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| | The Left Behind Books: Harmless Fiction or Anti-Catholic Propaganda? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21) |
 | | In part, because LaHaye “is convinced, and he teaches very clearly in his nonfiction books, that the Catholic church is apostate, it is false, and it is not Christian.” |
 | | He then produces two lengthy quotes, one by Harry Ironside and the other by Clarence Larkin (both prominent Fundamentalist leaders in the early 1900s), that summarize Hislop’s main ideas: Catholicism is idolatrous, Satanic in origin, based on secrecy and fear, and filled with pagan doctrines and practices. |
 | | • The Catholic Church, in large part due to Augustine, removed the Bible as the sole source of authority among Christians and “spiritualized” away the truths of Scripture, and kept the Bible from the common people. |
| www.catholicexchange.com /vm/index.asp?vm_id=2&art_id=19571 (1531 words) |
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