Terror attack in Istanbul, Turkey...

[adosorken]

In fact, Catholics are not Christians but Paulists. They follow St.Paul teachings, not Jesus Christ's, i.e. St. Paul's own interpretations of Jesus Christ's teachings (just interpretations as he didn't know JC in person). And I know what I am talking about.

VERY correct.

The irony of the whole thing though is that Jesus Christ as written in the bible never actually lived (and yes there is an abundance of historical proof of this), however as a character, he had some very strong ideals and is actually one hell of a role model. The issue I find the most humorous is the fact that the Catholic church has, for centuries, regarded women as like a lower-class life form, yet Jesus Christ himself said that women and men are as equals. However, in one of the lost books of the Bible (this would be the book of Thomas, I do believe), it was said that a woman could not enter the kingdom of heaven, and Jesus Christ said that he would turn a woman into a man so she may enter the kingdom of heaven. It's no wonder that this book never made it into the "official" Bible. And while we're on the Bible subject...the Bible was written between the second and fourth centuries by the Romans, NOT around the "turn of the eras" like many people believe. It is a chimaeric book, composed of many different people's writings, none of which, for obvious reasons, lived around the turn of the eras. In their own private writings, these men and women admitted to the falsities of their writings for the Bible, but wrote such doctrines for the "good of all people".

Be that as it may...if you overlook the blatant contradictions in the Bible, it does contain some great ideas by which to live by. Now if only these fundies would actually read their own damn book...