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style='font-size:10.0pt'>Chris Doss wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>><i><span
style='font-style:italic'>Doesn't the Roman Catholic Church have a pretty<o:p></o:p></span></i></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>><i><span
style='font-style:italic'>rigorous (whatever that means in this context)<o:p></o:p></span></i></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>><i><span
style='font-style:italic'>miracle-hoax-debunking process? They're not morons.<o:p></o:p></span></i></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>You mean they've fact-checked the Virgin Birth? The bodily assumption <o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>of the BVM into heaven? The resurrection of Jesus? If they have, I <o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>may have to return to the fold.<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Doug<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>This is not meant to offend any Catholic believers in this
list; but while moaning about the brutality of the Roman government, and how
they saved [converted] them to sanctity, the church went out of its way to be
brutal toward non-Catholic Christians like the early Gnostic Christians… I
know it doesn’t fit in with what [Father ?] Doug said, but I have always
found that fact to be somewhat ironic. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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