Posted on 03/03/2015 12:32:27 PM PST by two134711
The statement by CB for which you are defending. You wrote that the original poster was expressing an opinion.
See your post #266
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Contrary to scripture is contrary to scripture I don't care what "religion" moniker they do it under.
Perfect quote!
Kudos!
Is that what Sam calls it? The irony would be laughable if it weren't so palpable.
Well, I have never made it a point to criticize Protestants, and have never posted an anti-Protestant thread, as I recall (I’ve been around here since these used to be called the Whitewater pages, so I can’t be absolutely sure about anything).
Catholics in the forum do not make it their business to attack Protestants. But there is a small group of Protestants who have virtually no other interest than to post threads viciously and falsely attacking the Catholic Church. Then the Catholics naturally respond to such attacks.
Why? What is the point? I have serious doubts about the real Christianity of anyone who spends so much time attacking the Catholic Church, as though their own beliefs can carry no weight unless the Catholic Church is declared to be false. You believe in Christ? So do we. And, incidentally, we also believe in the Father and the Holy Spirit, so it’s not ONLY Jesus.
I was born and bred an Episcopalian, and converted while in college. There are many problems currently in the Episcopal Church, but they cause me sadness, not gratification. I got a great deal from that Church before I converted, and wish them well, as I wish my Evangelical friends well. The fewer problems in ANY Christian church, the better. If they cannot be Catholic, at least they and their churches can be as Christian as possible. Living in accordance with the Ten Commandments, Faith, Hope, and Charity, and so on.
Catholics do not believe that only Catholics can be saved. Grace is channeled through the Church by God’s will, but can be extended beyond it to anyone God chooses. Virtuous pagans have long been thought capable of heaven, and virtuous Christians, doing the best they can by their various lights.
You muddled the back and forth when you went to bat for somebody else. You wrote he has the right to his opinion. I wrote my opinion of his opinion. Then I suggested that you stop digging. Not my problem that you can’t keep up with yourself.
Also, I’m not sure what your thanking me for. Whatever. Get help.
Since I haven't looked at the Religion Forum much until relatively recently, I wonder if there isn't a bit of increasingly public fatigue behind any recent change.
And since your post mentioned politics, your post reminded me of a recent observation of mine, which I share simply to point out a contrast on this site and provide a little perspective about politics and religion as discussion topics.
As everyone following this thread probably knows by now, the Religion Forum allows debate and even what is called "antagonism."
There is not a comparable "Politics Forum" here in which conservatives and "liberals" (I will not happily concede this term to them) debate and even antagonize one another. Look at http://freerepublic.com/home.htm: "We're here to discuss and advance our conservative causes in a more or less liberal-free environment. We're not here to debate liberals."
If there were a parallel Politics Forum (or if all the existing forums were open to Liberal Debate), then the Religion Forum would probably be outshadowed in notoriety. (In other words, I do not mourn the lack of "progressives" on this forum, and probably neither do the moderators.)
Now, none of what I say here is intended to excuse any excesses on the Religion Forum--it's simply a little perspective that matters of faith aren't the only thing that leads to roiling discussion.
(No, I am not suggesting at all that "logical consistency" dictates either starting a political-debate forum or ending a religious-debate forum. I can see a number of reasons that a site that discourages Debating Liberals in its forums still has a forum that allows discussions of contrasting religious beliefs.)
No, we just wouldn’t have two or three threads every day posted by a small group of angry Protestants maligning the Catholic Church.
Catholics ANSWER to those threads, to a reasonable degree. But there is NOT a similar small group of Catholics who do nothing but attack Protestant Churches every day, like these folks do to them.
If you look at it fairly, it is VERY one sided. One side attacks, the other side defends. And what is the point of all these attacks? What does it contribute to the real purpose of Free Republic, about which Protestants and Catholics should be able to agree and work together?
Been in the forum recently? What about reading what the OP of this thread did?
"...yes, the comments I made were invectives thrown at posters. I don't deny that; but they deserved every word directed at them and more."
Well, I attended St. James the Less Church in Scarsdale as a boy. I guess you could say it was Broad Church. Then I went to an Episcopal Prep School, and that was High Church. And while at Harvard I went what they called Mass at the Cowley Fathers’ Church in Cambridge, which was very High Church.
An amusing story: The Cowley Fathers genuflected to the Host on the altar, but when the Episcopal Bishop came over from Boston for his annual visit or inspection, they removed the Host from the altar for that day, because the Bishop didn’t believe in genuflecting, and they didn’t want to get into an argument with him.
You’ve never heard that phrase issued to somebody that has dug themselves into a hole? You’re trying to gloss over the original comment about Islam and Catholicism with the lame excuse of opinion. It doesn’t work. FReepers have seen the poster for what he really is, and now they’ve seen you for what you are because you’re defending him.
I don’t argue with crazy people, and in my OPINION you are crazy. I’ll no longer converse with you. Peace.
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