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Can I be a Catholic? Would I want to...

Discussion in 'BBS Hangout: Debate & Discussion' started by giddyup, Apr 12, 2004.

  1. twhy77

    twhy77 Member

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    The only one of these that deserves more than a cursoury inspection would be the last one, which I'm researching right now...but just from the get go it seems like their understanding of the pope is a little bit skewed.
     
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    Sorry my typing showed up in the post...
     
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    A logical good response...

    http://www.ewtn.com/library/ANSWERS/PRIMPOPE.HTM

    At any rate, I find it sad that there are so many websites soley dedicated to taking down Catholic Dogma. Surely they don't think they will topple the church do they? I don't get the point of wasting so much time and investing so much hate into this....
     
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    Right,I've always dreamed to be in a church where the priests can abuse little kids and get their butts covered by their superiors. Where instead of being prosecuted or even kicked out, they simply get shuffled to another parish. You are right, I definetely wish I had that experience growing up.
     
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    So because its a big organization, people shouldnt waste time trying to fight something they feel isnt right? What kind of attitude is that? "I'll just go along with the program because I can't do anything to change it" What a weak minded, go with the masses mindset!
     
  6. Refman

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    hotballa...

    Your mindset is obvious. Let me dump a few facts on you.

    10% of the persons placed into concentration camps by the Nazis were Catholic. Reason?
    1. Hitler didn't like Catholics.
    2. Many Catholic farmers were found hiding Jewish children.

    In addition, the KKK persecuted Catholics all throughout the South. Their primary targets were blacks, Jews, and Catholics.

    There there is the whole problem in Northern Ireland.

    I think we all know where you stand.
     
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    http://www.world-spectator.com/archives.25.html

    Klan organizers had come to Sask-atchewan from the United States, seeing immigrants from Eastern Europe, the Roman Catholic Church, and the French language as issues they could build a hateful organization around, just as hatred of blacks had been the rallying point for the Klan in the southern U.S. since it was formed there following the Civil War.

    http://collections.ic.gc.ca/albertans/articles/kkk_3.html

    The southern-Alberta strain of KKK extremism made its way to Calgary and environs from Vancouver, where it had an anti-Chinese, -Japanese, -Asian tone. In the absence of significant numbers of those visible minorities in southern Alberta, organizers appealed to the anti-Catholic, anti-French, anti-immigrant feelings of the day with so much success that the fledgling KKK cadre soon held around $10, 000 in membership dues, collected $10 at a time from some of Calgary's "prominent" (Calgary Albertan, December 6, 1924), if anonymous citizens.

    http://ccpl.lib.co.us/KKK/KKK Essay.html

    When the Roman Catholic Church announced its intent to build the Holy Cross Abbey in Cañon City in 1923, the Klan leaders recognized the event as a direct threat on Protestant superiority and "100% American" ideology.

    http://www.adl.org/learn/ext_us/KKK.asp?xpicked=4&item=18

    Certain basic patterns have developed throughout all of the Klan's incarnations, regardless of how different each phase has appeared on the surface. For example, the Klan's enemies are always minority groups that are in direct economic competition with the lower- and working-class whites that form its core constituency. At various times these enemies have been African Americans, Jews, Catholics, anti-Prohibitionists, drug dealers, homosexuals and many others.

    Need I continue?
     

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