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Originally posted by rla128:
Sure, maybe I don't know what your specific church believes. However, I have learned enough about the Catholic doctrine, which I'd think a Catholic church would follow, to know that true Catholicism and true Christianity do not go together.
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Tell us... what exactly do you know? I bet from reading your posts so far, that it would be only a paragraph, probably just a sentence. You keep saying you know "enough", but it sounds like you don't know a damn thing. If you want to make such a bold claim as to say that Catholics aren't Christians, then go on to say that only Christians may be spared from eternal damnation... therefore indirectly stating that all Catholics are going to hell, then you had better back up that claim with something better than "I think I know".
First off, think about that claim. If only a Christian can go to heaven, and Catholics aren't Christians... then that fantasy-cloud-utopia must be pretty underpopulated. There wouldn't be anybody in there from any time before the past 500 years, and only a small percentage of the people since then would even have a chance. So... in your viewpoint, at least from what I'm drawing out of it... there might be a billion people in heaven, but probably less.
Does that seem right to you? That out of all of human existence, less than 10% of all people ever to live
even had a fighting chance to get in? That everyone else, including good, honest, self sacrificing people, like Ghandi, Mother Theresa, and countless others are rotting in some fiery pit just because they didn't comply with your "righteous" religious paradigm. Bullshit.