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There's plenty of hit/bashing comments, if not threads themselves due to the contentions made in the commentary of the articles, which often do turn towards laying blame for the fallen sin nature of mankind on those who raised objections to various points of Latin Church theology and ecclesiology, while otherwise pretending all was right with the world, sometime prior to time of Martin Luther.

Really, I'm sick of that type of repetitious nonsense, wherein some Catholic or another (this time, one who self-identifies as 'Orthodox') brings an article from an unofficial source that makes some combination of the same mistaken assumptions which have been shown previously to be erroneous.

Over and over, it's like every day one must re-invent the wheel, taking care to be exacting, if bothering enough to seriously address the assertions and prognosis being proffered --- yet still have that ignored, or be somehow personally attacked for bothering with all the effort that it takes to carefully read, then adequately respond.

NRx --- is there ANYTHING new here?

These type of articles often come across as form of brainwashing/programming technique.

Does FreeRepublic NEED this article?

Could you sum up why you may think so, if you do?

How would you like it if I told you to limit it to three paragraphs or less, as one of the cheap-shot FRomans attempts to limit myself to?

Would that be fair?

Personally, I think not, yet that is what I'm often handed, if not abused in some other way, or else totally ignored. Yet I'm supposed to take everyone else serious, and be always polite in return.

Whatever the problems are with Western philosophy (and there can be plenty there which stands to be criticized, even pointed towards as part of primary cause for the godlessness of humanist philosophy) blaming it all on 'Protestants' doesn't fly, but instead indicates shallow understanding of the guiding principles of actual practicing Christians, who are not either Latin Church Catholic or else some flavor of Orthodox, while ignoring the centuries of gains made and shared with the rest of the world by those same type of Christians who in this article which you bring, if my quick scan of that is accurate, are being blamed for philosophical outlooks which they may not share, but instead in significant numbers, do oppose.

I looked again at the thought processes and reasoning within the article. It's a lot like blaming the criminality of criminals on the law-abiding.

The Catholics have a handful of one size fits all argument for when serious failings can pointed towards extant within membership of Catholicism. They say "Catholic in name only", or that it was just some prelate or lesser individual with a limited opinion.

Yet when the likes of the now feminist/humanist ECUSA is looked at, what is being ignored is that they have already drastically shrunk, and are but echoes of godless humanistic philosophy which arose not from within Protestant Churches, but were corruptions of what was taught within those. When the likes of ECUSA acknowledges the Lord much at all (as they must, in order to keep up appearances) they relegate Him to some distant role, stripped of His Holiness, having only 'mercy towards sinners' which is transformed by the humanists into being as good as ratification for themselves not needing learn of & know of that same capital "H" Holiness.

Those who rely upon the milk of the word only, are unskilled in the Word, as the Apostle Paul did reveal. Those who use a substitute milk, not of God, but more of their own making, are simply frauds.

Many can see this, and have already, without lecture from some Catholic or Orthodox telling them in effect that it is because of their own failure to bow down before Latin Church prelates, or else join in with some Orthodox sect or another, that is the cause of the collapsing of standards of morality within the so-called "Western" world.

So again, I must ask --- what is that is 'new' in this latest article which you have brought here to post on FR.

Just what? Can you single it out? 3 paragraphs?