Catholic Church, Nwo, And Uu?

[Archaeology cat]

[quote name='Budge' post='1225642' date='Apr 1 2007, 03:54 PM']You are wrong that they see "something of God". They are in false religions founded by Satan himself.

The idea that false religions have elements of truth is wrong too. Love in Buddhism is a totally different type of "love" then Christian love.
I will never agree with the Catholic view of other religions.[/quote]

I'm sure someone else has brought this up, but what do you think of St. Paul seeing that the Greeks had some of the truth (Acts 17:22-24), even though they didn't understand it? He praised them for being religious, for seeking out truth, and then told them what they were missing. That's what we're saying. Other religions are an attempt to reach out to God, and therefore most have some elements of truth (notice that many religions have similarities), but not the full truth. The bits of truth they have have been twisted by Satan, so you're correct in that, but that doesn't mean they have no truth. When we recognize that they do have some truth, we can reach out with the fullness of that truth, and help them in that.

[Budge]

I witness to unbeleivers all the time, even including a Wiccan yesteryday.

St. Paul pointed out things they were striving for, but did not have YET.

See the difference and HE ACTUALLY PREACHED the gospel to them.

When Rome pushes peace among all religions, they leave that part out.

I have yet to see the gospel actually preached at a Catholic interfaith pow-wow.

[Reality Mugged Me]

[quote name='Anomaly' post='1225636' date='Apr 1 2007, 10:29 AM']I'd like to point out that maybe UU is copying the Roman Catholics. Didn't the RC's have the whole chalice thing before the UU was around? Makes sense to me that something called the Universal Unitariansism would copy things from as many religions as possible because it wants to be Universal. How incredibly stupid to think that if somebody evil is copying you, that you should stap that behavior.

If I heard that the UU collects money to feed the homeless by supporting a soup kitchen. I'll never give money to that soup kitchen again. Is that what I should do Budge?[/quote]
You raise a good point here. Because Unitarian Universalism is an inherently syncretic religion - it has introduced absolutely nothing new, it has only created a synthesis of concepts from other religions and philosophies - it copies from many sources, including the Catholic Church. Christianity has been using light as a symbol for Christ since the very beginning, and prior to Christianity light was a symbol of God in Judaism and in a number of other pre-Christian religions. As for the chalice, it too has been in use by Christianity to hold the Precious Blood of Christ since long before Unitarian Universalism ever even existed.

As a side note, I would actually be cautious about giving money to anything a UU church gives money to - not because the organization they're giving to is necessarily bad, but because UU churches tend only to give their time and resources to liberal causes and organizations.

[Thy Geekdom Come]

[quote name='Budge' post='1225674' date='Apr 1 2007, 10:06 AM']When Rome pushes peace among all religions, they leave that part out.

I have yet to see the gospel actually preached at a Catholic interfaith pow-wow.[/quote]
You've probably never been to one.