That would only be fair..
But what about my question regarding denominations?
I just looked the 42 million dollar priest thing up. The Pope has bounced him out of there, but he's a german so by this forum's rationale, all germans are rotten.
One thing you will never see is hangover crying about the money his president wastes.
Lol - but what about my questions regarding denominations?
Isn't being Catholic just like being Lutheran, Protestant, Baptist, etc?
Denomination is a man made term. I don't use it because it's so theologically imprecise. I might say "what is your faith tradition", which is to say, what is your worship tradition.
The church you hate (henceforth known as the "catholic" church) was handed down to us from the disciples and their disciples. The liturgy they use is a direct descendant of the Jewish liturgy of daily prayer with some modifications. (I mean, after all, Jesus himself was a Jew!). If I am asked who I believe when it comes to authentic Christianity, I am more inclined to believe the guys who were there (Clement being one of them) than I am some pothead on a messageboard.
Many faith traditions have come from the one holy catholic and apostolic church: Anglicanism, Calvinism, Lutheranism, and the branches that came from those, Wesleyism, Baptism, etc.
Jehovah's Witnesses and Mormons are not descendants of the church and are not part of it. They were invented by men in the 1800's and 1900's. They are big on heresies, too. All the rest are descendants of the One Holy Catholic and Apostolic church. (That ought to get the fundies going!)
The church has no walls, no boundaries, no limits, it stretches from ancient times to today and into the future, the saints from Paul's day are no different from the ones in our own day. Asking one of the saints to pray for us is no different from you asking me to pray for you. I am a contemporary saint, Joseph (for example) is a departed saint.
If you really don't believe in an afterlife, this could be a problem for you.
He who has an ear, let him hear.