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Inquisition torture

My “bff”, Ernie Vasol aka losav on his alter-blog is accusing me of being an “anti-catholic”. I guess because I was blogging about catholic church doctrines and practices which do not necessarily agree with his own beliefs make me an “anti-catholic”. This made me chuckle a bit because if you read my post, nowhere will you find anything that is anti anything. My post are borne out of reading publications that had been available longer that I’ve been alive! So to call me anti-catholic would be the equal to calling my references anti-catholic. That would be well and good for my “bff” but the problem is that included in my list of references are the bible and the Catholic Catechism itself!

He pointed to a web page about anti-Catholicism but when I followed the link it turned out to be an encyclopedia entry for anti-Catholicism in U.S. History! You see, I’m a filipino who hasn’t lived in the U.S. long enough to be considered part of U.S. History. So, his definition of me being anti-catholic is both false and erroneous. And being a native of the only Catholic majority country in Asia and ruled over for 300 years by the Catholic religion, it’s an insult to be called anti catholic. “Victim” of catholic oppression is probably more accurate.

He also said I denied being a member of the Iglesia Ni Cristo. This also is not true. What I said is that I am not writing for or in behalf of the Iglesia Ni Cristo. What I write is based on my own reading and research, guided of course by what I’ve learned so far, and motivated by my interest in the history of religions in general. My blog is not meant to indoctrinate or propagate my own belief, but rather to share what I’ve learned along the way.

Brokeback mountain

He also said I was “assassinating characters”. I and my “bff” have a long story that I’d rather not get into and not for my benefit but for the benefit of my “bff” losav. Suffice it to say, I did not do anything illegal, immoral or unfair. What I presented was put there in the open by losav himself. I simply pointed it out. If I were my “bff”, I would stop mentioning this episode because each time he does, another reader gets the urge to look. It’s like a bad road accident. The more you point to it, the more people feel the need to look.

Concerning his claim that I was contradicting “impartial” sources that purportedly say the Catholic church is “historically” the original Church. Whether this is true or not I’m not personally certain because I haven’t gotten that far in my research. So the jury is still out on this one. But is it really important and necessary at this point to prove that the Catholic church was indeed the original church? Notice the emphasis on “was”. What’s important is to ask, is the Catholic church today the same as the church built by Jesus? This is quite easy to answer. With one bible verse it can be proven that the Catholic church is NOT the church built by Christ in the first century:

For there is one God, and one mediator of God and men, the man Christ Jesus:
Douay-Rheims Bible

Contrast this to what Catholics believe:

Emperor Constantin rules over Council of Nicaea

The Council declared that the Father and the Son are of the same substance and are co-eternal, basing the declaration in the claim that this was a formulation of traditional Christian belief handed down from the Apostles. This belief was expressed in the Nicene Creed.
wikipedia.org

Now I don’t normally trust wikipedia because the founder himself said himself not to. But for this particular post, I’ll allow it.

And there you go. Another blog post dedicated to all my catholic readers.