AMPU, as you surely know, when I referred to "Fun-House Mirror reflections about what Catholics believe", the phrase "Fun-House mirror" modifies the word "reflections", not "what Catholics believe" -- in other words, your (and other people's) reflections have a "fun-house" quality which distorts the true picture of what Catholics actually believe.
If you don't see that --- ahem--- please diagram that sentence. (My irrepressible schoolmarmism comes through once again!)
The problem is that YOU evidently believe the "fun-house mirror reflection" is not a distortion, but the reality. It does not accurately convey Catholic doctrine.
Since you are interested in scholarship, wouldn't you want to pursue that?
Anyhow, thanks for sending me the Westminster Shorter Catechism. Here's the Catechism of the Catholic Church right back at'cha.
Reading each others' catechisms does seem like a strangely fair-minded and sensible thing to do, in the midst of these FReepin' fracases.
” The problem is that YOU evidently believe the “fun-house mirror reflection” is not a distortion, but the reality. It does not accurately convey Catholic doctrine. “
It is not a problem. Nor do I believe it is a “fun-house” reflection. I believe it is the essence of what Catholic belief means.
I acknowledge you do not see it that way. You cannot.