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Originally posted by jrod
Who is eligible to be the next Pope?
I know one of the big things about catholism is that there is supposed to be a link of friends from the Pope to Jesus. With out a beloved Pope catholism and much of Christianity will fall.
Originally posted by EastCoastKid
Originally posted by jrod
Who is eligible to be the next Pope?
I know one of the big things about catholism is that there is supposed to be a link of friends from the Pope to Jesus. With out a beloved Pope catholism and much of Christianity will fall.
The Christian church, meaning the faith and its believers, came before the Pope. If you read the scriptures - which the Catholic church doesn't exactly promote - there are actually pointed rebukes to things you will find in Catholocism.. like Paul's admonishment to "not to pray to an endless chain of saints."
Originally posted by Valhall
Originally posted by EastCoastKid
Originally posted by jrod
Who is eligible to be the next Pope?
I know one of the big things about catholism is that there is supposed to be a link of friends from the Pope to Jesus. With out a beloved Pope catholism and much of Christianity will fall.
The Christian church, meaning the faith and its believers, came before the Pope. If you read the scriptures - which the Catholic church doesn't exactly promote - there are actually pointed rebukes to things you will find in Catholocism.. like Paul's admonishment to "not to pray to an endless chain of saints."
ECK...
I agree with every word you say here.
Now that we have that out of the way. Why did you post this in this thread? This is off-topic, inappropriate and absolutely not within the intent of the discussion that has taken place so far.
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Then to the rest of the posters, YES, any one who is bringing messages of peace must feel very ignored and downtrodden in these times.
Originally posted by Saphronia
You make it sound like there is something wrong with feeling good. I'm sorry, I may have missed something in your post. I mean, if this life has a point--it is to make your time count for something. What is wrong with doing the things that make you happy? I won't beat myself up because I do the things I love. They maybe petty in insignificant to the outside world, but my joy is my peace. Let me be a blind sheep bah, bah'ing my way to death. If that is what puts a smile on my face so be it. Whatever is next could be better or worse. So, make life heaven. There is nothing wrong with that.
Even those that fight--battle after battle--find some joy in the winning and misery in the losing. We are emotion driven beings. Even those that spend their days and nights with their nose in book find joy in learning. The search is a high, and without the tug of feelings who would ever get up outta bed--would we even have beds??? We'd still be draggin our knuckles on the ground if we didn't feel, and experience emotions. To me it isn't something to knock, but something to celebrate...yah! i'm happy. boo, i'm sad. grrr, i'm mad.
Originally posted by IMMORTAL
It seems like nobody ever listens to the Popes messages to the world.