You have neither annoyed me or angered me, I actually feel pity for you, because you choose to be blind to the truth. What you don't understand is that if you continue to choose to be deceived, eventually YHVH will release you to a hardened heart and reprobate mind. I just hope He hasn't done that already.
I feel pity for you, that the Fallen one has so blinded you to the beauty of Christ's Church. The fulfillment of the Law is found in His Church, the Holy Catholic Church, founded by Our Lord God and Saviour Jesus Christ.
Your arrogance and assumption is amusing at best. Because most of what I got was out of books, not websites.
Ah, so you just found a bunch of books with unfounded claims? Which books? Did any of them reference Lorraine Boettner? Or perhaps works by Alexander Hislop? Both of them are pretty popular books with anti-Catholics. The problem is that their work is pretty poorly researched and easily debunked.
Here it's obvious YOU didn't pay attention to half of the stuff I posted, because about half of it came from catholicisms own dictionaries and books.
No, half of it came from supposed Catholic books and dictionaries. I'm guessing that a good majority of these books are pretty old, or else they reference a lot of the more common anti-Catholic fictions. The other half actually might have been Catholic sources but are taken out of context. It's kind of like how some of my Atheist friends will quote Our Lord from Luke 19:27 and claim He wants violence. Which of course makes no sense in full context, Our Lord is speaking a parable and that's what someone in the parable is saying.
There is no both sides of the story. When I see on tv. a pope kissing the qu'ran, and another pope kissing the feet of a statue of Mary, and all the graven images all around them, it's a no brainer that they are in direct disobedience to YHVH. So as I said, I pity you. May YHVH have mercy on you and anyone else who choose this path which is wide and destructive.
And yet we find in Scripture, the children of Israel commanded to use images in Temple worship. The Ark of the Covenant had images of Angels on it, the Temple doors had images used on them. When the children of Israel were attacked by serpents in the desert, the Lord commanded that a statue of a serpent be made and all who wanted to be healed must actually LOOK at the statue. It's painfully obvious that Our Lord has no issue with statues or images used in worship of Him. It's when someone worships the statue INSTEAD of Our Lord, that it's forbidden. So when the bronze serpent later on was worshiped as a god, it was destroyed.
But as it's been emphasized over and over again, CATHOLICS DO NOT WORSHIP STATUES OR THE VIRGIN MARY. You've been told this over and over again, yet you still persist in this false witness against what Catholic Christians believe. And regarding the Pope kissing the Koran, that too has been
answered.
The idea that we cannot use images in worship of the Lord God is counter to Scripture, it's when we worship the images AS gods that they become graven images. But Catholics don't do that.
I know you're spreading this stuff in a misguided attempt to "save" us Catholics. I was once just like you. And it was a painful revelation to realize that I had been deceived and that what I thought was the Catholic Church.... well, it was a fake Catholic Church I was fighting against. The real Catholic Church is the exact opposite of what I thought. It's filled with an intense love of the Scriptures, and it's completely focused on Jesus Christ. And one needs only look at the fruits of the Church to realize that it's not a product of the devil, but of the Holy Spirit. The Catholic Church is the world's largest charitable organization, bar none. It clothes the poor and feeds the hungry world wide. It has produced great scientists, philosophers, martyrs, confessors, authors, musicians, and countless other amazing men and women who have dedicated their talents to the Lord. Even today it produces martyrs for Christ. And even today it proclaims the gospel to all corners of the world.
You are fighting against a version of the Catholic Church that isn't real, it's a product of many people's fevered imaginations, that is fuelled on by the enemy who hates Christ's people and will do anything to divide them.