I eat stupid dumb*** Christians for lunch! In seeking to open dialogue and provide information to the Science Club of Long Island I, very quickly, discovered that its founder, president and publisher, Oleg Dei, is a rather fiery person who appears to run the Science Club of Long Island as an anti-Christian support group. In …
Have you thought about a fitness lifestyle? Have you been accused of being a part of some vast (or, not so vast) anti-atheist conspiracy for being concerned with health and fitness? Well, I have: welcome to my world. Indeed, I was about to make reader’s of True Freethinker privy to my fitness webpage when along …
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Consider this a sister essay to Roman Catholic Maryology: Mary in Roman Catholicism, part 15 – Intercessor? Mediator? Advocate? and Trinity : Who is the Mediator / Intercessor / Advocate. The Fatima Crusader’s Fr. Nicholas Gruner wrote:
There appears to be a deceiving spirit, a fallen angel disguised as an angel of light, who is passing itself off as Jesus’ mother, Mary. This creature has been spreading false doctrine wrapped in a veneer of Christian obeisance as well as false prophecies.
The Fatima Crusader’s Fr. Nicholas Gruner wrote: Never since the foundation of the world has a miracle been predicted three months ahead of time. The very miracle that the Pharisees asked of Our Lord to give them as a sign in the heavens, Our Lord refused to give it to them. He said you will …
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We are now on part 3) of considering the following Roman Catholic claims: 1) The Roman Catholic Church has the authority to infallibly interpret scripture. 2) Sola scriptura was an invention of the Reformation. 3) Sola scriptura is not found in scripture. 3) Was sola scriptura an invention of the Reformation? Almost one and a …
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We are now on part 2) of considering the following Roman Catholic claims: 1) The Roman Catholic Church has the authority to infallibly interpret scripture. 2) Sola scriptura was an invention of the Reformation. 3) Sola scriptura is not found in scripture. 2) Let us now consider what the scripture, even the New Testament alone, …
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A parsed essay on Religious Science, which is Ernest Holmes’ Science of Mind, gave rise to a very interesting discussion wherein something typical of such religious groups came through very clearly. The essay consists of the following segments: Part 1: Introduction and Ernest the Infallible Part 2: Power of the Mind Part 3: Religious Science …
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A point of contention between Roman Catholicism and Protestantism is whether the text of the Bible alone (sola scriptura), or the text of the Bible, tradition and the ruling of the councils and declarations of the Popes (sola ecclesia), are the sole infallible rule of faith. Roman Catholicism, in part, explains it this way in …
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This is a very succinct consideration of mere aspects of the Protestant Reformation: Translated New Testament into German (the language of the common people) Printing press The Protestant Reformation, at least the Augustinian monk Martin Luther (1483-1546) aspect of it, was based on a disputation regarding indulgences. This lead to disputations about the religious system …
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