Comments on The Pensive Quill: An Unholy Alliance

John this entire contribution is based on an chauv...

2012-06-17T12:54:19.025+01:00

John this entire contribution is based on an chauvinistic ethnocentrism that borders racism.

So the great nations of the Aztec and incans didn't have a work ethic before they were converted/wiped out by European missionaries? The native american way of life was not progressive? Utter nonsense.

‘The religious Pentecostal movement in Brazil is e...

2012-06-16T19:33:51.038+01:00

‘The religious Pentecostal movement in Brazil is expanding at such a rate, it will soon outnumber the traditional Catholic Church as the country’s leading faith.’

I don’t believe this is drawn out by the figures. A Wikipedia article gives the number of Catholics as 138,000,000 or 68% of the population, with 17,617,307 Pentecostals, or 10.37% of the population.

‘In China, in spite of the atheistic communist rev...

2012-06-16T19:14:35.027+01:00

‘In China, in spite of the atheistic communist revolution under Mao, the Christian church flourished as an underground movement.’

“Since the establishment of the People's Republic of China in 1949 by the Communist Party of China, Catholicism, like all religions, has only been permitted to operate under the supervision of the State Administration for Religious Affairs. All worship must legally be conducted through state-approved churches belonging to the Chinese Catholic Patriotic Association (CPA), which does not accept the primacy of the Roman Pontiff.

Clergy who resisted this development were subject to oppression, including long imprisonments…, and torture and martyrdom…

Several underground Catholic bishops have been reported disappeared or imprisoned, and harassment of unregistered bishops and priests is common…. Chinese authorities also have reportedly pressured Catholics to break communion with the Vatican by requiring them to renounce an essential belief in Roman Catholicism, the primacy of the Roman Pontiff.”
(Wikipedia)

Sounds just like what atheists are advocating in Ireland, on the Pensive Quil and elsewhere. But they will be resisted.

As for the main thrust for the article. I shall never understand why so many protestants see religion in terms of economics rather that eternal salvation. They started off by sying ‘Faith alone justifies’ and ended by replacing Faith with human progress.

John, as always you manage to take a completely d...

2012-06-16T18:50:17.820+01:00

John,

as always you manage to take a completely different look at things. But for me I have long taken the view that the last real Christian was crucified. The pope gangsters that picked up the baton and put it in places it was never meant to go are an act no believer should really want to follow