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yourMissTress -> RE: Lent! (3/3/2006 7:57:35 AM)
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ORIGINAL: candystripper
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there are some Christians who hold fast to the belief that Catholics aren't Christians! I remember seeing religious tracts in a cartoon form that stated all the reasons why Catholics aren't Christians (Madonna worship, for one...can't recall the others) and these are distributed far and wide by some of the more strident Christian sects. To my way of thinking the dolphin/human analogy is significantly less offensive than distributing such propoganda.
MsIncognito
Now THIS is what i would call strident, in-your-face anti-Catholic bias.
candystripper
Born and raised Catholic here, though since have changed my own thoughts and beliefs.
Every year I purchase my grandmother some books about a saint or the Pope. One year I entered a Christian bookstore searching for a book about a newly cannonized saint that started out his religious service in my grandmother's parish. When I asked the clerk, who was also a minister, about the book she replied "we only have Christian books here". After a moment of shock that a person of religious studies would make such a statement, I assured her that Catholics were in fact classified and Christian and left the store.
It's my opinion with the plethora of churches that spring up everywhere and have no "old time" religious affiliation or denomination, i.e. Baptist, Church of Christ, Evangelical, Lutheran etc. and simply call themselves Christian, the definition of the word has become somewhat blurred. Christian encompasses every person that believes JC to be the son of God and the savior of man.
Oh, and about Lent. When I was a practicing Catholic, I would give up something that was bad for me. Now, say I gave up smoking. I didn't just give up smoking, I also donated the $ I would have spent on cigarettes to a charity. For me it was not all about denying myself something, but also helping someone else.
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