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    Will Catholicism remain the largest single Christian denomination for the next millennia?

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    Perhaps, but there are already more non-Catholic Christians (combined) than there are Catholics globally. Groups that concentrate on really getting to know God will continue to grow, like Pentecostalism in Latin America. That's the future until Jesus comes (hopefully soon).
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    Quote Originally Posted by Loki View Post
    Perhaps, but there are already more non-Catholic Christians (combined) than there are Catholics globally. Groups that concentrate on really getting to know God will continue to grow, like Pentecostalism in Latin America. That's the future until Jesus comes (hopefully soon).
    Places like the Philippines and Mexico have large swaths of Protestants, Adventists etc. too, Catholicism is just inadequate it does nothing for the poor, look at 90% of catholic countries; they are generally hell holes and that's an insult on the church not the people. The pope wears designer socks while his patrons funding his lavish lifestyle live in slums and all that comes with it. Not to mention Catholic diocese are known for moving around pedophiles and harboring them. The Roman institution (not catholic views on Christianity) are vile, corrupt and ran like a Mafia or some Orwellian benevolent dictatorship.
    Those who want to live, let them fight, and those who do not want to fight in this world of eternal struggle do not deserve to live.

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    The Catholic Church also has an 'evangelical' wing these days with healings, speaking in tongues, and all the other bells and whistles. It appears that it is trying to morph into something more popular.

    Catholicism is fighting a battle. Since Vatican II they are trying to make it more 'relevant', or 'modern' and trying to keep up with the times.

    Whether this is right or wrong is up for debate - and is being furiously debated with proponents on either side.

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    Quote Originally Posted by PaleoEuropean View Post
    Places like the Philippines and Mexico have large swaths of Protestants, Adventists etc. too, Catholicism is just inadequate it does nothing for the poor, look at 90% of catholic countries; they are generally hell holes and that's an insult on the church not the people. The pope wears designer socks while his patrons funding his lavish lifestyle live in slums and all that comes with it. Not to mention Catholic diocese are known for moving around pedophiles and harboring them. The Roman institution (not catholic views on Christianity) are vile, corrupt and ran like a Mafia or some Orwellian benevolent dictatorship.
    It is far from benevolent. The institution itself is as corrupt as any Third world dictatorship and then some more. I think the Catholic religion is beautiful (I'm obviously biased since I'm Catholic myself) but what the institution has become is disgusting. There are thousands of good priests but there equally as many who are rotten and corrupt to the core. And then there are those in higher positions who protect the evil-doers and move them around from one diosece to the next to continue their deeds. There is much focus on priests abusing kids but it is worse than that. What they aren't talking about is the abuse of vulnerable people over the age of 18, including seminarians. You'll notice that they all talk about the abuse of minors, but not a word is said about seminarians and 'majors'. It is good that all this is coming to light. The institution should be forced onto its knees and be held accountable for what has been happening. Many good souls have been destroyed by this institution.

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    Catholicism has no future.
    The Roman Church, as it was shaped by the Council of Trent (in the mid-16th century), introduced the clerical celibacy. From that moment, the Catholic church became the homosexual conspiracy that it still is.
    For the centuries to come, in the Catholic provinces of Europe, when peasant families realized they had a son more interested in reading than in dating young girls, they knew what to do: the boy is going to be a priest or a monk!
    Similarly, lesbian girls ended up quite logically in female monasteries.

    This is the reason why the more LGBT lobbies are powerful and visible, the less justification has the Catholic Church.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Kazimiera View Post
    There is much focus on priests abusing kids but it is worse than that. What they aren't talking about is the abuse of vulnerable people over the age of 18, including seminarians. You'll notice that they all talk about the abuse of minors, but not a word is said about seminarians and 'majors'. It is good that all this is coming to light. The institution should be forced onto its knees and be held accountable for what has been happening. Many good souls have been destroyed by this institution.
    Really? Do you have hard evidence that this abuse is more prevalent in the Catholic Church by priests than for example in schools (including high schools, where students are over the age of 18) by teachers, in kindergartens by kindergateners, and so on?

    Is there evidence that the percent of pedophiles among priests & nuns is much higher than in the general male & female population? I have yet to see such data.

    On another note I think that the celibate requirememt for Catholic priests should be abolished and they should be allowed to marry like Protestant pastors.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Kazimiera View Post
    It is far from benevolent. The institution itself is as corrupt as any Third world dictatorship and then some more. I think the Catholic religion is beautiful (I'm obviously biased since I'm Catholic myself) but what the institution has become is disgusting. There are thousands of good priests but there equally as many who are rotten and corrupt to the core. And then there are those in higher positions who protect the evil-doers and move them around from one diosece to the next to continue their deeds. There is much focus on priests abusing kids but it is worse than that. What they aren't talking about is the abuse of vulnerable people over the age of 18, including seminarians. You'll notice that they all talk about the abuse of minors, but not a word is said about seminarians and 'majors'. It is good that all this is coming to light. The institution should be forced onto its knees and be held accountable for what has been happening. Many good souls have been destroyed by this institution.
    I agree I was just trying to be semi objective XD
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    Quote Originally Posted by Peterski View Post
    I think that celibate for Catholic priests should be abolished and they should be allowed to marry like Protestant pastors.
    Ya. Allowing Catholic priests to marry wouldn't change anything. The Catholic clerics are all gays.
    Which is the big difference with the Jewish-Islamic culture. Child abuse is notoriously rampant among rabbis and imams (infinitely much more than in the Catholic Church).
    But they rape only young girls.

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    Cathlocism is a beautiful version of Christianity missing one or two areas of discipline such as nature, soul and vigilancy and that was perhaps lost went it split from the mother Church and where Protestants went to proclaim it with their own version equally beautiful at least this is what I suspect.
    “For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.” Eph. 6:12

    Definition of untrustworthy and loose character are those that don't believe in God.


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