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interesting ,Tate.

If my memory is correct, Luther complained that Catholicism was "too jewish."

There is denying the vast differences between the 2 faiths, but they do agree that 1) actions matter and 2) Sola Scriptura is untenable.


Exactly!!!!

I personally am unable to argue against hardly any of the main ideas that I encounter over on moshiach.com....as I study Lubivichter and Orthodox Jewish writings....I keep thinking back on Catholic doctrines...that made no sense to me years ago...but now it seems like CAtholicism at its beginning was almost entirely based on Judaism and on Jewish thought and philosophy...but competitive organizational behavior kicked in and Roman Catholicism became rabidly anti-Semitic....

After Emperor Constantine took all the pagan temples and appropriated them for the Xian church....Xians inherited massive numbers of statues to foreign gods....Many influencial Xians didn't want to start a war with the pagans by smashing all these idols...so they eventually decided to give them different names....at first many less influencial Xians actually did want to get rid of the statues...anyway....time passes and eventually the statues become "aids to worship"....Roman Catholicism having became rabidly anti-Semitic by this time some within our ranks also saw the nifty by product benefit of using these statues to snif out "Judaisers" in our midst.....people who actually took the second commandment seriously....and the fourth commandment as well.....how dreadful!!!!!

If the Catholic Church is ready for a Hebraic Roots Xian such as myself....who may go so far into Judaising that I even take the Numbers 6 Nazarite vow to the best of my limited ability....

Then I plan to put forth my strange theory that we CAtholics should seriously consider pleading guilty to everything....say that EVERYTHING is our fault....we could even say that Global warming is our fault because we should have taught better ideas on how to "dress it and keep it" centuries ago....While in the process of pleading guilty to everything....we organize a one million nun march to the Vatican Bank....kick out all the male priests from this institution so that the influence of the Italian mafia on the VAtican Bank can be virtually eliminated.....

It seems fair that if the guys get to do all the talking then at least the women should control the purse strings....with the assistance of course of the Pope.....

With nuns firmly in control of the VAtican BAnk the newly inspired Roman CAtholic Church can issue a new VAtican Currency Unit....begin reparations payments to the nation of Israel for our part in the holocaust....send back articles from the Second Temple that we and our ancestors stole from the Jewish people.....

We could loan the nation of Israel billions of dolllars/shekels/VacUums* for specific projects that we label as worthy....Roman Catholic classification of Jews as our genuine brothers would make our charging of any interest to you on these loans as immoral....

Zero interest on these loans could cause the boys on Wall Street to leap for joy....at least eventually once they begin to have half a clue what is beginning to happen....

The Roman Catholic church could begin to pay for medical circumcisions all throughout the Third World and say that we are doing this as a medical procedure to eventually decrease levels of HIV infection....we could even say that HIV is really our fault because we had been too dumb to see that we could have embarked on a project of this nature decades ago....

We could fund further research on the active ingredient in the Aloe Vera plant...if I remember correctly some scientists believe it might be Mannose a nutritional sugar....Urban legends are floating around out there that mannose in significant quantities has amazing effects on HIV...heart disease....cancer...diabetes....(probably pure myth I am sure but none the less worthy of further research).....

With our newly found much warmer relationship with the nation of Israel we could........

*VacUums....Vatican UNIVERSAL unlimited(+-) money system???? not bad for a start...but definitely needs further work.....