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I was surprised to find how many accepted Catholic practices are forbidden in the King James Bible.

For example:

And call no man your father upon the earth: for one is your Father, which is in heaven.
--Matthew 23:9  (King James Version)

This seems straightforward enough to me. Don't call any man by the title, Father. But the Catholic church does just that. They have a priesthood wherein all priests are hailed using the honorific, Father.

I am not the only one who has called attention to this fact; the Catholic church has set up a website to answer such anomalies.

Catholic Answers

When reading from these Catholic Answers it is immediately obvious that they were written by relatively modern day scribes and apologists who by clever twisting of words add foolish complexity to the original statement.

I am not attempting to compare the Protestant religion with the Catholic faith, and not proclaiming one as being superior to the other.

After all . . .

Organized religion is nothing more than man made foolishness.

As in:

When Joseph Smith was 21 years old, an angel named Moroni gave him the ancient records. Joseph had little formal education and was unfamiliar with the ancient language written on the metal sheets of gold, but he was able to translate them because God gave him the gift and power to do so. The translation took less than three months, and in 1830, 5,000 copies of the Book of Mormon were published in Palmyra, New York.

God chose Joseph as a prophet, seer, revelator and translator to restore The Church of Jesus Christ in modern time, and the Book of Mormon was essential to this restoration. Joseph Smith was given an extraordinary calling, and because he kept himself worthy of the blessings of heaven, he was able to bring the Book of Mormon to the world.

Now that's ridiculous.

After all, here in the United States of America all citizens have the right to worship as they please.

And, after all, I could be wrong.

. . . but I'm not.


The phone rang while I was typing the above, and I hurried into the far bedroom to screen the call on the answering machine. There was no message. It was probably just one of those pesky telemarketers.

I wonder what Eva thinks about my hurrying through the house every time that bell rings.

I wonder if Eva has a religion.

 

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Did You Know . . .?

Since 1815, more than 2.5 billion copies of the Bible have been sold worldwide. It has been translated into more than 2,200 languages and dialects.

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HISTORICAL EVENT

On this day, November 18 in 1978, Peoples Temple founder Jim Jones led hundreds of his followers in a mass murder-suicide at their agricultural commune in a remote part of the South American nation of Guyana. Many of Jones’ followers willingly ingested a poison-laced punch while others were forced to do so at gunpoint. The final death toll at Jonestown that day was 909; a third of those who perished were children.

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WORD FOR TODAY

anomaly
noun
1. Deviation or departure from the normal or common order, form, or rule.
2. One that is peculiar, irregular, abnormal, or difficult to classify.

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Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.
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