I think the Pope is panicking right now(smells like it)...
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PANICO in Vaticano!
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His bread and butter supply line of child sex slaves is coming to end.
How do catholics not see this vermin as evil? I don't understand.
What God is going to do to this man sends shivers down my spine.
Trust me, most Catholics DO see this man as evil.
It's the same thing as looking at Biden 'as the US President' and saying 'How do Americans not see this vermin as evil?'
In time, things will be corrected...
Can confirm. Family is Catholic and we see this Pope as the evil, corrupt SOB that he is.
Please read through your ENTIRE Bible, and see if you STILL believe Jesus intended for such a thing as the "Catholic Church"! That there was one, single, verse, taken out of context, that the Catholic Church used as justification for it's formation is pretty amazing to consider! Jesus spoke in parables. When he referred to Peter as "rock", and what His church would be based on, it was FAITH, not Peter, that Jesus was referring to. The first communion, where Jesus was with His disciples, and He referred to the bread and wine as "My body, and My blood", was OBVIOUSLY, a symbolic reference to Himself! Why is that so hard to comprehend?
Follow your own advice. 'Read the ENTIRE Bible', including the second half of John, Chapter 6, where Jesus says (several times) to eat his body and blood.
The 'audience' at the time was made up of three parts: 1) the 'crowd', 2) a large group of disciples, and 3) a hand-picked core group of disciples (the apostles). (Read the chapter - it's quite clear)
In that day and age, a disciple was someone who followed the teacher 24/7, learning everything that person spoke about. A disciple gave up their work, their family, and everything about their previous life to follow the teacher for years on end.
When Jesus first started saying that they needed to eat his flesh and drink his blood, they started to murmur, and then members of the crowd walked away. Unfortunate, but completely understandable. They had no long-term commitment to Jesus.
But when they left, Jesus increased the intensity, and starts to use a more aggressive word for 'eat' (trogo). At that point, even the disciples start to grumble, and then walk away. Only the hand-picked apostles remained.
Remember, the disciples that walked away were men that had given up everything to follow Jesus. They had heard him speak countless times. They had looked into his eyes and they knew his speech patterns intimately. Yet they abandoned him for what he had just said.
So, if (as you say) it is so 'OBVIOUSLY' just a 'symbolic' reference, why would disciples walk away from their teacher for the crime of using a 'bad metaphor'? The answer: they didn't. They recognized that Our Lord was speaking literally, and it was too much for them.
Yet somehow you believe that people living today - 2000 years later - are better able to discern that Jesus was 'speaking metaphorically' than those who were literally standing in his presence and had heard him speak in person countless times.
I could go on (about this topic and others you raised), but this is already quite long.
No one who has dedicated their life to someone walks away for a 'bad metaphor'.