>>Indeed I did. Come on people, don't take yourselves so seriously.<<
You haven't been around long enough to see how many times posters come onto a "Pope", "Mary" or "Rosary" thread to slam our beliefs.
Your response is exactly what we get from them. They attack, we are expected to forgive and forget. We are to always take the high road.
Talk to them as well as chastising us. That poster apologized for the tone but not for the statement that we practice idolotry. Is that correct in your eyes?
No, sister, it isn't correct. However, the thing is, knowing that we Catholics are right precludes me from believing that I have to vanquish every foe and thoroughly anhilate every argument, to somehow rectify the right balance of the Universe. No, that's not my role. I say with St. Paul, for
...who shall separate us [me] from the Love of Christ? For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons,[m] neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord. (Romans VIII, 35, 38-39)To that I add, no well-intentioned Protestant proselytizer, and even less, no two-bit anti-Catholic controversialist will cut me off from the Love of Christ and the communion of His One, True Church.
Doesn't this realization make you happy, sister? Doesn't it put things into their proper perspective?
Therefore, sister, charges and countercharges against the Church do not sour day, nor need turn me into sourpuss, nor will deter me from giving testimony to the Truth. Let us pray that those who have ears to ear, that they would listen.
Pace!
-Theo