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The big Bad Catholic Church

Spiderman

Veteran Member
I know many Christians who think the Catholic Church is the Religion of the antichrist. Many non Christians who think it to be Satanic as well.

Since Catholicism is a "Religion of Satan" isn't the catholic Church the most evil institution on the face of the earth? Doesn't God passionately hate the Catholic Church?

I would like to let you know a summary of what the "Wicked, Satanic, Religion of the Antichrist" teaches and what this "damnable" Religion asks it's followers to do and believe.

Here is how you can test the Spirits and discover the Catholic Church is NOT the Religion of the Antichrist.

It requires Baptism

Accepting Jesus as your Lord and savior.

A personal Relationship with the Father, son, and Holy Ghost.

Keep the commandments of God

Pray unceasingly and whatever you do, do it for the Lord.

Whatever suffering you encounter offer it up to the Lord. Deny yourself, Carry your Cross, and follow Christ. Have no attachements to anything that gets in the way of your relationship with God. Be willing to sacrifice all including your life for Christ.

Work on being humble, meek, poor in Spirit, and a peacemaker. Bless those who persecute you and love your enemies.

Fasting is encouraged along with chastity and purity of thought. Pornography, and homosexual acts are grave sins along with Pride, lust, anger, covetousness, envy, sloth, gluttony, and unforgiveness.

This "Whore of Babylon" teaches that we should ask the Holy Spirit into our Hearts, and only by the promptings and inspiration of the Holy Spirit, and the grace of God, can we do anything to please Him.

Accept the gift that Christ is freely offering those who desire it along with the merits of his Redemptive Sacrifice to atone for your sins.

The precious blood of Christ shields us from the Wrath of God

God is love , trust in His unconditional love and Divine Mercy.

There is a common myth that Catholics are taught not to read Scripture. Not true:
Read Scripture daily for it is the Soul of Sacred Theology (a body without a soul is dead).

The Church teaches from the CCC

132:Therefore, the study of the sacred page (Scripture) should be the very soul of sacred theology.

133 The Church "forcefully and specifically exhorts all the Christian faithful. . . to learn the surpassing knowledge of Jesus Christ, by frequent reading of the divine Scriptures. Ignorance of the Scriptures is ignorance of Christ. “

A sincere confession: "if we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness." 1 John 1:9
" Therefore confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed." James 5:16

We are not saved by these works of mercy in themselves (contrary to popular myth) but we are encouraged to practice them because of what Christ said in Matthew 25 after seperating the sheep from the goats:

Seven corporal works of Mercy:

To feed the hungry;
To give drink to the thirsty;
To clothe the naked;
To harbour the harbourless;
To visit the sick;
To ransom the captive;
To bury the dead.

The spiritual works of mercy are:

To instruct the ignorant;
To counsel the doubtful;
To admonish sinners;
To bear wrongs patiently;
To forgive offences willingly;
To comfort the afflicted;
To pray for the living and the dead.

The Catholic Church requires it's members to beleive in one God, in Jesus Christ His only Son, conceived by the power of the Holy Spirit, was crucified, died, and was buried.

Jesus Christ rose from the Dead (If you declare with your mouth, "Jesus is Lord," and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. Romans 10:9)...

...Believe that Christ ascended into Heaven in fulfillment of the Scriptures, is seated at the right hand of God, will come again to judge the living and the dead, his Kingdom will have no end, believe in the Holy Spirit, the Holy Catholic Church, the Communion of Saints, the forgiveness of sins, the Resurrection of the body, and life everlasting.

Any Catholic who does not love Jesus is a non practicing Catholic...
Any Catholic who prefers an inferior good over God is failing to practice their Faith...
Any Catholic who loves anything less than God more than God, is not practicing their Catholic Faith

what the Catechism has to say about that:

The Church teaches that it is gravely sinful to practice Idolatry (from the CCC):


2113 Idolatry not only refers to false pagan worship. It remains a constant temptation to faith. Idolatry consists in divinizing what is not God. Man commits idolatry whenever he honors and reveres a creature in place of God, whether this be gods or demons (for example, satanism), power, pleasure, race, ancestors, the state, money, etc. Jesus says, "You cannot serve God and mammon." Many martyrs died for not adoring "the Beast" refusing even to simulate such worship. Idolatry rejects the unique Lordship of God; it is therefore incompatible with communion with God.

2114 Human life finds its unity in the adoration of the one God.
The commandment to worship the Lord alone integrates man and saves him from an endless disintegration. Idolatry is a perversion of man's innate religious sense. An idolater is someone who "transfers his indestructible notion of God to anything other than God."

The Catechism teaches:

358 man in turn was created to serve and love God

This is a summary of the primary teachings of the Catholic Church.
Beware!
 
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jeager106

Learning more about Jehovah.
Premium Member
Yes U R right.
It's Satans religion.
I've noticed you make slight of every religion known to mankind.
Have you considered psychiatric care?
You troll and beat up every religion known.
U R one sick individual. Stop it. Beat up JW's next.
 

Deidre

Well-Known Member
Well...for me, it boils down to what Jesus said (going with the story):

'You will recognize them (false prophets/religions) by their fruits.'' (Matthew 7:16)

And I think I have.
 

Spiderman

Veteran Member
Yes U R right.
It's Satans religion.
I've noticed you make slight of every religion known to mankind.
Have you considered psychiatric care?
You troll and beat up every religion known.
U R one sick individual. Stop it. Beat up JW's next.
I don't think it is Satan's religion. I put "" marks next to that. Im quoting the many people I know who say it is Satan's Religion. Read my post. It was defending what Catholicism teaches.

Well...for me, it boils down to what Jesus said (going with the story):

'You will recognize them (false prophets/religions) by their fruits.'' (Matthew 7:16)

And I think I have.

I admire any Religion that places the Golden rule above all other laws. The Catholic Church does. For any other Religion that does, I admire it, maybe even more than Catholicism.
 

Faybull

Well-Known Member
A teacher will correct its students. A Father will correct his son. The adversary will kill you.
 

Spiderman

Veteran Member
Well...for me, it boils down to what Jesus said (going with the story):

'You will recognize them (false prophets/religions) by their fruits.'' (Matthew 7:16)

And I think I have.
But, it doesn't...it really doesn't. :(

It isn't my place to sway anyone away from what they believe, but I encourage you and others to really see things for what they actually are, not what you wish them to be.
Not true! It does...it really does :)

Yes it does. Read what the Church teaches and you will know.

I can prove that the Catholic Church preaches Charity and the golden rule as the greatest commandment. It is taught as the primary duty of every Catholic.

Catholics can choose to not obey it. The Church isn't going to force them to.
 

Desert Snake

Veteran Member
Wait. If the RCC says atheists will go to heaven, then it doesn't require baptism.
Or is that like baptism is only required if you are a 'christian'.
Then just don't be a Christian, and everythings cool.
 

Desert Snake

Veteran Member
I know many Christians who think the Catholic Church is the Religion of the antichrist. Many non Christians who think it to be Satanic as well.
Ok.
Since Catholicism is a "Religion of Satan" isn't the catholic Church the most evil institution on the face of the earth? Doesn't God passionately hate the Catholic Church?
Whaa?
I would like to let you know a summary of what the "Wicked, Satanic, Religion of the Antichrist" teaches and what this "damnable" Religion asks it's followers to do and believe.
Great.
Here is how you can test the Spirits and discover the Catholic Church is NOT the Religion of the Antichrist.
.......
It requires Baptism

.....
Accepting Jesus as your Lord and savior.
Ok.
A personal Relationship with the Father, son, and Holy Ghost.

Keep the commandments of God

Pray unceasingly and whatever you do, do it for the Lord.

Whatever suffering you encounter offer it up to the Lord. Deny yourself, Carry your Cross, and follow Christ. Have no attachements to anything that gets in the way of your relationship with God. Be willing to sacrifice all including your life for Christ.

Work on being humble, meek, poor in Spirit, and a peacemaker. Bless those who persecute you and love your enemies.

Fasting is encouraged along with chastity and purity of thought. Pornography, and homosexual acts are grave sins along with Pride, lust, anger, covetousness, envy, sloth, gluttony, and unforgiveness.
This "Whore of Babylon" teaches that we should ask the Holy Spirit into our Hearts, and only by the promptings and inspiration of the Holy Spirit, and the grace of God, can we do anything to please Him.
Ok.
Accept the gift that Christ is freely offering those who desire it along with the merits of his Redemptive Sacrifice to atone for your sins.

The precious blood of Christ shields us from the Wrath of God

God is love , trust in His unconditional love and Divine Mercy.

There is a common myth that Catholics are taught not to read Scripture. Not true:
Read Scripture daily for it is the Soul of Sacred Theology (a body without a soul is dead).

The Church teaches from the CCC

132:Therefore, the study of the sacred page (Scripture) should be the very soul of sacred theology.

133 The Church "forcefully and specifically exhorts all the Christian faithful. . . to learn the surpassing knowledge of Jesus Christ, by frequent reading of the divine Scriptures. Ignorance of the Scriptures is ignorance of Christ. “
A sincere confession: "if we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness." 1 John 1:9
" Therefore confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed." James 5:16
We are not saved by these works of mercy in themselves (contrary to popular myth) but we are encouraged to practice them because of what Christ said in Matthew 25 after seperating the sheep from the goats:


Seven corporal works of Mercy:

To feed the hungry;
To give drink to the thirsty;
To clothe the naked;
To harbour the harbourless;
To visit the sick;
To ransom the captive;
To bury the dead.

The spiritual works of mercy are:

To instruct the ignorant;
To counsel the doubtful;
To admonish sinners;
To bear wrongs patiently;
To forgive offences willingly;
To comfort the afflicted;
To pray for the living and the dead.

The Catholic Church requires it's members to beleive in one God, in Jesus Christ His only Son, conceived by the power of the Holy Spirit, was crucified, died, and was buried.

Jesus Christ rose from the Dead (If you declare with your mouth, "Jesus is Lord," and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. Romans 10:9)...

...Believe that Christ ascended into Heaven in fulfillment of the Scriptures, is seated at the right hand of God, will come again to judge the living and the dead, his Kingdom will have no end, believe in the Holy Spirit, the Holy Catholic Church, the Communion of Saints, the forgiveness of sins, the Resurrection of the body, and life everlasting.

Any Catholic who does not love Jesus is a non practicing Catholic...
Any Catholic who prefers an inferior good over God is failing to practice their Faith...
Any Catholic who loves anything less than God more than God, is not practicing their Catholic Faith

what the Catechism has to say about that:

The Church teaches that it is gravely sinful to practice Idolatry (from the CCC):


2113 Idolatry not only refers to false pagan worship. It remains a constant temptation to faith. Idolatry consists in divinizing what is not God. Man commits idolatry whenever he honors and reveres a creature in place of God, whether this be gods or demons (for example, satanism), power, pleasure, race, ancestors, the state, money, etc. Jesus says, "You cannot serve God and mammon." Many martyrs died for not adoring "the Beast" refusing even to simulate such worship. Idolatry rejects the unique Lordship of God; it is therefore incompatible with communion with God.

2114 Human life finds its unity in the adoration of the one God.
The commandment to worship the Lord alone integrates man and saves him from an endless disintegration. Idolatry is a perversion of man's innate religious sense. An idolater is someone who "transfers his indestructible notion of God to anything other than God."

The Catechism teaches:

358 man in turn was created to serve and love God
This is a summary of the primary teachings of the "Religion of the Antichrist".
Beware!
The 'antichrist'? Ok.

I notice that no one's put up a decent rebuttal yet.
Ok.
 

Spiderman

Veteran Member
I was being sarcastic when I said Religion of the Antichrist. I was quoting what many protestants including my Mother who raised me said about the Church.

When I said "Religion of the Antichrist" I used quotation marks to indicate that is what I heard from other people, not what I think.

Wait. If the RCC says atheists will go to heaven, then it doesn't require baptism.
Or is that like baptism is only required if you are a 'christian'.
Then just don't be a Christian, and everythings cool.

Not all the canonized saints were baptized by humans. Many of the martyrs were unbaptized. Baptism can be given without the hands of a priest. All sacraments can be given by God without a priest.

I am a fan of every Religion that prizes the golden rule above all.

From the Catechism:

1822 Charity is the theological virtue by which we love God above all things for his own sake, and our neighbor as ourselves for the love of God.

1823 Jesus makes charity the new commandment.96 By loving his own "to the end,"97 he makes manifest the Father's love which he receives. By loving one another, the disciples imitate the love of Jesus which they themselves receive. Whence Jesus says: "As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you; abide in my love." And again: "This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you."98

1824 Fruit of the Spirit and fullness of the Law, charity keeps the commandments of God and his Christ: "Abide in my love. If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love."99

1825 Christ died out of love for us, while we were still "enemies."100 The Lord asks us to love as he does, even our enemies, to make ourselves the neighbor of those farthest away, and to love children and the poor as Christ himself.101


The Apostle Paul has given an incomparable depiction of charity: "charity is patient and kind, charity is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude. Charity does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrong, but rejoices in the right. Charity bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things."102
1826 "If I . . . have not charity," says the Apostle, "I am nothing." Whatever my privilege, service, or even virtue, "if I . . . have not charity, I gain nothing."103 Charity is superior to all the virtues. It is the first of the theological virtues: "So faith, hope, charity abide, these three. But the greatest of these is charity."104

1827 The practice of all the virtues is animated and inspired by charity, which "binds everything together in perfect harmony";105 it is the form of the virtues; it articulates and orders them among themselves; it is the source and the goal of their Christian practice. Charity upholds and purifies our human ability to love, and raises it to the supernatural perfection of divine love.

1828 The practice of the moral life animated by charity gives to the Christian the spiritual freedom of the children of God. He no longer stands before God as a slave, in servile fear, or as a mercenary looking for wages, but as a son responding to the love of him who "first loved us":106



If we turn away from evil out of fear of punishment, we are in the position of slaves. If we pursue the enticement of wages, . . . we resemble mercenaries. Finally if we obey for the sake of the good itself and out of love for him who commands . . . we are in the position of children.107
1829 The fruits of charity are joy, peace, and mercy; charity demands beneficence and fraternal correction; it is benevolence; it fosters reciprocity and remains disinterested and generous; it is friendship and communion: Love is itself the fulfillment of all our works. There is the goal; that is why we run: we run toward it, and once we reach it, in it we shall find rest.108
 
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JayJayDee

Avid JW Bible Student
Not true! It does...it really does :)

Read what the Church teaches and you will know.

I can prove that the Catholic Church preaches Charity and the golden rule as the greatest commandment. It is taught as the primary duty of every Catholic.

Catholics can choose to not obey it. The Church isn't going to force them to.

And that seems to be the main problem with a church that believes that it can give absolution to sinners. How can sinners forgive other sinners? Those who were willful sinners in the first century congregations were expelled, not ignored or tolerated. (1 Cor 5:13-19) The shepherds were instructed to judge wrongdoers "inside" the congregation, whilst God judges those "outside". The nation of Israel went astray because their shepherds were negligent....history repeats.

In times past, the Catholic Church went overboard with the judgment and the punishment, but then, as it always happens, the pendulum swings too far the other way and now there is no punishment at all to speak of.
There is balance in keeping the word of God. Catholicism and the rest of Christendom, never found it.

The Catholic Church is the mother of her many daughters. All hold to the same core of false beliefs, formulated by her centuries after Jesus died...all taken along when the daughters left home.
Christendom is the sum of her children...divided, disobedient to the Christ and completely disjointed.

Satan did to Christianity exactly what he did to Judaism. (Matt 13:24-30) He influenced men to apostatize and teach what God did not have written in his word.
The "traditions of men" have again replaced the word of God. (Mark 7:6-8)

"Then Jesus spoke to the crowds and to His disciples, 2 saying: The scribes and the Pharisees have seated themselves in the chair of Moses; 3 therefore all that they tell you, do and observe, but do not do according to their deeds; for they say things and do not do them." (Matt 23:1-3)

The same holds true today. The Catholic Church, like a lot of others, gives lips service to Christ but does not live up to her discipleship. She says a lot but does very little in obedience to the commands of the Christ...instead, they follow the commands and traditions of men.
 

Glaurung

Denizen of Niflheim
But the Catholic Church doesn't hold to my progressive secular humanism and liberal sexual ethics. Therefore it is an evil institution of bigots who only want to hate.
 

dgirl1986

Big Queer Chesticles!
Never heard or read a christian call catholicism an antichrist or satan religion. Weird. Was it the first god/christ based religion?
 
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