When you start talking about religion you should preface the conversation or discourse with a caveat. So here it goes, I am not a theologian, or even a good student of the Bible. My mother read the bible to me when I was small. She pointed things for me to remember so I would grow up a good Christian. I doubt very much that the Bible has undergone massive revisions, as if a screen play, since I was small. I am Catholic, or I should say, I was born into a Catholic household. I don‘t practice Catholicism. If you have to practice something, then you obviously don’t know it well enough.. I don’t flaunt my religion either. That is not right. In fact, that to me is “unbecoming a good Christian.”
You see I believe, and was taught, to not discuss what you do in the bathroom, what you do in the bedroom and with whom, and how you follow your religion.
We Catholics feel a sense of superiority to other so-called ‘Christian religions.’ We truly belief we are the true followers of Jesus Chris. Unlike those other Johnny come lately Christians. We know Jesus was not Catholic. He was a Jewish Rabbi, if true need be told. And that’s great!
The protestant revolution, as you know—the rebellion that Martin Luther (and others) lead against the Catholic establishment, was not exactly God blessed. It was an economic upheaval more than a religious one. Hence forth, there were “protestants.” Why the mere appellations defines what they are, “protesters.”
What is a protestant? One who makes a declaration or avowal. More, a member of a Western Christian church whose
faith and practice are founded on the principles of the Reformation, especially
in the acceptance of the Bible as the sole source of revelation, in
justification by faith alone, and in the universal priesthood of all the
believers. What was the Reformation? “The usual term for the religious movement
which made its appearance in
Was the Church corrupt? Well, let me put it this way, Is the Pope Catholic? But the revolt was against the Church’s taxes.---- In other words, a revolt against the levy of taxes or donations, in exchange for forgiveness of sins. Martin Luther, a product of mixed religious household, inherited his fathers intolerance and anger, and used it to break up the House of Christ. So as we move forward to the 20 Century and the 21 Century, we find the “Protestants,” as a small domination of the Christian faith, still seeking to establish their form of thinking upon the world. Their current roots are called the “Evangelical Right.” In their zeal to appeal to Jesus Christ, they claim to adhere more closely to the Bible, then anyone else.
This, in all due respect, is “mad ambition, and greed.” Their
thirst to impose their religious thinking on others is as mad the as the
Now-a-days, many people want to show that they’re religious. It has become hip to be religious. Unfortunately many become involved in religion for the wrong reasons. Many baby-boomers want to win brownie points before the time comes to “logoff”. Others think It insulate them from harm or evil. Others, because they did all the bad and sinful things they could imagine and now seek salvation. Of the latter group, many of these people are self-righteous ass holes. Not unlike our chief executive. They think they are right, even when everyone else says they are wrong.
If Jesus Christ was a non-violent, peace loving, preacher, who did good for all men and women, why are our modern day religions so---f—up? Why is the Catholic Church trying to hide the sins of pedophile priests? And, equally as bad, why are the Protestants so determined to dominate the world, with their “born again Christian” ideology. Let’s face it. The Protestants are always going to be the”Christians” with the small ‘c’. And the Catholics, the religion without walls.
Religion, not just in
President Church Bush said “.that God told him to go to war
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More to come.