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The Church is pushing me out the door
March 28, 2017, 12:50 PM
recoatliftThe Church is pushing me out the door
I read the church is calling Mexicans traiters if their skill & labor is used building the border wall. See link.
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2...lic-church-says.htmlOur priest's-homily last Sunday reminded us that the 2nd collection was for the church in Latin America & the Syrian refugees. Long ago, I scratched Catholic Chastities off the donation list. I came damn close to walking out while hollering I am but a poor infidel, Padre!
Concern yourself with dropping attendance. The Church is doing a great job pushing me out!
March 28, 2017, 12:51 PM
HRKDa pope say's ya gotta do it....
March 28, 2017, 01:07 PM
Shaqlquote:
Catholic Chastities
LOL!
Hedley Lamarr: Wait, wait, wait. I'm unarmed.
Bart: Alright, we'll settle this like men, with our fists.
Hedley Lamarr: Sorry, I just remembered . . . I am armed.
March 28, 2017, 01:14 PM
95flhrMy wife and I left a little while ago. They seem to be trying to step in to political issues that I see the church having no business in.
“Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.”
― Ronald Reagan
Retired old fart
March 28, 2017, 01:14 PM
stickman428I left the Catholic Church a long time ago.
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March 28, 2017, 01:37 PM
BurtonRWEven my mother-in-law, who is literally as Catholic as one can get - almost - acknowledges that this is "not a good Pope".
Shows you what I know. I thought a statement like that would be borderline heresy.
-Rob
I predict that there will be many suggestions and statements about the law made here, and some of them will be spectacularly wrong. - jhe888
A=A March 28, 2017, 01:41 PM
YooperSigsMy Catholic friends say the Yoop Catholic church is after them for $$$ on a regular basis.
They seem loyal, but pissed.
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Upper Peninsula: 4 Miles
March 28, 2017, 01:43 PM
mark123quote:
Originally posted by HRK:
Da pope say's ya gotta do it....
Is that a Bill Cosby quote?
March 28, 2017, 01:58 PM
MeatManI have moved to giving and volunteering locally with our Catholic Church. There are good people there that want to help the locals in need. I stopped giving to the Priest Defense Fund (Bishop's Annual Appeal) and other non local Catholic charities a long time ago.
Unfortunately, people run the church and they aren't all honorable.
March 28, 2017, 01:59 PM
chellim1^^^ Well said, MeatMan, me too!
quote:
Originally posted by 95flhr:
My wife and I left a little while ago. They seem to be trying to step in to political issues that I see the church having no business in.
Sorry to hear that, but... I understand.
I get pissed every time they "step in to political issues that I see the church having no business in." The Church is infested with leftists. True commies.
However, I'll be one of those who remain, clinging to the 'old time religion' of my parents and grandparents. The leftists will fail, both in running the USA, Europe and in running the Church. Their ideas are morally and intellectually bankrupt. They will fail.
There are still good men and women in the Church who will be there to pick up the pieces and rebuild once this group of leftists fail and die off.
Keep the faith! It's not rooted in men, even though they wear the priestly garments.
"Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result is: families under siege; war in the streets; unapologetic expropriation of property; the precipitous decline of the rule of law; the rapid rise of corruption; the loss of civility and the triumph of deceit. The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible."
-- Justice Janice Rogers Brown
"The United States government is the largest criminal enterprise on earth."
-rduckwor March 28, 2017, 02:02 PM
recoatliftquote:
Originally posted by YooperSigs:
My Catholic friends say the Yoop Catholic church is after them for $$$ on a regular basis.
They seem loyal, but pissed.
What with church attendance of all denominations down, the preachers & Padres are putting the bite on everyone.
http://churchleaders.com/pasto...ance-in-america.htmlReligion is big business.
I'd agree with your U.P. Friends.
March 28, 2017, 02:07 PM
TXJIMThe Catholic Church has been heavily involved in political issues since, well, forever. It's as much a political apparatus as a religious one.
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March 28, 2017, 02:21 PM
PHPaulquote:
Originally posted by mark123:
quote:
Originally posted by HRK:
Da pope say's ya gotta do it....
Is that a Bill Cosby quote?
Whoa.
Be careful when following the masses. Sometimes the M is silent.
March 28, 2017, 02:23 PM
SIGnifiedHow did the prior pope get moved aside? I heard that hadn't happened in 600 years. True? Suspicious? Seems so ...
"Pacifism is a shifty doctrine under which a man accepts the benefits of the social group without being willing to pay - and claims a halo for his dishonesty." ~Robert A. Heinlein March 28, 2017, 02:44 PM
FlyingScotI left the Catholic Church years ago. Cannot stomach the politics or what it has become. It is not the Church I served as child/teenager and frankly I don't recognize it.
“Forigive your enemy, but remember the bastard’s name.”
-Scottish proverb March 28, 2017, 02:54 PM
HRKquote:
Originally posted by mark123:
quote:
Originally posted by HRK:
Da pope say's ya gotta do it....
Is that a Bill Cosby quote?
ding ding ding!, you get a cookie
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March 28, 2017, 02:56 PM
FenderBenderIt's not so bad.
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The point is, who will stop me?
March 28, 2017, 02:58 PM
chellim1To all those who left:
Where did you go?
Another religion, or simply not practicing any religion?
"Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result is: families under siege; war in the streets; unapologetic expropriation of property; the precipitous decline of the rule of law; the rapid rise of corruption; the loss of civility and the triumph of deceit. The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible."
-- Justice Janice Rogers Brown
"The United States government is the largest criminal enterprise on earth."
-rduckwor March 28, 2017, 02:59 PM
jigray3Way ahead of you. Episcopal Church, here. Used to be, anyway.
"We have a system that increasingly taxes work, and increasingly subsidizes non-work" - Milton Friedman March 28, 2017, 03:02 PM
Sig209Agreed.
Martin Luther FTW.
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