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#31
11-28-2006, 09:15 PM
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Well someone already did Catholics but here are a few I got asked or assumed because I'm Catholic.
No not all Catholics think they're perfect little angels(assumed because I went to Catholic school) No we do not worship Saints or the Virgin Mary(i know someone already said it but its the most common myth about catholicism) Not all of us believe that people are going to hell because they're not Catholic Not all of us believe we are better than anyone else because we are Catholic Not all of us hate homosexuals or condemn them Not all of us hate or condemn Protestants or Mormons or Jehovah's Witnesses or Jews or Muslims(or other religions a few people assumed I hate because i'm Catholic "that's what I'm supposed to do" anyone else get that's what your supposed to do your a whatever crap?) can't think of anymore.
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#32
11-28-2006, 10:10 PM
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The idea that the persecution of Gentiles is considered a good deed in the Torah is false as are the various lies told of our Oral Torah.
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#33
11-28-2006, 10:20 PM
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True Christian
We do not believe that we are supposed to be living in poverty We do not believe that we are supposed to be sick We believe that God can dwell in us We believe that God does not respect people but he respects faith We believe that God is not a man that he should lie/change his mind We believe that we are the only ones who can cast out demons We believe that you can lose your salvation We believe that we are spirits who have souls and live in a body.
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#34
11-28-2006, 10:24 PM
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Islam
I'm not opressed, nor am I a terrorist.
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I love God: I have no time left In which to hate the devil.
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#35
11-28-2006, 10:32 PM
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Out of curiosity, Shema, why do you use the term "True Christian" in a discussion thread?
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#36
11-29-2006, 01:40 AM
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I think my list was just abut covered by the RC posters here (we get accused of pretty much the same nonsense they do). There are just a couple more, though.
No, you don't have to be 'ethnically Orthodox' to be Orthodox - I have no Greek, Russian, Romanian etc. blood in me at all. No, we aren't just eastern Roman Catholics. There are some of those but they are in communion with Rome and not with us. Our communion has not recognised the Pope of Rome since the 11th century. And finally, and most importantly, we are not the Orthodox churches, but the Orthodox Church. We are one and the different local churches are merely regional and cultural expressions of the one faith and church. I can, and have, freely move around from one church to another and worship/partake in any of them. The move is analogous to moving from an Irish RC parish to a Polish one, not from an Anglican church to a Baptist one. James
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#37
11-29-2006, 06:23 AM
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Buddha is NOT a supernatural being
Buddhists do NOT "worship" the Buddha The fat statue dude is NOT Buddha Buddhism is NOT nihilistic
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#38
11-29-2006, 06:37 AM
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Two I forgot earlier (unbelievably given the frequency that the BBC makes these errors and the fact that Pope Benedict is in Turkey at the moment).
The Ecumenical Patriarch (currently Patriarch Bartholomew) is not the head of the Greek Orthodox Church, but of the Patriarchate of Constantinople. The Greek Orthodox Church is a separate local Church that is headed by the Archbishop of Athens, not a Patriarch. And, and please note this one well because getting this wrong is likel to irritate me far more than bad grammar or spelling, Patriarch Bartholomew is not the 'head of the Orthodox Church', nor the 'spiritual leader of the world's Orthodox Christians', nor whatever other phrase you see bandied around in the press that makes him seem like an Orthodox equivalent to the Pope. He is first among equals only. If we have a Pan-Orthodox council, he has the right to chair it but he has absolutely no authority outside of his own See of Constantinople. As such, he is head only of his own See (and that only as first amongst equals within Constantinople's Holy Synod) and, whilst a centre of unity for all of us, certainly does not comprise a spiritual leader for most of us. 220 million of the 250 million or so Orthodox are under the jurisdiction of two entirely diferent Patriarchs - Patriarch Alexy of Moscow and Patriarch Teoctist of Romania, and I doubt the EP's omophorion even extends over anything like the majority of the remainder. James
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Doamne Iisuse Hristoase, Fiul lui Dumnezeu, miluieşte-mă pe mine, păcătosul.
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#39
11-29-2006, 06:45 AM
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Pagan in general: no, my circle is not my gateway to hell, and i do not have sex with the devil.... i also do not have sex with goats (yes, someone actually said that once!) a blood sac |
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