Recent content by Vicomte13

I have personally experienced 3 major miracles and a series of communications with God.

Yes, you are wrong. You can alienate your mother over ideas if you choose, nobody will stop you. And nobody will ever reward you for it either, not in this world or the next. You will simply cut a REAL tie with a REAL person, forever, your life's biggest fan, in favor of your own fantasy idea...

Now Jason, THAT was an attack, by YOU, on everybody who tried to help you. You got a lot of good advice here, and much of it was friendly. Some of it wasn't. What you wrote categorically dismissed all of it as negative criticism. That is not true. You just attacked everybody - even those...

As you wish. But your question was about what you do if somebody doesn't want to play the "quote scripture game". I said "talk about miracles" - then he will object and do what you just did: turn to Scripture - and VOILA! You have achieved your objective of getting him to argue using...

I discuss miracles with them: they prove Jesus is divine and that he interacts with the world still. This then usually launches a fight about Mary, sainthood and trans-substantiation, because all of the demonstrable, scientifically examinable miracles since the First Century fall into those...

You left. You may have been a cradle Catholic, but you decided that logical religion was your focus, not that feeling of being part of God's family. You probably never really felt that, so you left. You weren't really part of the people you left, you don't share their emotionalism, which is...

Not really. Catholics do not think about God and the Church in terms of formal debate. Infallibility is something that the clergy and the intellectuals, and people outside of the Church, worry about. The lay Catholic's relationship with God is very foreign to the form of logic that you...

The Bishop is to grind his teeth, state his personal disagreement, warn darkly, and then leave it to God. What more can he do, realistically? Sure, he could "draw a gun", so to speak, and blow off his own foot. Pretty sure that won't accomplish anything. The hardcore always want to take...

You say. You decide. You go to communion or not. It's up to you. That's the way it really is.

When I opine on things regarding the Catholic church, my fellow Catholics get angry at me and some of them come after me with as close to "book, bell and candle" as they can. Because I'm in no position to reform anything about the Church myself, and my fellow Catholics do not agree with me, for...

Probably. So I won't go over there. Life's too short, y'know?

Obviously. All old churches do. Have to. Exhibit A: All of the old Western Churches (Catholics, Lutherans, Calvinists, Anglicans) justified killing people as "witches". None justify that anymore, or even dare to try. Some pretend that "nothing has changed", but that's just a lie.

The Pope Eugene quote is unfortunate because it weakens your case. Since Vatican II, the Catholic position, as contained in the catechism, is that those who are not baptized Catholics may nevertheless be saved by God. So what Pope Eugene asserted back then is not really what the Church teaches...

The short answer is yes, YHWH commanded the genocide of all Canaanites who remained in the land of Canaan and did not flee.

It will not pass, and really, it MUST not pass. The ability to shut the government down is literally the only power that the Legislature has to prevent the Executive from imperial rule, or the Executive has from preventing America from devolving into a straight parliamentary system contrary to...