We mouth breathers don't seem to become upset that you continually try to yank our chains by repeating your list of folks that must live in your head a lot.
You need a new type of invective.
(Yeah; I had to ask Roget what that last word meant.)
The fundamentalist tradition is basically anti-intellectual. The very methods the early Church fathers used to select which books should be discarded and which ones included and who argued and prevailed against the early heresies were done by deep and painstaking historical inquiry, theological debates, oral tradition, and ritual, all guided by the Holy Spirit. The set of books in the Bible did not fall from the skies. The Petrine authority did not suddenly come to a screeching halt.
Thus if we you do not accept these same sources of theological inquiry (that illustrious Catholic scholars, saints and martyrs of every age as well as prominent Evangelical theologians who converted to Catholicism use to validate their beliefs) then maybe you just got to go find yourself your own Bible.
Wait a minute! Maybe you folks just did that. Freed from the constraints of Petrine authority it allows you the freewheeling license to do a David Koresh, Jim Jones or a Rev. Moon, Billy Graham, or just your very own. Get some followers and soon you can do what Mormons and Jehovah’s Witnesses have done.
Well actually, each of the 35, 000 sects by offering a different interpretation have indeed put out as many versions of the Bible. Some have gone out of business like the Dutch Reformed Church.
This is precisely the Biblical anarchy that follows a denial of Petrine authority. Very soon every street corner has it Foursquare Church, AME, First Chapel; First Calvary: First Baptist; First Methodist, Reformed this, Reformed that..etc etc with each of these self appointed pastors playing street theologians waving passage of “their” Bible interpretations to Opray Winfrey-type congregations like Joel Osteen and his “prosperity” gospel or Rick Warren and his circus-like born again (and again and again) baptisms.
This is the tomfoolery theology of street theologians not unlike Rev. Jeremiah Wright.
The Catholic Credo is for all times, in all places, across all continents, the one truth of Christ never changes studied by students of theology in universities across the world embracing into its fold such intellectual giants like John Henry Newman or even America’s foremost Lutheran scholar and author, the late Richard Newhaus or Francis J. Beckwith President of the Evangelical Theological Society with 2400 Protestant denominations with a Catholic calendar for all to observe on the dates for Christmas, Good Friday, Easter Sunday based on early historical research and religious tradition.