Consider it's pagan goddess with the Sol Invictus (which is the Sun as God) halo. Do you object to honoring this statue?
Consider it's pagan goddess with the Sol Invictus (which is the Sun as God) halo. Do you object to honoring this statue?
How do you feel about the Founding Fathers?Honouring it? Not on my life... it was a gift from atheistic France during the French Revolution that represented the goddess of Reason. Fits right in with the rest of the occultic statues and symbols found throughout the US especially in DC, the very name being a representative of the goddess of Columbia, another iteration of the sun goddess in her many forms.
Honouring it? Not on my life... it was a gift from atheistic France during the French Revolution that represented the goddess of Reason. Fits right in with the rest of the occultic statues and symbols found throughout the US especially in DC, the very name being a representative of the goddess of Columbia, another iteration of the sun goddess in her many forms.
Deists and agnostics for the most part that God was able to use to create a nation founded upon Christian values and principles... the lamb like beast.How do you feel about the Founding Fathers?
How was the nation founded upon Christian values or principles, exactly?Deists and agnostics for the most part that God was able to use to create a nation founded upon Christian values and principles... the lamb like beast.
Religious liberty and freedom of conscience... a direct rebuke to the oppressive form of religion being used in Europe at the time. It allowed the woman to flee into the wilderness to escape the flood of persecution of the dragon.How was the nation founded upon Christian values or principles, exactly?
The Christians (such as witch-burning Puritans) who fled to America did so long before the Founding Fathers were around. And when the sort of Christians who were fleeing actually gained power in Europe (such as after the English Civil War), they were actually as bad as the Spanish Inquisition.Religious liberty and freedom of conscience... a direct rebuke to the oppressive form of religion being used in Europe at the time. It allowed the woman to flee into the wilderness to escape the flood of persecution of the dragon.
Consider it's pagan goddess with the Sol Invictus (which is the Sun as God) halo. Do you object to honoring this statue?
And when the sort of Christians who were fleeing actually gained power in Europe (such as after the English Civil War), they were actually as bad as the Spanish Inquisition.
My son in law (married to my youngest daughter) is of Crypto Jewish stock - those who hid themselves from the Spanish Inquisition in the New World.There were a number of different Catholic inquisitions - the Spanish one - was just one of them.
My son in law (married to my youngest daughter) is of Crypto Jewish stock - those who hid themselves from the Spanish Inquisition in the New World.
That inquisition followed them to Latin America and did not stop until the early years of the 20th century.
The Spanish Inquisition killed Twenty-Five Thousand, it was much more lethal than all the rest combined (it was also not under the Pope's authority, similar to the Trial of Joan of Arc).There were a number of different Catholic inquisitions - the Spanish one - was just one of them.
Their own Pope Benedict admits that they killed about 25 million and that more than half the records are "lost" -- so then 50 million.
if your claim is that 50 million people were killed in England during the few decades when this group had influence -- you will need something like historic confirmation of such a wide sweeping claim.
Indeed. It was put on each country to direct their own Inquisitions.(it was also not under the Pope's authority, similar to the Trial of Joan of Arc).
The Orthodox Church, of course, was better than either the Puritans or the Pope, because our Church didn't kill people.Indeed. It was put on each country to direct their own Inquisitions.
But they all were done at Rome's behest. The buck stops at the Vatican.
There can be no true unity in the body until that great sin is repented of, by the Pope himself.
Well - you do not get a pass either. I know the Toward Jerusalem 2 Council has had much more contact with Rome than Istanbul, but there are many things including the exclusion of the Believing Jews in the 4th and 5 centuries that need to be repented of as well. And that falls squarely in the lap of the Orthodox.The Orthodox Church, of course, was better than either the Puritans or the Pope, because our Church didn't kill people.
We never expelled anyone for being of Jewish blood, merely for being a Judaizer. Significant difference.Well - you do not get a pass either. I know the Toward Jerusalem 2 Council has had much more contact with Rome than Istanbul, but there are many things including the exclusion of the Believing Jews in the 4th and 5 centuries that need to be repented of as well. And that falls squarely in the lap of the Orthodox.
Not so. Read Eusubius' description of the Nazarenes. While agreeing that their doctrines were entirely orthodox, he lumps them in with the Ebionites (who were heretical) and dismisses them for still being looking like Jews and not obviously gentile christian.We never expelled anyone for being of Jewish blood, merely for being a Judaizer. Significant difference.
Eusebius never describes the Nazarenes, except one whom he mentions as adhering to the Gospel of the Hebrews.Not so. Read Eusubius' description of the Nazarenes. While agreeing that their doctrines were entirely orthodox, he lumps them in with the Ebionites (who were heretical) and dismisses them for still being looking like Jews and not obviously gentile christian.
As a result my people got excluded from the first Nicene conference.
They were cut off from the Church. By faith in Messiah, they were cut of from the rest of Judaism. So they died out a century or 2 later.