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POPSPope Reasserts Catholic Supremacy Over Protestants His Unholiness reasserts the pre-Reformation, tyrannical and usurping tradition of Papal authority and Roman Catholic supremacy as if Jesus Christ himself taught or authorized his ceremonial priest-craft and Latin Mass ( which is idolatry ), where his Blasphemy, through waving his magic wand and reciting Latin formula ( hocus pocus ) is able to (if you believe this) transform (transubstantiation) mere wafers of bread ("heil presto"--poof!) into the "body of Christ"! Jesus and the apostles never taught such superstition (which hails from Roman paganism, mixed well in its holidays and ecclesiastical hierarchy). The Pope is following the false teaching of Simon Magus, the sorcerer, instead of Simon Peter the apostle. Ritual, ceremony, miters, crosses, candles, pilgrimages, liturgies, and shepherd staffs all make a show of religion (tracing back to Babylonian religions) contrary to the writings of the new testament.
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POPSPagan Woman Accuses Shelter of Discrimination If they accept federal funds, they cannot discriminate. This is from an article about the opening of the center: "A grant from Access to Recovery-Idaho, a federally funded program that makes money available to traditional and faith-based recovery programs, is helping to pay the utilities at the house and for the administration."
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POPSPagan prisoners win right to have wands there's genuine concern prisoners are taking the system for a ride." Conservative MP Andrew Turner, who uncovered the new ruling, added: "This strikes me as bizarre. A lot of people would be worried about equating paganism with Christianity.". Brightest Blessings to Justice Reform Minister Maria Eagle. To Edward Garnier and Andrew Turner - grow up. Christianity is NOT "all that" to everybody.
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POPSEaster Not a Christian Holiday Like Christmas, it is "christianized" paganism. Why do modern Christians say "happy Easter", and glorify a pagan deity? Because of their mass indoctrination by corrupt churches, and family "traditions", imitated blindly. It is another merchandisers holiday, very lucrative, both by consumer products companies and corporate churches.
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POPSWhoa! Sanity from the RCC? While we are worlds apart in certain respects, Brother Consolmagno seems the type of person that I'd enjoy spending an afternoon with.
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POPSChristmas Trees: Pagan Idolatry
Christmas was not observed in America until the 19th century, largely due to German immigration in the North. The Pilgrims (like the Puritans) said that anyone who observed Christmas could not be a true Christian, that it was a pagan and Popish (Roman Catholic) practice. Wherever Christmas was observed (Rome, England, France) historically Christian protestants were persecuted, because they denounced both the Mass and the so-called "holy day", which they considered a gross superstition. No one back then ever used adorned trees, which was an incorporation of ancient pagan customs above, for Christ-mass in the Romish churches. It did not become a federal holiday (establishing this religious pagan custom) until the 1900s. The Pilgrims were right, its Christianized paganism. That is why children always ask their parents why they have a tree, and always get the most creative answers, to justify the ritual. But the historic roots of the custom are very clear. Dec. 25th is Baalism.
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POPSChrist And Nature Spirituality Discussion I am a believer in Christ Jesus and recognize Him as my personal Lord and Savior, but I too have a reverence for nature and feel drawn to incorporate this feeling in worship and praise. I believe in Christo Paganism/Eclectic Spirituality. I am intrigued by Shamanism, Native American beliefs, Wicca, Druidism, and other earth based religions.
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POPSTeaching Kids Not To Think Unfortunately, it didn’t work. The proposal was supported by the Queensland Government and a Bill was introduced to Queensland Parliament, before being rejected. Bishop, with the support of the Christian Lobby, threatened to withhold funding from the Queensland school system if the changes were made. She claimed the proposed changes would open the door to cultish groups to start preaching ‘unacceptable views’, such as witchcraft and paganism. The reality is that these groups do, and always had, have potential to schools under the Education Act. This is because they are based on a belief in the supernatural, and therefore count as religious belief. Humanist studies remain excluded precisely because they do not subscribe to supernatural belief. Bishop would have been better off arguing that algebra shouldn’t be taught, as it opens the door to weird letters posing as hypothetical numbers.