Dear Mark 13:13 & Catholics

[Aractus]

Read my statement(s) above.... You either don't read very good or your comprehension is low.

But I'll give you a clue! The Holy Spirit is the real Teacher. You can actually find that in your version of The Holy Bible!

And, my question to you was rhetorical...but I didn't really expect you to recognize that either.

First off, I clearly mean "future questions". And yes, I don't understand very well how you think you've addressed my question. Saying "Catholics don't concern themselves about translations of the 'old testament'?" is total bullshit and you know it, and you know the LV isn't exclusively OT, it's OT + Apocrypha + NT. Or did you somehow manage to forget that?

For someone challenging us, you are not very knowledegable about the Catholic Religion.

Also, ronedee, this is an atheist forum - yet you suggest that I should attack their beliefs and their problems. This doesn't sit well with me. For one thing, they're fucking atheists - you can't expect them to know any better! I expect better from Xians. For another, there are already well enough Xians on Xian forums who do a good enough job of bitching at each other all the time and practising elitism without me. If you want to go to CARM and act like an elitist, and lick Matt Slick's bum hole go for it, I left the original (now defunct and replaced) CARM forum in 2003. That's 10 years ago, I have no intention of going back.

By the way if you do go there, mention my name (Daniel) and tell Matt and Diane they can get fucked, I'm sure they know who I am.

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Recently I joined Worthy christian forums. My first post was basically " Hi, I'm an atheist and I'm looking forward to some intelligent rational debate"
It was also my last....

Yes well sadly there's not enough intelligent debate here! I'd like to change that.

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I find it funny that the one thing our Christian visitors rarely do is try to live up to the standards of their founder that they all seem to agree on as top-notch. We know you've thrown out the 'give all your belongings to the poor bit' (clearly a metaphor not meant to be taken literally), but turning the other cheek, loving your enemy, not casting the first stone...it's rare to see an internet Christian who even pretends to try.

Frankly, one who merely shows integrity and forthrightness in their posts is a refreshing change, and the best way to earn our respect.

Yep, I tend to agree. That's why I don't give a shit about CARM and any forums that may be similar to them. Filled with Elitist bullshit (the "Elitism" also represents extreme and BS POV's).

I have given the Catholics here a perfectly open invitation to defend one of their core doctrinal matters - what authoritative textual basis scripture has - and they have failed to even answer my very basic question, which is simply "How can you justify using 'the' LXX and the Latin Vulgate as 'inspired scripture'?"