RE: Rapture September 2015
August 20, 2015 at 1:02 pm
(This post was last modified: August 20, 2015 at 1:05 pm by NoFaith2Burn4.)
(August 19, 2015 at 12:16 am)Randy Carson Wrote: Geez, I'm arguing with an atheist about the errors of Protestantism. Weird.What's really weird is how little most Catholics or Protestants really know of their own religion. That Catholic followers never even read their own holy book at all is bizarre.
Anyway, yeah, there is a true Church, and your former congregation ain't it. My argument for Catholicism runs like this (better get out your Bible and take off your atheist hat for just a moment, okay?):
Your assertion that you are part of "The True Church" is nothing more than a petty, rivalry-fueled argument from the position of authority. When people in different cultures than Rome decided that their interpretations of Peter and Jesus's words were more accurate than that of the notoriously corrupt Romans, the reigning pope threw a big hissy-fit and excommunicated them all because he was too proud to deal more productively with the challenge to his authority. Well, anybody who responds that way in the face of a challenge deserves no respect from anybody. Fuck those popes, fuck those who perpetuate their lies to this day, and fuck anybody, including you, when they assert themselves as the only people who are right just because some squalling, crowned infant said so from his throne!
There are two types of ideas: there is fact, and there is non-fact. Facts are determined empirically, i.e, what the King James Version says verbatim is an empirical fact. That it doesn't represent a ghastly mountain of cruel bullshit is non-factual. Therefore, please don't waste other people's precious time trying to spin Bullshit Mountain as gold!