Yet another baseless adhom in attempt to avoid the topic. How boring... yawn. Why don't you just say "your momma", cause with all your verbal gymnastics, that's all you're really doing. I say, "You're busted" and while you get dragged off to be paddled, you spit, "your momma". See how useful it is there.. no more useful now. But you think it lets you avoid the topic and the truth.. Amazing.. Truly. :)
I promised myself I wouldn't make another post on this thread, but I have to say that, as a Catholic, the responses some of the Catholics on here have given to Protestant remarks have really bothered. Many of these posts have made a less than attractive representation of how Catholics react to outside criticism.
It's true that some of the Protestants on this thread have said things at least equally stupid and rude things regarding Catholicism, but so what? I'd rather my ideological opponents display rudeness than my ideological allies. Frankly, I think many of the responses by Catholic posters on this thread have been not to educate or apologize (in the old sense of the term) to Protestants, but out of personal emotional vitriol. It's annoying, I know, to hear the old, hackneyed stereotypes dredged up again and again, and the natural response may be to simply dismiss them with a wisecrack and laugh amongst ourselves how ignorant those "fundies" are. But such a reaction does nothing to help the Church.
We have to ask ourselves: our the things we say likely to leave Protestant critics and neutral readers with a more accurate and positive idea of Catholicism or less? Given certain abrasive, uninstructive posts by Catholics on here, who can blame people like Havoc if they continue to view Catholicism in a negative light?