> Then you defame millions of Catholics.
Mate, I am convinced that he is being offensive on purpose, for reasons known only to him. Possibly for attention, possibly because there are no cartoons for him to watch, and just possibly to be obnoxious: like the teenage brat who thinks it’s fun to gobble down a large tin of baked beans and fart loudly in a crowded elevator, all day.
If the latter — and I suspect it is that — nothing less than a cork jammed in a strategic place will make him stop.
Whatever you do, don’t light-up, or he stands the risk of becoming The Human Bottle Rocket — then he’ll get lots of attention indeed, which is the other thing he probably craves.
That would be fun for a while — until he upsets enough people to get Zotted. Which raises another possible explanation: perhaps he is a Troll.
One way or another he is proving himself to be a tiresome bore and I don’t intend reading his Catholic-bashing drivel anymore.
In life there is nothing so droll as one whose sole ambition is to strive to be a Bore.
It may be free speech but it offends even me. And I ain’t even a Catholic. So I am going to exercise my right to ignore anything further from him, and rejoice in the good news that was otherwise communicated in by this thread.
I think those who belong to Christ are recognized by this, that they give you the hand of fellowship and try to live by the Commandments, including the one most violated in these forums --- the one about not bearing false witness against a neighbor.
I'll ping you over from time to time when I want the pleasure of hearing from a fair-minded man.
And concerning some of our bottle-rocket brethren--- well, see my tagline.
If a non-Catholic does not want to join the RCC or observe the RCC’s regimen of sacraments, does official Roman Catholic dogma allow that such a one may still be received by the Father of Jesus Christ, through Christ?
If one can not see how bread can literally become flesh by some pronouncement of a priest, and wine become blood, and so will not accept that doctrine, can such a one still be saved and enjoy God and His Heaven?
Does the Roman Catholic Church, in its official dogma, insist that salvation of the soul is through the Roman Catholic Church (or some element therein/thereof)?
I am interested to know REALLY, HONESTLY, the official position and see it stated. I am not interested in recent soft remarks made recently to me suggesting (I believe in error) that the “Church can recognize the ‘sacraments’ of other churches, etc.” In error, Unless the statement was was made in reference to some special dispensation the Vatican has made with regard to, say, the Coptics, the Eastern Orthodox Catholics, and other such.
I still believe that nothing in Roman Catholic dogma has changed in essence since Trent. I still believe, from all I can find to read, that the Roman Catholic Church still must officially deny that no-one who does not recognize a supreme authority for the RCC can not be saved, and are actually still accursed in the OFFICIAL eyes of the RCC.
And I don't believe I am exaggerating at all.