!!!!WRONG!!!! wholesale yet again.
1. I am a fiercely supportive Christian regarding the universal catholic Body of Christ represented by authentic believers in virtually every Christian group and organization.
2. I am fiercely against hogwash, heresy, evil, hypocrisy, gross contradiction, UNBiblical destructiveness . . . whether I find it in my own local congregation, the Vatican/ Roman Catholic organization, the man in my mirror or any other congregation or Christian organization.
3. I realize that’s a challenging realization too lofty for some folks to wrap their biases around.
4. Contrary to your rubber dictionary:
DISAGREEMENT is NOT equal to hate etc.
You wrote:
“1. I am a fiercely supportive Christian regarding the universal catholic Body of Christ represented by authentic believers in virtually every Christian group and organization.”
I see no evidence of that. What I see - and what you show - is a disdain and hatred for Christ’s Church.
“2. I am fiercely against hogwash, heresy, evil, hypocrisy, gross contradiction, UNBiblical destructiveness . . . whether I find it in my own local congregation, the Vatican/ Roman Catholic organization, the man in my mirror or any other congregation or Christian organization.”
No. What you do is attack in a kneejerk way anything or almost anything that is Catholic. That’s why you’re in this thread attacking what you have no even read. Admit it, you have not read the encyclical, do not claim to understand it, yet you attack it right away. I’ve seen you do this before. You act like an anti-Catholic. You post like an anti-Catholic. If it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck...
“3. I realize that’s a challenging realization too lofty for some folks to wrap their biases around.”
You are - at the very least - no less biased than anyone else here. The difference here is that your bias is unreasoned. Again, here you are attacking something you’ve never read. How reasonable is that? Is that how an unbiased person acts?
“4. Contrary to your rubber dictionary:DISAGREEMENT is NOT equal to hate etc.”
I never said it was. Saying an entire people worship idols, however, when they don’t, or claiming the Catholic Church never destroyed ancient pagan idols when they did, however, is a sign of gross dishonesty...and I find it hard to believe that someone who would make such calumnies is not inspired by hate. Notice, I don’t claim false things about Protestants. I know many Anglicans and Lutherans and other Protestants who worship in chuches filled with statues, stained glass windows, etc. yet I would never think of lying and saying they worship idols because of that. You don’t think twice about it. Who here is really biased?
That’s right. Disgreement is not hate, but that’s what they always call it.