Please tell me that you didn’t tell them that we “worship Mary”.After 3-4 days of quarreling wit those people over why the Catholic Church is the true Church and why we have the traditions we have and why we worship Mary,and why they are racists and discriminators,I think they are stuck somewhere in my head now.I am shocked.I need some time to get over this.
Once you have stated your case for the gospel and the Church, you have to leave the rest to the Holy Spirit. Believe me, dear one, you will see much of this in your life. Do not let it trouble you. Remain strong in your faith and relationship with God. Those who lack your faith should be prayed for. Give it over to God.After 3-4 days of quarreling wit those people over why the Catholic Church is the true Church and why we have the traditions we have and why we worship Mary,and why they are racists and discriminators,I think they are stuck somewhere in my head now.I am shocked.I need some time to get over this.
I wasn’t actually a witness to the conversation, but I think it’s safe to say that they told her that, not the other way around.
Well said. Even on this forum, I find that there are some threads that are best ignored – “Attack of the 50-foot eyesores”, if you will.
Thank You!
That is very true.But it drove me crazy when I saw that they always come wit mockery arguments against me.It became an obession.And I’m shocked…still.
They need a bunch of psychiatres.
Thank goodness. I wasn’t 100% sure when I read the post.Thank You!
This was very sweet
yes,they say we worship Mary.and i tried to give arguments why Mary is important for us,and that they use wrongly the word “worship”,they say we worship Mary because they mock at us there.
I’m sure they’d say that psychiatrists are evil, too.
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raying is the only thing we can do for them.Tthey are too stubborn to listen to mere people.They need the srtength of God to show them them the Light.Mostly they think in sylogisms lolI’m sure they’d say that psychiatrists are evil, too.
Sadly, there are unreasonable/stubborn/abusive/etc people – Protestants and Catholics alike – all over the internet. It helps to be very selective about what forums you spend your time on, but even then you’re likely to encounter that sort of thing once in a while.:thumbsup
Thank You!
This was very sweet
yes,they say we worship Mary.and i tried to give arguments why Mary is important for us,and that they use wrongly the word “worship”,they say we worship Mary because they mock at us there.
, because they are mocking those who say that. The statements on the site are there. because they are mocking what certain sorts of Fundamentalist do in fact say. And that assertion about the BVM is fairly common among Fundamentalists, so it is fair game for a site of this kind.Well, to be fair, Mihaela didn’t mention landoverbaptist.org, but rather its companion site landoverbaptist.net, which is slightly less obviously parody.
Exactly right. When Fundamentalists Baptists (or, in this case, people pretending to be) post radically anti-Catholic trash on the internet, the people most likely to get a black-eye out of it are the Fundamentalists Baptists.ISTM you should be thanking those who wrote the text that appear on the site
If anyone has reason to complain, it is Fundamentalist Evangelical Protestants, not Catholics.
That it the d*** siteThe site even specifies that it is a joke. Just how obviously humorous does a satire like that, or any other joke, have to be, before people realise that a piece of humour is…a piece of humour ? What is the problem - is reading comprehension not taught in U.S. schools ?
The problem can’t be that people in the US don’t have a sense of humour, because that is self-evidently false. And it can’t be a failure to appreciate satire - there is no lack of evidence to the contrary; so that is not the problem either. But put “The Da Vinci Code” to people - & some seem not to understand that it is fiction, non-factual, not a statement of what happened, just a story, not an attempt to relate actual events; or that that site is poking fun at certain forms of Christianity.
Maybe the problem is not lack of comprehension of texts, but awareness that they are often written with great sophistication…
As for the site:
The Landover Baptist Church® is not intended for readers under 18 years of age.
My emphasis
- http://www.landoverbaptist.org/
- landoverbaptist.org
Terms of Service Agreement- Preface
- Within this section, the words “The Landover Baptist Church or Americhrist Ltd.,” “we,” and “us” refer to The Landover Baptist Church or Americhrist Ltd, which is the owner of landoverbaptist.org and/or landoverbaptist.com and which holds the right to transmit on landoverbaptist.org and/or landoverbaptist.com (the “Site”) all of the materials contained in the Site. The word “Materials” refers to any word, sound, image, file, data, or anything else contained in or generated by the Site. All content on landoverbaptist.org is protected by federal copyright laws. **The Landover Baptist Church is a complete work of fiction. It is a satire/**parody…
- http://www.landoverbaptist.org/tos.html
Another clue to the character of the site is its tone. Some parts of it may not allow for some doubt as to whether it is a joke or not, but the pictures, text, & tone put together (not forgetting the links) are a pretty good indication as to whether this is a satire or not; this may not be to everyone’s taste, but what genuine Church or fellowship what seriously say what is here:
“Accept Jesus - Get a Free Phone” ? The page even includes “This parody is copyright 2002 - landoverbaptist.com” at the bottom.
