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Isn't that the argument each new generation of racist, secularists in any culture uses to justify why in anyway deviating from the norm of the last generation makes you an untrue whatever?
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No.
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They don't consider Christ their spiritual leader and the architect of their faith?
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Is that what defines "Christianity"? The Students of the Seven Seals believed those two things, but they weren't Christians either, particularly as they believed that a new messiah had now come, who had to be steeped in sin and debauchery, as imperfect man couldn't relate to a sinless Christ.
Their new messiah was a paedophile named David Koresh.
It isn't which aspects of the Bible that you use as doctrine which determines a church as "Christian" or not - its which aspects of the Bible you ignore or which bits of doctrine you add. And the Roman Catholic Church puts tradition before scripture, ignores huge chunks of the Bible, and made up lots of new stuff to fit their pagan origins.
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Thanks for cutting out the relevant bits of my quote. I said that the Spanish Inquisition was not run by the Church.
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In October 1483 the pope issued a papal bull naming Tomas de Torquemada the Inquisitor General of Aragon, Catalonia and Valencia - the head of the Spanish Inquisition, answerable to the pontiff. Pretty much to a man, the inquisitors themselves were either priests or members of monastic orders. I think that makes it a church-run organisation, don't you?
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You could go on, but you would continue being wrong or irrelevant.
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Ah. I see. "Wrong" and "irrelevant" being defined as "Anything I don't agree with, regardless of evidence to the contrary". A little like the Roman Catholic church and Galileo, really.
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I only become irritated because it's clearly had more than it's fair share of blame heaped upon it, and received very little credit for where it did help humanity.
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Sure, no worries. I often say nice things about the present Bush administration, too.
Doesn't mean I'm right, though.
