How would you reply to this Anti Catholic Protestant?

[Guest]

"The Egyptian eye of Horus, which represents Satan, is what is being revered at Our Lady Of Sorrows Church in St. Louis MO. " -Anti Catholic Protestant

 

Edited June 20, 2016 by Guest

[Credo in Deum]

"Eye don't care what you think."

 

[Guest]

The eye is set in a triangle (symbol of The Blessed Trinity) and the one eye, to me, represents Divine Providence (One God - Three Persons: Father, Son & Spirit) always watching over us........and this is pretty much the Christian understanding I think.

Eye of horus is different (as below):  The left eye represents horus while the right represents ra (in Egyptian mythology).  In the Christian image, the essential (for the Egyptian horus or ra) markings below the eye are absent.  I am sure research might reveal more.  I have done only a rudimental searched for all info posted.

horus

                 ra

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http://www.wakingtimes.com/2014/08/11/seeing-eye-sacred-origins-hijacked-symbol/ (no idea how reliable this site actually is) "A possible first known use of the all-seeing eye symbol in Judeo-Christianity is the so-called “Jesus tomb” from 1st century AD discovered in 1980, which uses a similar symbol over the entrance to the tomb. Regardless of whose tomb it is, could this be a first known or early use of the eye-pyramid symbol in the Judeo-Christian tradition?

In Christianity, the all-seeing eye or “Eye of Providence” or “Eye of God” has been used as a symbol from at least the 16th century as seen in the following painting below which depicts a scene from Luke 24: 13-32 where after his resurrection, Jesus has supper with two disciples."

 

 

 

Edited June 20, 2016 by BarbaraTherese

[Maggyie]

It's a common, historic part of sacred art.

see this link:

http://www.religionfacts.com/eye-of-god

"The eyes of the Lord are on the righteous."

~ Psalms 34:15

"The eyes of the Lord are in every place."

~ Proverbs 15:3

 

 

[Archaeology cat]

That's not an eye of Horus and saying otherwise offends me as an Egyptologist. 

[HisChildForever]

You can give the person the information provided here, but it has been my experience that people who associate the Catholic Church with paganism or conspiracies are nearly impossible to reason with or educate.

[Winchester]

Scorn and ridicule of some sort.

[Luigi]

Ask him what he was doing in a Catholic church in the first place! Then threaten to report him to his Anti-Catholic Protestant minister - "Eddie was sneaking into Catholic churches! He must be thinking about converting!" The rest of his anti-Catholic Protestant congregation will take of him more effectively than anything you or I can do!

Edited June 21, 2016 by Luigi

[PhuturePriest]

Tar and feather him in the town square for his grave offenses against objective fact and reasoning.

[xSilverPhinx]

It's not the eye of Horus, it's the eye of an Iluminatus. 

[Seven77]

 That's like saying that Santa Claus is Satan because of the letters in his name and because he wears red.

[Luigi]

In prepping for tomorrow's Mass, I found this preaching by a Dominican friar. The first two minutes explain this image, which is also found on the back of any dollar bill!

http://www.vocationboom.com/fr-peter-hannah-o-p-4/