(June 27, 2015 at 1:54 pm)PiousPaladin Wrote:(June 27, 2015 at 1:47 pm)pocaracas Wrote: Oh awesome... Another believer in the con of Fátima.
There was no miracle of the sun.
Three uneducated kids were conned into thinking they were seeing an apparition.
Have you ever noticed how the messages that came out of that event were geared to getting Portugal on the non-communist side of world war 1?
It worked: by the 1930s, we had a fascist regime set in...which lasted until 1974.
I would urge you to read more of the accounts of the Miracle of the Sun. A huge crowd gathered to see a miracle that was promised to the three children and their faith was indeed rewarded, that many people could not simply have been duped considering they all saw the same thing.
Did it occur to you that this event may have saved Portugal from the secularism that spread across the rest of Europe. United under one strong Catholic leader Portugal saw a golden age of Catholicism under Salazar. It may have been the highest point of Portuguese history.
(June 27, 2015 at 1:51 pm)Nope Wrote: In your own words, could you explain what hell is?
What do you mean by the bolded part? Who are heretics? So, you would be all right if a Catholic government killed these heretics? We know you would kill off gay people. What about atheists, non traditional Catholics, Protestants or women who don't cover their hair during mass? Are they heretics?
It depends on the level of scandal. An athiest who keeps his opinions to himself and does not tempt the others into heresy does not need to be executed, he must repent of course but he is only a danger to himself. It is private, it is personal.
A sodomite marriage however is something very public, it is a vile public display of blasphemy and must be struck down and prevented. Error has no rights, and if it cannot be corrected it must be cast aside into the trash.
Women who don't cover their hair can be dealt with, they can comply or remain unseen in society. We cannot ignore Protestants or sodomites who flaunt their sinfulness and lead others astray. The disobedient woman can be private, a Protestant Church by virtue of what it is cannot be.
It
I wonder if any of our resident Protestants might want to discuss your views about their existence.
If there ever is a "Christian" government, you all would murder and fight each other in the exact same way that you did during the reformation.