<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Krahe @ July 27, 2007, 10:11 AM) [snapback]9537[/snapback]</div>
It is a part of Christianity. Mag-Daddy's wording is kinda iffy.
The reason he's really saying that the Catholics aren't really Christians is because they tell there people to worship God in ways that are absolutely not in the Bible, many of those things were put into place because they made a profit from it.
Such as the idea of purgatory, which is said by them to be a place that you go before either going to heaven or hell. Purgatory is no where in the Bible and by making up this place people paid the priests of churches so they would be able to get access into heaven. Since most people couldn't read the Bible for themselves when this was instituted they got away with it easily.
Also, confessions, why should we have to confess our sins to the priest when we have direct access to God ourselves? And finally the saints things (especially St. Mary)....it's just stupid, especially the Mary one, why make her a saint she just had Jesus....I mean yes she brought our savior into the world, but what did she do afterwards? I'll just end it at that point.
There is? :huh: I've always considered Catholicism to be another branch of Christianity (More specifically, the general "starting point").[/b]
The reason he's really saying that the Catholics aren't really Christians is because they tell there people to worship God in ways that are absolutely not in the Bible, many of those things were put into place because they made a profit from it.
Such as the idea of purgatory, which is said by them to be a place that you go before either going to heaven or hell. Purgatory is no where in the Bible and by making up this place people paid the priests of churches so they would be able to get access into heaven. Since most people couldn't read the Bible for themselves when this was instituted they got away with it easily.
Also, confessions, why should we have to confess our sins to the priest when we have direct access to God ourselves? And finally the saints things (especially St. Mary)....it's just stupid, especially the Mary one, why make her a saint she just had Jesus....I mean yes she brought our savior into the world, but what did she do afterwards? I'll just end it at that point.