Hi Guys

Dave Hunt's book A woman rides the beast was very well documented and researched... Fiction?

You also are writing fiction and you are betraying a gross lack of knowledge when you say that Catholics consider the Theotokos a god to be worshiped.

Have you ever been to a catholic church service?

Im sorry but if you pray to someone, kneeling at the feet of their "holy" statue... im sorry but mary is not holy only God is holy. Jesus said no one comes to the Father accept through me. He never said: pray to my moma here and she'll come to Me and i'll go to God.

 

Sr. I am sorry to inform you but from what I have read of your post, you have been miss informed. Coming from a French Roman Catholic background, having gone to Catholic school for most of my life as well as participating in many services, this does not include my First Communion and all the other ceremonies that I have taken part in. You are wrong.

Anyways. Just wanted to point that out. I don't practice anymore, one thing I have to say about Catholicism is, like a lot of religions, these organisations tend to not tolerate allot of different Philosophies, which in my case does not mesh with my own personal beliefs.

Just to point one thing out about Mr. Hunt. He was an Evangelist (I believe) and was know to have a bit of a hard on for other religions including Catholicism, so maybe a tad bias point of View? I would encourage maybe some more academic materiel like a world religion course or Theology at your local community college if you are actually interested in this subject.

 

Dont like to let facts get in the way of an opinion do ya?

 

Oh! and Welcome to MAP Baracus.

 

Thanks for the welcome. To bad you didn't join in earlier, wev all been having a jolly time.
As to my opinions, they are based on what I have read and observed. I may be mistaken in my evaluation of the catholic church, dave hunts book was factual it was not opinion based. I guess he could have made it all up.i didnt check his citations or anything.

Since you are a former catholic let me ask you. when you go to confession and say 10 hail Mary's to rid yourself of sin do you not consider that worship? I mean you think that praising mary will wipe away your sins...

unless I am totally mixed up on that. if so will you please correct my misconceptions?

 

That's digging back a few years. No I don't consider it worship(at least not in a god like fashion). The way I remember it being taught to me is Mary as we all know is the vessel that carried Jesus and in such is recognized for the Immaculate Conception. She is a saint. She is praised just like many others saint in the bible are. Mary is however considered the greatest of all saint, considering her role in the biblical story it's no surprise she get a tad more attention than some of the others.

It can be a very fine line between praise and worship. Honestly their seems to be a lot of disagreement as to what's what in the world of religion which is why their are so many different branches of Christianity. I stopped caring a long time ago and just go about my own business now.

 

I've set food on a Marae, does that make me a heathen?

Beyond the whole not believing in god bit, i mean.

 

+1

Very annoying having to figure out who said what and what is an answer.
In case you just don't know how, feel free to ask.
But please (learn to) use them!

@aikiMac
Don't confuse him with facts and researched stuff

 

No...first the All Father demands a sacrifice

 

Ironically i don't think anyone sacrifices anything to Papa or Rangi.

 

No one technically sacrifices to Odin really...not unless you count a glorious death in battle

 

Isn't the self the ultimate sacrifice in most religions though?

 

Pretty much

 

Yes and no. The sacrifice of animals was the Abrahamic covenant. Jesus came to fufil the law not destroy it, we are no longer under the old covenant. Jesus shed His blood as the ultimate sacrifice. further sacrifice is no needed.

2. The Holy Roman Catholic Church is not the same as the early orthodox church. The catholic church was started by "saint" Constantine. He was the first roman emperor to convert to Christianity. he made it the state religion but to make it work he integrated many of the pagan practices of that day into the practices of the church. For example he changed the "Sabbath" from Saturday to Sunday to accommodate the sun worshipers. his intentions were good I guess-get the pagans to church- but he really brought in some strange/unbiblical things, most of them are harmless I guess but still...

yes I would appreciate it if someone would explain the quotations system. I can hit the "quote" button on the bottom right hand corner of a post but that just takes me to a separate screen and it wont let me quote more than one post...

 

What if I just enjoy tearing out the hearts of my enemies? A guy's gotta have a hobby.