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To: Zionist Conspirator
There are plenty of common, decent "simple" folk in the Catholic Church. Your descriptions of it as some type of elitist club simply don't ring true.

I don't mock all Fundamentalists. Just certain ones.

SD

257 posted on 11/11/2004 12:43:47 PM PST by SoothingDave
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To: SoothingDave
There are plenty of common, decent "simple" folk in the Catholic Church.

Yeah, the ones who were born into it. You have to be an overintellectualized egghead worthy of Swift's flying island of Laputo in order to be admitted to it.

Your descriptions of it as some type of elitist club simply don't ring true.

It's an elitist club of a few ethnic groups (Irish, Hispanic, Polish, Ukrainian, French, etc.). The Church doesn't care how "old fashioned" these people are. But the Ph.D. types who make up its clergy don't want any rednecks stinking up the place.

You never responded to a single issue I raised. Typical.

I don't mock all Fundamentalists. Just certain ones.

The ones who are useful to you by getting your candidates voted in (which about half the Catholics are no good for) and for making Mel Gibson richer than he already is?

Since Fundamentalists by definition believe in total Biblical inerrancy (which your Church is theoretically, though that doesn't mean anything to you), I'd guess you do mock all Fundamentalists. Unless (like name-calling liberals of the past week) you demand scientism of poor whites but celebrate Black literalism as a legitimate expression of "culture."

296 posted on 11/11/2004 2:47:22 PM PST by Zionist Conspirator (Half the world's problems would be solved by dropping a bomb on Arafat's funeral.)
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