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me: expecting something coherent about how the Roman Catholic church was a marriage of Christian doctrine with Pagan traditions, how it's all centralized in a way Jesus wouldn't have wanted, how the Bible should be the main arbiter of the Christian worldview
jack chick: eating wafers and drinking wine is equivalent to animal sacrifice.
I study pagan religion and practice Catholicism, it is not a fusion of the two at all. There's some trappings but it's a completely different thing, and it honestly, I shit you not, has more to do with roman law and greek philosophy
Justin Martyr is A Time, gotta say.
I meant how the Catholic hierarchy was designed to be similar to the Roman State, since it was replacing the previous state religion.
They're referring to confession, not the sacraments (not that I'd expect them to be clear or coherent) - source: I was raised in the evangelical church. It's not very openly discussed, but it's taught in private that Jews and Catholics go to hell. But basically we're supposed to be nice to them, especially the Jews because they're "God's chosen people". The idea is that criticizing Jews as a nation of people will call down God's wrath on you... Because God has a thing for people who he's apparently sending to hell...
Also, the protestant Appostle's Creed states "we believe in the holy catholic church". Though they say it's a lower case "c" to signify the Greek term that means all Christian churches... Which includes the Roman Catholic Church, who are also going to hell. Protestantism is a hell of a drug.