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Catholics Aren't Christians?
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RE: Catholics Aren't Christians?
December 28, 2014 at 8:57 pm
Tithing is kosha. Supporting the community is too if you have spare. Nobody can deny the greed that infects everything. Particularly disgusting in organisations that supposedly stand against it.
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#42
RE: Catholics Aren't Christians?
December 28, 2014 at 9:03 pm
How is tithing supposed to mesh with Jesus' message to get rid of everything you own, anyway?
Poe's Law: "Without a winking smiley or other blatant display of humor, it is impossible to create a parody of Fundamentalism that SOMEONE won't mistake for the real thing."

10 Christ-like figures that predate Jesus. Link shortened to Chris ate Jesus for some reason...
http://listverse.com/2009/04/13/10-chris...ate-jesus/

Good video to watch, if you want to know how common the Jesus story really is.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88GTUXvp-50

A list of biblical contradictions from the infallible word of Yahweh.
http://infidels.org/library/modern/jim_m...tions.html

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#43
RE: Catholics Aren't Christians?
December 28, 2014 at 9:25 pm
(December 28, 2014 at 9:03 pm)Chad32 Wrote: How is tithing supposed to mesh with Jesus' message to get rid of everything you own, anyway?

It helps the dolts get rid of 10% of what they own.
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#44
RE: Catholics Aren't Christians?
December 28, 2014 at 9:26 pm
Your giving to the community from your current earnings. Taking enough for your own needs. Disproportionate wealth is commonly seen as a barrier to happiness. That's what has to be given away.
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#45
RE: Catholics Aren't Christians?
December 28, 2014 at 9:30 pm
You're giving to the church, in the hopes that they will give to the community. That's not quite the same.
Poe's Law: "Without a winking smiley or other blatant display of humor, it is impossible to create a parody of Fundamentalism that SOMEONE won't mistake for the real thing."

10 Christ-like figures that predate Jesus. Link shortened to Chris ate Jesus for some reason...
http://listverse.com/2009/04/13/10-chris...ate-jesus/

Good video to watch, if you want to know how common the Jesus story really is.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88GTUXvp-50

A list of biblical contradictions from the infallible word of Yahweh.
http://infidels.org/library/modern/jim_m...tions.html

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#46
RE: Catholics Aren't Christians?
December 28, 2014 at 9:34 pm
In reality, no. You're right.
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#47
RE: Catholics Aren't Christians?
December 29, 2014 at 12:38 am
(December 28, 2014 at 12:31 pm)Chad32 Wrote:
(December 28, 2014 at 11:42 am)vorlon13 Wrote: Still, if Christianity were illegal, is their sufficient evidence to convict any of them ?

Kiddy diddling priests ain't christian, and I'd rule out all their protectors and enablers and donors.

That pretty much cleans the cabinet of all of 'em.

Why wouldn't kiddie diddling priests be christian? The bible doesn't really admonish the rape of little boys. Sure having sex with a man is a sin, and if you rape a virgin girl you need to pay the father fifty silver, but it doesn't say anything about little boys.


Food for thought (why I'm here)

So kiddy diddling doesn't falsify the catholic church, kiddy diddling not being proscribed in scripture actually falsifies the scripture. (a bigger and better target as the scripture is employed beyond just catholicism)


Did I get the gist of that ?? Or did I make a useful corollary ?
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RE: Catholics Aren't Christians?
December 30, 2014 at 12:19 am (This post was last modified: December 30, 2014 at 12:25 am by Elskidor.)
30/30 rule dude. You know me and I'm anti-religion, but this is bending a rules in favor of one thing over another.This is advertisement.
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#49
RE: Catholics Aren't Christians?
December 31, 2014 at 7:51 am
I have to laugh when these Protestants play the no true scotsman fallacy on Catholics. Like Catholicism is not the genesis of their faith or the reason why Christianity is popular...
If the hypothetical idea of an afterlife means more to you than the objectively true reality we all share, then you deserve no respect.
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RE: Catholics Aren't Christians?
December 31, 2014 at 8:03 am (This post was last modified: December 31, 2014 at 8:07 am by Alex K.)
(December 31, 2014 at 7:51 am)Godslayer Wrote: I have to laugh when these Protestants play the no true scotsman fallacy on Catholics. Like Catholicism is not the genesis of their faith or the reason why Christianity is popular...

Exactly my point, without the roman church, almost no one in Europe and by extension America would have ever heard of this Christ thing. With a bit of luck, it would now be considered an obscure side branch of Judaism for gentiles, maybe vanished and forgotten like hundreds of other cults that were practised in the roman empire. The roman church may be the evangelicals' estranged parent, but it is their parent.
The fool hath said in his heart, There is a God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
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