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Posted Mar 17, '13 at 12:08am
Freakenstein
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1) Catholics are Christians
No. I'm a Christian and I'm not Catholic.
Fact Check: Roman Catholic Church is one of the oldest Christian institutions and denominations in the world, as well as the single largest.
You may be a different denomination, but what we were debating is whether or not Catholicism is part of the Christian religion, which dozens of citations at the bottom of the link state it is.
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Posted Mar 17, '13 at 3:24am
pangtongshu
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As opposed to all those young, fit, and healthy popes that there have been?
Pope Benedict the 9th was around was uh... pope-ified? Papaled? Mitred? What ever the verb is, he was around 20 or so when he became a pope
In case it was missed..the point I was trying to make was that old age is the norm for Popes
but what we were debating is whether or not Catholicism is part of the Christian religion
How is that even a debate?
You'd think common sense would be something you didn't have to prove..
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Posted Mar 18, '13 at 2:19am
thugtastic
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I saw the title of this thread and I thought to myself (being a Catholic) "oh no! This is going to be bad..." but some people seem to know a tiny bit about him.
He is a Jesuit so he is the first Pope from the Americas, the first Jesuit, and the first something else.... can't remember. ok well he is an exceedingly humble man, he took the bus to work, he cooked for himself, and I believe he took care of someone else for at least a while. He took the name Francis because he is like St. Francis d'Assisi (think I spelt that right). Anyways I am sure someone will have an objection to me or my comments. Feel free to object at will.
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Posted Mar 18, '13 at 2:24am
thugtastic
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Ok now I have read the thread...
WHAT ARE YOU THINKING???????
of course Catholics are Christians, we believe in Christ therefore are, by definition, Christians.
Also to adress the title of the thread he is the first "Francis" but he is just Pope Francis until there is another Francis then he will be Francis I.
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Posted Mar 18, '13 at 7:44am
Bladerunner679
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Reading this thread has done two things to me:
1. Made me laugh that Christians can't agree on anything.
2. Made me realize how little I care for the new pope.
Mr Francis is nothing new in my eyes because all popes have done the same thing (make the church better than it was before). If we are going to talk about something, I say it should be what the guy needs to change about his church's message to get more followers, not this guy's personal history.
-Blade
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Posted Mar 18, '13 at 7:47am
Bladerunner679
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Made a mistake in my post:
Change it to claim that he will improve the church.
-Blade
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Posted Mar 18, '13 at 7:11pm
Maverick4
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1. Made me laugh that Christians can't agree on anything.
Because all other religious groups agree with each other all the time?
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Posted Mar 18, '13 at 10:10pm
daleks
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If we could get off the whole Catholic/Christian thing that would be great.
He seems like a cool dude. More friendly than Benedict. So I like him. I also know why they picked him. Seeing how he was born in Argentina he would appeal to the Catholics there. His parents are both Italian though so he appeals to the root of Catholics back in Rome.
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Posted Mar 19, '13 at 1:26am
MageGrayWolf
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Because all other religious groups agree with each other all the time?
No they can't, that's what makes them all laughable. Better?
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Posted Mar 19, '13 at 4:41pm
Maverick4
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Better?
Very much so, yes.
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