As I noted above--the RCC is WORSE, all things considered, at fostering confusion and division. Your point is a straw dog of grossly hypocritical proportions and nature.
I haven't read but bits of the Catechism, yet. Plus the portions posted hereon. HOWEVER, that's more than sufficient to be slapped in the face by the horrific degrees, amounts, intensities of confusion and division inherent in the founding primary documents. Add in the next tier of official documents and it only gets worse.
One of the most infuriatingly exasperating aspects of trying to begin to commence to start to attempt an initial preface of an intelligent exchange with RC's hereon is the relentless fact that most are like a hyper-active ADD 2 year old little boy--all over the water front at great erratic speed.
DAFFYNITIONARY is not hyperbole on my part. It's an accurate description of the farcical inconsistent, momentary, specialized confusing-to-the-max RCC word meanings that sometimes seem to change by the hour.
Whether it's eschatology, Mary, Scripture or history--hang around the Vatican School of Alice In Wonderland School of Theology and Reality Mangling enough seconds and the word meanings and "facts" will change dramatically--often 180 degrees--at least 90 degrees.
Y'all are far worse than Proddys on those scores. AT least with a Proddy group, one can usually expect the basics to be rather unchangeable in interpretation and practice.
One of the saddest paradoxes with regard to the RCC--is the divisiveness and confusion that it chronically sets up in a huge percentage of RCC families.
Typically, all my growing up and certainly in my early adult years and all my years of counseling--I'd guesstimate 80-95% of the RC's who were estranged from the RCC and from God blamed the outrageous and relentlessly divisive and confusing hypocrisies on the part of their parochial school teachers; the priests; the hierarchy and/or their nominally professing parents.
No wonder only 20-30% of self described RC's are actually anything close to even moderately faithfully practicing RC's.
Certainly Proddys have a similar problem. However, in my experience, the worst group on such scores by far are the RC's.
It is telling to see the PC word "diversity" describing it.
More brazen hypocrisy. You use the word division. Perhaps you fail to notice the kinship between the two words. Just because the globalist MSM REGRESSIVES want to hijack/steal a word doesn't mean I have to agree to the phenomenon. I could just as easily said outrageous variety.
And also to characterize The Church as "a large group of people", which ignores the unique nature and claims attached to it - no matter what the faith tradition is.
Y'all have helped me to see in blazing fiery terms the fact that the RCC is anything BUT a bona fide Christian Church. In a lot of respects, even calling the whole edifice a group is too charitable.
It's an outrageously destructive-to-the Gospel, to families and to individuals and Christianity cult.
It's a horrific, increasingly lock-step globalist political machine.
It's a pile of magicsterical power mongering political potentates lording it over one another and the sheeple at great VERY DESTRUCTIVE cost to personal spirituality and relationship with God.
It's an amazingly successful training organization for homosexuals in the arts of seduction and abuse of young men and boys.
It's an outrageously successful training institution in the arts and seductions of grossly extreme idolatries and blasphemies of the worst sort.
It's an impressively successful extortion racket pressuring the poor to surrender at their most vulnerable times--embarrassingly awful percentages of their meager income on pain of eternal consequences to get their relatives ostensibly prayed out of UnBiblical purgatory.
It's an incredibly successful institution at training RELIGIOUS PROFESSIONALS in the fine arts of political arrogance, prancing, parading and pontificating and prissing about in a relentless overlording dance on the backs, minds and hearts of the sheeple in the pews. Thankfully, there are many exceptions to that amongst many priests. Yet, the truth of those outrages is extremely pervasive throughout the organization. Training in amplifications of IN-GROUP prissy pride is not a fruit of Holy Spirit.
I could go on, on such scores. I'll stop with those examples.
Let's stay on topic here - Harold Camping derives a date of the Rapture from his own personal interpretation of Holy Scripture.
Other than from unholy !!!TRADITIONS!!! of man where does the RCC get so much divisive, destructive, contradictory hypocritical stuff? Oh, right--from hell.
What do you do with your "crazy uncle" who refuses to stay locked up in the attic?
Oh, Love him anyway. Try to keep him safe and involved in life and the family as much as is workable. Neutralize his destructiveness and help him feel cared for.
SOP. There you go again.
Completely wander off topic in order to spew boilerplate. Topic of the thread is Harold Camping - one of yours. He gets it all from the Bible with the help of the Holy Spirit.
Are you even capable of posting without bashing the Catholic Church?
“I haven’t read but bits of the Catechism,...”
I appreciate that candor. Telling, very telling.
“Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I’m not sure about the former.” ~Albert Einstein