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Abdul Alhazred
Skeptic Friend
USA
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 Posted - 07/10/2007 : 10:01:45
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ZINGED! 
Pope: Other Christians Not True Churches [ AP via My Way ]
LORENZAGO DI CADORE, Italy (AP) - Pope Benedict XVI has reasserted the universal primacy of the Roman Catholic Church, approving a document released Tuesday that says Orthodox churches were defective and that other Christian denominations were not true churches.
Benedict approved a document from his old offices at the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith that restates church teaching on relations with other Christians. It was the second time in a week the pope has corrected what he says are erroneous interpretations of the Second Vatican Council, the 1962-65 meetings that modernized the church.
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Despite the harsh tone of the document, it stresses that Benedict remains committed to ecumenical dialogue. 
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Yup he's still Catholic.
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The lack of a rational explanation is not evidence for an irrational explanation. |
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BigPapaSmurf
SFN Die Hard
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Posted - 07/10/2007 : 10:16:52 [Permalink]
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Man I never knew! All this time Im thinking that all Christain sects were legit, boy do I feel stupid.
-Typical Benedict crap, which keeps hatred alive. |
"...things I have neither seen nor experienced nor heard tell of from anybody else; things, what is more, that do not in fact exist and could not ever exist at all. So my readers must not believe a word I say." -Lucian on his book True History
"...They accept such things on faith alone, without any evidence. So if a fraudulent and cunning person who knows how to take advantage of a situation comes among them, he can make himself rich in a short time." -Lucian critical of early Christians c.166 AD From his book, De Morte Peregrini |
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Robb
SFN Regular
USA
1223 Posts |
Posted - 07/10/2007 : 10:21:29 [Permalink]
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No Catholic has ever been able to show me where in the Bible these teachings come from. Just some more destructive teaching that leads to a seperation of the Lords church. I am sure some protestant christian will say someting equally judgemental about Catholics.
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Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. - George Washington |
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Gorgo
SFN Die Hard
USA
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Posted - 07/10/2007 : 10:25:02 [Permalink]
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| Well, if each church didn't think they were right and everyone else was wrong, why would they have started a new church? |
I know the rent is in arrears
The dog has not been fed in years
It's even worse than it appears
But it's alright-
Jerry Garcia
Robert Hunter
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Robb
SFN Regular
USA
1223 Posts |
Posted - 07/10/2007 : 10:53:37 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Gorgo
Well, if each church didn't think they were right and everyone else was wrong, why would they have started a new church?
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I agree with you. |
Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. - George Washington |
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
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 Posted - 07/10/2007 : 11:02:42 [Permalink]
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Well I never did give ol' Benny a lot of credit for smarts.
It looks to me like he's isolating the Church even more, and thinks he can get away with it because Catholics make up the largest Christian sect. Thus, he can slip it all back toward the Middle Ages (Mass in Latin, and so forth) with impunity and in the process, give himself a little more power. Yeh, I know, I've got a nasty, suspicious, atheistic mind.
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"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude
Brother Boot Knife of Warm Humanitarianism,
and Crypto-Communist! 
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
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Posted - 07/10/2007 : 13:14:24 [Permalink]
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| Benedict approved a document from his old offices at the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith that restates church teaching on relations with other Christians. |
The former name for Benedict's "old offices" is "The Roman Inquisition," the very same "offices" that tried Galileo Galilei. I kid you not.
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“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
Here's a link to Moonscape News, and one to its Archive. |
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BigPapaSmurf
SFN Die Hard
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Posted - 07/10/2007 : 14:34:57 [Permalink]
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| "Even fewer people expect the Roman Inquisition!" |
"...things I have neither seen nor experienced nor heard tell of from anybody else; things, what is more, that do not in fact exist and could not ever exist at all. So my readers must not believe a word I say." -Lucian on his book True History
"...They accept such things on faith alone, without any evidence. So if a fraudulent and cunning person who knows how to take advantage of a situation comes among them, he can make himself rich in a short time." -Lucian critical of early Christians c.166 AD From his book, De Morte Peregrini |
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Zinger zings 'em good!
