Nidal Hasan Found Guilty on all charges for Ft Hood Shooting

[Gman]

Interested to hear about this distinction. Do you just mean than all Catholics are Christians, while not all Christians are Catholics?

Not all Christians are Catholics. There is no membership or denomination required to become a Christian. There are tenants within the Catholic church that don't follow with Christianity, so I can understand why some have referred to it as a cult.

The Catholic church has a well documented history of attempting conversion by the sword or even torture.

The Crusades were ordered by the Pope, not Christ. The Bible speaks nothing of this type of "authority of the Church". The Biblical New Testament "church" are the believers in Christ, not a sect, denomination, or building.

ETA: I found this to be a pretty straight-forward Biblical approach to the "authority of the Church";