>>You really ought to drop the whole idea of "Anti-Catholic Troll Hunters". The fact that you are hunting trolls rather than answering doctrinal questions and challenges suggests to me that your group of do-gooders is actually engaging in the type of behavior that your condemn. Searching the threads for so called "Anti-Catholic Trolls" is, in fact, trollish.<<
I stated before, you will get the same amount of polite from me as I get from you. Most on our threads are not polite and state things like "boardering on idolotry" or "it looks like idolotry" totally disregarding what is in a Catholic's heart. So you have your definition of a Troll and so do I.
If someone comes onto one of these threads with the "Praying to statues","repetative prayers" or any of the other uninformed garbage that people spew, they are trolls just as someone comes onto FR in general and spews the DU crap.
On the mainpage, the Kitties come and the person gets zotted. Here, we get people telling us how wrong we are and we smile sweetly and spout doctrine they disregard anyway.
That is until the Troll-hunters came along. Sorry if you don't like it but until Alouette or SJackson confirm that the same people are on the Jewish threads telling them that their doctrine is wrong, they are just Anti-Catholic.
Over 90% of the religion forum is Catholic Threads. About 9% are Protestant and reformed threads. The Mormons used to post here on occasion, but they were generally mistreated by Catholics and Protestants alike.
Quite frankly I have never even seen a "Jewish Thread". I see a lot of Israel Threads but I suspect there are few, if any, Jewish Threads. Most of the time when the Protestants show up on a Catholic Thread it is because the Thread is a criticism of Protestant Doctrines or beliefs or a thread celebrating the conversion of some important protestant heretic.
Again, this is a public forum. In that sense there are no exclusive Catholic or exclusive Protestant threads. If you don't like people criticizing your beliefs and practices, then quit posting threads about your beliefs and practices. It's that simple. But it seems to me that whenever a critic of Catholic practices or doctrine makes a point, the response is generally to accuse the poster of being an anti-Catholic Bigot, which of course means that you are out of scriptural ammunition and you must therefore respond with personal adhominem attacks.
Most of the criticism of Catholic Practices and doctrines is backed up by the authority of scripture. Now you may have your own ways of interpreting that scripture, but most of your critics stand on the authority of scripture, so they are being honest and sincere in their assessment of your beliefs and practices. Quite frankly bowing before a statute and praying to some saint does, IMHO, look like idolatry. It may not "technically" be idolatry and I'm sure you have some tradition to mix with scripture to justify it, but frankly I find no scriptural justification for it and it looks like idolatry to me. So if I rely on scripture for my position and you claim that my position is "anti-Catholic" then perhaps your argument is not with me. Perhaps the scripture itself is "Anti-Catholic." Perhaps a reformation is in order.
Oh wait, we already had one.
It was your tacit accusation that I (or Buggman) was an Anti-Catholic Troll that got me started on this thread. I had simply posted a quick note to Buggman that this was probably a thread he should avoid. You couldn't leave it alone. Oh well.
Nuff said.
I'm outa here. Please don't ping me back here.
Thank you.
Marlowe