (rulers of europe) were right for punishing those that claimed the earth was not the center of the universe.
Do you not know that Hitler did not do the killing himself. Pass this on to the (aptly named) n worder if you will.
Hitler used lies and propaganda to convince the people (mostly CHRISTIANS) of the need and justification for killing the people of Jewish faith.(one of many religions based on the “good book”) . Must have been easy given how even today christians would rule America with an iron cross (they would probably use gold they seem to adore the metal) and make everyone assimilate to their beliefs.( All out of love and concern ofcourse.) if they thought they could. They do everything they can now to start a war that they beleive when bring there savior Jesus down for them.SCARY
@julie, get real, the catholic church has murdered uncountless millions of people in it’s BLOODY, insane,
SATANIC history, are you serious??? remember a little thingy called THE CRUSADES??, THE SPANISH inquisitions??? HELLO, LOL maybe you need to go watch some tv, BTW, during ww2 guess what church secretly supported HITLER?? yep, the catholic church, go look it up @julie.
Show the documented truth. But you won’t find anything. What you are doing is falling for the hatred of Catholics by Restorationists of the 19th century that literally created the numbers.
So you think it OK the Islamic caliph decimated the Christian populations of Egypt, Syria, and Palestine…and that it took the Church 400 years to finally respond with the Crusades to help the ancient Christian culture?….
The Catholic clergy in Spain worked to exonerate thousands of those accused in the Inquisition the temporal rulers…in response to 700 years of plundering by the Muslim Moors…who imposed dhimmitude on the Spanish Catholics and Jews…read documents about how non-Muslims were treated in Spain as second class citizens, who had to wear green badges, who could not share or expand the faith in Spain. They wanted the Muslims out of the country, who were later posing as Christians and committing sacrilege receiving communion at Mass, receiving with no faith. To this day Muslims think Spain belongs to them.
The blame for falsehoods lies on the backs of English and American Protestants for creating so many lies about our faith. …so much for their Christianity, and likewise for the enslaving religion of Islam.
You need to research and find out who the real enemies of humanity really are.
Change and blame. Typical christian tactic. I guess there is no evidence of the catholic church BURNING WOMEN AT THE STAKE WHILE VERY MUCH ALIVE for being witches neither.
I will get back to you with the “documented” evidence for which you refuse to easily find yourself simply by typing 4 words into a search engine. Truth be known you would refuse to accept any and all evidence provided to you. You do not seek the truth or facts. You accept the church as your source for, well everything.
Problem is it is your type of Christianity that wastes alot of time pointing out scandals…and many times what you use are compromised or even false information…and you are drawn to it.
I know many people have become atheists because of the profound prejudice and hatred by so called Christians in your neck of the woods….it is notorious…
And our Church has nothing to hide.
People have brought up such in the past…and it turns out to be bogus.
The Catholic Church never authorized the burning of women at the stake. But that doesn’t mean lay people did.
Go ahead…I am familiar with the English junk.
What a waste of energy…hating Catholics….and totally ignoring the Good Christ has done through our faith.
You focus not on Christ but on scandal…It doesn’t make you any better…it is a form of anti Christ…using religion as a veil for malice.
You claim that I use compromised and false information and allegations. I did not. The catholic church knew good and well women were being burned at the stake. FACT They also acted atrosiously in WW2. They have also tried to keep secret the sexual and other abuses perpetrated by many of their preist upon innocent young biys and girls. FACT (not compromised or false). Many more wrongs. The integrity of the church was more important to the leadership of the catholic church than the welfare of children FACT
Sure the church does some good charity work. So does the motorcycle gangs. It is all abiut the image.
You also wrongly claim ( again that I hate.That is simply your anger. I do not hate the church. As for what goes on ” in my neck of the woods” I have no idea what you are writing about.there. I live in America.
Most people are atheist because they read and educate themselves. They realize that it is totally illogical. The story of God has been told many many thousands of times with many diffrrent Gods many different stories. The god in the jewish bible is simply a rehashing of a more ancient story . One that with few exceptions is the same story. They also learn that the one and only “TRUTH” depends largely upon where one lives on the planet. Knowledge is what makes people Atheist. Atheist is what the label says we are actually just humans. We do not HATE. We disagree with religion ( any of the current 2000 or so preaching myth asfact. That my sister is not hate. Perhaps in your neck of the woods.
Help me out with your meaning of “my neck of the woods” where exactly is that?
For a church that has nothing to hide they sure have hidden alot.
Then you claim to know “what I am drawn to” Pardon my frankness but that is silly. I am not drawn to false information. I encourage people to check sources recheck cross check and come to their own conclusion.The christian religion borrowed many aspects of their faith from previous rdligions. All of the different religions cannot be right. They can however ( and I conclude that they are) all be wrong.
I wish you well I hope you and your family have a wonderful holiday.
Ps Have you ever educated yourself on the reason as to why Christmas is celebrated on the date that it is?
There is alot of bigotry against Catholics in the South.
catholicculture.org/culture/lilbrary/view.cfm?recnum=4005 “Who Burned the Witches?” Sandra Miesel.
Likewise you come across as very angry and biased and cannot recognize anything but that which has failed.
Every single social instiution, and the Church is a social institution, has people have failed and are failing…the deposit of faith is there.
As far as witches go, I had an encounter with one in my work in the church….I felt the need to pull back from this person, someone who had many complaints…I started to sense, with no prior experience, that this person was into the occult. She was a clairvoyant. A priest told me she came to his parish and he told her to leave. She turned out to be a pathological liar.
The exorcist priest spent time with me and in the end told me she was using goat horns to get information and cause all sorts of dishevel, always it ending in her favor and causing people overseeing this…to step back…it was so crazy.
Later someone contacted me 11 years after the event. He said she was out to destroy his reputation and career…like she did mine to a certain degree but he had taken her to court before and won…she was using false documents. Later he told me the police were called to her home because she was sacrificing animals. When they got there, they could do nothing.
She was sacrificing domestic animals, goats.
A priest asked me to go to a talk on satanism…I heard an ordained minister say he did not believe in such things…but when he observed an exorcism in San Francisco….he saw footprints on the floor made of oil and then go up the curtains, saw someone levitate, and then saw a woman with hip surgery get down on the floor and writhe across the room like a snake.
The symbol of Satan is the goat head.
The Church as well as other protestant churches saw witches as dangerous…and I know for a fact I experienced it and the damage to me.
All forms of witchcraft cause evil, no matter how supposedly the healing powers are…what happens when such a person has someone get in their way?…stand back and be meek?
There is good reason people ought to be aware of witchcraft and satanism. There are over 700,000 Americans now involved in some form of pagan craft, and about 180,000 are joining each year.
Witchcraft is nothing to work yourself up to defend…but if you yourself are into some form of it, then you should think twice about what you are really into.
I might ask you to read your replies and see if you would agree with me that you cpome across as one who is angered and offended. The deep south of America is called the bible belt fir a good reason. Lots of religous god fearing people. Not much on education freedom science environmental concern or a decent wage for work performed. Fir those reasons I prefer most anywherd else in America. Where they believe in personal freedom good paying jobs science the environment and above all EDUCATION .
I do not believe in witchcraft satan occults or the tooth fairy neither. As far as I am concerned it is just more supernatural myth with absolutely no evidence. There is no scientific evidence for god satan angels. Etc etc… As far as getting information from goat horns LOL good luck.
As far as sacrificing animals that comes from your god whom the bible says enjoys the smell of burning flesh from burning animals. Of course the bible just got the idea from earlier religions that used sacrifices of humans and animals as well.
As far as the hate and anger I have encountered that from christians many times. Sometimes I do get angry as we all do. It usually is them that are actually angry because I challenge their religous beliefs. I do not believe in magic witches gods or any other supernatural hocus pocus.
I noticed that to your credit you did not deny all of the facts about the catholic church I pointed out. I do not state them to hate. I simply state the things we have learned through the evidence. Do not fear the occults or witchcraft jjust more myths playing on peoples fears.
Christmas…?…..If you think we are celebrating paganism…that is another spin.
Jesus was not born in december. Wonder why his birthday is celebrated on the 25th of dec.
Think ROME think CONTROL think period.
True. That whole witch burning stuff was a Protestant thing.
You are showing your own ignorance
Ironic person who names yourself Knight,
First of all Hitler had plans to destroy the Church and create a religion based upon himself. The Church only went along with quitely because he had control of all of Italy and could have sent 20 tanks into Rome If he wanted.
On to the main point on Catholic nations. Of one nation let’s use The Spanish Empire shall we, If they had succeeded in conquering a large amount of the world and was also able to convert it what would be the result of all the bloodshed? Would it be worth it? You would get centuries of stability and a economic boost which would lead to technological, agricultural, and architectural progress. These advancements would lead to more conquests and conversions and the end result would be a stable world wth the resources and technolgy to take care of a higher percentage of the world’s problems. In short it would be vastly worth the cause of the suffering of a few for the progress and happyness of the many generations of the future. It is risk that is more than worth it.
Now please go read a history textbook or better yet go to Church and sit there and listen with a open mind even If you don’t agree just listen to their words and try to understand it.
Hypocrit that calls themselves “truthsayer”.
You are a uniquely gifted person. You “KNOW” that the world would not be enjoyable or “interesting” without humans being raped tortured ravaged by starvation and disease or killed by christians for not converting . GRAND ILLUSION!!!!!!!
Now you imply to know what the world would be like IF history were DIFFERENT. Ridiculous.
Justifying the catholic churchess action in WW2 as well as minimalizing those actions does not change the facts THE TRUTHS!
What does your all knowing source of past present future and WHAT IFS say would have happened if the catholic church would have been willing to DIE knowing that they would go to heaven( which according to you will not be enjoyable nor happy for there will be no suffering) for their beliefs? Now go read a history book science book or listen to a good lecture. Keep an open mind well , try to open your closed mind.
The more I read your posts, the more irrational they are.
Sorry….I am focusing on the season of Our Lord’s brith int our world.
Look at the Vatican Library, greatest in the world and testament to faith and reason…all for the glory of Christ.
You just wrote a post on people being exorcised of the devil and goat horn magic and I sound irrational. OKAY!!!
Peace be with you. I am going to celebrate a day of love with my friends family and some of those in need.
Yes…it sounds irrational…but then you can accuse the archdiocesan exorcist as the same.
There is evil as there is good. You are at fault for totally denying the good that is in the Church. You think we are full of nonsense.
It is the Church that is the foundation of Western Civilization. Our faith reached out to the dying going back to ancient times…the monasteries that supported the local populations and taught and assisted them in agriculture and irrigation…this happening in the so called Dark Ages…you don’t know about the Augustinian monk Mengel of whom Darwin studied his works, or how the Church founded hospitals, hospice, schools and universities for the common people. Likewise the framework of modern law, the modern concept of charity and good works, economics…is from the work of Catholics who contributed their lives to humanity.
It is the Catholic schools who are successful in educating inner blacks…
Yet you reflect the South…you defend those who have alot of prejudice against Catholics…
You totally miss the point of Satanism and its works of harming people, that involve those in cults.
You totally miss the point that we believe in faith and reason and the testimony is there for the public to see.
Hope you can some day as well…
Money greed and power are the foundations of western society. As is all of human society. We will just simply disagree.
There is a Jewish organization called Pave the Way, and the director grew up with alot of contempt for the Church and Pius XII, and after being allowed into the Vatican LIbrary, itself a testament to reason and faith….he came out realizing no one had done more for the Church than Pius XII and the campaign to smear him was done by East German communists.
The Catholic bishops of Germany did not support Hitler. The majority of Catholics in Germany did not vote for the Nazi party. The documents are there in the book on Pius put out by Pave the Way. There were over a thousand to three thousand German priests executed for defying Nazism.
I will also add you know nothing of our faith so take your vitriol some where else.
I do not care what you add. Take yourarogant self somewhere else. Funny how christians never behave like their saviour Jesus teaches them to. Of course you have only defended your church ( if calling names and slinging accusations and denying the truth is defending) not your TRUE teacher Jesus. What a shock. You go
somewhere else. Its a free country lady. Stop replying especially with that nonsense about how private catholic schools are educating poor impoverished inner city children. Black only I guess according. Where are the schools doing this great job? Ridiculous.
You also make out the ridiculous insinuations on the 50 miles of the Vatican that were finally opened and give a greater historical perspective to past events.
You know nothing of my faith and of its work because you don’t want to.
You are so prejudiced and self righteous…you really are…in Texas…Deep South….an atheist revealed to me he grew up in a fundamentalist home that hated catholics and he said there is so much of it there….
Never want to live there….my relatives looked for a church one time there and the townspeople told them they were not welcomed there…
You make up and insinuate….and make slurs nothing more.
Let it go. The only thing one needs to know is that all of the good that it does could have been and can be done without all the bad. Simply stop worshiping imaginary beings. We humans hopefully will get there someday. A world without imaginary gods and imaginary demons created by imaginary gods does more good.
Merry Christmas Julie.
I hope that your family is safe and warm and all come home for the holiday. Peace be with you.
You need to go to Pave the Way and find out the truth about the Catholic Church and Nazi Germany. The Church opposed Hitler and the Nazis.
The Concordat signed by the Church with Hitler only regarded the freedom for Catholics to practice their faith and nothing more.
My father was in the Benedictine seminary for 2 years and at the end of his time there, the ‘Black Book of Poland’ came out.
There were in fact or a thousand German priests who were executed by the Nazis for opposing it.
The Vatican held over 5,000 within its walls protecting them.
The Spanish Inquisition was written by an Englishman after the Reformation but his scenario was of the ilk one could find done by the KGB — complete distortions and fabrications.
The actual document of the Inquisition was not made public until August 2003 and it affirmed what Catholics had long sensed…that such English speaking allegations were unsubstantiated.
american junk talk.
Go watch The Scarlet and the Black.
Knight…I will address only one of your errors. You look for the truth on the others. The Crusades were started in response to Muslim aggression. Eventually Muslims conquered up through Spain until they were defeated.
I’m a Christian, but the blind eye you turn towards the crimes committed by Christians…in the name of Christianity breaks my heart.
As a person who had grandparents suffer beatings and abuse by the church, it breaks my heart that as a Christian, you would overlook the pain and suffering of millions of people that suffered under “Christian” wars and conquerings.
Millions of Indigenous people around the world suffered at the hands of false Christian men. That’s not in a hollywood book. That’s lived history. You can’t deny the lived experiences of my family or ancestors…no matter how inconvenient it is for your argument.
You do the church and God no favors by denying the crimes of false Christians…in fact, it hurts and damages…instead of bringing people to the Church, your lies and blind eye drive people away. So you’re doing no favor to God by trying to prove you’re being right. It’s not about rightness, but it’s about doing right by God,….not a pissing contest.
I worked with native Indians as a young woman, and we went out to visit them once they were back in school…I don’t know of any who committed crimes against the Indians, but yes I have read what was done… I don’t know how in the world you would think that…as i grew up in the inner city among minorities as well…and also you don’t know of the many excellent missionaries who served the Indians in my region of the country who came to them on their level and worked with them…I know the NW indians…and have met Catholics among them…very gentle people with great and deep faith and if the missionaries were as bad as you say….they would not have this faith. I personally knew the priest who started a mission on Skid Row…actually who the one who named that area…and his service was to the NW Indians who came to Mass there in this simple, poor chapel.
Likewise I worked with Italian missionaries…and when I was first starting I asked the priests…coming from the stereotype Americans have of missionaries from the movies…and from the attitude of those towards the Indian people….if they liked us…I was immediately told they had great respect for us…and when I arrived in my mission…the work the priests, sisters, brothers, and lay were doing for the indigenous people was tremendous. They worked to accept the people at their level, to work within their culture, to educate and nurse them… and help them with any problems they had…I visited technical schools, elementary, high schools, and colleges….tremendous work…and the sufferings the missionaries had…
You don’t know the opposition missionaries went through to bring the Good News to the Indian people…and I think of the Jesuits…who first came to NE America and into Canada…many suffered torture and some were murdered in a most serious way…the Iroquois…and then there were other tribes who greatly and openly received Christ.
You don’t know about how the Spanish bishop Zumarraga in Mexico gave women and girls the the right to an education hundreds of years before North Americans were, or how they had universities back in the 1500’s with native Indians serving as professors…so much you don’t know…but yes you have suffered so very much by what has happened to your ancestors…and Lakota..I am so sorry for what happened to them, they did not deserve that…no one does…
And it is so bad when people hide their malice for their fellow man using the veil of religion…it is the worst thing and can destroy a person’s soul from every turning to God and experiencing His great love for them.
So I wish you the deepest and most profound blessing…and that you work to let that go…we all have our own tragedies and injustices that have happened to us…and we always put those who have suffered in the past…just as right now I think of the poor little children around the world who are suffering so much by terror, rape, sexual slavery, seeing their parents murdered in front of them…children beheaded, shot in the face….little innocent and pure children…I cry at night for them….
We can only do so much…but we have to let go and turn to God and to forgive….don’t let the past hold you down…those are like little ghosts…pray for the souls of your loved ones…and place them in God’s mercy so they can be with them forever…as this world is a place of tears and sorrows…
Turn to God and forgive those particular Christians who did those wrong…forgive them…and be free.
You write the way you think – jumbled and fuzzy – full of cliches and children’s school book thoughts on science .
We demanded freedom to know good and evil. So you are being tested to see if you are worthy to live eternally thats why God does not always intervene.
If people like you reject and slander God – and there are billions like you then why do you expect Him to rush to help you in your life of rebellion.
The world is full to the brim with God’s blessings that He made for us – it is human sin that is the problem not God .
You know nothing about science – just schoolboy evolutionary rhetoric and TV brainwashing.
“Unfortunately many scientists and non-scientists have made Evolution into a religion, something to be defended against infidels. In my experience, many students of biology – professors and textbook writers included – have been so carried away with the arguments for Evolution that they neglect to question it. They preach it … College students, having gone through such a closed system of education, themselves become teachers, entering high schools to continue the process, using textbooks written by former classmates or professors. High standards of scholarship and teaching break down. Propaganda and the pursuit of power replace the pursuit knowledge. Education becomes a fraud.”
George Kocan, Evolution isn’t Faith But Theory, Chicago Tribune, Monday, April 21, 1980.
You must be slower than a bag f rocks.at least that is how you write.You just defend yourbelief and ignore any thing and everything any one counters with.
Look you can believe Noahs family built that huge ship ( or apparently you have been taught to say it was god itself that did to make it more believable you guyd are always cherry pick and changinv ) and jonah lived in a whales mouth and cain married an ape one must conclude for there was NOONE else on earth. HaHa. Listen good I do not expect GOD to do anything more than he ever has which is nothing. EVER you have never seen him BECAUSE HE IS NOT THERE..gooxnight and goodbye
God designed the ark – Noah built it. The design ratios are still used today.
Jonah was inside a whale – no problem to the creator of the universe.
Adam and Eve had many children – no timeline is given for Cain but there were cities built by the time he got married.
Maybe you have not fully evolved from your apelike ancestors – still to develop critical thinking skills . You may be only 12 for all I know.
“Darwinian theory is the creation myth of our culture. It’s the officially sponsored, government financed creation myth that the public is supposed to believe in, and that creates the evolutionary scientists as the priesthood… So we have the priesthood of naturalism, which has great cultural authority, and of course has to protect its mystery that gives it that authority—that’s why they’re so vicious towards critics.”
Phillip Johnson, On the PBS documentary “In the Beginning: The Creationist Controversy” [May 1995]
Same old Rhetorical brainwash nonsence .It appears you do not undersand the def of critical thinking. God did thisno timeline for this made up “interprative” rhetoric. Your skull must weigh like a ton.Where exactly in genesis does it say that entire cities were built before poor cain came back? That should be easy for someone who seemingly know “everything”.
Lets see you still have not attempted how noah gathered up what you ( so intelligently) suppose is a mere 5000 animals .How about the 750,000 + different insects .ShouldI mention the thousands of birds? Much ess all the plant life. Fungi on and on. Again the disperal?
No you pat yourself on the ack feeling superior and oh so wise. Calling me names and giving sources well circulated and touted by christians doez not make you intelligent.Well read and a computer.wow. what a grown man. You have no idea how we got here Just as the rest of human kind do not.I am sure you willAGAIN ivnore the questions or when you have no choice but admit you haven’t a clue it will be “God ” that did it. See you later.
Insects were not needed on the ark – but there would be plenty – they lay eggs which survive under water. Your knowledge is so bad that I am bored debating with you even though I enjoy a good debate with evos – intelligent ones that is .
Cain went to live in the land of Nod and built a city. Fungi does not need to avoid the flood there was masses of floating vegetation.
You have never asked an intelligent question or any question for that matter you just blurt out rehashed “darwin for kids” nonsense.
Why would the inhabitants of the ark not disperse. The dispersal of the population in the bible is still used by atheist professors who study language and peoples as the most accurate history of population movements .
STEPHEN GOULD, Harvard, “…one outstanding fact of the fossil record that many of you may not be aware of; that since the so called Cambrian explosion…during which essentially all the anatomical designs of modern multicellular life made their first appearance in the fossil record, no new Phyla of animals have entered the fossil record.”, Speech at SMU, Oct.2, 1990
PRESTON CLOUD & MARTIN F. GLAESSNER, “Ever since Darwin, the geologically abrupt appearance and rapid diversification of early animal life have fascinated biologist and students of Earth history alike….This interval, plus Early Cambrian, was the time during which metazoan life diversified into nearly all of the major phyla and most of the invertebrate classes and orders subsequently known.” SCIENCE, Aug.27, 1982
RICHARD MONASTERSKY, Earth Science Ed., Science News, “The remarkably complex forms of animals we see today suddenly appeared….This moment, right at the start of the Earth’s Cambrian Period…marks the evolutionary explosion that filled the seas with the earth’s first complex creatures….’This is Genesis material,’ gushed one researcher….demonstrates that the large animal phyla of today were present already in the early Cambrian and that they were as distinct from each other as they are today…a menagerie of clam cousins, sponges, segmented worms, and other invertebrates that would seem vaguely familiar to any scuba diver.” Discover, p.40, 4/93
Your ignorance can only be surpassed by your arrogance. I know you are not THAT stupid. You are however that arrogant . There has been no debate. Questions you cannot answer with a logical response you dismiss and lash out. So typical . Take care. Live a good life.It has been fun Good luck wish you well. NOD yeah page 5 of genesis.Funny sorrynot there. Be good .Peace
Bye Bye – keep taking your meds
Bye bye oh great smart one. Perhaps some day with a lot of psychiatric help or simple common sense you learn how utterly inconceivable the story of Noahs ark is as most theologans have. I doubt it though LOL! I will keep taking my meds. Someday with all the advances in science such as biology( which by the way smart guy is almost entirely based on EVOLUTION)(ever heard of genes?) CHEMISTRY and PHYSICS there will be some medical help for your advanced stage ignorance compounded by arrogance.
I would not take it if I were you healing sick is afterall playing god.So if you ever are unfortunate enough to be in a car accident you could tell them to take you to church not hospital where the professional tasked with healing you work with science not GOD. That my friend would take REAL FAITH. Good luck I myself would recommend the science but you know way more than me so hey! Have a good life. I hope you find the reassurance you seek. We just disagree on where you will find it. Again live well and good luck.
From atheist scientists who dont even believe in Darwin :-
“The absence of fossil evidence for intermediary stages between major transitions in organic design, indeed our inability, even in our imagination, to construct functional intermediates in many cases, has been a persistent and nagging problem for gradualistic accounts of evolution.”
Stephen Jay Gould (Professor of Geology and Paleontology, Harvard University)
“The chance that higher life forms might have emerged in this way is comparable with the chance that ‘a tornado sweeping through a junk yard might assemble a Boeing 747 from the materials therein’.”
Sir Fred Hoyle (English astronomer, Professor of Astronomy at Cambridge University), as quoted in “Hoyle on Evolution”. Nature, vol. 294, 12 Nov. 1981, p. 105
“Echoing the criticism made of his father’s habilis skulls, he added that Lucy’s skull was so incomplete that most of it was ‘imagination made of plaster of Paris’, thus making it impossible to draw any firm conclusion about what species she belonged to.”
Referring to comments made by Richard Leakey (Director of National Museums of Kenya) in The Weekend Australian, 7-8 May 1983, Magazine, p. 3
“We add that it would be all too easy to object that mutations have no evolutionary effect because they are eliminated by natural selection. Lethal mutations (the worst kind) are effectively eliminated, but others persist as alleles. …Mutants are present within every population, from bacteria to man. There can be no doubt about it. But for the evolutionist, the essential lies elsewhere: in the fact that mutations do not coincide with evolution.”
Pierre-Paul Grassé (University of Paris and past-President, French Academie des Sciences) in Evolution of Living Organisms, Academic Press, New York, 1977, p. 88
Geez let me be very clear. Yes evolution is a “scientific theory) It has been tested for many decades. Much evidence has been found.MUCH. all of which matches observation. None has yet been shown to disprove the theory. PERIOD. Not a fact as you presume I believe.I have no ” beliefs” I simply look at evidence. There is tons of evidence none of it however points to your creator story.
PS. Even if evolution is proved wrong someday there would still be NO EVIDENCE for the bible story of God nor the christian story of Jesus.
Give us your evidence for evolution then – why have you not given any evidence in all your blogs. No scientist has proved evolution by any test – you are just making up stories.
“Scientists who go about teaching that evolution is a fact of life are great con-men, and the story they are telling may be the greatest hoax ever. In explaining evolution, we do not have one iota of fact.”
Dr. T. N. Tahmisian (Atomic Energy Commission, USA) in “The Fresno Bee”, August 20, 1959. As quoted by N. J. Mitchell, Evolution and the Emperor’s New Clothes, Roydon Publications, UK, 1983, title page.
“A five million-year-old piece of bone that was thought to be a collarbone of a humanlike creature is actually part of a dolphin rib, …He [Dr. T. White] puts the incident on par with two other embarrassing [sic] faux pas by fossil hunters: Hesperopithecus, the fossil pig’s tooth that was cited as evidence of very early man in North America, and Eoanthropus or ‘Piltdown Man,’ the jaw of an orangutan and the skull of a modern human that were claimed to be the ‘earliest Englishman’.
“The problem with a lot of anthropologists is that they want so much to find a hominid that any scrap of bone becomes a hominid bone.'”
Dr. Tim White (anthropologist, University of California, Berkeley). As quoted by Ian Anderson “Hominoid collarbone exposed as dolphin’s rib”, in New Scientist, 28 April 1983, p. 199
I guess cain was followed by some brothers and sisters. ( great tracking skills) built an entire city married his sister and then came back to eden. Of course the book of genesis leaves most of that out It simply states (very plainly) that there was Adam and Eve there two sons. Cain killed Abel was banished from Eden and went to dwell in the land of Nod. Period. Next paragraph Cain knew his wife. No mention of the great city nor of all the people you mention. Not one single word. You simply interpret and comprehend what you want to see.Guess it comes from that superior critical thinking ability you believe you posess.
You dont even know the first chapters of the bible – no timeline was given for cain’s marriage – in 800 years the population growth would stagger you if you studied it – but you are too immature and infantile to put up a good debate.
Genesis 5:4 – And the days of Adam after he had begotten Seth were eight hundred years: and he begat sons and daughters:
Genesis 4:1 – And Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bare Cain, and said, I have gotten a man from the LORD.
Genesis 4:2 – And she again bare his brother Abel. And Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground.
Genesis 4:25 – And Adam knew his wife again; and she bare a son, and called his name Seth: For God, [said she], hath appointed me another seed instead of Abel, whom Cain slew.
Genesis 5:1-32 – This [is] the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made he him; (Read More…)
When did your two evolved apes get together – they would need to be at the same stage of evolution.
What were the names of the first apeman and apewoman – and did they build a city – how many baby apemen and apewoman did they begat.
Did their first ape children mate with each other since they would have to keep separate from the real apes who were still around.
What animal gave rise to the apes and if apes became human why are apes still around ??
Believing in your ludicrous fantasy evolution blind faith is much harder than believing the bible .
Genisis 4:16 then cain went out from the presence of the lord and settled in the land of Nod east of eden.
Genesis4:17 and cain knew his wife.From there is starts stating cains sons and their wives. Your story of seth comes later. Guess “the lord was intentionally trying to confuse people with his sequence of events. It is afterall only the proof of EVERYTHING. The only proof. Besides probably less than 20% of the earths population could read. Your God is strange indeed.
I have no desire to show you evidence which is freely available EVERYWHERE. Try Cambridge Harvard. Yale anyplace of higher education scientific magazines for petes sake. You know it is there but choose not to. quote any of it.It simply does not matter to you.Your mind is made up.For every one of the scientist and or prof. you reference there are literally hundreds at same said institute who will gladly show you “evidence” that disagrees.This is goofy. I am beginning to feel as though I am beating a dead horse. Which would just be wrong.
You have an obsession with cain and his wife that you no doubt get from reading Dawkins et al. But you have no such objections to your uncle and aunty ape who changed 300 million parts of their DNA code into humans and managed to get wives at the same stage of evolution – lol.
You keep referring to universities and magazines as your proofs of evolution
so lets get even ONE proof from your multitudes of sources – it should be easy for instead of blowing off wind and flak without substance .
Here are some more quotes from evolutionists who you know much more than , but keep it secret – you little genius :-
“By the late 1970s, debates on university campuses throughout the free world were being held on the subject of origins with increasing frequency. Hundreds of scientists, who once accepted the theory of evolution as fact, were abandoning ship and claiming that the scientific evidence was in total support of the theory of creation. Well-known evolutionists, such as Isaac Asimov and Stephen Jay Gould, were stating that, since the creationist scientists had won all of the more than one hundred debates, the evolutionists should not debate them.” (Luther Sunderland, “Darwin’s Enigma”, p.10)
“The more one studies paleontology, the more certain one becomes that evolution is based on faith alone; exactly the same sort of faith which is necessary to have when one encounters the great mysteries of religion… The only alternative is the doctrine of special creation, which may be true, but is irrational.” (Dr. L.T. More)
“I have come to the conclusion that Darwinism is not a testable scientific theory, but a metaphysical research programme… (Dr. Karl Popper, German-born philosopher of science, called by Nobel Prize-winner Peter Medawar, “incomparably the greatest philosopher of science who has ever lived.”)
“The fact of evolution is the backbone of biology, and biology is thus in the peculiar position of being a science founded on an unproved theory — is it then a science or faith? Belief in the theory of evolution is thus exactly parallel to belief in special creation…” (Dr. L. Harrison Matthews, in the introduction to the 1971 edition of Darwin’s “Origin of Species”)
“What is so frustrating for our present purpose is that it seems almost impossible to give any numerical value to the probability of what seems a rather unlikely sequence of events… An honest man, armed with all the knowledge available to us now, could only state that in some sense, the origin of life appears at the moment to be almost a miracle… (Dr. Francis Crick, Nobel Prize-winner, codiscoverer of DNA)
I am sorry if you cannot admit a simple truth about your bible. Call it what you want. I stand behind my perception of the “actual” words and you can just continue making up proofs and interpretations . Whatever gets you through your night.Thanks for the laughs. You might be brainwashed but you are as stubborn and relentless as a wolverine.
Again my childish friend the evidence is that evolution has NOT been disproven. Seek and ye shall find. I suggest FOR THE LAST TIME any reputable institute of higher learning . The the site at Cern Take a biology course again ANYWHERE. You simply choose to argue instead as a bufoon wearing blinders. I wish you well.
The cern atom splitting site does not prove evolution in the slightest – just saying “cern” proves evolution shows how your simple mind works.
Why cant cain marry and have a wife ? what is your problem with this
It is probably from the daft film inherit the wind which was a parody of the truth.
“Once we see, however, that the probability of life originating at random is so utterly minuscule as to make it absurd, it becomes sensible to think that the favorable properties of physics, on which life depends, are in every respect DELIBERATE… It is therefore, almost inevitable that our own measure of intelligence must reflect higher intelligences.. even to the limit of God.” (Sir Fred Hoyle, British mathematician and astronomer, and Chandra Wickramasinghe, co-authors of “Evolution from Space,” after acknowledging that they had been atheists all their lives)
How about giving us ONE example from your Bible of evolution – LOL
What is even more absurd than the probability of originating at random is the probability of a deity that did not even originate at all. Simply infinite. Yet everything else every massive particle everything without mass.EVERYTHING was created by a deity that was miraculously not created at all.
Ever wonder (since you say the chances of life even at bacterial level originating at random is absurd) how utterly absurd it is to believe then with that thought in mind that there is a creator that was not created at random or by any other circumstanceor causation. Just simply always has been always will be.
An infinite being with no beginning that got so bored he decided to create ( well EVERYTHING from gluons to galaxies.)
Now let me see absurd for any form of life to originate EXCEPT through the deity with no ORIGIN. Yeah I see your point. Such critical thinking. Genius. Brilliant.
I cannot wait for your reference to prof voodoo which absolutly PROVES that God exist with no evolving to the being it is today. Rather infinite, not created at all.Infinite.Nothing just god. Originating out of nothing. Oops my bad apparently I forgot NO ORIGIN. Now that is absurd. Why the odds of life originating from an infinite being with no origin and having no beginning nor an end must be so high only a fool would bet against it. Why that MUST be it. No need to explain how this originated orhd no need to originate
The point you are missing is that because there HAS been CREATION there MUST have been a CREATOR. This Creator MUST have existed WITHOUT BEING CREATED. This Creator is NECESSARY for CREATION. Creation exists therefore the CREATOR exists. This Creator we call God. God is the One, Only, Being whose existence is NECESSARY. Your existence is not necessary, you just happened. It would not matter in the least if you had never existed. But God MUST exist because Creation exists. Everything which has been created must have a Creator. The supreme creator is necessary or there would be NO creation.
Pardon me. In your opinion I am missing the point. Clarify that first.I usually do not debate with those that start out authoritativly stating that I am missing the point. We usuallend up with the belligerent badgering back and forth for days as one can see.
However allow me to counter by stating I do not think I missed the point and do not follow your logic.I would ask you to please explsin how then, did the creator come to exist.If there was creation from nothing.Then your creator could not have existed because there WAS NOTHING. On the opposite one arrives at the delima that If the creator did indeed exist. Then then suf
Then suffice it to state that there was something so everything could Not have been created from NOTHING for the very existence of the creator PROVES that there WAS something. The “something”we could therefore Prove would be the creator . Which would prove that there was NO CREATION from NOTHING. Simply God is something so no creation from nothing. Nocreation from nothing no creator created everything from nothing.
If it is possible for your creator to be infinite. It would also be possible for the universe to be infinite applying that same logic.
So strange of you to hate God who you also say does not exist.
If you went to a shrink and told him that God has caused all the trouble in the world and that you hated him but also that he does not exist the shrink would classify you as insane.
HOWEVER ! If God does exist and you blame Him and hate Him I would be very very worried.
So you have to make a decision – either God exists and you quickly submit or God does not exist so there is no point in getting angry at someone who you say does not exist .
So you are left to blame Mr Evolution for your problems – cruel and merciless evolution – survival of the strongest who kill the weak.
Still no proof of Jesus ‘ miracles eh? Take your time. You are going to need it.
You have given not one iota of proof for your evolutionary miracles but miracles from Jesus are still happening today.
The miracle of creation is all around you but you refuse to see .
Look around for yourself. Again all of the life sciences are based on evolution( not the mythical miracles of Jesus) might I suggest you start out simple just go to Ted.com. From that one simple site you can find all of the TONS of evidence supporting the “THEORY” of evolution.
Again evolution is not a fact but it has been tested many times still standing. Are you mentally challenged? Or are you just an asshole?
Science is totally independent of the unproven “theory” of evolution – it is not needed at all for science. Science was around long before Darwin and the great scientific disciplines were founded by bible believing christians.
You keep talking about “tons” of evidence but you have provided zilch.
“I don’t know how long it is going to be before astronomers generally recognize that the combinatorial arrangement of not even one among the many thousands of biopolymers on which life depends could have been arrived at by natural processes here on the earth. Astronomers will have a little difficulty in understanding this because they will be assured by biologists that it is not so, the biologists having been assured in their turn by others that it is not so. The ‘others’ are a group of persons who believe, quite openly, in mathematical miracles. They advocate the belief that tucked away in nature, outside of normal physics, there is a law which performs miracles (provided the miracles are in the aid of biology). This curious situation sits oddly on a profession that for long has been dedicated to coming up with logical explanations of biblical miracles… It is quite otherwise, however, with the modern miracle workers, who are always to be found living in the twilight fringes of thermodynamics.” (Sir Fred Hoyle)
If you are too stupid or too lazy to simply duck duck go the words. ” evidence supporting the theory of evolution” again PISS OFF . You will actuually have to be careful for.there are several sites which I am sure you are aware of like “All about Science” which is a typical christian tactic which is actually a site named ALL about God.
Where one will find sevral references to Sir Hoyle as well as probably all the rest of your references.
ALL science is based upon EVIDENCE
you MORON.
Speaking of not ” one iota” of evidence how you doing with all of that evidence for your FACTS ABOUT JESUS BEING SUPERNATURAL.
Please as I have so many times stated sites where any IDIOT could find literally thousands of references for not just your obsession ee call evolution(which even if. Proven wrong someday does NOT mean creation wins by default as your idiotic rants suggest you ” believe”. 27000 words written repetitively yet you have said absolutely nothing of any worth to your ” beliefs” FOOLISH WASTE OF TIME. Later my nutty friend .
Until next time.
Ok – once again I ask to give even one example of evolution – you have not so far done this – just a lot of bluster is your mark.
“Nine-tenths of the talk of evolutionists is sheer nonsense, not founded on observation and wholly unsupported by facts. This museum is full of proofs of the utter falsity of their views. In all this great museum, there is not a particle of evidence of the transmutation of species.”
(Dr. Etheridge, Paleontologist of the British Museum)
OMD you are belligerent.Try this and then FUCK YOU STUPID ASSHOLE
Try readingAbiogenesis
Or Smithsonian Institutes HUMAN ORIGINS
Visit NATIONAL SCIENCE TEACHERS ASS.
Kozmiks, Role of PAX GENES IN EYE EVOLUTION.
Try reading MOLECULAR BIOLOGY OF THE CELL
Visit InternationalHAP MAP PROJECT
Simply visit ANY science dept at ANY accrrdited university not associated with religion.
Read Fc Chin’s Genomic divergences between humans and other hominids.
Okamoto’s A secondary symbiosis in progress.
Take a class in astronomy biology anthropology geology.
NOW again still waiting forANY EVIDENCE WHATSOEVER FOR YOUR JESUS BEING DEVINE AND
Performing supernatural acts such as RAISING THE DEAD BACK TO LIFE. Stand up or SHUT UP YOU DICK!!!!!
Abiogenesis is just a name for life from the muddy pool – you dont fool anyone.
I am asking YOU for one evidence of evolution not a list of meaningless words.
You cant provide one – I take it !
“I reject evolution because I deem it obsolete; because the knowledge, hard won since 1830, of anatomy, histology, cytology, and embryology, cannot be made to accord with its basic idea. The foundationless, fantastic edifice of the evolution doctrine would long ago have met with its long- deserved fate were it not that the love of fairy tales is so deep-rooted in the hearts of man.” (Dr. Albert Fleischmann, University of Erlangen)
“The entire hominid collection known today would barely cover a billiard table, … the collection is so tantalizingly incomplete, and the specimens themselves often so fragmented and inconclusive, that more can be said about what is missing than about what is present. …but ever since Darwin’s work inspired the notion that fossils linking modern man and extinct ancestor would provide the most convincing proof of human evolution, preconceptions have led evidence by the nose in the study of fossil man.”
John Reader (photo-journalist and author of “Missing Links”), “Whatever happened to Zinjanthropus?” New Scientist, 26 March 1981, p. 802
My reply must have been censored again when I wrote F~€》off you dick I will try again. I can only imagine how many ass beating you must have deservedly received in your life. You are astonishingly stupid and belligerent.
Are you still looking for your ONE example of evolution – lol
“A five million-year-old piece of bone that was thought to be a collarbone of a humanlike creature is actually part of a dolphin rib, …He [Dr. T. White] puts the incident on par with two other embarrassing [sic] faux pas by fossil hunters: Hesperopithecus, the fossil pig’s tooth that was cited as evidence of very early man in North America, and Eoanthropus or ‘Piltdown Man,’ the jaw of an orangutan and the skull of a modern human that were claimed to be the ‘earliest Englishman’.
“The problem with a lot of anthropologists is that they want so much to find a hominid that any scrap of bone becomes a hominid bone.'”
Dr. Tim White (anthropologist, University of California, Berkeley). As quoted by Ian Anderson “Hominoid collarbone exposed as dolphin’s rib”, in New Scientist, 28 April 1983, p. 199
“We add that it would be all too easy to object that mutations have no evolutionary effect because they are eliminated by natural selection. Lethal mutations (the worst kind) are effectively eliminated, but others persist as alleles. …Mutants are present within every population, from bacteria to man. There can be no doubt about it. But for the evolutionist, the essential lies elsewhere: in the fact that mutations do not coincide with evolution.”
Pierre-Paul Grassé (University of Paris and past-President, French Academie des Sciences) in Evolution of Living Organisms, Academic Press, New York, 1977, p. 88
I see you still have not ANY LICK OF EVIDENCE FOR JESUS’ SUPERNATURAL FEATS EH!!! I am confident from reading your stupid repetetive rants about evidence that you will send it to me as soon as you find it.
Anyone reading up on DNA will know that a muddy pool could not create this incredible code – only a supernatural God could create this DNA miracle.
“Why do geologists and archeologists still spend their scarce money on costly radiocarbon determinations? They do so because occasional dates appear to be useful. While the method cannot be counted on to give good, unequivocal results, the number do impress people, and save them the trouble of thinking excessively. Expressed in what look like precise calendar years, figures seem somehow better … ‘Absolute’ dates determined by a laboratory carry a lot of weight, and are extremely helpful in bolstering weak arguments.
“No matter how ‘useful’ it is, though, the radiocarbon method is still not capable of yielding accurate and reliable results. There are gross discrepancies, the chronology is uneven and relative, and the accepted dates are actually selected dates. This whole bless thing is nothing but 13th-century alchemy, and it all depends upon which funny paper you read.”
Robert E. Lee, “Radiocarbon: ages in error”. Anthropological Journal of Canada, vol.19(3), 1981, pp.9-29. Reprinted in the Creation Research Society Quarterly, vol. 19(2), September 1982, pp. 117-127 (quotes from pp. 123 and 125)
Dr Tim white will also let you see All the evidence you need MORON He id chancellor of california universities. He was ( READ OVER AND OVER TIL YOU COMPREHEND) Prof of integrative biology laboratory for HUMAN EVOLUTION. So adk HIM for EVIDENCE OF EVOLUTION I am positive he would gladly point you in the right dir.You putz.
Fred Hoyle actually was a brilliant astronomer and physicist.Yet not a BIOLOGIST.
Hoyle ( again please focus here) discovered that carbon could not have been formed in the universes infancy he Proved how carbon is formed by nuclear fusion in stars.NOT BY INSTANT MIRACULOUS CREATION. His theory of a steady state universe has been discredited. He was a brilliant scientist none the less and deserved a nobel prize.IMO
Finally we arrive at your refrrrnce of Albert Fleischmann jr. (1862-1942) As Kellog noted in 1907 ( which was 107 frickin yrs ago ) He was the ONLY biologist who publicly declared his rejection of evolution.
The director of The British Museum where Fleischmann was employed as an assistant keeper of geology stated that fleischmanns OPINION does NOT in any way represent scientific opinion in this museum.
I will close by asking you if that is all you have? RUBBISH
By the way your coveted words of fleischmann jr are irrelivent. After all he DIED in 1942 BEFORE the modern synthesis of evolution was settled on genetic basis about time of FLEISCHMANN Jr’s DEATH.
Any progress on that evidence or proof for your devine supernatural Jesus.Of course not for we both know THERE IS NONE So until next time take care my funn friend.
Darwin was 150 years ago you dimwit and was never a scientist and you swallow his theory whole without blinking.
Prof Hoyle disproved evolution but he was never on a star to test the carbon theory.
“The chance that higher life forms might have emerged in this way is comparable with the chance that ‘a tornado sweeping through a junk yard might assemble a Boeing 747 from the materials therein’.”
Sir Fred Hoyle (English astronomer, Professor of Astronomy at Cambridge University), as quoted in “Hoyle on Evolution”. Nature, vol. 294, 12 Nov. 1981, p. 105
Tic tok tic tok I am still waiting for that evidence hotshot. One would think after reading your belligerent post’ about evidence I consevatively and REPEATEDLY stated although not a fact the evidence speaks overwhelmingly in its favor.
You on the other hand claim everything in the combined books of what is commonly called old and new
testaments to form the christian bible.Yet you have provided not one shred of evidencefor any of your claim of FACT.
No evidence for the existence of the biblical God. No evidence for Jesus being said Gods supernatural son.No evidence for his changing water into wine. No evidence for Jesus’ supernatural ability to walk on water. Nor his bring the dead bact to life. No evidence for the red sea “parting”. In fact you cannot even prove the jews were enslaved by Egypt much less a mass exodus after moses’ plagues. No evidence whatsoever that Noah gatheted
Noah gathered and saved all forms ofland life. With the exception of your ridiculous argument( loosely used) claiming that ALL insect life was spared because the larvae of all insects are not affested by water(much less salt water) .
You also claim that fossils found on Mt Everest is proof of a great earth wide flood just several thousand yrs ago which added at least 33000′ of water covering the entire earth compared to todays sea levels.
I could go on for months.and you could still not find any evidence for any of your claimed FACTS.
I try to be patient even though it is outside of personality. So
I as well as everybody crazy enough to still be reading this beating of dead horses and those I share it with and encourage to keep reading, well we will wait patiently to stop the press and get that nobel prize shined up anticipating your proof. The entire world awaits your evidence. Until then I will continue like the earth and all is wondrous forms of life to AGE.
Get back with that evidence. I do hope it is not an illness that is causing the delay. Take care.
You are the one who provides no evidence – just sound and fury signifying nothing.
“Evolutionism is a fairy tale for grown-ups. This theory has helped nothing in the progress of science. It is useless.” Louis Bounoure. The Advocate, 8 March 1984, p. 17.
“With the failure of these many efforts, science was left in the somewhat embarrassing position of having to postulate theories of living origins which it could not demonstrate. After having chided the theologian for his reliance on myth and miracle, science found itself in the inevitable position of having to create a mythology of its own: namely, the assumption that what, after long effort could not prove to take place today had, in truth, taken place in the primeval past.” Loren Eisley, The Immense Journey (1957), p. 199.
“If complex organisms ever did evolve from simpler ones, the process took place contrary to the laws of nature, and must have involved what may rightly be termed the miraculous.” R.E.D. Clark, Victoria Institute (1943), p.
Huxley – Darwin’s bulldog :-
” `Creation,’ in the ordinary sense of the word, is perfectly conceivable. I find no difficulty in conceiving that, at some former period, this universe was not in existence, and that it made its appearance in six days (or instantaneously, if that is preferred), in consequence of the volition of some preexisting Being. Then, as now, the so-called a priori arguments against Theism and, given a Deity, against the possibility of creative acts, appeared to me to be devoid of reasonable foundation.” Thomas H. Huxley, quoted in *L. Huxley, Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley, Vol. I (1903), p. 241 (1903). 63.
I am not the one making outlandish supernatural claims. I need no evidence. Evidence that evolution is still a viable scientific theory?
You are the dumbass that claims all
750,000+ species of insect would survive underwater. Where the f@#k is that evidence. You are quite fascinating TO A PSYCHOLOGIST.LOL
Not even atheist skeptics object to insects not being required on the ark.
The eggs last under water and can be on floating vegetation. Repeat insects were not air breathing and can survive floods no problem as they do to this very day – do you practice intellectual dullness ?
“In fact [subsequent to the publication of Darwin’s book, Origin of Species], evolution became, in a sense, a scientific religion; almost all scientists have accepted it and many are prepared to `bend’ their observations to fit with it. . To my mind, the theory does not stand up at all . . If living matter is not, then, caused by the interplay of atoms, natural forces, and radiation, how has it come into being? . . I think, however, that we must go further than this and admit that the only acceptable explanation is Creation. I know that this is anathema to physicists, as indeed it is to me, but we must not reject a theory that we do not like if the experimental evidence supports it.” H.S. Lipson, “A Physicist Looks at Evolution,” Physics Bulletin, Vol. 31, p. 138 (1980) [emphasis his].
“The theory of evolution is impossible. At base, in spite of appearances, no one any longer believes in it….Evolution is a kind of dogma which the priests no longer believe, but which they maintain for their people.” Paul Lemoine. Encyclopedie Francaise 1937 edition. (President of the Geological Society of France and director of the Natural History Museum in Paris.)
[The Big Bang] “…represents the instantaneous suspension of physical laws, the sudden, abrupt flash of lawlessness that allowed something to come out of nothing. It represents a true miracle—transcending physical principles….” Paul Davies, The Edge of Infinity (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1981), p161.
There is plenty of photographic evidence for the exodus – you just have done no research.
[Evolution]“…a full-fledged alternative to Christianity…Evolution is a religion. This was true of evolution in the beginning, and it is true of evolution still today.” Michael Ruse. Saving Darwinism from the Darwinians. National Post (May 13, 2000). pB-3.
“As the creationists claim, belief in modern evolution makes atheists of people. One can have a religious view that is compatible with evolution only if the religious view is indistinguishable from atheism.” Will Provine, No Free Will. Catching Up with the Vision, Ed. By Margaret W. Rossiter (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999) pS123.
More idiocracy . Funny you did not leave a link for famous “photographic evidence” you write of. What on earth are you referring to as ” photographic evidence?
Must not be illness that prevents you from providing evidence. As you seem to feel well enough to write jibberish CONSTANTLY.
FYI the egyptians kept pretty good records. How many children were born weather “reports” crop yields battles trade deals etc etc. Yet no mention of pharoa chasing down Moses and his soldiers being swallowed up by the red sea after supernaturally parting for thousands of “slaves” to escape.
Please enlighten as to the whereabouts of all this evidence. It would be greatly appreciated.
I assumed that you know how to google – it was a team of Israeli archaeologists – it was on TV . It shows pictures of the split rock , chariot wheels , the burnt top of mount sinai in Saudi arabia – Joshua’s temple etc etc
[Darwin, speaking about Huxley:] “My good and kind agent for the propagation of the Gospel, the devil’s gospel.” Robert T. Clark and James D. Bales, “Why Scientists Accept Evolution”, 1988, p. 45.
“Darwin wrote in his autobiography: `I can indeed hardly see how anyone ought to wish Christianity to be true …” M. Grano, “The Faith of Darwinism”, Encounter, November 1959, p. 48
“The fact of evolution is the backbone of biology, and biology is thus in the peculiar position of being a science founded on an unproved theory – is it then a science or faith?” L.N. Matthews, “Introduction” to Charles Darwin, Origin of the Species, pp. x, xi (1971 edition)
“… post-Darwinian biology is being carried out by people whose faith is in, almost, the deity of Darwin. Colin Patterson, The Listener (Senior paleontologist at the British Museum of Natural History, London.)
“[Karl] Popper warns of a danger: ‘A theory, even a scientific theory, may become an intellectual fashion, a substitute for religion, an entrenched dogma.’ This has certainly been true of evolutionary theory.” Colin Patterson, “Evolution”, 1977, p. 150.
“The irony is devastating. The main purpose of Darwinism was to drive every last trace of an incredible God from biology. But the theory replaces God with an even more incredible deity – omnipotent chance.” T. Rosazak, “Unfinished Animal”, 1975, p. 101-102.
“Evolution is sometimes the key mythological element in a philosophy that functions as a virtual religion.” E. Harrison, “Origin and Evolution of the Universe”, Encyclopaedia Britannica Macropaedia (1974) p1007.
More rubbish by people indoctrinated with religion. A simple man knows the main difference between science and religion is EVIDENCE a scientific theory as the theory of evolution is today can be tested and disproven or confirmed by observation.Which the theory has been tested directly and indirectly hundreds of times.
There simply no evidence that all human life descended from one man and his wife a few thousand years ago. Again your references are idiotic and laughable . They are opinions of religous people who by the way knew what they were saying was controversial but hey it got there name out there. Even if it was only seriously accepted by the religous community.
This has been interesting and I have enjoyed reading you replies if just for the humor. I am growing tired of it though. I was hoping you might provide some new information. Or even some well kept secret previously unknown evidence. Alas you have NONE. Nor will you. Just more silly quotes from educated christians.
Is that all you have? That is it?
Like the people you so painstakingly quote you could get some magazine or newspaper outside the scientific community to write about your great discorery.LMAO
Later slick Willie
BUT YOU SAY THAT VERY THING : That all life descended from a single cell in a muddy pool – you don’t even recognise your own idiotic statements .
Still waiting for your ONE example of evidence for evolution – there should be trillions – why are you taking so long ?
More atheist honest science :-
“We have all heard of The Origin of Species, although few of us have had time to read it…A casual perusal of the classic made me understand the rage of Paul Feyerabend…I agree with him that Darwinism contains ‘wicked lies’; it is not a ‘natural law’ formulated on the basis of factual evidence, but a dogma, reflecting the dominating social philosophy of the last century.” Kenneth J. Hsu, “Sedimentary Petrology and Biologic Evolution,” Journal of Sedimentary Petrology 56 (September 1986): p730.
“I find it as difficult to understand a scientist who does not acknowledge the presence of a superior rationality behind the existence of the universe as it is to comprehend a theologian who would deny the advances of science.” Rocket scientist Wernher von Braun as quoted by James Perloff, Tornado in a Junkyard (Arlington, Massachusetts: Refuge Books, 1999), p. 253.
[The Big Bang] “…is only a myth that attempts to say how the universe came into being….” Hannes Alfvén “The Big Bang Never Happened,” Discover 9 (June 1988), p. 78.
“This evolutionist doctrine is itself one of the strangest phenomena of humanity…a system destitute of any shadow of proof, and supported merely by vague analogies and figures of speech….Now no one pretends that they rest on facts actually observed, for no one has ever observed the production of even one species….Let the reader take up either of Darwin’s great books, or Spencer’s ‘Biology,’ and merely ask himself as he reads each paragraph, ‘What is assumed here and what is proved?’ and he will find the whole fabric melt away like a vision….We thus see that evolution as an hypothesis has no basis in experience or in scientific fact, and that its imagined series of transmutations has breaks which cannot be filled.” Sir William Dawson, The Story of Earth and Man. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1887, pp. 317, 322, 330, 339.
Still no evidence for Jesus performing supernatural feats such as bringing the dead back to life.
Try reading up on DNA or Abiogenesis.
Visit the International Hap Map project.
Read : Molecular Biology of the cell. Or Okamotos’ A secondary symbiosis in progress.
Try visiting Smithsonian Institutes Human Origins or TheNational Science Teachers association.
We both know I could go on and on as I had previously tried. Apparently you are too lazy to look or ( more accurately) you refuse to honestly look and COMPREHEND the evidence.If none of that helps ask a 16 yr old science student.Then I beg of you please TAKE YOUR MEDICATION. Or visit your doctor( oh yeah that would involve BIOLOGY)
Funny you still delaying the moment when you cant provide a single example of evolution. I have given you about maybe 30 quotes from cutting edge scientists who were atheists who say there is no evidence at all in 150 years of evolution yet real science continues not Darwin’s religious fantasy.
That’s why you need to abuse since you have no answers .
“The essence of Darwinism lies in a single phrase: natural selection is the creative force of evolutionary change. No one denies that natural selection will play a negative role in eliminating the unfit. Darwinian theories require that it create the fit as well.”
Stephen Jay Gould (Professor of Geology and Paleontology, Harvard University), “The return of hopeful monsters”. Natural History, vol. LXXXVI(6), June-Jule 1977, p. 28
“And in man is a three-pound brain which, as far as we know, is the most complex and orderly arrangement of matter in the universe.”
Dr. Isaac Asimov (biochemist; was a Professor at Boston University School of Medicine; internationally known author), “In the game of energy and thermodynamics you can’t even break even.”. Smithsonian Institute Journal, June 1970, p. 10
CUTTING EDGE SCIENTIST FRICKIN HILARIOUS.
Abuse? That is what happenz when you claim FACTS and then you claim quotes from people who have had those said quotes condemned by the vast majority of their contemporaries, as EVIDENCE. You seem to not even know what the definition of the word evidence is.
I have also provided you with plenty of leads where you ( or anyone) can easily see the evidence showing that evolution ( after hundreds of test) has
not been disproven. You simply enjoy acting belligerent apparently.
I could care less if someday it is proven wrong . That day has not come yet in over a century.
Call people liars they tend to call names back. Even when done cowardly by using yet another opinion quote from someone else.( as in FOOL)
I am bored of you. You are rude idiotic belligerent and perhaps schitzophrenic and delusional. A moron defenitely at the least. I wish you wl. I will no longer reply back to your bullshit replies. Go claim your victory. Tell your church how you defeated satan. LOL Whatever gives you a good nights sleep.
I would reccomend you seek counseling outside of you evangelical circle.I’m just saying. Farewell friend Peace be with you.
TEXAS TEA 2 THE EVOLUTIONARY EMPEROR HAS NO CLOTHES.
In actual fact I was an evolutionist for 35 years – did not question it until I saw the light and knew I had been sold a load of hogwash.
“Evolution requires plenty of faith; a faith in L-proteins that defy chance formation; a faith in the formation of DNA codes which, if generated spontaneously, would spell only pandemonium; a faith in a primitive environment that, in reality, would fiendishly devour any chemical precursors to life; a faith in experiments that prove nothing but the need for intelligence in the beginning; a faith in a primitive ocean that would not thicken, but would only haplessly dilute chemicals; a faith in natural laws of thermodynamics and biogenesis that actually deny the possibility for the spontaneous generation of life; a faith in future scientific revelations that, when realized, always seem to present more dilemmas to the evolutionists; faith in improbabilities that treasonously tell two stories—one denying evolution, the other confirming the Creator; faith in transformations that remain fixed; faith in mutations and natural selection that add to a double negative for evolution; faith in fossils that embarrassingly show fixity through time, regular absence of transitional forms and striking testimony to a worldwide water deluge; a faith in time which proves to only promote degradation in the absence of mind; and faith in reductionism that ends up reducing the materialist’s arguments to zero and forcing the need to invoke a supernatural Creator.” R.L. Wysong, The Creation-Evolution Controversy (1981), p. 455.
“The facts must mould the theories, not the theories the facts . . I am most critical of my biologist friends in this matter. Try telling a biologist that, impartially judged among other accepted theories of science, such as the theory of relativity, it seems to you that the theory of natural selection has a very uncertain, hypothetical status, and watch his reaction. I’ll bet you that he gets red in the face. This is `religion,’ not `science,’ with him.” Burton, “The Human Side of the Physiologist: Prejudice and Poetry,” Physiologist 2 (1957).
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Although I said I was not going to do this here it goes. I could care less. You have obviously decided evolution is wrong and as you said you have ” seen the light”. Just as the muslims have the buddhist Hindus Jews all the different varieties of christians the hundreds of aboriginal and tribal religions.All have seen “THE LIGHT” . Of course they all have seen a different light.
Again if you really must just hear me say the theory of evolution is done well I will reluctantly dissappoint you. I unlike you have seen no such evidence. Even considering the quotes you claim as evidence. Obviously they have seen “the light as well.
That proves one thing at least and explains this senseless conversation. It proves that YOUdo not require any evidence to think something is true. Hence your faith in the supernatural. Which if you were totally honest you would admit that there simply is no evidence supporting that faith.
The use of the term creation theory was dreamed up by evangelical leaders after failing AGAIN way back in 1920 to have evolution disavowed and have creation taught as science to the children of ARKANSAS USA. They simply came up with the phrase creation “theory” . Which is ridiculous. The supreme court has tried and successfully stopped their assault on our children. They are still trying today.
Again disproving evolution will NOT again NOT prove supernatural creation. It simply will not ever happen.There iz no evidence for any of the supernatural events claimed in the old or new testament.
You believe in evolution without a shred of evidence and worship at Darwin’s feet – so you have your faith based religion.
The only truth is the Bible – the WORD made flesh.
“Evolutionism is a fairy tale for grown-ups. This theory has helped nothing in the progress of science. It is useless.” Louis Bounoure. The Advocate, 8 March 1984, p. 17.
“And the salient fact is this: if by evolution we mean macroevolution (as we henceforth shall), then it can be said with the utmost rigor that the doctrine is totally bereft of scientific sanction. Now, to be sure, given the multitude of extravagant claims about evolution promulgated by evolutionists with an air of scientific infallibility, this may indeed sound strange. And yet the fact remains that there exists to this day not a shred of bona fide scientific evidence in support of the thesis that macroevolutionary transformations have ever occurred.” Wolfgang Smith, Teilhardism and the New Religion (Rockford., Ill.: Tan Books, 1988), pp. 5-6. Dr. Smith, taught at MIT and UCLA.
Right back to being a snivveling little dick I see. Thats okay. My bad for giving you s chance. There is way more evidence ( which could be miniscule) for evolution than for ANYTHING in the bible. No mattrr what your Vetrrinarian prophet RL Wysong writes.Believe whatever you want. I unlike you question things rven evolution.
Creation WOULD NOT PROVE ONE SINGLE WORD OF THE BIBLE QUARAN OR ANY OTHER RELIGION by the way. It wojld prove something created life. Not the illogical writings of the bible. Have a great life and a great (whatever happens if anything) afterlife. I will not check to read your proof of your enlightenment.
THERE IS NO THIRD WAY – EITHER THE CREATIVE GOD OF THE BIBLE IS TRUE OR EVOLUTION’S TIME AND CHANCE IS TRUE.
Which one you choose will determine your eternal destiny.
From hardened evolutionists but with a degree of honesty :-
“There are only two possibilities as to how life arose; one is spontaneous generation arising to evolution, the other is a supernatural creative act of God, there is no third possibility. Spontaneous generation that life arose from non-living matter was scientifically disproved 120 years ago by Louis Pasteur and others. That leaves us with only one possible conclusion, that life arose as a creative act of God. I will not accept that philosophically because I do not want to believe in God, therefore I choose to believe in that which I know is scientifically impossible, spontaneous generation arising to evolution.”
(Dr. George Wald, evolutionist, Professor Emeritus of Biology at the University at Harvard, Nobel Prize winner in Biology.)
“Most modern biologists, having reviewed with satisfaction the downfall of the spontaneous generation hypothesis, yet unwilling to accept the alternative belief in special creation, are left with nothing.”
(Dr. George Wald, evolutionist, Professor Emeritus of Biology at the University at Harvard, Nobel Prize winner in Biology.)
“Evolution [is] a theory universally accepted not because it can be proven by logically coherent evidence to be true, but because the only alternative, special creation, is clearly incredible.”
(Professor D.M.S. Watson, leading biologist and science writer of his day.)
“My attempts to demonstrate evolution by an experiment carried on for more than 40 years have completely failed…..It is not even possible to make a caricature of an evolution out of paleobiological facts…The idea of an evolution rests on pure belief.”
(Dr. Nils Heribert-Nilsson, noted Swedish botanist and geneticist, of Lund University)
You are again choosing to believe what you want. A supernatural creator DOES NOT HAVE TO BE THE GOD OF THE JEWISH BIBLE. PERIOD.
Quote all of the christians atheist jews WHOEVER.They are WRONG Goodbye and goodluck.
All evangelical christians have been taught the same idiotic nonsence.
It boggles my mind how they blindly believe . But then again many believe they can speak in ” tongue”
No different than many other cults.
FYI your creation story and story of mankinds saviour after your perfect creator decided he did not like his creation. ARE SIMPLY Modified versions of previous stories.( we found the anceint skript) which will not matter to you. You write as if you are the worlds smartest man and there is NOTHING in the universe you do not know. Good for you.
I am satisfied saying I do not know.
If “God” is the christian god then he is a psychopath. I do not see any reason to believe in a creator that leaves eternal damnation up to people as you. That is just sick.Later oh great genius. Perhaps if yur god had made you and simply cloned YOU he wiuld have had trillions of less “souls” in hell. Your creator is a psychopath
Fortunately you do not KNOW half as much as you claim to know. Peace
But you believe in only one truth – Darwin the pope of the evolution faith.
Faith is described as believing without evidence – of which there is none for evolution .
“250,000 species of plants and animals recorded and deposited in museums throughout the world did not support the gradual unfolding hoped for by Darwin.”
(Dr. David Raup, curator of geology at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago, “Conflicts Between Darwinism and Paleontology”)
“The pathetic thing about it is that many scientists are trying to prove the doctrine of evolution, which no science can do.”
(Dr. Robert A. Milikan, physicist and Nobel Prize winner, speech before the American Chemical Society.)
“The miracles required to make evolution feasible are far greater in number and far harder to believe than the miracle of creation.”
(Dr. Richard Bliss, former professor of biology and science education as Christian Heritage College, “It Takes A Miracle For Evolution.”)
“Scientists at the forefront of inquiry have put the knife to classical Darwinism. They have not gone public with this news, but have kept it in their technical papers and inner counsels.”
(Dr. William Fix, in his book, “The Bone Peddlers.”)
“In the meantime, the educated public continues to believe that Darwin has provided all the relevant answers by the magic formula of random mutations plus natural selection—quite unaware of the fact that random mutations turned out to be irrelevant and natural selection tautology.”
(Dr. Arthur Koestler)
What is your major malfunction?
For the (i don’t know at this point) 47,000 th time. I do not declare evolution a fact. Yet (again for the 47,000th time) it has withstood over a century of scientific scrutiny and hundreds of test. Millions of fossils genetic trails that PROVE common ancestory. On and on. Does this all add up to fact? I unlike yourself still question. Having said that it has NOT BEEN DISPROVEN YOU RUDE LITTLE BABBLING BUFOON.
Everyone is STILL WAITING FOR YOUR PROOF THAT THE BIBLICAL GOD SUPERNATURALLY CREATED DINOSAURS LILYS POSSUMS BUTTERFLIES SNAILS VIRUSES GERMS APES WHALES QUASARS NEUTRON STARS GALAXYS COMETS HEDGEHOGS PARROTS ANTEATERS COFFEE PLANTS COCAO FUNGI LIGHT OIL AND GAS ALONG WITH MAN AND MILLIONS MORE ALL STRETCHING OVER A SPACE SO EXSPANSIVE THAT IT WOULD TAKE OVER 30,000,000,000 YEARS TO CROSS( PROBABLY MUCH MUCH MORE) IF ONE WERE MOVING AT 86,000 milesPER SECOND
ALL FROM SOMETHING THAT “JUST IS” infinite. Then in order to ( make it easier to understand and clarify) this infinite creator tells ONE little creation out of all that not to eat a certain plants fruit. A creature on a tiny little rock out of the trillions he created in a few earth days. THEN it purposefully causes them to eat said fruit ( apparently simply for the pleasure it derives from punishing its one SPECIAL creation.) Then apparently it ask them to slaughter the finest of some of its other creations ( very picky it turns out as well as jealous and narccissistic) and burn them simply because it enjoys the smell of burnt flesh) Just me but he could of just thought any smell it liked and voila . Then after oh screw it.This is. FRUITLESS
Now you and your brilliant dare I say genius mind have no qualms with ANY of that. Yet if one simple little man disagrees with you and states that evolution though not explaining how lif began appears to explain a progression from simple PRIMITIVE LIFE FORMS to what we have today on earth. One tiny tiny rock.
Yeah uh sure. No need for evidence for all that . Much more reasonable.
Besides he or it was brilliant( obviously) enough to write many “frickin books” to let us know how we got here and which words we speak are ” naughty” and so forth. Of course the catch being only one is the REAL ONE.( out of i
The cath being one does not know which one is THE BOOK.(another trap to show how much IT LOVES ITS SPECIAL CREATURE) Of. Course you KNOW. Many believe that they do as well. I HAVE NOT SEEN ANY EVIDENCE FOR ANY OF THAT.You on the other hand claim to have all kinds of indisputable evidence PROVING this. ( I actually just scratched the surface it gets even more unbelievable in order to arrive at your FACTS-BELIEFS.
So all I will say in closing is Good for you and SHAME ON YOU FOR DEPRIVING THE REST OF US WITH FAR LESS INTELLIGENCE AND DEDUCTIVE REASONING SKILLS. OF YOUR PROOFFFFFFFFFF
Just as Fleischmann died in 1940 his comrade Dr Etheridge retired BEFORE 1940. Neither were biologist.The evidence you claim has never been shown to you is in the DNA. Geez this is not bartending.
Darwin was not a biologist but a minister of the gospel who rightly had an overwhelming fear of Hell , so much that he rejected the path to salvation.
He died long before Etheridge and Fleischmann – you always trip yourself up and never provide evidence of Darwin’s theories who himself admitted he had found nothing. You are basing your eternal destiny on a fantasy.
“Contrary to what most scientists write, the fossil record does not support the Darwinian theory of evolution because it is this theory (there are several) which we use to interpret the fossil record. By doing so we are guilty of circular reasoning if we then say the fossil record supports this theory.”
Ronald R. West, PhD (paleontology and geology) (Assistant Professor of Paleobiology at Kansas State University), “Paleontology and uniformitarianism”. Compass, vol. 45, May 1968, p. 216
“The number of intermediate varieties which have formerly existed on earth must be truly enormous. Why then is not every geological formation and every stratum full of such intermediate links? Geology assuredly does not reveal any such finely graduated organic chain; and this, perhaps, is the most obvious and gravest objection which can be urged against my theory.” – Charles Darwin 1902 edition.
“…I am quite conscious that my speculations run beyond the bounds of true science….It is a mere rag of an hypothesis with as many flaw[s] & holes as sound parts.” Charles Darwin to Asa Gray, cited by Adrian Desmond and James Moore, Darwin, (New York: W.W. Norton and Company, 1991) pp. 456, 475.
“Nowhere was Darwin able to point to one bona fide case of natural selection having actually generated evolutionary change in nature….Ultimately, the Darwinian theory of evolution is no more nor less than the great cosmogenic myth of the twentieth century.” Michael Denton, Evolution: A Theory in Crises (Bethesda, Maryland: Adler & Adler, 1986) pp. 62, 358.“I believe that one day the Darwinian myth will be ranked the greatest deceit in the history of science.” Søren Løvtrup, Darwinism: The Refutation of a Myth (New York: Croom Helm, 1987), p. 422.
Just a quick note for you. Science was started way before Christianity was.
The director of the British museum of which Flieschmann jr was an assistant keeper of geology stated unequivocally that mr Fleischmanns opinion is defenitely not the scientific opinion of this museum.
Fleischmann was born in 1862 and died in 1942. The modern synthesis of evolution was basically settled on genetic basis in 1940.
Since then ( AGAIN) basically ALL of the life sciences are based upon the theory. THAT MY FRIEND IS AN UNDISPUTED FACT. Your beligerrent denials and rants cannot change that.
Funny your reference of fred Hoyle.He discovered that carbon ( the base for EVERY KNOWN FORM OF LIFE) is fued thru nuclear fusion in stars. ( actuall all elents above lithium which as you know is only the third element.
Therefore it was not created in six days by a supernatural being much less the one in the bible.LMAO
Are you into witchcraft….?
More imaginary nonsense. Witches LOL. Bewitched was pretty good though that samantha.
Someone replied…derogatory from this thread….anyway…was reading this woman’s ranting….and I am sorry I spent any time with her…I think she is into witchcraft.
Cain got a wife probably a cousin – why do you have a problem with this – adam and eve had many children – no timeline is given.
Science is nothing to do with evolution – it gets along nicely without the crazy theory – why would saying ” cambridge harvard” prove evolution ”
rhyming off nonsense – you are maybe ten years old.
You certainly believe in bigger miracles than the bible – the whole universe popping out of a tiny speck in minutes ????? LOL
The first cell designing itself out of mud ???? LOL
The first cell teaches itself to divide – easy ? LOL
You believe in a trillion x trillion miracles without anyone doing them ???
Your comments are idiotic and quite boring – please refrain.
“To postulate that the development and survival of the fittest is entirely a consequence of chance mutations seems to me a hypothesis based on no evidence and irreconcilable with the facts. These classical evolutionary theories are a gross over-simplification of an immensely complex and intricate mass of facts, and it amazes me that they are swallowed so uncritically and readily, and for such a long time, by so many scientists without murmur of protest.” (Sir Ernest Chain, Nobel Prize winner)
“Evolution is a theory universally accepted, not because it can be proved to be true, but because the only alternative, ‘special creation,’ is clearly impossible.” (D.M.S. Watson, Professor of Zoology, London University)
Or a deity that simply always has been no need to pop out at all now there is something to bet on.
As for your obsession with evolution do you even speak english? Apparently you do not read english so well.AGAIN ( PLEASE CONCENTRATE) Evolution though not a proven fact has lots of evidence supporting it. It has not been disproven in spite of all the attempts.It is a theory up there with the big bang. Might be proven wrong someday yet that day is NOT today.
No timeline for the bible. First thing one reads is the TIMELINE for your God to create the universe. Which is 6 earth days. Then he had to rest .LOL There are no timelines in the bible simply because you do not want there to be timelines. For that would make the story even more ficticious.
The only basic differences between that story of creation and (at least two) other even MORE ANCIENT stories of creation is the number of “Gods” doing the creating. Perhaps just another attempt by the TRUE God to confuse us.That rascal. I am sure this is just made up however.As for references to this tall tale well again someone with your critical thinking abilities can easily find them.
If you had the desire. Which you do not. I know as well as you there is simply nothing that would change your beliefs. Even if God himself told you it is not true. You would say it is in the bible that this would happen. What a glorious time it must be for you knowing the “end times are here”
How did your “god” create everything ? we know that things dont design and make themselves so how did your god do it ?
Let me more blunt .If God created everything.as you claim to know. Then the obvious question would be who or what created God?
That my stubborn friend is what I asked you. Yet again you ignored it. Just the same better than your answers anyway..
I have no God I do not believe man knows how we got here. What the universe is or how it got here. I do notcaim to know. By the way one more time I do not know if evolution is true. Can you sink that into your thick skull and at least stick to the truth. Where we differ is you say you have proof that the “theory” of evolution is wrong. I claim you do not. You claim the bible to be literal and factual I claim it is not.
You claim something cannot come from nothing. Yet you claim GOD did I claim that is false.
All of this schoolyard playing is because I wrote that your God is not real Childish!!!!!
You have contradicted yourself – you say that “nothing” created everything then why do you then think that God needs to be created.
God lives in eternity which we cannot grasp – He had no beginning or end
– He created time and we live in it without being able to grasp the concept of eternity where we will spend our future – either in eternal torment or eternal bliss by being saved from our sins which must be punished by the Judge or covered by Jesus taking the penalty for us.
Grow up.
Now you come across as a school girl arguring on the playground. Good luck. I wish you well.
PS. Pope pious Xll ignored repeated request to help jews that were being deported from spain the mid east and
elsewhere. He chose to ignore them on groundz of NEUTRALITY. He did secure visas for 3 thousand jews into brazil I believe. Only after they converted to catholicism. Most were later revoked when it was learned that they were actually still practicing judaism. Grow that up. If you can’t handle a challenge to what you write in an adult manner then by all means do the MATURE thing and tell them to grow upLMAO
By the way for such an adult as yourself one who knows all the facts about the catholic church over 2000 years of history and ydt STILL claims that the church has nothing to hide. Surely you know about the ” SECRET VATICAN FILES” the churches name for them not mine. They contain over 50 MILES of stacks of documents. Never opened to the public.
Nah they have no secrets.
Now I remember who you are…..
You are the one going around claiming Christians believe in Santa Claus and the tooth fairy…
You know nothing about my faith and in how we believe.
No…you need to read documented history of Pius…go to http://www.pavetheway.org.
The Jewish organization came out wondering why the Church did not defend itself more.
If the Church is what you say it is…and by the way, this country America turned a boat of refugee Jews away from our shores and they were sent back to be killed…so you also share in the sins of our country….If the Church consists of all that you say it does…then it would be gone a long time ago.
The sexual deviants in the Church are 5%…and this is the result of the kind of culture our world has become…obsessed with sex….the sex abuse of secular atheism is hundreds of times higher…95% of the clergy are decent men and to label an entire priesthood….
You are no different than any other bigot while you defend the sickness of our society…because you refuse to look at the world you live in .
Our country is the worst in spreading free sex without responsibility…and putting on props doesn’t work…it goes deeper, it goes to being faithful and raising children in a stable home…which is what my Church has long upheld….abortion, pornography…sex slavery and trafficking…
You make up all sorts of things that we are ignorant when you have no concept whatsoever of all the good the Church has done — mainly by those who have given themselves totally to God for human welfare…our Church a great testament for the bettering of mankind.
So…when you just with crazy comments or only bring out scandal and make claims we believe in fantasies….and make out all priests are evil…and refuse to respond or acknowledge anything…you come across as a hysteric and dishonest..
You can go on any website here…most come out of America…one of the worst anti Catholic countries in terms of propaganda and tampered or out of context information…and come out like how you are.
La la la…that is how you come across.
You should spend your time learning facts and trying to help the suffering in our country instead of mouthing off a bunch of stereotypes and false accusations and insult to the faith we share.
Shame you…
Riddance
Yyou are really getting worked up calm down . Write what you want to. I know what I wrote and I stsnd behind it. Again you show no eviddnce disputing the facts. Wise on your part. Childish ranting things like well America did this so you share that DOES NOT CHANGE THE FACTS. Believe what you want. There is no more evidence for the christian god than there is for santa or the tooth fairy on that you can rant and make up stories again you can claim footprints on the curtain goat worshipping whatever. Will not ( again) create any evidence for god or any of that exorcism nonsense.
Perhaps the evidence is hidden in the “secret vatican files”. They are extensive. Just me but if I were you I would let this go. Try asking yourself What would Jesus do?
As for your pave the way site I will check it out. I will go out on a limb and state now before hand that it is written by catholics. Shocking!!!!!!! Try venturing out of the church andd into a library.
I don’t fully agree with @teaxastea but there is a lot of truth in what they’re saying, and BTW, before you start attacking me, I am a follower of Christ, have been for over 35 yrs. I’m just a realist, I call it as I see it! organized religion has been the most destructive force on earth!! PEDIOD! look how the GOP has CONNED millions of catholics into buying their HATE! the GOP has fooled catholics in voting for them and ANYONE who has actually READ the bible knows that neither political party is of Christ! wake up!!
We Catholics see the interaction of grace in evolution.
Darwin likewise is very limited. Science is continually making new discoveries, but God alone gives meaning and value and purpose to all things.
The Books of Proverbs, Wisdom…point to the fact that God made everything according to weights and measure…the Natural Law and He follows that which He created.
Faith without reason is fanatical and fragmented. Reason without faith is fragmented and material, both leading to totalitarianism and the loss of God given freedom to become what we are called to be.
I would not get too concerned or troubled by evolution as God is always with us.
There is not one thing about evolution in the Bible – God is a creator – His power is unlimited . All the miracles are instant creative – Jesus did not evolve bread and fishes but instantly created them cooked.
Lazarus was dead and smelling – so was dust – his body was recreated and started with instant creative power as adam was created from dust .
God does not need to learn through evolution nor does he ” roll the evolutionary dice out ” He is in total control of every event.
If you read the quotes from famous scientists you will see that evolution has less evidence now than ever – in fact it is main;y debunked as a theory although many scientists ignore the elephant on the room – they know that everything they look at is designed but cant speak too loud.
The atheist evolutionists know that the bible does not line up with evolution
so you can easily defeat them head with the tons of evidence for desigh and instant creation.
Not even circumstantial evidence supporting anything you just so authoritatively just typed.AGAIN The brainwasbing sure took root in your brain.
Seems twisted does it not. God only intervenes when one believes in him.All the great God creator of all would have to do is show everybody he is real.Have to admit it would be easy to do. Nope just leave peoples “souls” in the hands of ( well lets see Christians Buddhist, Hindus Jjews, Muslims and all of the varying denominations they have formed. All believing they know the truth.) We arespposedly made in “his” image. Which would imply we use logic as “he” would. Yet all of that addd up to something more illogical than the Mayan sacrifices to their Gods. At least they were ignorant God is well, GOD.
God has shown Himself in the bible – he wrote it !
All other religions are false and run by the demons and satan – who had free choice as angels but like you rejected the truth which is written on everyone’s heart but they deny it since they want to live in darkness.
Just look at the creation around you – its design and complexity – only a fool would say there is no God …….. proverbs.
God was not created He always existed. The complexity of life is beyond our imagination – you could spend a whole lifetime on just the water molecule and still not scratch the surface.
Since you think everything you see in the mechanisms of the creation came about by accident then you have no understanding of probability – you would need a trillion x trillion x trillion chance events to create even simple mechanisms – so this is mathematically impossible as Prof Hoyle says and he was an atheist .
The NT bible was written down immediately – Luke addressed his gospel to a contemporary – Theophilus – Paul wrote his letters to the churches and they were read out immediately – as you would not putting them on a shelf for 40 years – absurd. Jesus predicted the attack by the Romans in 70 ad and this is mentioned nowhere in the NT so the NT including Revelations – so the NT was done and dusted before 70 ad – real Christians always knew the fake gospels of satan.
The apostles wanted no one’s gold – just because bad people wanted to use the church for gain does not negate the bible message.
To those who do not believe no explanation is possible to those who believe no explanation is necessary.
You have not provided one iota of proof in your God of evolution – time and chance – its useless to debate with a fool as the proverbs say.
As a Christian and a tribal person, I find that extremely unfair to call my people and my ancestors devil worshiping.
Lest you forget, it was “Christian” men that massacred and killed thousands of innocent women and children in our tribal history. “Christian” soldiers would cut the testicles and breasts of Indian people, and use them for bags.
Furthermore, throughout European history, thousands of people were killed more cruelly and violently under the name of God and church. What is more savage or barbaric? People were burned alive at the stake, skinned alive, quartered, impaled, beheaded…all done my “Christian” men and churches.
My people never sacrificed others.
You are very subjective and want to believe in that which serves the flesh but dismiss all the evil it has brought to our society, and to our own reputation as Americans. We are the promoters of gross immorality around the world, and I have heard people tell me they think America is a nation of sex obsessed people…I chose to change the word, America that does not value the dignity of the human being or the foundation of the family, but instead on narcissistic sexual indulgence.
Sorry but the abuse we see today reflects the kind of society you adore.
The existence of man is to humanize it the earth, not live in caves.
You do not know Christianity, its truths that would answer such comments.
Darwin studied the genetics laid out by Augustinian monk, Mendel. Pope Pius IV had no problem with evolution. What you are reacting to are the
If you can break away from the spin zone, check out John Paul II, “Threshold of Hope”. Try and read it and open up your mind because all you are doing is spinning the momentum of materialism.
Another good read is the New Yorker’s article on the Vatican Library, greatest in the world that is testimony to authentic faith with reason, and the great contributions to the world by Catholic members.
I pray for young people like yourself…you come across young…that have been indoctrinated to believe such myths and make up stories that do not stand the test of time…and great suffering.
Wow you must live in utter fear. You seem to have an absolute obsession with sex. I am sorry for your pain. Do not know what happened but apparently something terrible. The world is not pissed at America because many of us enjoy the pleasures of sex ( holy crap) it is because they arr sick of getting screwed by our government and the governments corporate masters. Geez .
As for me personally if you attack me again with your angry hateful unwarranted slandering then I will simply tell you what you can do and be done with this craziness. Peace
You thought I was accusing you of being a sex abuser when I never said that…you are too much into the spin zone….I have laugh…anyway, there are some good football programs on….
I live for the flesh or the predators are waiting for me.I yearn for a society full of sexual predators. None of that rings a bell? Go back and read your post if it helps your memory.The only thing you know about me is that I am not a christian as you are Nor do I believe the bible.How you conclude that I am any of what you claimed. is bizarre. Not surprising but scary none the less.
wtf are you talking about???
Dear, I appreciate your stand for peace and non-interference between atheists and believers and only wish those activists of Freedom From Religion would share it. I’m a committed Catholic who would never dream of suing atheists for not conforming to MY standards and activities.
I think most do share it. The problem for us atheist is simple. Your belief that mankind will be destroyed and all that is written in the bible is scary to us. We do not fear not going to heaven because we do not believe it even exist. We do fear the consequences of the actions of millions that do believe. The evangelical radicals in the USofA are doing everything in their power to influence and control the government (laws) our culture. Our foreign policy as well as domestic. We do not like the doctrine of trying to convert others to unproven and illogical beliefs. Christians prefer to call this “saving someone”. Muslims call in converting. You guys (not so much Cathollics) seem to encourage this escalating conflict between different religous beliefs. None seem to work as hard to stop the insanity. Religion is going to kill many more millions than it already has. Christian churches try and sway their members to vote republican no matter what. They never ever say a word about our intervening and killing in for.countries. War period. All is written in the book of life. We disagree. We are on our own and being led by religious people has done nothing but destroy this planet and the life which it supports. All for profit at the top. The rest (millions) seem to be brainwashed to us. If there was no common belief in supernatural creator and all that goes with these stories there would be little terrorism if any. On the christian side they helped with the exploitation and genocide of every part of the world that was not as they. This has led to the insanity that those of us that believe religion is just another story( strong evidence supports this) are forced to live and raise our children in. We find this insane and scary. Religion has ruled for some thousands of years and is destroying our life giving planet. They have no fear for they believe it is written that this is what is SUPPOSED to happen. We believe that this belief is wrong and deadly.
I have read the new testament and how they ever come up with those interpretatio
It’s a secret.
You are saying silly things.
Like what exactly is ” silly” about it? The part about it being true. You actually find the terrible truth “silly”?
What is truth? Another good read, ‘Veritatis Splendor’, John Paul II.
What is Truth is more about Who is Truth.
Open your mind and stop being so prejudiced.
You are a tool used by the Death Culture. When you come to your day in need, the Death Culture will offer you the choice to terminate and return to your nothingness. Is that what is life about??
Portland is a liberal mecca. Recently gays smashed in the stained glass windows of Mars Hill church because they don’t like the church’s message. Very tolerant
Nazi Tea baggers ? Republican Religious Reich? You seriously think that is a Catholic approach to disagreements with other Catholics? And you don’t need some tough love?. I would rather be a tax collector than a Pharisee.
Speaking of taxes how about churches paying some? Before collecting taxes tell your church to start paying some. Or stay out of politics!!
You don’t see all the public works the Church provides to all people?
Or the fact that Catholics pay their taxes but because of their faith, they cannot have a schoolbus they pay for refuse their children the same??
Of course I do.I also see all the bad I am not blind. Nor do I wear blinders. Nor do I ignore the stifling of science and anyone who dared disagree with them ( much as you do now with argument) I could go on not even gotten started with all the bad the church has done to innocent people around the earth.
As for taxes churches are exempt as Iam sure you know. They are extremely wealthy billions!! They own businessrs property etc etc. They were given special treatment.If they want to push their beliefs on the rest of the citizens through politics they should start paying their share.They try to make all of us assimilate and try to control our countries policies. Pay as the other corporate crooks.
You don’t even know what you are talking about…you know how much work private school parents do for their schools, their heavily involvement, all the fundraisers they do…and how they work to serve others…and Catholic parishes…as I deal with facts and we are provided accounting sheets, you would be very surprised to see how much of parish funds go to non church people in their civic community.
You are really beginning to come across as histrionic…
I would just go get some rest and put your attention onto things that make you feel good.
I do not know if you can”t read or simply cannot comprehend what you do read. Prrhaps a quick nap would help.
What they really need is to have their money taken away.All of it. Or pass law that says they can no longer be tax exempt while trying to write policy through monetary influence.
Bravo!
You are an idiot. Tea “baggers” want pure, Constitutional government. You apparently want putrified socialist garbage, with this Jesuit socialist as your posterboy. how sad, how sad it is.
The fact he’s a Jesuit is woefully frightening and comes from a country rich in liberation theology. Read Malachi Martin’s book “The Jesuits.”
I disagree. Jesuits are sincerely seeking the truth. I am a lay person, but have gotten a theology doctorate from the Jesuits. There is a zeal for truth in them, however imperfect!
Then they should read some science books
The liberation theology is indeed a Latin American incubation. It was
the belief that people should not wait for Jesus to liberate them from
economic oppression,and that they should take justice in their own
hands. Initially, some Jesuits sided with this radical view. I mention here my good friend Gustavo Gutierrez, SJ, who wrote “La fuerza historica de los pobres.” But prof. Gutierrez eventually softened his vievs. Today, the
Jesuits believe that armed struggle contradicts the Gospel,
and that the conversion of hearts to justice should take priority. This
does not mean that we should sit idle and suffer without raising our
voices in protest. St. John Paul II was the first Pope to propose a
universal solidarity as response to the abuses brought about by greedy
capitalism. The liberation theology thanks to that Pope’s efforts has
today fallen in disrepute. But the struggle for economic justice goes
on! I myself have written about the need to confront the “structures of economic sin” that fester like parasites on the present world!
Wait for jesus to save them. The same jesus that allowed thousands of his followers come to the Americas and slaughter hundreds of thousand or more.
Probably a good idea not to wait.Fool me once!!!!
It is not just waiting, but also doing everything we can to change the situation of the poor for the better, with the understanding that our true home is not here, but in Heaven!
Could have just let them be to start with. Mother earth is our only home.
Did you skip past the part where I wrote the “truth” stating how christians murdered many of their ancestors. I guess they were simply trying to help.
Help themselves to all of their resources.
Bunch of bull about helping the poor. White christians have created far more poverty than they could ever help even if they truly tried. To the point of suffering themselves as the christian bible ask the christians to do. Well they do not. Never have and probably never will.
Over750,000,000 christian households that is enough to house feed and love well over 1 billion humans suffering from hunger and senseless disease.Not going to happen again it is all due in large part because christian businessmen bankers and politicians screwed them for monetary gains.
Save that helping the poor meme for some poor fool.
Poverty is not just material. It is also spiritual. I have long ago given my only home to those who had none. Now I give what is left, my spirit, to those who need the truth! That is being Catholic for me!
Poverty is poverty. I am glad you gave of yourself to others .would have worked just as well to share your home. I f I read correctly you just freely gave away your house? Where do you live now? Were those you gave it to able to pay the bills on the house?
As far as people “needing the truth” I would agree.
Telling them that the bible is true is not the truth however. There is no evidence supporting the bizzarre mystical stories of the bible.
I know you ” believe” you know the truth just as Jews Buddhist Muslims. Hindu and hundreds of other religions as well as those of ancient times “knew” the sun needed sacrifices along with posieden and on and on and on.All have been wrong.
The real truth is we do not know exactly how we got here and/or if anything is beyond this life.Th
We do know how we got here- the bible tells us. Now that science evidence tells us that evolution is a fraud there is only “The Creator” left.
The bible gives us an overview of instant creation from nothing by the word of God – there is no other explanation.
“Now that science tells us that evolution is a fraud” if I may be blunt is ridiculous. What evidence are you referring to?
The bible is a mythical story nothing more. I presume You have scientific evidence that is widely accepted in the scientific community.
Fact is 99.9% of scientist think the bible is absurd. Period. Believe what you want but please stop justifying your beliefs in magic by claiming that science has proved evolution to be “a fraud”. Simply made up rubbish.
Your 99.9 % is made up .
So since you know so much about the bible – give one instance of events that proves the bible was wrong.
Since you know so much about evolution give us one example of evolution
since no one ever has . You must be better than everyone.
“We are told dogmatically that Evolution is an established fact; but we are never told who has established it, and by what means. We are told, often enough, that the doctrine is founded upon evidence, and that indeed this evidence ‘is henceforward above all verification, as well as being immune from any subsequent contradiction by experience;’ but we are left entirely in the dark on the crucial question wherein, precisely, this evidence consists.”
Smith, Wolfgang (1988) Teilhardism and the New Religion: A Thorough Analysis of The Teachings of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, Rockford, Illinois: Tan Books & Publishers Inc., p.2
THE DAY GOD CREATED THE CREATURES :-
STEPHEN GOULD, Harvard, “…one outstanding fact of the fossil record that many of you may not be aware of; that since the so called Cambrian explosion…during which essentially all the anatomical designs of modern multicellular life made their first appearance in the fossil record, no new Phyla of animals have entered the fossil record.”, Speech at SMU, Oct.2, 1990
GOD’S KINDS DONT CHANGE BUT GIVE BIRTH TO THE SAME KIND
BOTHERSOM DISTRESS, STEPHEN J. GOULD, Harvard, Lecture at Hobart & William Smith College, 14/2/1980. “Every paleontologist knows that most species don’t change. That’s bothersome….brings terrible distress. …They may get a little bigger or bumpier but they remain the same species and that’s not due to imperfection and gaps but stasis. And yet this remarkable stasis has generally been ignored as no data. If they don’t change, its not evolution so you don’t talk about it.”
The evidence simply speaks for itself.Some of your references I sm familiar with. They do not disprove evolution.
It only takes months to prove that life evolves.
If scientist and even doctors think that life does not change and evolve why do they contstantly have to change the anti viral med in flu shots. EVERY year. If you really want to disprove evolution then simply find a flu vaccine from one yr ago or even better just for good measure 10 yrs ago inoculate yourself with the old vaccine (only if you are SURE life does not evolve) then inject yourself with the same flu viru that is going around today.See what happens.It really is that simple.It is not some new life form it is the same old flu virus that has been with us for a very long time.
If it has not evolved you are 100% safe. I assure you you will not be safe. There is not one shred of evidence that disproves evolution.
It would be easy to do yet ever since the theory was first proposed it has not happened.
The 99.9% was just made up of course however it is pretty close it appears to me.
Like Darwin you think breeding from EXISTING Dna is evolution – it decidedly is NOT. The breeding of viruses and bacteria disproves evolution – they have bred a trillion trillion times but are STILL viruses and bacteria – they have not evolved into birds lol .
There is not one shred of evidence for evolution.
You just swallow the school textbooks. Darwins swimming iguanas are still iguanas. His finches are still finches albeit with adaptable beaks that are built into their DNA which can change their beaks in three generations.
This is built in adaptability which all species have in their DNA .
It is called breeding . All the dog family – wolves , poodles , pekingese all came from TWO dogs (the start of the canine family ) They normally lose DNA to breed.
There is not even a mechanism for evolution and it has never been evidenced in a lab or in the wild.
These are not creationist scientists but just doing their job honestly
looking for evidence :-
GENUINE KNOWLEDGE, D.B. KITTS, University of Oklahoma, “Despite the bright promise that paleontology provides a means of “seeing” evolution, it has presented some nasty difficulties for evolutionists, the most notorious of which is the presence of ‘gaps’ in the fossil record. Evolution requires intermediate forms between species and paleontology does not provide them… The ‘fact that discontinuities are almost always and systematically present at the origin of really big categories’ is an item of genuinely historical knowledge.”, Evolution, Vol. 28, p. 467
STORY TIME OVER, DEREK AGER, Univ. at Swansea, Wales, “It must be significant that nearly all the evolutionary stories I learned as a student…have now been ‘debunked.’ Similarly, my own experience of more than twenty years looking for evolutionary lineage’s among the Mesozoic Brachiopoda has proved them equally elusive.”, PROC. GEOL. ASSO., Vol.87, p.132
“FOSSIL BIRD SHAKES EVOLUTIONARY HYPOTHESIS”, Nature, Vol. 322, 1986 p.677, “Fossil remains claimed to be of two crow-sized birds 75 million years older than Archaeopteryx have been found. …a paleontologist at Texas Tech University, who found the fossils, says they have advanced avian features. …tends to confirm what many paleontologists have long suspected, that Archaeopteryx is not on the direct line to modern birds.”
REPTILE TO BIRD W.E. SWINTON, “The origin of birds is largely a matter of deduction. There is no fossil evidence of the stages through which the remarkable change from reptile to bird was achieved.” BIOLOGY & COMPARATIVE PHYSIOLOGY OF BIRDS Vol. 1, p.1.
Fact: the ancient peoples all drew from the same myths…but when dealing with eschatological thought…where we came from who we are and where we are going…..all mankind has considered this.
What you don’t know is that Truth can exist within common myths.
You use alot of words, absurd, magic, rubbish, fraud, alot of spin that is not based on facts.
You need to get educated.
This is not a place to talk about each other. Suffices to say that I signed off my house to the Catholic Church, so that a home for the elderly could be built with the proceeds. I rent since that time. As for the truth, you know it in the measure you know God!
The truth cannot be found in the bible.It is far from the truth.
Give us one example of where you think the bible is wrong.
There is no wrong or right.They are simply made up embellished stories.Noah did not build such a fantastic ship for one. He did not gather up all of those animals. Which would have been tens of thousands or more.Then herd them on board keep the predators from the prey handle all the logistics such an undertaking would involve such as (somehow capturing animals on every continent on earth as well as many islands) Then we get to the birds.Then one wonders what all these animals ate after the miraculous flood (everything else was killed.) Then of course would be the task of somehow dispersing to the four corners of earth AGAIN.
All done by one simple family I can’t recall how many men 4 5?
Ps genetics STRONGLY SUGGEST’S that all of mankind DID NOT come from one family a few thousand yrs ago.Did not happen.Do you have any evidence to disprove me.Do you have any evidence ( real scientific evidence) that proves your creator is real. That the bible factual? Just one?
You have been brainwashed with Darwinian claptrap.
There is right and wrong – good and evil and you know this , it is perfectly clear. You have been brainwashed.
Noah did build a ship and it only needed AIR breathing animals about 11000 kinds easily held on the size of boat. This has been well researched.
The sedimentary layers which cover the earth were laid down by water mainly in one great flood . They contain trillions of fossil right up to the top of the mountains that were killed suddenly by flood water and immediately covered by sediment. There is no other way this could have happened .
There was not millions of little floods – water does not stand in columns .
God brought the animals to the ark – you dont know the bible.
After a flood vegetation springs up and many plants can live under water for a period such as the olive plant.
Whats hard about dispersing to the four corners of the earth over time – naturally easy.
One simple family ? You believe that two apes evolved into all the humans on earth – ridiculous.
Genetics DO suggest that all humans came from two ancestors .
But you believe they all came from two apes ????
You have just provided your own opinions – no evidence of anything you have said.
DESIGNS, S.J. GOULD, Harvard, “We can tell tales of improvement for some groups, but in honest moments we must admit that the history of complex life is more a story of multifarious variation about a set of basic designs than a saga of accumulating excellence….I regard the failure to find a clear ‘vector of progress’ in life’s history as the most puzzling fact of the fossil record….we have sought to impose a pattern that we hoped to find on a world that does not really display it.”, Natural His., 2/82, p.22
Required Transitional Forms Missing
DARWIN’S BIGGEST PROBLEM, “….innumerable transitional forms must have existed but why do we not find them embedded in countless numbers in the crust of the earth? ….why is not every geological formation and every stratum full of such intermediate links? Geology assuredly does not reveal any such finely graduated organic chain, and this perhaps is the greatest objection which can be urged against my theory”. ORIGIN OF THE SPECIES.
MORE EMBARRASSING, DAVID M. RAUP, Univ. Chicago; Chicago Field Mus. of N.H., “The evidence we find in the geologic record is not nearly as compatible with Darwinian natural selection as we would like it to be. Darwin was completely aware of this. He was embarrassed by the fossil record because it didn’t look the way he predicted it would…. Well, we are now about 120 years after Darwin and the knowledge of the fossil record has been greatly expanded. We now have a quarter of a million fossil species but the situation hasn’t changed much. …ironically, we have even fewer examples of evolutionary transition than we had in Darwin’s time. By this I mean that some of the classic cases of Darwinian change in the fossil record, such as the evolution of the horse in North America, have had to be discarded or modified as the result of more detailed information.” F.M.O.N.H.B., Vol.50, p.35
Wow you are to out there to discuss this further. I am brai nwashed!!!
Funny. when stated by you .NOAH BUILT THE ARK. and it has been”RESEARCHED” ( READ WELL HERE) yet (key words coming pay attention) NO EVIDENCE HAS EVER BEEN FOUND EVER!!!!!!!! Your “research” is not PROOF .It is proof that no evidence has been found after exhaustive research.Your reply is silly rhetorical rubbish. Absolutely conjured up hocus pocus.
Believe in Santa Claus for your entire life. ( why would i or anyone care ) We don’t. But when you keep insisting (you have proof that the other 5.whatever billion humans are going to burn in some horrible damnation.because they did not believe some crazy fantastical story told to them by some MAN
The evidence of a great flood is all around you no matter where you live.
The sediments which cover the surface of the earth were laid down by a WW flood. Go to a beach and look at the rocks filled with cemented fossils – go to mt everest and see the rocks full of fossil fish and trilobites.
The ancient looking hardened sedimentary canyons at mt St Helens happened only 30 years ago and there are fossils there as well in spirit lake – it was a mini noah like flood.
The rocks at Mt St Helen’s were dated at 1.2 million years LOL.
“I have always thought it curious that, while most scientists claim to eschew religion, it actually dominates their thoughts more than it does the clergy.”
Hoyle, Sir Frederick [late mathematician, physicist and Professor of Astronomy, Cambridge University], “The Universe: Past and Present Reflections,” Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Vol. 20, 1982, pp.1- 35, p.23.
“With the failure of these many efforts [to explain the origin of life] science was left in the somewhat embarrassing position of having to postulate theories of living origins which it could not demonstrate. After having chided the theologian for his reliance on myth and miracle, science found itself in the unenviable position of having to create a mythology of its own: namely, the assumption that what, after long effort, could not be proved to take place today had, in truth, taken place in the primeval past.”
Eiseley, Loren C., [late Professor of Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania], “The Immense Journey,”
“Thus, a century ago, [it was] Darwinism against Christian orthodoxy. To-day the tables are turned. The modified, but still characteristically Darwinian theory has itself become an orthodoxy, preached by its adherents with religious fervour, and doubted, they feel, only by a few muddlers imperfect in scientific faith.”
Grene, Marjorie [Professor Emeritus of Philosophy, University of California, Davis], “The Faith of Darwinism,” Encounter, Vol. 74, November 1959, pp.48-56, p.49
“The more one studies palaeontology, the more certain one becomes that evolution is based on faith alone; exactly the same sort of faith which it is necessary to have when one encounters the great mysteries of religion.”
More, Louis T. [late Professor of Physics, University of Cincinnati, USA], “The Dogma of Evolution,” Princeton University Press: Princeton NJ, 1925, Second Printing, p.160.
There are literally hundreds of published articles that essentially disprove all of those claims.I will state that roughly 9 out of 10 geoligist disagree VEHEMENTLY. with those findings. I think logically speaking you already know this as well as the author. Thanks for chatting. Live well and let others do the same.
Your 9 out of ten is just made up by you.
Try doing some research outwith your religion of Darwinism.
Noah’s Catastrophic flood :-
EDWIN D. MCKEE, “The chief significance of ripple lamination in the geologic record is that it is an indicator of environments involving large and rapid sand accumulation… areas where addition of new sand normally is at a slow rate have little chance of developing into superimposed ripple lamination…In contrast, areas in which sand accumulates periodically but rapidly, as in river flood plains were sand laden waters of strong floods suddenly lose velocity are very favorable for building up ripple laminated deposits.” Primary Sedimentary Structures and Their Hydrodynamic Interpretation, Society of Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists, p.107.
ADOLF SClLACHER, Geoiogisches Inst., Univ. Frankfurt, “This proves instantaneous deposition of the individual beds, as postulated by the turbidity-current theory….the sandy layers of the Flysch did not accumulate gradually but were cast instantaneously by turbidity currents each bed in its entire thickness, in a matter of hours or less.” Journal of Geology, Vol. 70, p. 227.
Alan V. Jopling, Dept. of Geology, Harvard, “it is reasonable to postulate a very rapid rate of deposition; that is a single lamina would probably be deposited in a period of seconds or minutes rather than in a period of hours. …there is factual evidence from both field observation and experiment that laminae composed of bed material are commonly deposited by current action within a period of seconds or minutes.” Some Deductions on the Temporal Significance of Laminae, Journal of Sedimentary Petrology, Vol. 36, No. 4, pp.880-887.
Just like the global warming people who turned out to be frauds.
It is abundantly clear you simply have ignored the evidence.PERIOD.
I do not quote you any of the studies disproving your ” belief” because they are to numerous to counteasily. Such is blind faith.
I have given evidence – you have given none – such is your blind faith.
DARWIN’S BIGGEST PROBLEM, “….innumerable transitional forms must have existed but why do we not find them embedded in countless numbers in the crust of the earth? ….why is not every geological formation and every stratum full of such intermediate links? Geology assuredly does not reveal any such finely graduated organic chain, and this perhaps is the greatest objection which can be urged against my theory”. ORIGIN OF THE SPECIES.
MORE EMBARRASSING, DAVID M. RAUP, Univ. Chicago; Chicago Field Mus. of N.H., “The evidence we find in the geologic record is not nearly as compatible with Darwinian natural selection as we would like it to be. Darwin was completely aware of this. He was embarrassed by the fossil record because it didn’t look the way he predicted it would…. Well, we are now about 120 years after Darwin and the knowledge of the fossil record has been greatly expanded. We now have a quarter of a million fossil species but the situation hasn’t changed much. …ironically, we have even fewer examples of evolutionary transition than we had in Darwin’s time. By this I mean that some of the classic cases of Darwinian change in the fossil record, such as the evolution of the horse in North America, have had to be discarded or modified as the result of more detailed information.” F.M.O.N.H.B., Vol.50, p.35
In those days, people travelled at most 22 miles…and geographically there are signs in that part of the world there was a huge flood at that time in context to their lives.
If you study any beliefs, you have to look at history and society and geography and sociology and anthropology.
Too far out there to bother. Good luck with that fairytale research crap(oops is crap a word that your toothfairy will throw you in a fire over).What a scholar using words like researched instead od researched and no supportive evidence. Noahs ark is illogical and silly. Left to their own any 10 to 12 yr old would tell you it is a MYTH.NO EVIDENCE and of course you KNOW this. As usual when discussing with christians or others their weird creation myths 3/4 of the population is wrong the evidence proves we all descended from one family a few thousand years ago aftersme fairy go fathrr created us told us not to eat apples waited awhile got pissed off decided to have a zon( the old fashioned way ) with some guys wife. Then wait a couple hundred yrs finally publish a condensed book of facts on what the fairy godfather wanted his sheep to do nos that his rage has subsided He will never be seen nor heard and he will leave TONS OF CONTRADICTORY EVIDENCE against this magical faifytale blah blah blah.
Enough already. So bored and fruitless like I am write to a vegetable. (Turnip) dont even care about spelling. Have a good life. Perhaps someday you will seek the trugh.
PS Darwin could be wrong you poor brainwashed man. That if it were proven would still not prove any fairytale you have”brainwashed” yourself with.good. luck. Peace.
Your religion of evolution is a fairytale for grown ups :-
You believe that two apes were the ancestors of the human race – there are about 300 million DNA differences between apes and humans.
There are worms and jellyfish which we have more DNA In common with .
Only a super creator God could make DNA , tweaking it to form all species.
The surface of the world is EXACTLY as one would expect with a worldwide flood – sedimentary layers can only be laid down by floodwater and trillions
of fossil creatures can only be killed suddenly and fossilised by sediments.
There was no simple to complex life forms – all life is complex beyond our imagination. A trilobite is as or more complex than a human.
You are full of Darwinistic cliches that were debunked long ago.
STORY TIME, COLIN PATTERSON, Senior Paleontologist, British Museum of Nat. History,
“You say I should at least ‘show a photo of the fossil from which each type or organism was derived.’ I will lay it on the line-there is not one such fossil for which one could make a watertight argument.” “It is easy enough to make up stories of how one form gave rise to another. … But such stories are not part of science, for there is no way of putting them to the test. … I don’t think we shall ever have any access to any form of tree which we can call factual.” HARPER’S, Feb. 1984, p.56
SEPARATE LIVING KINDS, STEPHEN JAY GOULD, Harvard, “Our modern phyla represent designs of great distinctness, yet our diverse world contains nothing in between sponges, corals, insects, snails, sea urchins, and fishes (to choose standard representatives of the most prominent phyla).”, Natural History, p.15, Oct. 1990
“From 1860 onward the more distant fossil record became a big issue, and over the next two decades discoveries were made that at first seemed to give support to the theory particularly the claimed discovery of a well-ordered sequence of fossil horse’ dating back about 45 million years. Successes like this continue to be emphasized both to students and the public, but usually without the greater failures being mentioned. Horses according to the theory should be connected to other orders of mammals, which common mammalian stock should be connected to reptiles, and so on backward through the record.
Horses should thus be connected to monkeys and apes, to whales and dolphins, rabbits, bears. … But such connections have not been found. Each mammalian order can be traced backward for about 60 million years and then, with only one exception the orders vanish without connections to anything at all. The exception is an order of small insect-eating mammal that has been traced backward more than 65 million years…”
Hoyle, Sir Frederick [late mathematician, physicist and Professor of Astronomy, Cambridge University], “Mathematics of Evolution,” [1987], Acorn Enterprises: Memphis TN, 1999, p.107.
It is you that believes in the tooth fairy – the fairy that stuck her evolutionary wand in the muddy pool and created the first LIVING cell – just like that.! lol
“… Life cannot have had a random beginning … The trouble is that there are about two thousand enzymes, and the chance of obtaining them all in a random trial is only one part in 10 to the power of 40,000, an outrageously small probability that could not be faced even if the whole universe consisted of organic soup. If one is not prejudiced either by social beliefs or by a scientific training into the conviction that life originated on the Earth, this simple calculation wipes the idea entirely out of court …”
(Fred Hoyle and Chandra Wickramasinghe, Evolution from Space)
“The likelihood of the formation of life from inanimate matter is one to a number with 40,000 noughts after it … It is big enough to bury Darwin and the whole theory of evolution … if the beginnings of life were not random, they must therefore have been the product of purposeful intelligence.”
(Sir Fred Hoyle, astronomer, cosmologist and mathematician, Cambridge University)
“…An intelligible communication via radio signal from some distant galaxy would be widely hailed as evidence of an intelligent source. Why then doesn’t the message sequence on the DNA molecule also constitute prima facie evidence for an intelligent source? After all, DNA information is not just analogous to a message sequence such as Morse code, it is such a message sequence.”
(Charles B Thaxton, Walter L Bradley and Robert L Olsen: The Mystery of Life’s Origin, Reassessing Current Theories (New York Philosophical Library 1984) pp 211-212)
“Evolution lacks a scientifically acceptable explanation of the source of the precisely planned codes within cells without which there can be no specific proteins and hence, no life.”
(David A Kaufman, Ph.D., University of Florida, Gainsesville)
“Is it really credible that random processes could have constructed a reality, the smallest element of which – a functional protein or gene – is complex beyond … anything produced by the intelligence of man?”
(Molecular biologist Michael Denton, Evolution: A Theory in Crisis (London: Burnett Books, 1985) p 342.)
fairytale crap toothfairy noah ark weird creation myths, fairy god father….vegetable..
What? Was there some point? Made up myth. Jolly green giant etc etc point iz they all have something in common with “god” They do not really exist.
You need a break. Really, let people believe what they want and you make something of the life you have. Find peace.
bI have always let people believe what they want to believe.You were the one who wrote about how sexual predators were waiting for me all because I did not believe in your god. I could care less what you or anyone else believes.You christians online do not like it when someone tells you that the book you believe tells of magical battles and how ( according to you and others out here) all the filthy sexually obsessed stupid deviant abusive murdering scum that did not believe the magical story passed down and evolved for 2000 yrs when they read the same book , told as you were that it is all fact. You are the one that OVERREACTED of course you know that.It is meme like behaviour passed down as strategy for dealing with ” non believers or infidels if you prefer. It’s okay I have been through this almost exact thing with christians many times. Nothing new or surprising.( besides your bizarre attitude towards sex as if anybody that enjoys it is a rapist if male and a tramp if female. Besides ( it always appears as you guys forget or disregard your saviors teaching of not judging not worrying not fearing ) but loving a
Where in the world did I tell you sex predators were waiting for you….you misconstrue like so much and over react with all sorts of elementary and juvenile stereotyping…that doesn’t even bear up to facts.
You are really needing help…give yourself a break. Really, take a break, think about something else, and find inner peace because whatever your belief system is at present, it is not helping you at all.
“The biggest consumers of kiddie porn is American men(which by the way is false) they are waiting for you”
That is what YOU WROTE.
Now either they await me because I am some kiddie porn leader ie sexual predator or you are hoping I am a child ” kiddie” and the predators are waiting for me ( the kiddie)
Construe that however you want.You amaze me as the clever nworder ( even his synonym is “n sensetive”.) does with your arrogance you misconstrue as learned knowledge.Such hypocrites.
So true about the biggest consumers of kiddie porn and child sex trafficking…you missed it on tv last week.
You need to realize that you promote free sex and sex is good and no sense of morality or right or wrong….you could be like those who eventually get hurt by sexual license. I was relating back to you…
Your choice and depth of your hyperboles of words.
You describe a type of perception that certainly doesn’t jive with millions of faith based people in our country, who likewise uphold the sanctity of human life and permanent marriage the best in raising our children.
You misconstrue and create a belief system anybody with any sense doesn’t believe in..you think you are so much better.
So don’t go around naming people hypocrites either.
You need to take care of yourself and stay out of faith issues…it has been around since the beginning of mankind and likewise there are all sorts of faith and belief practices.
Just leave it alone and find peace in the good that surrounds you.
What you need to realize is the fact that I “promote” none of the things you claim I do. Just more runhgcchhcchhgfhijbvsunsuu
Your posts lack reason and common sense.
Ouch coming from someone I hold in such high esteem for their reasoning and common sense LMBO I am absolutely crushed.We all cannot be as brilliant as you so please forgive me. I am striving to emulate your superior intellect.It is so great however I might need infinite time to even come close. You and God must get lonely.
Look at your use of language…it is meaningless…and not bright…just parroting…
I gave you references…so start reading and then see what you don’t know.
Oh my I have seen the light thanks to your rantings on your obsession with sex. I do not care about your references they prove nothing. They are opinions. I did get a laugh out of your one reference IT WAS ON TV that was a good one. Keep em coming they are well thought out. Your language skills are simply unmatched your use of “hyperbole…words”was simply ingenious. What it must be like to have such command of the english language. Again keep it coming. I feel privledged to read such brilliant articulate rantings. Thanks.
You are very immature…
Thanks for your reply.
How in the world can you call over a billion Catholics lonely.
The Vatican Library holds so many contributions by Catholics to the world.
Check it out and get educated….
Again, I think you are thinking Christianity is some sort of small cult superstitious group….a stereotype.
You stereotype…again…either get educated into what true Christianity is or let it go….because all the things you say fall back on you…..
No you need to forgive yourself for keeping yourself so narrow minded and prejudice.
Try reading the post AGAIN.I will help you out. “YOU AND GOD MUST GET LONELY” Word for word exact quote. You read THAT and then you proclaim that you just read a post stating that all catholics are lonely. Next time just do not bother to read the post. Just start tapping out some angry nonsensical rant. One on the other end would never even know. Perhaps I will post that I saw a gay man in Rome and you can respond back stating what an ignorant uneducated blasphemis satan worshiper I am for writing that the Pope is Gay. Good greif and good luck.
Again…you are not making any sense….beause you don’t know what you are even talking about.
Forgive me but you come across as someone in need of psychiatric help.I could not have pointed out more clearly your false proclamations. This
discussion is over. You apparently cannot read english.
I think you need to go back and look at all the name calling you initiated…
You won’t find Santa Claus or the tooth fairy or whatever in any Catholic institution.
You are very good at making all sorts of slurs about people of faith, but when someone calls you on it,…you really get off.
You refuse to educate yourself…you can find excerpts of what sources I gave you easily on the internet…and they don’t mention any of the nonsense you accuse people of faith and reason as having.
Try educating yourself visit the national academy of science, Oxford University , Royal academy Harvard university even a few in your neck of the woods Universiyy of Alabama University of Texas Berkley the list goes on and on and on. I never called you anything until you just kept on and on.
Calling a magical creator as the one in the bible portrays as no different than believing in the tooth fairy santa sun god zues or the jolly green giant. Is different than lets say calling you silly immature and uneducated. Or saying you have no idea or that your use of language is childish( sound familiar?) The proof for their existence is identical to your proof that jesus was a devine being that walked on gwater and changed wine into water.The proof is the same. You laugh and ridicule those that believe something that actually has scientific evidence to support their beliefs if it diffrrs from yours. Simply put not my problem. Again we are done
I will continue to be just fine and I hope you will as well. If you do not like people saying your belief in your religion is equated to belief in the tooth fairy. I would suggest you stop telling others it is a fact. Sometimes the truth hur
What kind of degree do you have?????
You are a sick person…you use language such as matical creator, the tooth fairy, santa, sun god zeus…your spelling is wrong…or the jolly green giant.
This is junk out of your head.
You should study the Vatican Library and see that it is the Church that laid the foundation of a humane society, gave women and girls the right to an education, who established hospitals and hospices, founded schools and universities that the pagans and atheists never did.
You are totally ignorant so don’t be attacking true faith…that is always united with reason…You don’t realize how off base you are.
You are sick.
So be it. Poor dumb me. Should have been killed with the thousands upon thousands of women burned and tortured by the catholic church for witchcraft. You win. Your superior knowlege is obvious. Pat yourself on the back.
Oh yeah I just seen another story of preist molesting little boys and the church covering it up!!!! Probably my sick dumb self imagining things AGAIN Thanks for the reply .Have a good day.
I do apologize for the spelling but it is a cheap mobile. Hope it helps you understand english better.
Thought we believed in the tooth fairy…
Your claims are unsubstantiated. And you refuse to open your mind…spin zone….we will all be held accountable for everything coming out of our mouths…including lies.
In all your posts you have not provided one single evidence for evolution – just
bluff and bluster signifying nothing.
“”The fossil record with its abrupt transitions offers no support for gradual change…” (Dr. Stephen Jay Gould, famous Harvard Professor of Paleontology)”I admit that an awful lot of that has gotten into the textbooks as though it were true. For instance, the most famous example still on exhibit downstairs (in the American Museum) is the exhibit on horse evolution prepared perhaps 50 years ago. That has been presented as literal truth in textbook after textbook.
Now I think that that is lamentable, particularly because the people who propose these kinds of stories themselves may be aware of the speculative nature of some of the stuff. But by the time it filters down to the textbooks, we’ve got science as truth and we’ve got a problem.” (Dr. Niles Eldridge, Curator of Invertebrate Paleontology at the American Museum)”
The fundamental reason why a lot of paleontologists don’t care much for gradualism is because the fossil record doesn’t show gradual change and every paleontologist has know that ever since Cuvier.
If you want to get around that you have to invoke the imperfection of the fossil record. Every paleontologist knows that most species, most species, don’t change. That’s bothersome if you are trained to believe that evolution ought to be gradual. In fact it virtually precludes your studying the very process you went into the school to study. Again, because you don’t see it, that brings terrible distress.” (Dr. Stephen Jay Gould)
That’s what I have been hoping you do but you keep coming back
– since satan will not give you up until you renounce him.
Satan has always been against the WORD of God since he convinced Eve
that God was lying and did not mean what He said.
You can profess no belief in the powers of darkness even while being a servant of satan which is rebelling against the word of God.
Even the Pharisees could find no sin in Jesus so the only thing they could get Him on was that he called himself God (in the flesh). The only son of God as part of the trinity. Jesus existed before He was born in the flesh.
So if you find ant sin in Jesus then you are worse than the Pharisees.
Hang it up
Didn’t I tell you to let it go?….you are so mistaken…Get some rest
Are you a student of Campbell, the guy who calls everything a myth???
All this is subjective relativism.
That is as they say the gospel. They do not need assurance that their suffering will be rewarded when they -DIE especially when their trouble started when the “truth” arived on their doorstep in the late 15th century.
I admire your love and compassion that is what humans are in need of. Not “spirituality” .Truth does not take away nor does it create poverty.It simply states the facts. False truths no matter how strongly felt “in ones heart” do humans grave harm however.
Great conversing with you hope we do it again. Peace
Joke.
pope francis is just a liberation theology jesuit, for crying out loud – DO SOME RESEARCH. he is false. the catholic institution is doomed, mark my words. JESUS CHRIST WOULD NOT SAY MANY of the things francis has said, no way, no how.
but go ahead, you catholicizers, eviscerate me – yes, how dare i attack your pope. the one who thinks climate change is the greatest challenge we face globally. (pure deception)
Richard doesn’t believe Jesus, eh?
Nor the jolly green giant or jack in the bean stalk presumably. Hopefully.
The gates of hell verse is speaking of Christ’s church, which is not the catholic church, which was created 300+ years after Christ’s death. Constantine was the consummate politician, not a man of the cloth.
Just as the Vatican is not on 7 hills, Constantine was not a Christian, only baptized within days of his death.
You are listening to one of those kooky American independent preacher men who can stand up to no truthful, documented historical facts.
They need somebody to put down because they do not have enough upstairs in the head.
Rather, note the world, that when the pope speaks it listens.
Do yourself a favor and seek Christ in those who are well educated and can present facts and bring about the fruit of the Holy spirit. Christ did indeed institute one church, visible to the world, not one that is invisible full of thousands of sects where nobody wants to go to church with each other. I don’t like you, or etc., I will go to another church. So much of Christian charity.
Check out the foundation of the liturgy, from the turn of the first century, less than 100 years after Christ’s death and resurrection. Note the books of Catholic Scripture are of the Septuagint tradition, same as Christ used, as well as the apostles and St. Paul’s. Then note the Church beginning with apostles and the appointed bishops. After that the tenants of the Creed found in the baptismal rites, which is Catholic.
If you have received a Trinitarian baptism, which is a Catholic, OK, Katholic rite, — you are already baptized into the universal Church, be it West or East.
When we mean Catholic, we are simply using the Greek work, international language then as English is today. Katholic meant all Christianity, both West and East.
Facts the use of the word is meaningless coming from the religous. Faith is not based on FACT!! Fear would be a better word.
Why are you even bothering to read anything about religion???
It is not my reading about religion that bothrrs you it is my writing on the subject that does.
I write about it hoping to make a small contribution to society. People believing that life begins “for real” when you die is killing us.
Au contraire. Christ’s Church is the one He founded when He told Peter he was the rock on which He would build His Church. Peter was our first Pope as the first Bishop of Rome. He and the other apostles spread the Church. Constantine gave the Church appeal because he ended the practice of killing Christians under Roman rule.
Then the christians spread around the world killing native peoples and stealing all from them. HMM
The Catholic church was created 300 yrs. After the death of Jesus? In 107 A.D. Ignatius of Antioch “Whenever the bishops shall appear,there let the multitude also be; even as, Jesus Christ is, there is the Catholic church.” In 155, Polycarp mentions the Catholic church
I believe that you are talking about the Edict of Milan of 313, which allowed the Catholic Church to come out of the Catatcombs. Jesus Christ established the church. The word Catholic, which means universal, was used when it started to spread to other countries.
You are bamboozled by catholic propaganda. It is a pagan institution that co-opted Christianity to achieve its temporal ambitions. It’s doctrine, its holidays and its priestly garb are all pagan. The robes and mitre are that which were worn by the priests of Mithras. The Vatican is built of its temple site. St. Peter’s Basilica sports the pregnant belly of Isis while the Obelisk represents the phallus of Osiris. Interesting how complementary Washington DC is to that arrangement. Soon you will discover how corrupt this institution has been throughout history. Wish I could remember the title of this book but it is a comprehensive but older work on the history of the papacy. These men were absolute scoundrels. The escapades are jaw-dropping. How can you respect this institution?
Pope Sixtus IV (1471–1484). According to the published chronicle of the Italian historian Stefano Infessura, “Diary of the City of Rome”, Sixtus was a “lover of boys and sodomites” – awarding benefices and bishoprics in return for sexual favours, and nominating a number of young men as cardinals; some of whom were celebrated for their good looks.[47][48][49] However, Infessura had partisan allegiances to the Colonna and so is not considered to be always reliable or impartial.[50]
Pope Leo X (1513–1521) was allegedly a practising homosexual, according to some modern and contemporary sources (Francesco Guicciardini and Paolo Giovio). He was alleged to have had a particular (albeit one-sided) infatuation for Marcantonio Flaminio.[53]
Pope Julius III (1550–1555) was alleged to have had a long affair with Innocenzo Ciocchi del Monte. The Venetian ambassador at that time reported that Innocenzo shared the pope’s bed.[
Pope Alexander VI (1492–1503) had a long affair with Vannozza dei Cattanei while still a priest, but before he became pope; and by her had his illegitimate children Cesare, Giovanni Borgia, Gioffre Borgia, and Lucrezia. A later mistress, Giulia Farnese, was the sister of Alessandro Farnese, and she gave birth to a daughter (Laura) while Alexander was in his 60s and reigning as pope.[51] Alexander fathered at least seven, and possibly as many as ten illegitimate children, and did much to promote his family’s interests – using his offspring to build alliances with a number of important dynasties.[52] He appointed Giovanni Borgia as Captain General of the Church, and made Cesare a Cardinal of the Church – also creating independent duchies for each of them out of papal lands.
Pope John XII (955–963) was accused by his adversaries of adultery and incest.[31][32] The monk Benedict of Soracte noted in his volume XXXVII that he “liked to have a collection of women”. According to Liutprand of Cremona in his Antapodosis,[24] “they testified about his adultery, which they did not see with their own eyes, but nonetheless knew with certainty: he had fornicated with the widow of Rainier, with Stephana his father’s concubine, with the widow Anna, and with his own niece, and he made the sacred palace into a whorehouse.” According to E. R. Chamberlin, John XII was “a Christian Caligula whose crimes were rendered particularly horrific by the office he held”.[33] Some sources report that he was rumoured to have died 8 days after being stricken by paralysis while in the act of adultery,[31] others that he was killed by the jealous husband while in the act of committing adultery.[34][35][36][37] (See also Saeculum obscurum)
This is just a small sampling. You can turn a blind eye, but this is a gnostic, deceiving institution.
Again you are cherry picking and with out context.
All your knowledge about the Holy Church has come from hostile sources. You owe it to yourself to see what the church says about itself. At the moment you are like somebody finding out about Jews by reading nazi propaganda.
…and Judas was one of Christ’s apostles. That doesn’t mean the other 11 were apostates. The Church was founded by Jesus Christ Himself, but it is made up of fallible human beings. If the Catholic Church was indeed a false church, it could not have lasted 2000+ years. That’s proof the Holy Spirit is guiding it.
I think you can clear up a lot by checking out Catholic Answers at catholic.com and radio broadcast Catholic Answers Live on EWTN Global Catholic Radio Network at 3:00 PM Pacific
Fellow Saint in Progress
The Catholic Church began at Pentecost.
All Constantine did was sign the Edict of Milan that made Christianity legal. He was a pagan up to days before his death.
This spin about Constantine came out this past century. Before that people had enough education within Protestantism to know this is not true.
But evangelicals and other non denominationals have cut off the 7 sacraments except Trinitarian baptism…so when the roots are just about all cut off and as time passes, it is very hard to communicate as they have lost so much the sense of Church and the desire to learn church history.
Jesus was a jew not a christian.
Jesus was a Christian from Eternity!
If jesus ever even existed he eas a jew.
Before the Jews were, Jesus was God!
if you lived 4000 years ago I would bet that your “truth” would have been way different. Yet ironically your knowing of the absolute real truth would have still depended upon your place of birth just as it does today in large part.With the exception of the scientific community and those that question “the facts without any evidence whatsoever” and take the time to learn on their own.
No one is forcing you to believe what others believe!
Now there is something we agree on.Nor am I trying to force anyone to believe anything.So I really do not understand your reply.
I would and do encourage people to educate themselves look at the evidence of combined human knowlege and come to their conclusions based on the evidence.
Faith simply means to believe something with out any evidence whatsoever.
You believe in the Darwinian fairy story even no evidence has been found
so you are into religion and blind faith in a big way.
You believe that all the matter of the universe popped out of a tiny speck in a few minutes (God said He took a day – 24 hours) – all the laws of thermodynamics were suspended including the unbreakable 1ST Law .
This takes blind faith on your part.
You believe that the magic muddy pool fairy touched the water and made the first cell with billions of DNA code , a membrane and about billions of other mechanisms.
Impossible – there is no simple cell when you study even a little biology. Darwin in his ignorance thought it was a “blob” . You dont have that excuse.
EVIDENCE A MATTER OF FAITH, A.C. SEWARD, Cambridge, PLANT LIFE THROUGH THE AGES, p.561, “The theoretically primitive type eludes our grasp; our faith postulates its existence but the type fails to materialize.”
“WE KNEW BETTER”, NILES ELDREDGE, Columbia Univ., American Museum Of Natural History, “And it has been the paleontologist my own breed who have been most responsible for letting ideas dominate reality: …. We paleontologist have said that the history of life supports that interpretation [gradual adaptive change], all the while knowing that it does not.”, TIME FRAMES, 1986, p.144
What matters is that faith saves! And humans like and need to be saved millions of times, historically, in everyman’s life! This is why, historically, it pays to believe!
What??? Have a good life people need the truth. Then they might work harder to save themselvez from themselves. Instead the wars and hunger suffering all must hsppen before jesus comes down and reigns foreverall part of the gods plan. That rubbish does not save our species. IT WILL DESTROY IT.
Faith is not for all, I have said this before. First and foremost, faith is for those who want to live eternally! You are clearly not one of those!
Like I have previously stated. Faith is simply believing in something that has no evidence to substantiate it. Believing in something that all evidence poits to it not being true yet believing.
We can only hope tat the faithfu do not lead us all to extinction i their zealous attempts to make their prophesy come true. Once the war they look forward to is over and those that survive see that no omnipotent ghost comes down and saves them for “eternity”( whichincidentally most humans do not fully comprehend) then humans can hopefully begin anew without killing each other over whos mythical creation stories are right.
It appears nothing short of that will stop the self destruction of our species. Have a wonderful life.Thanks for conversing. May we all find the truth someday.It really is not important.What is important is saving this rock in the incomprehencably expansive universe so humans can live in peace and harmony as a species
But you need blind faith to believe in evolution and there is no evidence – you have not come up with one example.
“In fact, evolution became in a sense a scientific religion; almost all scientists accepted it and many are prepared to ‘bend’ their observations to fit in with it.”
H. J. Lipson, F.R.S. “A physicist looks at evolution” Physics Bulletin, vol 31, 1980
“I think we need to go further than this and admit that the only acceptable explanation is creation. I know this is an anathema to physicists, as indeed it is to me, but we must not reject a theory that we do not like if the experimental evidence supports it.”
H. S. Lipson; Prof of Physics, University of Manchester, A paper published by The Institute of Physics, IOP Publishing Ltd., 1980
Thats strange I thought the religion of evolution is about wiping out the weakest – as Darwin Stalin Hitler Mao Pol Pot etc believed.
If the species were created through Jesus then your religion of evolution is rubbish.
“GOOD RECORD-BAD PREDICTION, NILES ELIDRIDGE, Columbia Univ., American Museum of Nat. Hist., “He [Darwin] prophesied that future generations of paleontologists would fill in these gaps by diligent search. … One hundred and twenty years of paleontological research later, it has become abundantly clear that the fossil record will not confirm this part of Darwin’s predictions. Nor is the problem a miserably poor record. The fossil record simply shows that this prediction was wrong.” The Myths of Human Evolution, p.45-46
Someday after the huge war religous fanatics create and FINALLY understand that the great toothfairy is not coming ALL churches and mosques etc etc… will fade away and humanbeings can finally end this horrible chapter in our history and begin to move forward.
Wake up, “Jen” – JESUS WAS SAYING THAT THE GATES OF HELL WOULD NOT PREVAIL AGAINST HIS BODY, HIS CHURCH, OF BORN-AGAIN REDEEMED SAINTS – NOT CATHOLICS.
seriously, are you so arrogant to think that Jesus Christ was talking about the catholic institution, and NOT HIS universal body of born-again believers? Ohhhhh, I get it, since Jesus was talking to Peter, (whom you have co-opted to be your first “Catholic” leader, you assume Jesus is talking about your catholic institution). Well, Peter doesnt “belong” to the Catholics, ok? He is Christ’s servant, and a leader of the early Christians after Christ ascended. Has nothing to do with Catholicism.
The Catholic Church as an institution will pass away, make no mistake. Only Jesus’ true spotless Bride will welcome Him when He returns, and that Bride has nothing to do with the catholic institution. so PLEASE, stop the misguided arrogance.
fact: Jesus established a church (that has BOTH visible and invisible qualities). fact: Jesus gave authority to his apostles. fact: Jesus’ apostles appointed successors. fact: there is an unbroken chain of successors that lead the Catholic Church today.
Stop assigning your own interpretations to scriputures in Revelation.
The Church is not on a hill.
The Church is across the Tiber on low land.
You need to get your facts straight and you can only do that when you seek the truth of Jesus Christ.
BTW, Jerusalem and Athens are on 7 hills……and so are countless cities in the world…Seattle is on 7 hills and is up there with Portland with the most casual sex in the country…..
LOL!
You should do more reading and less LOL’s, you might learn something….
Practice what you preach. Reading is how I garnered this knowledge–decades of it. Perhaps you only read catholic propaganda. Try the truth. Christian I am, a Bible-believing Christian. I excommunicated myself from the Catholic Church when I learned the truth.
Are you an SDA?
Much to our delight.
Study geography.
I’d be more worried about your forty thousand thirty-man churches constantly warring with each other and the One True Church.
The 7 hills of Rome do not have the Vatican…it is across the Tiber River….and not on a hill.
But I wonder if you live in a city or town near you that have 7 hills….there is Jerusalem for a starter, as well as Athens, Greece….a Catholic fellow got his geography book out and gave the protestant a long list of cities with 7 hills.
Richard, Richard…. see my previous comment please
Jesus has said that “the powers of hell will not be able to destroy His Church”! I trust His word!
The 7 hills of Rome do not include the Vatican…It is across the Tiber River and not on the 7 hills….
So is Athens, Jerusalem, and countless other cities in the world, including Seattle that has 7 hills..Portland Or has 7 bridges.
Jerusalem is on seven hills. So is Cincinatti, Ohio and Cincinatti has sin in its name–twice!
And Jerusalem was destroyed in 70 A.D.–prophecy fulfilled!
Meanwhile, the Church founded by Jesus whose vicar of the Rock resides in the Vatican; the Church which compiled, authorized, promulgated, translated, and preserved the Bible (all of it!) continues on struggling against the Gates of Hell.
Richard, if you really knew your Bible you’d be Catholic.
Rome is on 7 hills…if you are still around and hoping you have also spent some time away from your SDA mindset…the Vatican is across the Tiber and not on 7 hills.
You should find out if your town is sitting on 7 hills…or is it Jerusalem, or Athens?….somebody out there gave a long list of cities and towns situated on 7 hills.
Since the Church has emphasized “commonalities” it has emptied out.
The smoke of satan entered the Vatican at Vatican II.
Well, it entered actually the sanctuary, according to Pope Paul VI, when there were fallen priests who entered into satanism.
And likewise devout Catholics retained the faith, though marginalized, including priests and bishops….Revelations 12 speaks of the stars swept by the dragon’s tail, 1/3 from the sky…consecrated souls.
The American and Canadian seminaries were allegedly infiltrated by communists to ….their words, protestantize our faith…meaning to remove ancient disciplines, embracing one’s cross and doing penance.
Satan was given the 20th century to destroy the Church from within. It is now being cleaned out. Things are changing. And this is also why Pope John Paul II said that the next millenium would be a new spring time for Christianity….beginning with the families.
Check out St. Francis’ of Assisi’s letter to Catholics written in 1221.
Be ware of easy religion that treats God commonly or has to put other Christians down or condemn them using compromised and condemning bible passages, making them speak a different message of….hate.
Your faith should be in Jesus Christ, not the Catholic Church. The RCC is antichristian. You will find out soon.
The Church finds its life in Jesus Christ. Its deposit of faith is Christ. The members of the Church focus our entire life on the Lord.
You should not be making such terrible judgments about the Church based on what.
You are following false teachers. They are teaching you misconceptions…and your faith is based on hatred and not on the Lord.
If you did, you would seek the truth in all things.
Just because the Catholic Church is large, it is made up of human beings, not images. You have no concept of how much hurt your cult makes on innocent people.
Speaking of images, have you read the real ten commandments in Exodus 20? Conveniently, the catholic church leaves this out of its version, as if it is okay for the RCC to alter God’s commandments: You shall not make unto you any graven images.
Then when you get into an accident some day…I actually hope you don’t….then don’t call for an ambulance, just pray to get help.
The Book of Maccabees was removed by Luther 1500 years later….from there so many denominations sprung up, each one following men and not Christ and His apostles and their successors.
If you ask for someone to pray for you, you are already asking for intercessory prayers. You are not seeing that person as God but someone to also pray with you for your intentions.
You die, you have chosen Christ, you live in Him. There is no second death. People in heaven don’t sit on clouds…they pray with the angels and saints for the perseverance of the just and the conversion of sinners, and pray with us for all our needs…afterall, Scripture says heaven watches us with a thousand eyes…….
Julie, there is another lie you must overcome. The Catholic Church is not the apostolic succession of Peter. Jesus never made Peter a pope. When he was talking about the “rock,” Jesus was speaking of Himself. Read the Bible and see how many verses confirm that Jesus is the rock or the stone or the cornerstone. Further, several times Peter states in his epistles that he is only a man and an apostle of Christ. The RCC interpreted this verse in its favor. That is why there is always more than one witness in the Bible to verify context, concepts and understanding of usage. Read the Bible. It will open your eyes.
Peter never, ever went to Rome let alone preach in Rome. Paul did. Peter was never buried in Rome. His tomb was found in Israel. Research and as the Bible states, “It is better to trust in the LORD than to put confidence in man.” — Psalms 118:8
“Thus says the Lord: “Cursed is the man who trusts in man and makes flesh his strength, whose heart turns away from the Lord. He is like a shrub in the desert, and shall not see any good come. He shall dwell in the parched places of the wilderness, in an uninhabited salt land.” — Jeremiah 17:5-6
Julie, please read the Bible and please focus on unfulfilled prophecy. God bless. . .
You are the one who is looking at man too much. Non denominationals cannot perceive our focus…which is on Christ alone. We adorn the House of the Lord, just as is reflected in the building of the ancient temple. Our altars are adorned as such because ours is the fulfillment of the inner sanctuary, which by the way had two ‘graven’ images of angels on both sides of the Mercy Seat.
Note the Lord’s dwelling is called the Mercy Seat.
Likewise you are not look at documented history 2000 years ago.
You are reading certain sources…seen those claims, read those claims and read rebuttals…
Cherry picking to support oppositional and anti-Church bias, man oriented Christianity based on one’s hang ups and bias. It is not God centered..those who seek the truth, but merciless.
We cannot base our faith on our own self-righteousness, but on the Lord’s grace that enlightens our faith.
If you understood the nature and mission of the Church, let alone read objective history…you would not be in the situation you are in.
Atleast put your focus on Christ, let God be God and let God take care of the Catholic Church…me included.
How is my focus not on Jesus Christ by sharing the truths of the Gospel with you? He has commanded us to do so. With all due respect, my research is extensive, not lukewarm. I pray a God opens your eyes. Be well.
You are basing your anti Catholicism on misconceptions.
You are following divisive men.
You should go to shoebat.com….find the article on Catholics and Muslims….a talk was given on Palestine….but when he mentioned Catholics, the whole place reacted most intensely by the Protestants.
You should spend your time in prayer and reflection and seek the truth.
Shoebat is a former Muslim who became an Evangelical Christian. There is alot of time thinking about the Rapture and other things….and not seeing the reality of what is coming. He used to teach his children to throw stones at icons.
Then he came to see what the Catholic Church teaches, its history and now he publicly repents for the slander he caused our Church.
There is no substantiation whatever based on your opinion. Two thousand years of documented history, consistency in faith and practice, Sacred Scriptures using the tradition by the Lord Himself and His apostles and St. Paul, the bishopry and the creed…..and sacred worship….all in place by 100 AD.
We don’t follow opinions of individual men.
Winston you are correct he did because THIS is the Church he must destroy, he’s not to worried about the others is he?
Sister,
This is a grave error. We need the “sacred” and not the “profane”, the “secular”, or the “humanistic”.
This man, whom you call “pope”, is a Freemason; and for anyone who has the basic knowledge of our Catechism, much of what he declares is heretical and blasphemous.
How can a pope talk in front of the European Parliament and COMPLETELY omit the name of JESUS CHRIST? This is unacceptable.
Please, pray for discernment, for it is the “angel of light” who is the “wolf in sheep’s clothes”.
Listen to what the Mother of God Has Said in Her apparitions. Read the Book of Revelation. Understand the St. Michael the Archangel Prayer, and know that the 100 years between 1917 to 2017 was the century of Satan: the False Prophet, Jorge Mario Bergoglio, is going to be followed by the Antichrist very soon.
Then, the Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church will fall, and the Remnant Church of the true faithful will raise – for the gates of hell shall never prevail against her.
AMEN + + +
Now the Pope says I am evil because I design and build machines to protect Christians…eg..USN and USA and USAF…has he lost his mind? This Pope is not next to GOD, he does not talk to GOD. He is a FRAUD.
Everybody on this site is TOO sex centric, you all think SEX is the only important subject…IT IS NOT…YOU FOOLS think SEX is the most important thing in the world while the world burns down..you dumb shits…GOD don’t care about reproduction..he cares about integelent thought: when you die do you think he will interrogat you about who and when you fucked someone..to him he don’t care…he will be more interested in what you did for mankind, how did you help your race..the human race. He wont care about what is between your loans…irrewlevant..what did you do to help your fellow man? Have you ever contribyuted anything towards more perfection in the human race, or are you simply more concerned with avoiding sin of SEX, Get your heads out of your ass and understand what GOD demands!
Too bad Protestant ecclesial communities cannot focus more on Christ as we do.
Thankful we don’t hear about anybody being bad at Catholic Mass. I don’t go there to hear gossip and slander about fellow human beings, our separated brethren in Christ, but come to the Lord to receive and grow in him.
The catholic mass and transubstantiation are pagan practices. There is no purgatory, man cannot atone for his sins by good works, and you can’t pay a loved one’s way out of purgatory with deceitful indulgences. Mary was not immaculately conceived, was no longer a virgin after the birth of Christ and was not assumed into heaven nor is she an intercessor to Jesus Christ. These are just a few anti-biblical tenets embraced by the pagan RCC.
Another falsehood from your cult…
Every day, in every church, in every city/nation globally the RCC is killing Jesus over and over and over again. Then you are eating his body and drinking his blood, concepts that are steeped in Satanism and rebuked by the Old Testament. On the cross, Jesus said, “It is finished.” Yet, the RCC is killing Him over and over everyday, through multiple masses in multiple churches. I don’t think you really know what you are involved in. Perhaps you had better make a study of the Old Testament.
Satanism is a Jewish cult.
As well as Roman Catholicism which is a blend of mysticism, Judaism and Babylonian mystery religion. Have you heard about the satanic rituals held in the catacombs below the Vatican? Very credible witnesses have come forth. We shall see some very vile things soon as we spiral into the last of the last days.
I am not involved in any cult. I am a simple biblical Christian. Would you prefer that I lie to you? The truth shall set you free. . .it did me.
Free from what?
The bible alone…no church, no authority, no intercessory prayers for you, no consecrated to discern truth from false in each generation where the Word of God gives Life.
Sorry, I don’t believe in the Lone Ranger bible alone religion. Christ did not pass out bibles, the apostles didn’t and alot of people then and now cannot read. Rather it is Christ Himself Who is present in Word and Sacrament…by those chosen by Him and given authority to manifest the fullness of the Lord.’
Sorry….no Lone Rangers accountable to no one.
“Ignorance of Scripture is ignorance of Christ ” St Jerome.
“Man cannot live by bread alone but by EVERY WORD (the whole bible) that proceedeth from the mouth of God ”
The ‘sword of the spirit” is the Word of God – ie the scriptures.
Without this sword we cannot defeat Satan – Jesus used the words of srcripture to make the devil flee when He was tempted in the wilderness.
The average member of the CC is woefully inadequate in scripture study – 5 minutes a week is a drop in the ocean. But even if you go to mass every day it will take years to get through only part of the bible.
If you go to Mass for Cycle A – Matthew plus the Old T estament and Psalms, Cycle B which is Mark, plus OT and Psalms, and then Cycle C – St. Luke with OT and Psalms, these cycles each last one year. If you go to Mass every day for 3 years you will have heard the whole Bible…just like the ancients did rather than books in their hands.
When we hear the Word of God — it is the Eucharist that brings the Word to life and gives it understanding and brings us in to the Eternal presence of the Lord,
I Am Who Am, and thus to know all the pages of Scripture alone without the Church communion is different and you learn linear…one page at atime, and you cannot understand the various parts.
You can read a book and get a certain impression of the story. You can sit face to face with the story teller and each of you can pick up where things aren’t clear or you can ask questions to ask what they mean or to clarify. That is what happens at Mass.
The other great event that transcends individual reading of Scripture is to hear the Word of God in the assembly at Mass. The readings of the Old and New Testament come to life and it is as if we are in this great arena hearing the same Good News as our forefathers amidst the Lord’s people.
So in this the Word becomes infleshed by the Eucharist among us, breaking open and giving life to the Word and the communion with those who have gone before us in the walk of faith, going back to the ancient Jewish people.
So we don’t have time to put down anybody as our focus is not on people but on the Lord and His people.
The RCC mass will not get you into heaven. I know how the RCC picks and chooses verses that they can manipulate and take out of context. Reading verses randomly loses the real context in that book and chapter. Read it yourself.
The Mass IS heaven on earth and we commune with Jesus and that is how you go to heaven….
I was thinking about you at Mass today….so it took 300 years with many people to assemble the Bible….and the Church has been lived out for 2000 years….but then you are want to follow those who have been around 500 years who want to pick and choose text to suit their particular way of looking at things.
When you do that…you end up in oppositional position.
That is partly why it is a waste of time to argue with a Catholic, even though we are not set up or even hear about anybody else at Church because we are Christ focused.
A common myth – the council merely authenticated the scriptures which were already in circulation and were well known to genuine christians – it did not take 300 years – the NT scripture were all complete at the time of writing and before 70 ad at the latest.
They were put into one Canon at the council but had been circulated for 250 years – a long time .
There are many differences in the CC but they are hidden under one umbrella.
There were seven “different” churches in Asia – which must have had various practices and attitudes since Jesus gave each one a different letter – a report card.
If there had been only one church in dominion then only one letter to the Roman church would have sufficed.
I believe in the theological position that these 7 churches are TYPES of churches but also a TIMELINE to the end .
We are now in the Laodicean age the “lukewarm” “people power ” age .
So we could have a philadelphian (brotherly love) church (most commended) in the Laodicean age or vice versa .
No christian should avoid these letters which are short but have a supernatural depth. There are many excellent commentaries on this topic and you have Jesus’s blessing at the beginning for those who read and understand.
We have different catholic churches eg the SSPX versus the “Liberal” CC
and catholic “prophets” who have large followings but are not recognised by Rome.
Sorry, try again.
I would recommend to you, if you can handle it because it is Catholic and I don’t know if you have ever read anything defending Christ’s Church and its history…
‘Consume the Word’, the explains the background of the development of the Bible…by Dr Scott Hahn, another former anti-Catholic Calvinist.
He was a most highly educated ordained minister when he slipped into a Catholic Church. He sat in the back pew and did not want anyone to know he was there.
But he began to understand the movement of the Mass, the symbols and the ritual.
It is just that I worked all last night on a hospice case and don’t have the energy to debate you…as well as wondering what good it would do.
It is better to pray for people like yourself. You spend too much time being this way…you should take your energy and use it to find the Lord in a greater way. You are wasting your time.
I am a catholic and have read Scott Hahn . You have said nothing of substance to debate what I have said. What “way” am I ?
The problem is that these comments in response to an article are not the place to debate.
Have you read Dr Hahn’s ‘Consume the Word’, that gives a concise history of how the Bible was assembled…and yes it did take over 300 years. It took 200 years to verify the Book of Hebrews was to be used, that it was only 4 of the apostles that would be used for the Gospels…the epistles took more time….
I think it good the Church took the time it did to ensure what we learn is edifying and building up the universal Church.
If you are talking about different churches….did you know there are 22 rites within the Roman Catholic Church, one most common is the Maronite, the Chaldean, the Ethiopian,….for example.
It is your use of language.
Paul’s letters to the Hebrews , Corinthians would have been read out in and copied in the churches right away – there is no way they would lie on a church shelf for 200 years – there are authenticated scripture going right back to the
to the apostles.
New Testament 1st Cent. A.D. (A.D. 50-100)
2nd Cent. A.D. (c. A.D. 130 f.)
less than 100 years 5600 scripts accuracy of text 99.5%
As you can see, there are thousands more New Testament Greek manuscripts than any other ancient writing. The internal consistency of the New Testament documents is about 99.5% textually pure. That is an amazing accuracy. In addition, there are over 19,000 copies in the Syriac, Latin, Coptic, and Aramaic languages. The total supporting New Testament manuscript base is over 24,000.
Almost all biblical scholars agree that the New Testament documents were all written before the close of the First Century. If Jesus was crucified in A.D. 30., then that means the entire New Testament was completed within 70 years. This is important because it means there were plenty of people around when the New Testament documents were penned–people who could have contested the writings. In other words, those who wrote the documents knew that if they were inaccurate, plenty of people would have pointed it out. But, we have absolutely no ancient documents contemporary with the First Century that contest the New Testament texts.
Thank you…good post…Agree….but it took time for the Church to affirm the books…the Bible Christians know just didn’t happen over night….and who put it together….
The bible is not covered in 3 years even if you go every day which only a tiny minority do – so the weekly reading must be backed up by constant reading of scripture or you will have no sword of the spirit to defeat satan’s darts.
EG The proverbs are so important for guidance but are not in the readings.
This is the same in many churches so bible study is the most important leg of the faith to make up for the gaps.
Communion is essential but must be along with bible study.
Even if your arithmetic is correct if someone goes to church once a week it will therefore take 21 years to get through some of the bible since some of the readings will duplicate – not very inspiring.
Again…..read my post to Winston.
Put on the whole armor of God. Ephesians 6.
Very sad to hear your misguided position. The New Testament had not yet been written during Jesus’ ministry. It was being lived. Further, Jesus read and referred to the Old Testament as the Holy inspired Word.
This is a common myth. The NT letters and the gospel were written down almost immediately after the events – not 40 years later which would be absurd.
Luke addresses his gospel to theophilus .
You cant live a message unless you RECEIVE the message – you might receive it in writing or orally but you have to get it .
Paul’s letter to the corinthians would have been read out in the churches right away – they did not sit on a shelf for 50 years . It would have been copied extensively and circulated among all the churches at the TIME they were written as well as the gospels and other NT letters.
The early Jewish Christians were steeped in the OT and they knew how to preach the NT scripture – just because the NT may not have been in one bound book does not mean the NT gospels and letters sat on shelves gathering dust.
The NT was written before the foundation of the world and is Jesus – the WORD made flesh – Jesus being the WORD.
Even Revelations must have been written before 70 ad since there was no mention of the destruction of Jerusalem in Rev. or any other scripture.
Plus the destruction was predicted by Jesus showing that all the NT was written down before 70 ad .
Those who do not love Mary, do not love Jesus! That is a wound that the Reformation had visited upon the Church of Christ!
Be careful what “christ” the RCC is referring to. If truth be told, the RCC puts more focus on Mary teaching that she is mediatrix which is heresy. It is not biblically supported nor is any immaculate conception, lifetime of virginity or assumption into heaven. Does scripture not tell us to verify all gospel messages with that of Scripture like good Bereans? Gid’s Word is the authority, not the RCC and its errant gospel message.
Do we not see most RCC churches named after Mary and the saints?
Would God break his own commandments? The 4th Commandment says to ‘Honour thy father and mother’. Jesus’ mother is to be honoured. If you dishonour her, you dishonour Christ. He gave her to all humanity from the Cross (see the Gospel of John). She was a consecrated virgin. When the Archangel Gabriel told her she was ‘full of grace’, that she would conceive and give birth to the Son of God, she replied ‘How could this be since I know no man?’ She was already betrothed to Joseph so if they were to have conjugal relationships she would not need to ask this question. That’s proof she had no intention of consummating her marriage. She remained a virgin even after Christ’s birth. If she had other children, how do you explain the fact that one of the last things Our Lord did from the cross was entrust her to John? That means there were no other children to take care of her. She also loves you and wants to intercede for you to her Son. That’s what she did at the wedding of Cana, she interceded for the married couple who had no wine.
I recently suggested to a protestant friend that all his information about Catholicism came from sources hostile to the church, and that maybe getting his knowledge about the Holy Church in this way was like finding out about Judaism by reading Mein Kampf….
Next time you attend a ” woman must doas YOU want her to” rally stop by the orphanage and give some life to some of the thousands of children you could raise and nurture if you spent you money as your saviour TRIED to teach you.
Jesus (according to the books written after his death WAY after ie new testament) would have helped the LIVING children. Not spent his time yelling baby killer and murderer at some poor woman.
Besides you were taught to let god judge.Seems most christians have a learning disability.
it is not “anti-Church” so stop being so arrogant. Stop calling the Catholic institution the “Church” – it isnt. the Church of Jesus Christ is HIS BODY OF BELIEVERS WORLDWIDE, catholic or non-catholic. The very definition of the Church has nothing to do with the “Catholic” institution.
How sad is it that so many Catholics love to mock non-catholics who give honest humble reproof to catholics, but most of the time catholics arrogantly discount it as just anti-catholic bias bla bla bla.
Read the garbage, the LIES, that Francis spoke recently in the Phillipines to a huge gathering of youth. Blathering on about the greatest challenge facing mankind being climate change ????!!! ARE YOU KIDDING ME? That is a pack of lies, anyone who knows this trash spouted by these liars like al gore. and the global “pastor” of the catholic “church” agrees with al gore. Instead of talking about the REAL Greatest challenge: THAT OF A LOST & DYING WORLD DYING WITHOUT JESUS CHRIST.
Oh, no, it’s GLOBAL WARMING.
open your eyes, people. seriously.
Sadly this is the kind of nonsense having no authority except one’s only “God given” interpretation of scripture brings. Funny how Protestants all are infallibly guided by God in their pure interpretation of scripture yet come to thousands of different conclusions.
Would an all wise and loving God leave His people with no guidance other than personal preferences in how to follow His Son’s holy will? No, He did not leave us spiritual orphans, He gave us His Church. The one He specifically gave Peter the keys to bind and loose sins in His name and He said would be with us until the end of time and that would never fall.
Did this Church magically disappear and make Christ a liar until the true “holiness” of the anti-Semite Martin Luther appeared and pulled it out of nowhere? Damnedable nonsense.
Without the Church that He told us to listen to we are without hope and He would be a liar. Christ is not a liar but the father of lies has deceived many into following false teachings in His name.
I was a Protestant once, then I allowed myself to think beyond the party line I was told. I recommend reading, praying, and studying to learn the truth.
As far as to what any given Pope thinks grave threats are to our physical well being, that’s their opinion. If you look beyond what you’ve been told, the Pope only teaches infallibly about certain matters and in certain situations. Catholics are free to disagree about a great many things, but the roots of the faith aren’t up for grabs as whims determine such as for Protestants.
It may be worth considering however that we are called by God to be good stewards of His creation, and careless abuse of the Earth would not please Him greatly. This is coming from someone who believes that the seriousness of the climate change scare is greatly overstated and widely abused for profit.
Where is Pope Frankie’s response to SCOTUS decision on gay marriage. He hasn’t responded at all.
Merely natural good works make the atheist a humanitarian – not a Christian. To suggest – as Pope Francis does – that philanthropic good works are some sort of “common ground” for believers and non-believers is false…a
meritorious good work must have the supernatural motive of love of neighbor for God’s sake. This supernatural motive is completely absent from the atheist who negates God by his very existence. His “good works” will not save
him; any more than they will save the Protestant who does humanitarian works;
but does not obey the precepts of the objective moral order. Do not get me
wrong – I am not saying that Francis is preaching the heresy of universal
salvation [i.e., apocatastasis] but he is preaching the heresy of good works alone – without supernatural faith.
Yes Carl, but Pope Francis is not preaching the heresy of good works alone. If you take what he said in context, he said that he stands by what the Church has always taught when it comes to salvation, and that is: if a person does not know the Truth, yet seeks it however he knows to, this person too has a chance at eternal life. He’s not saying, “Those who know in their heart of hearts that the Catholic Christian faith is the only way to God, and yet refuse to comply with it, they are still saved.” He is speaking to the ones of ignorance, which is what the Church has always said.
Their ignorance will not save them, if they do not elicit the Acts of faith, hope, charity, and perfect contrition for their sins necessary for salvation. If they only have imperfect contrition for their sins; how can they be restored to a state of grace without Sacramental Absolution – Confession to a Roman Catholic Priest? This is what the Church has always said.
That’s not true Carl. The Church has always spoken of those invincibly ignorant, and it was clarified with Vatican II –
The Church recognizes that God does not condemn those who are innocently ignorant of the truth about his offer of salvation. Regarding the doctrine in question, the Catechism of the Catholic Church (quoting Vatican II document Lumen Gentium, 16) states:
This affirmation is not aimed at those who, through no
fault of their own, do not know Christ and his Church: Those who, through no fault of their own, do not know the Gospel of Christ or his Church, but who nevertheless seek God with a sincere heart, and, moved by grace, try in their actions to do his will as they know it through the dictates of their conscience—those too may achieve eternal salvation. (CCC 847)
Vatican II document Gaudium Et Spesteaches similarly on the possibility of salvation:
All this holds true not only for Christians, but for all
men of good will in whose hearts grace works in an unseen way. For, since Christ died for all men, and since the ultimate vocation of man is in fact one, and divine, we ought to believe that the Holy Spirit in a manner known only to God offers to every man the possibility of being associated with this paschal mystery.
This teaching is consistent with Jesus’ own teaching about those who innocently reject him: “If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have sin” (Jn 15:22).
But once a person comes to know the truth, he must embrace it or he will be culpable of rejecting it. We see this in Jesus’ words to the Pharisees: “If you were blind, you would have no guilt; but now that you say, ‘We see,’ your guilt remains” (Jn 9:41).
Jesus’ words that you cite actually increase the guilt of Jews, Pagans, Infidels, [Moslems] and Atheists; it does not “let them off,” as you say. He has in fact come in the Flesh; He has in fact spoken – therefore they have no excuse…The Council only mentions – in a non-infallible manner – the “mere possibility” of their being saved. Fr Barron – with whom I do not agree – stated this “mere possibility” about non-Christians with reference to the documents of the Council: “…the possibility [not certainty]…of sharing in the Paschal Mystery;” and, “may achieve eternal salvation,” not, “will achieve…” This is in line with the statements of Pope Pius IX in “Singulari quaedam,” and “Quanto conficiare moerere,” where he spoke of remote sufficent grace given to non-Christians who have not yet heard [Pagans] or received [Jews, Moslems] the Gospel of Christ. If they cooperate with remote grace, they will receive the proximate grace of conversion to the true Catholic faith by means of Missionaries. “Faith cometh through hearing [fides ex auditu], says Saint Paul. “But how can they believe if they have not heard, and how can they hear if no one is sent?”
INVINCIBLE IGNORANCE OF THE GOSPEL IS NOT THE “EIGHTH” SACRAMENT – !
This is the “hermeneutic of continuity…”
Take it or leave it.
So Carl, you are arguing against the Magisterium. And I think I will keep listening the Church and what she has spoken about salvation, rather than any individual who interprets the bible on his or her own accord.
Thank you! This response makes me smile 🙂
I am not interpreting the Bible of my own accord; [Catholics do not do that] you are interpreting the Magisterium of your own accord by practically teaching the heresy that all men are saved – except those who stubbornly refuse to become Catholics, while knowing that this is the one true Church; falsely basing this notion upon “Lumen Gentium, 16 and the CEC. But the Magisterium has always taught – and still teaches – that Jews, Pagans, Infidels, Agnostics and Atheists CANNOT be saved if before death they do not elicit these acts referred to above. [scil., faith, hope, charity, and perfect contrition (in the abscence of a Priest); or imperfect contrtion (with the Sacramental Absolution of a Priest)]. The 1949 Letter of the Holy Office to the Archbishop of Boston, which is referenced in the footnotes to Lumen Gentium, 16: “An implicit desire [for Baptism] is not sufficient for salvation if it is not informed by true supernatural faith and animated by charity (towards God).” Theologians add that an explicit faith in the Trinity, Incarnation and the Redemption is necessary by a necessity of means [necessitate medii]; after the Incarnation of Our Lord Jesus Christ. This point of dogma was not mentioned in the 1949 Letter because it was not addressing itself to this issue [cf., Monsignor Francis Fenton, The Church and Salvation, 1959]. Christ shed every drop of His Precious Blood upon the Cross to institute the Seven Sacraments which are morally necessary for salvation. Non-Christians do not have ANY of the Sacraments, and “Baptism of Desire” is difficult – if not impossible – for them because it must be informed by faith, hope, charity and explicit belief in Christ.
You and many other “new Church” Catholics seem to suggest that there are TWO Economies of Salvation: one for Christians, and the other for non-Christians and the “whatevers” who believe in anything or nothing. The Church of Vatican II and the Roman Catholic Church; which are one and the same – for there is only one Church – does not in fact teach two economies of salvation. There is no Luther, Mohammed, or Buddha in Heaven – only Our Lord Jesus Christ.
I am out of here: there is no use in multipling words when nobody is listening.
Carl!! Is this what is stated in YOUR Catechism? –
The Church recognizes that God does not condemn those who are
innocently ignorant of the truth about his offer of salvation. Regarding
the doctrine in question, the Catechism of the Catholic Church (quoting
Vatican II document Lumen Gentium, 16) states:
This affirmation is not aimed at those who, through no
fault of
their own, do not know Christ and his Church: Those who, through no
fault of their own, do not know the Gospel of Christ or his Church, but
who nevertheless seek God with a sincere heart, and, moved by grace, try
in their actions to do his will as they know it through the dictates of
their conscience—those too may achieve eternal salvation. (CCC 847)
Vatican II document Gaudium Et Spesteaches similarly on the possibility of salvation:
All this holds true not only for Christians, but for all
men of
good will in whose hearts grace works in an unseen way. For, since
Christ died for all men, and since the ultimate vocation of man is in
fact one, and divine, we ought to believe that the Holy Spirit in a
manner known only to God offers to every man the possibility of being
associated with this paschal mystery.
This teaching is consistent with Jesus’ own teaching about those who
innocently reject him: “If I had not come and spoken to them, they would
not have sin” (Jn 15:22).
But once a person comes to know the truth,
he must embrace it or he will be culpable of rejecting it. We see this
in Jesus’ words to the Pharisees: “If you were blind, you would have no
guilt; but now that you say, ‘We see,’ your guilt remains” (Jn 9:41).
Because, this is what I find over and over again – everywhere I look..it’s even on the Vatican’s homepage. So, I don’t know what you are reading that is so different from mine, but I know mine is Roman Catholic. I don’t need to “interpret” anything because the Magisterium does that FOR me, and for you too. But somewhere, something is not right when you are telling me I am wrong, when I am simply cutting and pasting what is stated in every Roman Catholic Catechism. I believe what the Magisterium teaches. I would not be Catholic if I didn’t. Again I say, you have an apparent issue with Rome, not with me.
For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believes in Him should not perish but hve eternal life. Simple. Nor is there salvation in any other, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved. Simple truth, easily understood, nothing ambiguous. My advice for you, come out from among those who would lead you astray with philosophy and vain deciet.
John Deere…is that your real name?? Anyway, thank you for your comments. I agree, of course with the Gospel of John 3:16, as I agree with all of what Our Lord taught. It is simple too. However, problems arise sometimes with the subject of people who have never truly been exposed to Christ, yet seek the truth as best they can. This was the subject of which I was talking about with the above Carl. I appreciate what you said though.
So you leave no room for anyone born into a protestant faith and taught all their lives that salvation is through faith alone, and just because someone from the Catholic church tells them that is not true (again because they’ve been taught all their life that the Catholic church is the whore of Babylon or some such nonsense), that they are automatically disqualified from being invincibly ignorant? I have come to realize the fact that it is a lot harder to convince someone that what they’ve been taught all their lives is not the truth than you’d think it should be. I believe there is also an element of understanding that must be taken into consideration in order for their to be true “sin”. Granted, I see a lot of people who I might think appear to be adamantly in denial of the truth, but do I know if that is truly denial or if it is invincible ignorance?
We have to try and understand culpability and it’s hard for a “righteous” person to do this. Before, you think that I’m suggesting you are a righteous person – stop – I am not. Culpability is a difficult teaching to understand properly and Robbe is demonstrating a good awareness of it.
i’m listening, Carl. thanks for your efforts to explain. : )
Thank you for listening…
“There is no Luther, Mohammed, or Buddha in Heaven – only Our Lord Jesus Christ.”
Prove it Carl. Prove it.
You are so right Kelly. How true! Blessings!
how do u know who is in Heaven? No one on earth does. We don’t even know if Hitler or Bin-Laden confessed at the moment of death.
The surest way to Heaven is through the Catholic Church. However, what about the young boy or girl who dies in remote sub-saharan Africa or remote Asia. They have never had a chance to accept the Catholic Church.
So what becomes of we who didn’t evangelize and help the Holy Spirit convert those who don’t believe and save their souls? Very few people deserve or earn Heaven. Those that do are called Saints. I am not one although we are all supposed to strive to be and all could be if we choose. as a matter of fact, I can only think of 1 woman who is in Heaven.
We all need to pray that all souls are saved. God have mercy on us and the whole world.
What “She” has spoken about? Sheesh, you people are truly insane.
Kelly, “the Church” is made up of people. It is not a building.
Where did I say it was a building? Methinks thou doest protest too much.
Kelly, you made a comment about me calling “The Church” she. “She” is considered the bride of Christ and “she” is a living, breathing gathering of people in God’s name. Me thinks thou is not following the conversation.
Newsflash: The world doesn’t revolve around you or your writings. So sorry I misinterpreted your crazy-talk.
Newsflash: No one ever said it did. And if its such crazy talk, why do you continue to engage with me? You sound so hostile for no reason.
Well, you seem to think of yourself as ‘the one with the correct knowledge’ on this matter. Did you ever stop to think that perhaps you might be wrong, or that this entire discussion is based on myths that you (and others) were taught as children? I have a feeling you need to have the last word because deep down the more people you can try to convince that your way is the right way, the less doubt you’ll have about your belief system.
But that’s just me. I’m sure you’ll agree we’ll have to agree to disagree. And that’s all this is…a disagreement.
Kelly, I’m not trying to convince you or anyone else what the truth is. I don’t claim to have found the truth, but I know it has found me. Only the Holy Spirit can move peoples’ hearts. All I am is a believer in the One true God. And I thank him every day I had parents who shared their faith with me. He loves us all so much and that includes you. You needn’t believe it. It just is what it is.
You proved my point. Your parents indoctrinated you, so that’s why you believe. You’re entitled to that belief, but again, that’s all it is, a belief. One that excludes billions of others around the world who believe in other gods, or question if the concept entirely. More than anything, I have a feeling you’re trying to convince yourself, but that’s just my opinion. Have a good life! 🙂
Kelly, I can’t speak for Robbe, but I’ve stopped to think that I might be wrong plenty of times. Then I use logic and reason and realize that the evidence that God exists is overwhelming.
Have you ever stopped to think that perhaps you might be wrong?
Of course I have. I’m not saying I’m right — all I’m saying is that no one can say they are, and everyone else is wrong. As I mentioned above, that’s religious blackmail, a HUMAN emotion, not a ‘godlike’ one. In my opinion, there’s far more proof that man created god than the other way around, but I’m sure we’ll have to respectfully agree to disagree. 🙂
One thing we can do is look at the fruits of peoples’ beliefs.
The beliefs of members of the Church led to modernity and so much charity people from the barbaric ages wouldn’t have thought it was possible.
Your secularist beliefs have only led to murder and mistreatment on a level also previously believed to be impossible.
The Catechism uses the same terminology, so why are you calling it “crazy-talk”? Why are you so hurt and angry?
I’m not sure what the ‘Catechism’ has to do with anything — you’ll find that most religions have the same terminology, the same fairy stories, etc..
Why am I so hurt and angry? Because I grew up being harrassed, bullied, shamed, beat up and nearly suicidal because people use the Bible as an excuse for their homophobia and bigotry, just like they did with blacks, with women, etc., etc..
Fortunately, times are changing, and more and more people (even some “Christians”) are realizing how divisive religion is, and are realizing that we’re all the same. I’m grateful for that, and am working on letting go of my anger and hurt. Thanks for asking.
Ugh… Kelly no wonder you are bitter. I am so sorry you were hurt by these people. Not all Christians are like that.
Thanks Robbe, I appreciate your comment. And agree…not all Christians are so bigoted.
Secularists are far more brutal than religious folk. I think you may be upset that your favorite sin is in fact a sin and you’re projecting that on to those people. We all have others hurt our feelings. In your case you may be building these people up in your mind because, even in their wickedness, they reminded you of a truth you can’t stand to hear.
I used to be an atheist and in my case the Christians I despised actually weren’t so bad and I was simply jealous that they seemed happier than me and weren’t as plagued by sin as me.
“Secularists are far more brutal than religious folk.”
Hilarious, if it weren’t so untrue and sad. The bible is full of ‘god-sanctioned’ murder and bloodshed.
Do you have any evidence? The bible is full of God convincing his people to defend themselves against outside aggressors.
You guys have no argument that doesn’t derive from biblical verses taken out of context.
Christians built modernity and gave more charity to others than any group in history by so much that secularists could never catch up even if they actually started doing charity.
Secularism brought us Hitler, Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, etc., etc., etc.
Perhaps you don’t know the truth of the Old Testament if that’s what you believe. The secret to the Old Testament is in Genesis 3:15 and 6:4, if you can interpret it accurately. It led to the reason for the flood.
“Truth”? Okay, whatever. The Bible is a book of fairy tales, bizarre stories and is filled with contradictions and multiple interpretations over thousands of years. And of course murder and bloodshed.
Kelly, salvation is a free gift of grace and by faith it’s bestowed to all who believe on the Lord Jesus Christ. To be born anew is to have your spirit made alive by the Father and that happens the moment you believe in his Son. All who believe in the Son are regenerated spiritually and instantly born into the family of God, forever. The Father will never not be your Father. All who believe will go to the place called Heaven. As children of God however, we’re now required to grow up and mature to the point of bearing fruit which means producing good deeds by his power and on his authority. This is sowing to the Spirit, not the flesh. This maturing process is by faith, and it’s at this point that repentance is required. Repentance is daily, 1 John 1:9. Jesus is our current High Priest and makes continual intercession for us as expressed in the third person of the trinity which is the Holy Spirit who is ruler and governs our lives from his throne which currently is in our hearts. This is the Kingdom of God the Holy Spirit. This means, we are required to cooperate with the leading of the Holy Spirit and volunteer to lay down our lives (self-life, selfish life, ie. human sinful mind, self-will, emotions fueled by our five physical senses) for Jesus’ Sake and follow him. We are to be lead by Spirit. Praying in Spirit. Walking by the Spirit. Sowing to the Spirit. Listening to the Spirit. God the Father is Spirit and we are to Worship him in Spirit. God is Jesus and Jesus is the Word. We are faithful to truth. Faith means to believe in the truth of who Jesus Christ is and what he taught. He modeled how to submit to his Father and he stayed under the Will of the Father regardless of how he felt. He exposed evil and did not come to earth to condemn it, but to save it. He did not come to bring social equality, he came to set the captives free so all who would believe could be saved and do the will of the Father. Not everyone does God’s will, but there’s rewards for those who obey God. God wants every child to know his Son, and to learn to imitate his Son and exhibit Christ-like characteristics. Healthy fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom and necessary in order to understand the true doctrine of Works. We don’t work to get saved or to get to heaven. We work as God’s employee in his field doing his mission work and he will give rewards and pay us for our obedience to him. God’s definition of Love is that we obey him. He wants us to obey him SO HE CAN REWARD US WHEN HIS KINGDOM COMES. He’s COMING TO EARTH and all who earn the inheritance of this Kingdom with work along side of him for a thousand years in the millennium. The Word of God is Jesus Christ. 1 John 1:1 and it is eternal. Our sowing on earth will be reaped in eternity. Thy word is forever settled in heaven. Faith is a lifestyle and it’s a life-long process of becoming like Jesus. We all must grow in grace, unto maturity because it is the fruits of the Holy Spirit that will distinguish the true believers from the fakes. Many professing Christians do not know the truth of what salvation is all about. They think heaven is the end-goal. It is not. The Kingdom of Heaven and inheriting future positions is the goal. True adult Sons of God cooperate and are continually being renewed in their minds unto Christ’s likeness and more and more humility should be exhibited as we learn to overcome the power of sin, the power of our flesh, and the power of our enemy. Everyone struggles with sin. No matter what sin, all sin is offensive to God because he is Holy. But one day soon, at his return, the struggle will be over and we truly will be free. Many Christians will be disappointed when they arrive in Heaven to realize they were deceived on the earth. Any righteous works done in the power of the flesh or for selfish ambitions or to try to GET TO HEAVEN, will be burned up in the Bema seat judgment. 1 Cor. 3:13-15. God is interested in Spiritual matters and a pre-req. is dying to our sinful selfish self. Most Christians don’t know the real creator God nor do they know anything about agape love. A free gift to heaven is unconditional for all who believe. Whether we obey is our choice. Many will be sad to discover they will be disqualified to become co-heirs with Jesus Christ and will be disinherited. To lose your soul is to be disinherited. Saul lost his inheritance due to disobedience. Lot lost his inheritance due to his love of the things of this world, Esau lost his inheritance due to his rebellion and sold his birthright for a bowl of red stew. “what would it profit a man to gain the whole world and lose his soul”. Spirit salvation is a free gift and it’s unconditional, but soul salvation requires sanctification and that requires our willingness and free will to make faith choices to choose Christ’s life over our own selfish will. Success in this endeavor is called being an overcomer and they will inherit all things. Rev. 21:7. Being an overcomer is a VERB and takes determination. No believer ever need worry about going to Hell. That’s a LIE OF SATAN. It’s the rewards at question. This reward is a Kingdom inheritance attained through faithful obedience and it’s about positions of service, prestigious status, honor, high level of glory and being in close proximity to the King in his upcoming Government on the earth. To inherit this honor, a person must die to self, pick up his cross, and imitate Jesus Christ. Giving up lusts of the flesh is not easy for any human being but it will be worth it. The bible is written to Christians and sadly, most do not heed the warnings. No one who practices a sinful lifestyle without repentance will inherit the Kingdom but there is no sin that can send a believer to Hell. You are sealed forever by his Spirit and he’s not an Indian giver. All who believe in the Lord Jesus Christ will be spiritually and bodily redeemed and given a glorified body, but to inherit the Kingdom crowns and thrones of authority, we must live in Christ and put off the old deeds of the sinful self. While on earth, we constantly remain and abide (live) in the true vine Jesus Christ. Please read John 15. Heaven is a free gift. Inheriting the Kingdom is conditional.
First Fruits Ministry – ffruits.org
Sigh.
I’m sure you mean well, but you don’t realize what you’re basically saying boils down to religious blackmail, i.e., “If you don’t believe in my religion, then you’ll be sorry (you’ll go to “hell”, etc..)
If there is a “God”, he or she or it would never blackmail or threaten anyone that has different beliefs. Never.
There’s something called ‘unconditional love’. You might want to read more about that.
Kelly,
I am so sorry you were treated like that. However, of all the places you can go you will not find a place were you are more accepted or loved than the Catholic church. And if Catholics have bullied you than I am especially sorry for that. They are not expressing true Catholicism. The Church is not for the saints but for us sinners. No one will be bullied or harassed for thier sexual identity or practices. the church is full of fornicators, adulterers, and homosexuals. Being a sinner in the church is not the same as being an untouchable in India. It is between you and God.
Thanks for your kind words, but sorry, the Catholic Church, with it’s long and continuing history of pedophilia, is the last place I’d ever want to go. But we’ll have to agree to disagree, as I don’t believe any one church or religion is “better” than another. I’ve received more love and acceptance from atheists…
Rob, Let me reason with you… there’s no reasoning with the unreasonable… trust me 🙂 Peace be with you, brother!
Calm down, Carl. No need to shout.
On the sixth page of
the introduction of the Catechism of the Catholic Church, Saint John
Paul II wrote
“Therefore, I ask all the Church’s Pastors
and the Christian faithful to receive this catechism in a spirit of
communion and to use it assiduously in fulfilling their mission of
proclaiming the faith and calling people to the Gospel life. This
catechism is given to them that it may be a sure and authentic
reference text for teaching catholic doctrine…”
Get your copy of the Catechism of the Catholic Church. Turn to Part One,
Section Two, Chapter Three, Article 9, Paragraph 3 The Church Is One,
Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic. I am cutting & pasting from the
copy on the Vatican
http://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/__P29.HTM
This authentic teaching reference for Catholics, and I assume you count
yourself as one, says the following:
“Who belongs to the Catholic Church?
836
“All men are called to this catholic unity of the People of God. . . .And to it, in different ways, belong or are ordered: the Catholic faithful, others who believe
in Christ, and finally all mankind, called by God’s grace to salvation.”
Continue reading. Several lines later we come
to the part that covers our relationship with the Jews.
“The Church and non-Christians
839″Those who have not yet received the Gospel are related to the People of God in various ways.”325
The relationship of the Church with the Jewish People.
When she delves into her own mystery, the Church, the People of God in the New Covenant, discovers her link with the Jewish People,326 “the first to hear the Word of God.”327 The Jewish faith, unlike other non-Christian religions, is already a response to God’s revelation in the Old Covenant. To the Jews “belong the sonship, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the worship, and the promises; to them belong the patriarchs, and of their race, according to the flesh, is the Christ”,328 “for the gifts and the call of God are irrevocable.”329
840 and when one considers the future, God’s People of the Old Covenant and
the new People of God tend towards similar goals: expectation of the coming (or the return) of the Messiah. But one awaits the return of the Messiah who died and rose from the dead and is recognized as Lord and Son of God; the other awaits the coming of a Messiah, whose features remain hidden till the end of time; and the latter waiting is accompanied by the drama of not knowing or of
misunderstanding Christ Jesus.”
This says to me that the Jews are our spiritual ancestors and that when we interact we (you & me) should share that Jesus is the Messiah that they are waiting for. It’s like visiting your great-grandmother who has never used a computer but has been looking for the next generation in typewriters all her life –
until you introduce her to the PC computer which has been around for
quite a long time.
Next it talks about, how did you put it, the “Infidels, [Moslems]”
Our catechism, in the very next line says:
841 The Church’s relationship with the Muslims.
“The plan of salvation also includes those who acknowledge the Creator,
in the first place amongst whom are the Muslims; these profess to hold
the faith of Abraham, and together with us they adore the one, merciful
God, mankind’s judge on the last day.”330
Our Muslim friends profess that they know the faith of Abraham. So more information must be shared with them. Abraham knew God the Father, but not God the Son and God the Holy Spirit. We know that God is One God in Three Persons. We must introduce the Three Persons.
Keep reading, Carl. The next line goes on to address your “Pagans” saying:
“842 The Church’s bond with non-Christian religions is in the first place the
common origin and end of the human race:
All nations form but one community. This is so because all stem from the one stock which God created to people the entire earth, and also because all share a common destiny, namely God. His providence, evident goodness, and
saving designs extend to all against the day when the elect are gathered
together in the holy city. . .331
843 The Catholic Church recognizes in other religions that search, among shadows and images, for the God who is unknown yet near since he gives life and breath and all things and wants all men to be saved. Thus, the Church considers all goodness and truth found in these religions as “a preparation for the Gospel and given by him who enlightens all men that they may at length
have life.”332
OK, Carl. Roll up your sleeves because there is more teaching to do here. This is starting from the beginning with someone who has not had the opportunity to learn what you know, so go share it.
Keep your head in the book and keep reading. Next we come to the atheists. Our authoritative teaching tool says:
“844 In their religious behavior, however, men also display the limits and errors
that disfigure the image of God in them:
Very often, deceived by the Evil One, men have become vain in their reasonings, and have exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and served the creature rather than the Creator. Or else, living and dying in this world without God, they are exposed to ultimate despair.”333
Surely Carl, you cannot have harsh feelings for anyone in such a pitiful situation
although teaching here begins before the beginning since very often this person has hardened himself against the Truth and may be not only defiant but antagonistic. So you have to love him and keep loving him because God is Love. That is why love conquers all.
Finally in summation the catechism continues with:
“845 To reunite all his children, scattered and led astray by sin, the Father
willed to call the whole of humanity together into his Son’s Church. the Church is the place where humanity must rediscover its unity and salvation. the Church is “the world reconciled.” She is that bark which “in the full sail of the Lord’s cross, by the breath of the Holy Spirit, navigates safely in this world.” According to another image dear to the Church Fathers, she is prefigured by Noah’s ark, which alone saves from the flood.334″
But don’t go away now! The next part of your post is addressed by the very next part of the catechism:
“Outside the Church there is no salvation”
846 How are we to understand this affirmation, often repeated by the Church
Fathers?335
Re-formulated positively, it means that all salvation comes from Christ the Head through the Church which is his Body:
Basing itself on Scripture and Tradition, the Council teaches that the Church, a pilgrim now on earth, is necessary for salvation: the one Christ is the mediator and the way of salvation; he is present to us in his body which is the Church. He himself explicitly asserted the necessity of faith and Baptism, and thereby affirmed at the same time the necessity of the Church which men enter through Baptism as through a door. Hence they could not be saved who, knowing that the Catholic Church was founded as necessary by God through Christ, would
refuse either to enter it or to remain in it.336
847 This affirmation is not aimed at those who, through no fault of their own,
do not know Christ and his Church:
Those who, through no fault of their own, do not know the Gospel of Christ or his Church, but who nevertheless seek God with a sincere heart, and, moved by
grace, try in their actions to do his will as they know it through the dictates of their conscience – those too may achieve eternal salvation.337″
Gee. That last part is the same as Robbe’s post. I guess that means instead of sitting around splitting hairs over who is and who isn’t going to be saved, we all…and that’s you included Carl…need to start loving each other a whole lot more. Because when you love the people around you, your demeanor changes and you become attractive, approachable, someone that other people want to know and want to talk to. When you leave your comfort zone and make
connections with all kinds of other people, you have opportunity.
Some people call it networking and use it for business. We call it
evangelizing and let God use it and us to teach in teachable moments.
YOUR CHURCH ROBBE HAS KILLED 50 MILLION BIBLE BELIEVING CHRISTIAN THROUGHOUT HISTORY…. HER JUDGEMENT WILL SOON COME WHEN THE CITY OF SEVEN HILLS WILL BE DESTROYED…
Richard, You seem to misunderstand The Church. The Church is made up of people, period. And every one of us is sinful, which means, there are good and bad that make up everything. And you can believe whatever you want, but to say “Her judgment will soon come……” is saying that an inanimate object will have judgment – it’s impossible. People will be judged, and not any institution.
Amen
Carl, should you want to make charges/comments as these, please, please, will you get the CORRECT information – look at Catholic Answers or Catholics.com or gee, maybe even the Catechism! Don’t assume you “know” what you are talking about – when we do that we merely show the world how foolish we can be!
The Catechism is not intended to be a dogmatic treatise; but merely an “authentic norm” for catechesis. I studied Dogmatic and Moral theology before the Catechism was issued. I have no prudent fear of error – but you should.
The Magisterium is the source of the Catechism Carl. Since you know better, maybe you should be the Pope.
Absolute nonsense. You’re suggesting, as so many other religions do, that if one doesn’t believe as you do, or as your religion has indoctrinated you to believe, then one will go to hell. That is religious blackmail, pure and simple, and blackmail is not something a loving ‘god’ would ever consider.
So sad that so many people over the age of 10 still believe this stuff. So afraid of living in the 21st century, let alone the 19th.
For an (implicitly) self-proclaimed rationalist, I see a lot of knee-jerk posturing and very little thinking. First of all, I can think of maybe three religions off the top of my head that believe in anything remotely resembling the Christian conception of hell. That’s a pretty far cry from “so many other religions.” Second, you completely misrepresented what Carl said. He did not say “Anyone who does not believe in God is going to hell.” What he did say was that good works for an atheist and good works for a believer are different, so the appeal to common ground is faulty. Stemming from that, you find the notion of hell to be blackmail based on a rather childish, simplistic notion of hell. It is something along the lines of “Do what God says and wants, or you will be sent to hell.” Of course, the bigger point is that sin leads to putting of oneself before God, which is just a temporal example of hell, namely rejecting God for eternity and suffering from the separation (but still not repenting even due to that suffering).
Then of course, there is your last sentence, which is just as dogmatic and anti-rational as any fundamentalist saying might be. I take personal amusement out of it considering just today I was writing a paper on the dogmatism fallacy. Your’s would have been a good example to include.
And finally, since you seem to have no problem psychoanalyzing others, I’m sure you won’t mind if I do the same to you. It appears to me that your reasons for rejecting God and religion are largely emotional since affirmation of Christianity would deprive you of the lifestyle you desire. It has less to do with reason and logic and more to do with an “I’ll do what I want” mentality.
By your standards, it seems my above assessment was entirely fair. Applied consistently, it would appear that you should have no problem with it since I simply included some of your favorite tactics. If you didn’t entirely like my tone or what I said, maybe it would be time to give up the condescending , Dunning-Kruger effect, style attitude and actually address people as if they weren’t children. Your call, though.
Sorry, but it’s not fair. I wasn’t replying to Carl, didn’t even notice his posts. I was engaged in a discussion with Robbe and JoAnna.
The “lifestyle I desire”? Newflash: Sexual orientation is not a choice, not a “lifestyle”. That statement alone shows your monumental ignorance on the subject.
Not sure what you mean in saying you were not replying to Carl, since it shows your post being a reply as designated by the arrow to Carl’s name. Still, it is less who you were responding to and more what you said at all.
Further, I never mentioned sexuality, so what you stated was a misrepresentation of what I said. But let’s run with that example. I would agree that sexual orientation isn’t a lifestyle simpliciter. However, it can certainly play a large factor in lifestyle (lifestyle being a broader range of dispositions and actions). So I’d say my comment still stands (at least as far as the validity of psychoanalyzing goes).
Let me guess: you believe people can become gay, but not become straight? Or are all people who become homosexual later in life complete liars?
Your ignorance knows no bounds. Sorry to be so blunt, but it’s clear, you can’t even read let alone comprehend what others have written. To spell it out for you, people are born gay, bisexual or straight. No one “chooses” their orientation.
And no one “becomes homosexual” later in life. You might try a PFLAG meeting — seriously — or a library — so you can educate yourself on the subject. 95%+ knew they were ‘different’ when they were around 4-5 years old.
And seriously, think about it? Who would choose to be part of a group that is so despised, so ridiculed, and humiliated? At least that negative attitude is finally changing.
Best of luck.
Ignoring the irrational claims regarding ignorance (“everyone knows that!” proves nothing!), do you have any actual evidence for the claim that homosexuality is caused genetically?
It’s just that the only sources for this I ever find are modern mainstream culture, which claims that ‘everyone knows that!’.
So, quoting you, ‘To spell it out for you,’ maybe it’s really not true.
And faithful Christians choose everyday to be part of a group that are addressed just as you have. But this negative attitude is only getting worse.
God bless!
Again, I’ll end my part of this conversation by suggesting you contact a local PFLAG group in your area, where you can talk to fellow Christians, who also are gay, and know they were born that way. It isn’t a choice.
So no evidence, no reputable study, just the hearsay of very-interested parties, who are extremely biased and have believed the tale you have offered.
I’ll prefer the “no proof/evidence then no claim” way of thinking, thanks very much.
Would be good of you to treat others who do not subscribe to your opinion with some respect, rather than making out that they are stupid and ignorant.
“So no evidence, no reputable study, just the hearsay of very-interested parties, who are extremely biased and have believed the tale you have offered.”
Are you talking about Christianity or sexual orientation?
Plenty of evidence for Christianity. Enough to convince a great many to give their lives for their faith. Early Church, through the ages… and the most martyrs of any century was during the last.
Don’t believe the (modernistic, fabled) hype!
There is more evidence that man created “God” than the other way around. Anyway, I’m sure we’ll have to agree to disagree. Have a nice fairy-tale life! 🙂
Again, claiming to have evidence but failing to present it.
Maybe the very-well-evidenced Christianity is not the fairy-tale.
Those martyrs were and continue to be very real.
Again, claiming to have evidence but failing to present it. Are you talking to me, or YOURSELF? Sheesh.
Show us some evidence for the story of “Jonah and the Whale”, and while you’re at it…
Salah lived 433 years — where’s the proof?
Peleg lived 239 years. ???
Salah lived 433 years. ???
The whole earth was of one language.
Job is the brother of dragons.
The earth is set on foundations and it does not move.
Jesus walks on water and calms the sea.
Jesus cures a blind man by spitting in his eyes.
If you are sick, rely on the power of prayer. It works every time.
Abijah spoke to 1,200,000 soldiers at one time.
Goliath was ten feet tall (“six cubits and a span”)
Moses hits a rock with his rod and Presto! — water comes out.
God killed Egyptians and their livestock by smashing them with huge hailstones mixed with fire.
Evidence please.
You didn’t ask for evidence. You simply demanded that everyone believes there is no evidence.
I asked for your evidence. You still have failed to present it.
Instead you demand the same of me (without demanding it!).
You were the one who slated another poster as stupid but now you seem to have backed down regarding him.
You claimed as objective fact that homosexuality was genetic alone. This claim requires scientific verification. You do not have it because it does not exist.
So instead you claim Christianity is completely false because I cannot produce recorded evidence for specific events you demand. Buy a time machine – that’s as silly as demanding I produce evidence for Jesus walking on water (photos? film? !!!).
The evidence I have is that 10 of the 12 guys present when he walked on water gave their lives for sticking to the claim that he is the Son of God (and thus walked on water as is recorded in Christian texts). An 11th (John) miraculously survived several attempts on his life for sticking to the same claim. Therefore, eye witnesses were convinced that he did, enough to die for. That’s very compelling evidence.
Now offer your evidence for your claims on homosexuality or admit you have none.
(And an apology to the poster you insulted would be fitting also.)
Again, twisting words and/or putting words in others mouths. Where did I ‘demand’ anything of anyone? Nowhere. Where did I say that “Christianity is completely false”? Nowhere.
All I’ve been trying to point out is your hypocrisy, but you can’t see that, so I’ll leave you with this, from a recent article, and ask you again to consider contacting your local PFLAG organization to hear the perspective from gay Christians. Now keep in mind that I’m not ‘demanding’ you do this, just suggesting that it might be worthwhile.
Here’s an article on the latest research:
“A study of gay men in the US has found fresh evidence that male sexual orientation is influenced by genes. Scientists tested the DNA of 400 gay men and found that genes on at least two chromosomes affected whether a man was gay or straight.
A region of the X chromosome called Xq28 had some impact on men’s sexual behaviour – though scientists have no idea which of the many genes in the region are involved, nor how many lie elsewhere in the genome.
Another stretch of DNA on chromosome 8 also played a role in male sexual orientation – though again the precise mechanism is unclear.
Researchers have speculated in the past that genes linked to homosexuality in men may have survived evolution because they happened to make women who carried them more fertile. This may be the case for genes in the Xq28 region, as the X chromosome is passed down to men exclusively from their mothers.
Michael Bailey, a psychologist at Northwestern University in Illinois, set out the findings at a discussion event held in conjunction with the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Chicago on Thursday. “The study shows that there are genes involved in male sexual orientation,” he said. The work has yet to be published, but confirms the findings of a smaller study that sparked widespread controversy in 1993, when Dean Hamer, a scientist at the US National Cancer Institute, investigated the family histories of more than 100 gay men and found homosexuality tended to be inherited. More than 10% of brothers of gay men were gay themselves, compared to around 3% of the general population. Uncles and male cousins on the mother’s side had a greater than average chance of being gay, too.
The link with the mother’s side of the family led Hamer to look more closely at the X chromosome. In follow-up work, he found that 33 out of 40 gay brothers inherited similar genetic markers on the Xq28 region of the X chromosome, suggesting key genes resided there.
Hamer faced a firestorm when his study was published. The fuss centred on the influences of nature and nurture on sexual orientation. But the work also raised the more dubious prospect of a prenatal test for sexual orientation. The Daily Mail headlined the story “Abortion hope after ‘gay genes findings’ “. Hamer warned that any attempt to develop a test for homosexuality would be “wrong, unethical and a terrible abuse of research”.
The gene or genes in the Xq28 region that influence sexual orientation have a limited and variable impact. Not all of the gay men in Bailey’s study inherited the same Xq28 region. The genes were neither sufficient, nor necessary, to make any of the men gay.
The flawed thinking behind a genetic test for sexual orientation is clear from studies of twins, which show that the identical twin of a gay man, who carries an exact replica of his brother’s DNA, is more likely to be straight than gay. That means even a perfect genetic test that picked up every gene linked to sexual orientation would still be less effective than flipping a coin.
While genes do contribute to sexual orientation, other multiple factors play a greater role, perhaps including the levels of hormones a baby is exposed to in the womb. “Sexual orientation has nothing to do with choice,” said Bailey. “We found evidence for two sets [of genes] that affect whether a man is gay or straight. But it is not completely determinative; there are certainly other environmental factors involved.”
Again, have a good life. This is my last post.
If this is not a demand to cower before the demands of secular thinking then I dread to think what is, Kelly. These are your own words:
‘Your ignorance knows no bounds. Sorry to be so blunt, but it’s clear, you can’t even read let alone comprehend what others have written. To spell it out for you, people are born gay, bisexual or straight. No one “chooses” their orientation.’
Also, your list, which looks like a list of “impossibles” (in your beliefs) clearly demonstrates your position that Christianity is false.
Be honest, Kelly. If these were not your intentions, what were these words there for? Why did you write them?
As for your supposed evidence, did you actually read it? It admits it has no idea what it says, no idea what it works, no idea how it comes about and admits that in identical twins, a homosexual twin is more likely to be heterosexual even in sharing the same genetic make-up! Even the conclusion contradicts itself – ‘other multiple factors play a greater role’ but wants to claim evidence. How is this scientifically proven? It’s mere wishful thinking.
If anyone bases their beliefs on such poor use of the scientific method, God help them!
Science is about knowledge, not stringing together vague hopes to back-up social fashions.
You sound like a man “Kelly”. Hmmm.
Attacking then backing down. Sounds like you to a tee.
And now to deal with your claims in a different way, that is methodologically.
Who has demanded that you personally accept your Judaeo-Christian statements as scientifically true?
These are matters of faith.
If I recall, you were insulting the earlier poster for not holding scientifically that homosexuals are genetically-determined. I asked for evidence. That is reasonable, no?
So, faith is holding beliefs without objective evidence. Science is an empirically-based knowledge system and is repeatable in producing evidence.
Please can we see your evidence?
Don’t forget there are plenty of Christians becoming martyrs TODAY in the middle east and Africa.
Homosexuals are the most celebrated group in the country at this time. You’re far more likely to be persecuted for orthodox Christian belief than for homosexual perversion.
So you’re calling everyone who doesn’t claim to have been “born that way” a liar? The huge number of people who claim to have changed their orientation are liars?
I would agree that we’re all somewhere on a continuum of sexual attraction, but the choices we make are what deepen or mitigate those lustful desires. Plenty of people have conquered homosexual lust through prayer and clean living.
Thomas,
How would you like it if someone called you a pervert? Or how would you like it if someone suggested that your orientation doesn’t equate with “clean” living? Would you say the same thing towards people of a different race from yours?
To clarify, if someone ‘chooses’ to be with the opposite sex, and then at a later time ‘chooses’ to be with the same sex, then they are probably bisexual…as you say…we’re all somewhere on the continuum of sexual attraction (although I would call it ‘orientation’). The vast majority by far are certain their orientation was not a choice, but if some are claiming it was, the perhaps that’s because they’re attracted to both sexes, i.e., they’re bisexual. Some may be liars, but please, don’t put words in my mouth.
As for your final assertion, I just beg to differ. They have tried to change their orientation, but even the most fervent fundamentalist Christian “You can change your sexuality” groups have long since admitted not only that it doesn’t work, but that it can do great psychological harm.
To call homosexuals “the most celebrated group in the country” is just laughable. You need to get out more, and for the last time — truly — a good place to start would be at a PFLAG meeting at your local church.
Have a good life Thomas. 🙂
People are born with hemophilia or sickle cell or a number of other genetically transferred things. We call them diseases. No one is advocating for homosexuality to be recognized as a disease, are they?
“people are born gay, bisexual or straight. No one “chooses” their orientation.”
Hmmmmm….ok….wellllll To spell it out for you, in just as blunt a way, people are born. <—- The dot is a period and signifies the end of the statement. After people are born, they grow. When they reach the state of adulthood they reproduce so new people will be born and the species will continue. We are humans and humans do not breed like animals. Animals are actually a lot more natural than humans because they know enough to attract the opposite sex and mate with the opposite sex — because there are any litters born or eggs laid or fish hatched or any other type of sexual reproduction unless you have a male and a female.
If a person has an attraction to a gender with whom it is impossible to mate, that is a darn shame because they have a terrible cross to bear and will have to fight desires all their life.
If a person has an attraction to a gender with whom they certainly can mate, they still have a terrible cross to bear and have to fight desires or people like me would act like bitches in heat whenever a handsome guy is available.
Keep your private parts private and no one will know what the heck attracts you. No one needs to know what attracts you. Quite frankly most people don't care what attracts you. Most of us don't want you to tell us what attracts you.
If for some reason you are approached by a busy body wants to fix you up with someone, all that needs to be said is "I'm just not interested, thank you anyway." You do NOT need to disclose the fact that you have desires that run counter to the generative process.
If I were you I’d change your name to either “UnEducated”, “Ignorant”, or “In Complete Denial”. You’re basically saying “Let’s all pretend that gays don’t exist.” The entire part about procreation is common sense, but that’s why only a small percentage of animals and humans are bisexual or gay.
Seriously, your post has to be one of the most bizarre in recent history. I truly don’t understand how some people can be so ignorant…
Orientation may not be a choice, but acting on it definitely is. Chastity is for everybody.
As an atheist you believe you’re a self-creating man-god who forgot her own self-creation and came to earth with all the theists or else one of your ancestors POOF appeared from thin air. So don’t pretend you’re more rational because you have a whacky belief system whose adherents have the highest rate of suicide of any group in history.
You live in a world where only creation can be proved. We have ZERO evidence of any organism or anything whatsoever appearing from thin air for no reason. And you call us crazy for believing that a world full of human creations came from a Creator.
Get a Catholic Catechism and then come back. Go doctrine by doctrine….to get the context and then go to the sacraments.
Au contraire, the RCC is no path to salvation. In this belief, the RCC is no better than Islam which has the same belief, that it is the only path to salvation. There is only one path, a born again believer in Jesus Christ as your redeemer, the only intercessor to the Father and a contrite repentance of sins. Jesus Christ, repentance and living His Word are all that are needed for salvation.
Man cannot atone for sin. No amount of good works will get man to heaven without belief in Jesus Christ as the savior and repentance. Good works are a byproduct of renewed life in Christ. Francis is a heretic. Interesting how this time in history spawns a Jesuit pope. Who is really in charge? Jesuits must take their marching orders from the Jesuit general. So is it really the general who is in charge? Know this that Jesuits coined social justice in 1843 and have been teaching liberation theology in central and south America for 100 years. They were responsible for the Sandinista revolution in the 80s as well and laid the ground work for LGBT activism which began in 70s and 80s. These are worthy research topics. Let the truth be known.
Have you ever bother to read all Francis’ writings and reflections and teachings on Christ? Such a position, Calvinistic…. faulty.
Go to http://www.calledtocommunion and read about former Calvinist ministers who are ordained and highly educated come to see that the Catholic Church is right all along.
You are reading from your point of view and thinking it is right and everybody else is wrong. That is very dangerous. And it is partially based on anti-Catholicism….reflecting you are misjudging other people and consider yourself superior.
Ever been to a priestly ordination? They lay prostrate on the floor, dying totally to Christ. They live 24 hours for Christ. THey give their lives for Christ and us. They preach the Word daily, they receive the Lord in sacrament.
You do not pass judgment on that you do not understand..the saints themselves condemn any sort of judgement.
Christ instituted His universal Church 2000 years ago. Like Israel, you will see the ordinary, the extraordinary, successes and failures because the Church is comprised of human beings who have dignity.
What I am getting at in the last statement, is that position such as yours are so hurtful to Catholics and it is so off base because you never understood what it means to be Catholic.
So as I advise others, seek that Christianity that does not see itself as better than others but instead places its total focus on the Lord.
You unfriended him for that? What’s wrong with you? You had the perfect chance to explain to a Protestant, who mostly gets his stories from the MSM or from Catholic-hating Protestants, how he was wrong and have a great debate with the guy! Go friend him again!
JoFro!! What’s wrong with me?? lol!! I don’t know!! That’s funny! But okay, I will go back and “Friend” him again. But I don’t know if he will listen to some ‘person in Texas’ on his Facebook page where he has a thousand other followers.
Maybe he might not but a good debate on his page with his thousand other followers should send him glancing over at your comments, wouldn’t it? I think it’s just my policy to not unfriend someone who posts anti-Catholic stuff until of course they start becoming personally abusive to me or threaten me! I just feel you missed a golden opportunity to explain the Church’s position and the way the MSM misinterprets our Pope!
Well before I unfriended him I did say that he received a poor interpretation of what Pope Francis said. But I like I said, I will go back and RE-friend him again…lol….you’re right you know, and I thank you for your suggestion. (I still don’t know what’s wrong with me though….lol!)
Defend our faith? What did Jesus teach? Pope Francis is like Jesus….it’s all about love. Jesus said”judge not”…let’s try to be more like our Savior who loved us all equally and invited everyone to join His Church. God bless you.
Yes Zola, when someone attacks the Church with slander, we need to be able to defend her with the truth, spoken in love of course.
Have catholics changed their mind and decided one can no longer buy their way into the mythical kingdom of heavan?
There has never been doctrine within the Catholic Church that states one can buy their way into Heaven. There have been abuses by people within the Church, as is true within any and every religion. But the Catholic Church’s doctrines have always been the same. One can only obtain Heaven through Jesus Christ. This is our belief.
Perhaps you should refresh your memory on the subject of Martin Luther and the founding of the lutheran church. Peace
PS It is quite telling and more than a little interesting.
Like I said, there were abuses, which is what Luther disliked. But it was never indoctrinated that “one can buy his way to Heaven.” And incidentally, Luther never intended to break off from the Catholic Church. The protestant reformation took on a life of it’s own.
Just before Luther Savonarola a great preacher of holiness tried to reform the CC from within . He succeeded and real christianity took root around florence.
Bonfires of lewd books and statues were started – then the church did not like this “cleansing” and burned the poor man at the stake.
So this was the CC chance to reform – they refused and Luther came along.
Thank you nworder. Yes, it was indeed a dark time for the Church. Quite tragic indeed.
Like I stated previously Luther was sick of Noble wealthy men being told in laymans language pay this price in gold land or other wealth and you are assured a straight shot to heavan no waiting pergatory straight shot.
We can disagree of course but I would encourage you or others who might read this thread to go back and research a little deeper.
Have a wonderful evening.
I don’t even know what we are disagreeing on, or why I should do any more “research” on what has been researched to death. Are you just wanting to argue or be “right?” It makes no difference to me unless you’re seeking the truth, which I don’t think you are. But if I’m wrong, let me know. Have a wonderful evening as well.
Not at all wanting to argue. I originally wrote as you know, that Martin Luther was apparently disgusted by what was seemingly common practice from Rome of “allowing” great privlege to Nobelmen. Pay and heavan is yours no problems. That point (unless I misread your post) is I believe what you expressed disagreement with.
It has been researched extensively. Not all have read much about it however.No offence was intended.
Myself, it appears to me that Luther was influenced by such practices.
You seem to disagree. No problem! We disagree.Just simply stating my understanding of factors of influence upon Mr Luthers paths through life.
If they are good people, I think ST JPII said the same thing, also good muslims will go to heaven as well…a good person, even if he has never heard of Christ can go to heaven if they led a good life….we will find out for sure if we get up there…
The pope is correct. He needs to destroy what you idiots believe in, because it’s completely wrong. Your pathetic leaders have been stealing beliefs and making them your own to attract others to your religion since the dawn of time… and on top of that your bible says scientific theories that contradict religious theories are correct. Your whole structure needs to be ripped down and replaced with what is correct and has been changed in the past. Stop stealing and killing others in order to convert to your horrible religion, let people be free. your system and understanding is disgusting.
Dear grats,
Merry Christmas! I’m sorry you seem to have a huge misunderstanding of what the Church is.
Several popes have said that evolution exists (a system created by God, yes, but it still exists). Do you think that was also a misquote?
No, Glen, and this is an accurate representation of what the Catholic Church believes – http://www.catholic.org/encyclopedia/view.php?id=4472
Dear Robbe,
of course the “pope” said so. Why would the press lie, all of a sudden? The press never lied with the previous TRUE Popes.
Careful: the Freemasons are playing their trick. Do not fall for it.
Seek the TRUTH.
http://www.thewildvoice.org
Read my article, Paul! The press has lied regarding several other popes! See, for example, the media’s lies about Pope Benedict allegedly okaying condoms.
My friend: how come then I never believed in the condoms’ joke? There is a big difference, and no one can deny this. But it is your soul, and I choose not to follow a blasphemer.
I don’t understand what you are saying.
I choose not to follow a blasphemer, too. Please do not presume to judge the state of my soul – that type of judgement is for God alone.
Apparently you are new to our religion, if you do not understand of what I speak.
Yes, I would say I am new to your religion, whatever it may be, because its tenets are so bizarre I can’t make heads or tails of them. It’s certainly not Catholicism.
My friend: do you realize that you are risking big time in terms of punishment? Do you realize you are lying? Do you know what it means to defend a Satanist? Do you even know who Christ Is?
Shame on you, and on all those who, like you, are boastful ignorant and petulant satanists.
Bergoglio is not GOD. Please, stop brainwashing others with idolatry.
I’m not the one who is lying, Paul. And I do not think that the pope is God. That would indeed be idolatry. But he is the Vicar of Christ, and Christ has given him authority to teach in his name.
This man is from God, you believe…?
Do I believe the pope is the Vicar of Christ? Yes, I do.
Please, say hi to them from me +++
Please convert to the HOLY CATHOLIC AND APOSTOLIC CHURCH +++
I did, in 2003.
I would encourage you to return to the Church.
Is this CHRIST’S SYMBOL?
Is there supposed to be an image attached to this?
PLEASE READ +++
THIS is OUR GOD. Not the one below (no pun intended) +++ 🙂
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May God Enlighten you +++
A “magician”? Since when? …
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