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RE: Damned Catholics
May 7, 2020 at 12:14 pm
Poor Pope can't even spread bigotry without being criticized - what has this world come to?
Quote:Former Pope: Same-Sex Marriage Comes From the Antichrist
The former Pope Benedict XVI has called same-sex marriage a product of the Antichrist and said society has become so hostile to Christian doctrine that it will shun anyone who opposes equal marriage rights.
The statement comes in a new authorized biography of Benedict by German journalist Peter Seewald.
The quote is from an interview Benedict did with Seewald, his frequent collaborator, in 2018. “One hundred years ago, everybody would have considered it to be absurd to speak of a homosexual marriage. Today, one is being excommunicated by society if one opposes it,” he said, according to a translation published in PinkNews.
https://www.advocate.com/religion/2020/5...antichrist
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
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RE: Damned Catholics
May 7, 2020 at 12:16 pm
Poor christians, persecuted everywhere they go.
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RE: Damned Catholics
May 7, 2020 at 1:39 pm
(May 7, 2020 at 12:16 pm)The Grand Nudger Wrote: Poor christians, persecuted everywhere they go.
And the pope, most of all.  Poor baby, sentenced to looking at old paintings on the walls.
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RE: Damned Catholics
May 7, 2020 at 4:41 pm
Well a few hundred years ago people were tortured and killed for not being Catholic.
It's so difficult being Catholic in the modern world.
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RE: Damned Catholics
May 9, 2020 at 10:17 am
Can this be true? Are we going to see soon catholic church gone from US? No more torturing women in catholic hospitals; no more MAGA hat wearing kids from catholic schools being unloaded in Washington to protest against women's rights; no more priests raping kids...
Quote:Catholic News Agency Rings the Alarm Bell: “The U.S. Church Is Going Broke”
Even in ordinary times, Catholics are not known for generosity to parish collection plates.
That’s not me maligning penny-pinching believers. That’s a direct quote from an article over at the Catholic News Agency, written by editor-in-chief JD Flynn, that talks about the United States Catholic Church going broke. Flynn doesn’t say the Church might or may or could.
Is going broke.
https://friendlyatheist.patheos.com/2020...ing-broke/
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
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RE: Damned Catholics
May 9, 2020 at 12:36 pm
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RE: Damned Catholics
May 9, 2020 at 12:46 pm
(May 9, 2020 at 10:17 am)Fake Messiah Wrote: Can this be true? Are we going to see soon catholic church gone from US? No more torturing women in catholic hospitals; no more MAGA hat wearing kids from catholic schools being unloaded in Washington to protest against women's rights; no more priests raping kids...
Quote:Catholic News Agency Rings the Alarm Bell: “The U.S. Church Is Going Broke”
Even in ordinary times, Catholics are not known for generosity to parish collection plates.
That’s not me maligning penny-pinching believers. That’s a direct quote from an article over at the Catholic News Agency, written by editor-in-chief JD Flynn, that talks about the United States Catholic Church going broke. Flynn doesn’t say the Church might or may or could.
Is going broke.
https://friendlyatheist.patheos.com/2020...ing-broke/
The rcc in the US going broke is deliberate strategy. They've hived off the money so they won't have to pay compensation to the victims of the child raping priests. The money's still there, just hived off to a special purpose vehicle in the Bahamas or Deleware.
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RE: Damned Catholics
May 9, 2020 at 1:39 pm
(May 9, 2020 at 12:46 pm)Nomad Wrote: (May 9, 2020 at 10:17 am)Fake Messiah Wrote: Can this be true? Are we going to see soon catholic church gone from US? No more torturing women in catholic hospitals; no more MAGA hat wearing kids from catholic schools being unloaded in Washington to protest against women's rights; no more priests raping kids...
The rcc in the US going broke is deliberate strategy. They've hived off the money so they won't have to pay compensation to the victims of the child raping priests. The money's still there, just hived off to a special purpose vehicle in the Bahamas or Deleware.
What do you think the likelihood is of the Vatican helping them out? 
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RE: Damned Catholics
May 9, 2020 at 3:37 pm
(This post was last modified: May 9, 2020 at 3:42 pm by arewethereyet.)
It's obvious to me that the Catholic Church at least wants me to think they need money. I get letters throughout the year from the church and the Catholic High School I attended. The priest wouldn't baptize my older daughter back in the day but they still think there's a chance I will toss some coins their way. Yeah I am not too worried about them keeping the lights on. Pictures of the Basilica I went to from 6th grade through HS to follow.
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Let 'em sell some of that artwork or scrape the new gold leaf off the walls and ceilings that was added a couple years back.
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RE: Damned Catholics
May 10, 2020 at 1:29 am
(This post was last modified: May 10, 2020 at 1:33 am by The Grand Nudger.)
They're laying the groundwork for a mass bankruptcy settlement in order to evade restitution for as many of their victims as possible. They've already shielded billions in assets this way, and by reclassifying those assets to reduce their bankruptcy value, beforehand. The RCC was way ahead of covid churches declaring themselves to be small businesses.
I am the Infantry. I am my country’s strength in war, her deterrent in peace. I am the heart of the fight… wherever, whenever. I carry America’s faith and honor against her enemies. I am the Queen of Battle. I am what my country expects me to be, the best trained Soldier in the world. In the race for victory, I am swift, determined, and courageous, armed with a fierce will to win. Never will I fail my country’s trust. Always I fight on…through the foe, to the objective, to triumph overall. If necessary, I will fight to my death. By my steadfast courage, I have won more than 200 years of freedom. I yield not to weakness, to hunger, to cowardice, to fatigue, to superior odds, For I am mentally tough, physically strong, and morally straight. I forsake not, my country, my mission, my comrades, my sacred duty. I am relentless. I am always there, now and forever. I AM THE INFANTRY! FOLLOW ME!
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