[split] Hello everyone

[Chili]

[Chili]

[robvalue]

I thought all Catholics are christians. Isn't it just a denomination?

[Chili]

Welcome aboard, Lambert.
What you describe sounds like what we call non-practicing Catholic.
That's the label that the priest gave me, when I married my wife...for bureaucratic purposes, seeing as I was baptized when I was 6 months old.

Fair enough, just so you know, where I come from Baptism was done inside the first week for sure.

It is also true that where I was born everybody was Catholic that so was a tradition for the sake of tradition, I suppose, with never a wolf in sheep's clothing suggesting that there is a different point of view.

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Some people stop going to church, some people stop believing in god. These may or may not be the same people. Anywho, welcome to the forum. I've spent plenty of time in the Catholic Church...can't really say I enjoyed it but that's cool if you do.

Not that we enjoyed it that much but we had to go. Mother said so, and we just did. Our churches we big, and I am not sure if anyone would ever know if we did not go.

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I thought all Catholics are christians. Isn't it just a denomination?

Nono, no Catholic is Christian. Christian is a protestant idea.
Catholicism is the NT equivalent of OT Judaism and neither are Christian. From here it can be said that once a Jew becomes a Christian he is no longer Jew and in the same way a Catholic will no longer be a Catholic but will be Christian instead. This so makes Christian the end of religion for both Jew and Catholic in Christendom.

To note here that neither Jews nor Catholics are saved-sinners but all so called Christians are, and will remain torn in this paradox until they die and will die nonetheless.

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Lambert no mint sauce. (Sorry, couldn't resist.)

Anyway, welcome aboard the ship of the damned - damned sexy, obviously. Plus me.

Not sure what the mint sauce is about but it takes courage to walk away from religion, that in Catholicism is like the blood that crawls in our veins as a tradition that was prior to us.

After all, if the thousand year reign is already in us religion will be the mainstay of contraction we see. Of course, we can walk away from it
but if the battle-cry of life is that no self contraction shall remain it likely will not go away on its own.

[Tonus]

And since when where you a theist? I don't think there is one Catholic alive who claims to be a theist, is there?

Oh, I didn't understand your initial post. I wasn't ever Catholic, I was a Jehovah's Witness. I didn't realize that Catholics had so many ways to distinguish themselves from other Christians.

[robvalue]

I thought that the only thing christian means anymore is worshipping the bible. If not, what the hell is it?

Catholics aren't theists? What's going on! I'm pretty sure they are. I can't keep up with these crazy labels.

[pocaracas]

[Elskidor]

I thought that the only thing christian means anymore is worshipping the bible.

I consider them the same if they worship the same character. Some of them have different books, but if the names are the same then it's just another interpretation of the same story. A lot of the southern NA/AA cults are really just another denomination of Christianity since many of them don't allow you to pick just any random higher power not named Jesus.

[robvalue]

I see, thanks

Lol fuck me it's getting so ridiculous. It's starting to sound like the restrictions on re rolling a character in d&d or something.

[Chili]

And since when where you a theist? I don't think there is one Catholic alive who claims to be a theist, is there?

Oh, I didn't understand your initial post. I wasn't ever Catholic, I was a Jehovah's Witness. I didn't realize that Catholics had so many ways to distinguish themselves from other Christians.

Oh sorry, but Catholics are Catholics and not Christian. That is just protestant theology who want to be king in the hereafter also, and have been declaring that ever since.

Ever read Macbeth? He will show you how that is done, but then, so did Moses and Billy Graham along with another 20,000 like him much in the same way.

The point here is that you just cannot part the water to get into the promised land but walk on it so you will know what the promised land is like when you get there. Does that make sense to you?