Quote: (08-30-2015 04:14 PM)FilipSRB Wrote:
I will be honest, as an Orthodox Christian I find a certain level of amusement reading about the the current Pope and his successful undermining of the Catholic Church.
This is an important point to raise. People who sweep the catholic church together with Orthodox and Protestant divisions and call it 'the church' or 'christianity' are making an error. The entire protestant separation happened because people believed that the word of god is contained in the bible, not a man with a funny white hat. The catholic church kept the bible out of normal people's hands and said "oh no, we'll read it all to you in a language that you don't understand and then tell you what it means...and then trump it with the Pope's authority if we need to".
When the papacy shows its corruption, serious protestants say "told you so" they don't try to defend it. Much of english and irish history has people dying to oppose the catholic church and vice versa.
Remember, catholics are the only 'church' that worships Mary, catholics are ones who ran the spanish inquisition...and guess what people were killed for? Being protestant sympathizers, owning bibles, disavowing the pope etc. Catholics are the ones with the global kid fucking scandal...not 'christians' or 'the church' a a whole.
Why do the heathen rage and the people imagine a vain thing? Psalm 2:1 KJV