Catolick Priests Take Drug $

[Johny Joe Hold]

This story is the best one since child humping priests. It is Mexican priests taking money from local drug dons:

http://www.christiancentury.org/arti...s-crisis-faith

It just goes to show that is you have sin at the top of the church, you are going to have it at the bottom as well.

Sometimes, I think we should build a new jail in Freehold just for locking up bad Catolick priests.

JJH

[Cranky Old Man]

Re: Catolick Priests Take Drug $

Sometimes, I think we should build a new jail in Freehold just for locking up bad Catolick priests.

Wouldn't giving them all the death penalty be cheaper?

2nd Chronicles 15:13 "That whosoever would not seek the LORD God of Israel should be put to death, whether small or great, whether man or woman."

[Rev. M. Rodimer]

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Even more troubling is what the crisis has revealed about the content of the beliefs of many ordinary people—perhaps several millions in all—who unhesitatingly describe themselves as Christian and Catholic but who in fact follow a twisted caricature of orthodox faith, in which religion is wholly separated from morality. Through the centuries, the Mexican church made many compromises with native beliefs, assimilating traditional gods and spiritual beings into the roster of Christian saints, and most observers would applaud these policies as successful examples of inculturation. In some cases, though, poor believers went much further in developing their own alternate and unauthorized forms of folk Catholicism, centered on evil or criminal entities. Whereas these cults were once practiced in the shadows, the drug crisis has brought them into the light, as arrests have revealed that these faiths are practiced among criminals and the underclass.

One terrifying symbol is the skeletal figure of La Santa Muerte, Saint Death, who serves as the gangs' patron saint. As Andrew Chesnut describes in his forthcoming book Devoted to Death (Oxford University Press), Santa Muerte is condemned by the official church but worshiped in countless clandestine shrines. Nor is she the only manifestation of a subversive pseudo-Catholicism that veers close to outright diabolism. Another wildly popular folk saint is the 19th-century bandit Jesús Malverde, "angel of the poor," patron of drug dealers and illegal migrants. Devotees of San Juan Soldado (Soldier John) venerate a man executed in 1938 for raping and murdering an eight-year-old girl. While such beliefs demonstrate a profound faith in spiritual realities, they also show the yawning gulf that separates popular practice from any traditional concept of Christian faith.

Charming.

[Tech Savvy Samuel]

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I can't believe something like that is happening on our earth!

[Pastor Ezekiel]

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I can't believe something like that is happening on our earth!

It's not our earth, it's God's. And satan is running rampant on it right now. And the Roman Papists are the antichrists.