re: Baptist church to remove statue deemed "too Catholic"

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purge their own damned churches of "popery."

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Pouporrie? They don't want their churches to smell good?

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Doesn't the one of the Ten Commandments say 'Thou shalt not make unto Thee any graven image.'

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I'm guessing you realize that deals with making a representation of something like an animal, a bull, a half man half something else and worshiping that instead of God.

Statuary, icons, art representing or depicting sacred themes, events, even Jesus himself were approved by a general Church council primarily on the grounds that the Incarnation made those things permissible.

Extreme Protestantism fails to fully grasp the implications of the Incarnation and the sanctification it imparts and infuses into all aspects of our physical existence. It's not just lost and fallen men and women who can and are made whole again by the birth, death, and resurrection of Jesus, but creation itself as well.

This is why faithful Catholics, Roman, Orthodox,
and Anglicans hold a high regard for the majesty, mystery, and efficacy of the Sacraments, particularly Baptism, Confirmation, and the Eucharist. They really do something insofar as we are only obeying God in celebrating them, it is God who is the active party in them.

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Every Baptist i've ever encountered or been around had no issues with Catholics. I had family members (catholics) marry Baptists, and no issues at all.

Except Baptists from the LP, seems like they are a whole another kind out there.

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You find it more often in smaller towns in North La than you do in South La.

I was raised Catholic in a rural parish in North La, we had something like a dozen Catholic families in the entire parish. My paternal grandparents were Southern Baptist and would take us to their church from time to time. The last time we went their preacher got on a tirade about "those heathen Catholics", it was the only time I've ever known of my grandmother to walk out on a Baptist service.

Same town but decades earlier (before my mother and father had even met) one of my mother's cousins had graduated dental school and moved there to start out. Once the "Reverends" at the Baptist and Methodist churches found out he was Catholic, they forbade their members from going to him. After a year or two he had to pack up and move elsewhere to start his business.

Which is all pretty interesting when you consider that all Christian religions trace their roots back to Catholicism.