Re: [OT] Be very afraid!

On Fri, 9 May 2025 17:16:06 -0400, Dave Smith
<adavid.smith@sympatico.ca> wrote:

On 2025-05-09 8:29 a.m., Ed P wrote:

 
The problem was how it was taught, or more accurate, how it was not
taught.  The mass in latin is more eloquent, but, going to Catholic
school were were never told what the words meant and what was going on
up there on the alter.  Perhaps other schools were better.
 
I may have had a better attitude about if is someone told me what Et cum
spiritu tuo meant early on.
 
Dominus vobiscum

>
I don't know what exactly what the RC teaches their membership about
Protestantism and it's conflicts with Catholicism,  but the Protest
Reformation was a movement started by Catholics who were fed up with the
church enriching itself by the sale of a load of crap by the church. The
bible was written in a language the people didn't understand and in
books they could not afford. They didn't know that stuff they were
expected to buy into and to pay for had no basis in the bible. Goodness
knows how many rich old people paid fortunes for indulgences that would
get then into heaven.

I think that, from an RC point of view, Protestants are their closest
non Catholic brethren. Same God, same book, all Christians. Much
closer than the Muslim or Hindus, let alone the atheists.

--
Bruce
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