[CynicalBear]

It’s amazing to me how people get so angry when their “religion” is contradicted. Christ is the only head of His ekklesia. If people followed Christ alone there would be no anger. I follow Christ alone and not some earthly “religion”, denomination, or “church”. I can only feel pity for those who put “religion” above Christ.

[goodwithagun]

I've never attempted to contradict what you write; indeed, feel free to type whatever contradictions you think you have. I don't care. I'm not going to try to contradict what you believe because I respect your beliefs.

What is unsettling is your post about Islam and Catholicism. It echos obama’s Crusades remark.

When you make comments like that, I will call you out on them.

Peace.

[Cicero]

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.