tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3543129696041324861.post455699094390288917..comments2024-03-12T19:57:41.861+00:00Comments on THINKING CATHOLICISM: Thinking Catholicismhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16589713565062075036noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3543129696041324861.post-82819168238786014562016-03-13T19:01:37.658+00:002016-03-13T19:01:37.658+00:00Sorry mate, I am not condemning anybody. The word ...Sorry mate, I am not condemning anybody. The word of God is quite, everything that is hidden will be brought out into the open and everyone of us must give an account for what we have or have not done. Good on the journalists who can expose the rottenness within. Having said that, it is not our place to judge or condemn anyone no matter what they have or have not done because the amount we judge and condemn others we judge and condemn ourselves (Rom 2:1)The point I am trying to make is that if the Messiah can be born through a line that can include incest, adultery, prostitution, false worship and idolatry, then he can use a Church with all the same defects to bring about his purposes.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3543129696041324861.post-65335460411478626382016-03-13T14:47:36.185+00:002016-03-13T14:47:36.185+00:00You've again missed the point: the issue is ex...You've again missed the point: the issue is exposing clerical sexual abuse. This is a morally, personally and socially good thing. You (and others like you) are, incredibly, interpreting it as an attack on the Catholic Church, which <br />is why you repeated those words by Christ.<br /><br />You have some serious maturing to do...and urgently need to control your paranoid imagination. No one is attacking the Church; instead, grave evil is being exposed by good journalist who deserve our gratitude, not your <br />spiteful, and utterly misplaced, condemnation.<br /><br />Without these journalists, this wickedness against children by so-called 'men <br />of God' would have remained hidden and scores of other children would have <br />been endangered.<br /><br />Yes, you have sold your soul...in loyalty to these men and to the detriment of our children. Be ashamed!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3543129696041324861.post-52684008623189304872016-03-13T13:44:46.783+00:002016-03-13T13:44:46.783+00:00No I haven't sold my soul, it was purchased by...No I haven't sold my soul, it was purchased by the blood of the Lamb. I did not say that one"cannot destroy what God has instituted". Jesus said that, check out Matthew 16:18 Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3543129696041324861.post-5138168349615985392016-03-13T11:02:37.022+00:002016-03-13T11:02:37.022+00:00Anonymous @ 10:23 doesn't quite get it: it isn...Anonymous @ 10:23 doesn't quite get it: it isn't journalists, with their exposès of clerical sexual abuse and cover-up, that are damaging the Catholic Church: it's the whole morally rotten system of clericalism that is <br />doing this. Are you really so misguidedly loyal? Even Pope Benedict (and he wasn't one for doing much to stop abusing priests) said that it was clerics <br />who were bringing filth into the Church.<br /><br />You said that one "cannot destroy what God has instituted". Were you thinking of these journalists here? You probably were, which is the answer I'd expect from someone who has sold their heart and soul to an institution rather than to God.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3543129696041324861.post-54141466335037225142016-03-13T10:23:28.127+00:002016-03-13T10:23:28.127+00:00Did you ever wonder why Matthew starts off with th...Did you ever wonder why Matthew starts off with the genealogy of Jesus? Judah produced Perez and Zerah with his daughter in law Tamar that is incest. Then he mentions Boaz who was the son of Rahab the prostitute. David’s son Solomon was the result of his adultery with Bathsheba. Then you have Rehoboam his son who caused the schism had sacred prostitutes and idol worship in the Temple. Then you have Ahaz who like the pagan nations sacrificed his own son through fire. Then you have Manasseh who was even worse than Ahaz. What a wonderful ancestry there is in the genealogy of Jesus. Incest, prostitution, adultery, idol worship and Jesse didn’t include David as his legitimate son. David was the result of an incestuous relationship that Jesse had. The pattern of incest continues through David’s daughter also named Tamar who had been raped by her step-brother Amnon. God’s ways are not our ways. For over 2000 years He has used the Catholic Church and no matter how bad it becomes the gates of Hell will never prevail. You cannot destroy what God has instituted.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3543129696041324861.post-5189919755559061692016-03-13T01:41:18.178+00:002016-03-13T01:41:18.178+00:00I don't know what the McBride case refers to. ...I don't know what the McBride case refers to. But I very much concur with the analysis of your third sentence. <br />As for Anon @ 21:48, well maybe I'm too thick, but I just do not understand what this is about!<br />MMMMourneManMichaelnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3543129696041324861.post-49650376041436168622016-03-12T22:45:07.464+00:002016-03-12T22:45:07.464+00:00'The Church that gets attacked'? Don't...'The Church that gets attacked'? Don't be paranoid. These journalists are Catholic. Why would they be concerned with any church but their own? Your point is a red herring and shows that you know these journalists are correct.<br /><br />Shame on you for trying to distract attention from this shameful part of Catholic Church history!<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3543129696041324861.post-75813256832647741212016-03-12T22:01:12.974+00:002016-03-12T22:01:12.974+00:00The McBride case is anything but an isolated situa...The McBride case is anything but an isolated situation. There are many similar instances.The stinking hypocrisy of senior figures in the Catholic Church all over the world who were prepared to acquiesce and cover up the abuse, molestation,rape and buggery of innocent children in order to preserve the so called good name of a rotten institution is now slowly being laid open for all humankind to see. Not a second before time!! Benedict seen the writing on the wall and got off his mark!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3543129696041324861.post-76157509528154362572016-03-12T21:48:35.362+00:002016-03-12T21:48:35.362+00:00It would seem that the church that gets attacked r...It would seem that the church that gets attacked right, left and centre is the Roman Catholic church. There are hundreds of other churches that never get mentioned and that has got me thinking. Counterfeit Christianity is always safe because a wolf would never attack a painted sheep.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3543129696041324861.post-53201858770551040542016-03-12T18:33:24.279+00:002016-03-12T18:33:24.279+00:00Do you know what is one of God's greatest gift...Do you know what is one of God's greatest gifts to humankind? A free press.<br /><br />Thank God for journalists like Stille and those others. Collectively, they are plucky David bringing down that revolting giant: Roman Catholic clericalism.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com