Hypocrisy

[laheina]

I just thought about this. I'm sitting here, watching CNN, and I remembered something that I was told recently.

The Latino gentleman that does handyman work for me was telling me about a trip that some of the people in his church just took to Israel. He is a member of an "evangelical" Spanish speaking congregation. He says that the group went to the place where Jesus is said to have been born, but a large group of the people refused to go in because it is now a Catholic church.

Now their is huge tension between Protestants and Catholicism Latino communities, especially in Latin America, but isn't this a little much? What do y'all think?

[JVS]

1. Maybe they didn't feel welcome there

[laheina]

8. But this is a faith

that thrives on friction. One of my father's favorite verses to quote was the one about turning brother against brother. I would think that nothing would keep them away from their Jesus. ?

[JVS]

9. I don't know

I remember that last year there was a breakdown in the joint custody of a site between Catholics and Eastern Orthodox that lead to clergy fighting with one another physically. I believe it was the church of the holy sepulchre. Anyways, some of the people who run these sites are standoffish to say the least. There is also a good amount of doubt as to the authenticity of the sites

[laheina]

10. Yup.

One of my undergrads was religious studies, so I'm very skeptical about most things religious anyway.

[Digit]

2. My born-again brother....

Explained to his little heathen sister (that would be ME), that the Catholic faith was a cult since they worshipped images of Christ, etc.
Also, he said the Mormon church was a cult.
Basically, everybody else was a cult and/or wrong except for his faith and only born-agains would go to heaven.

[bigwillq]

4. I think all forms of organized religion

are nothing more than glorified cults.

Sorry if I offend anyone, that's just how I feel.

[laheina]

7. No worries

Given how many of them act these days, that opinion is perfectly logical.

[laheina]

5. But they believed that this was

Jesus's birthplace, it seems as if their antipathy was more important.

BTW, I was told at 9 that I would go to hell, because I identified myself as Catholic. :(

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

3. There has always been tension between certain

Protestants and Catholics. I had some relatives who belonged to some fundamentalist churches back in the 60s (they are since deceased). They kept giving my mother anti-Catholic tracts. I doubt if some of these churches have really changed their beliefs.

[laheina]

6. Obviously not :( nt