SD speaking generally addressed the poor quality of teaching and said he couldn't blame you or others for not having a good understanding of Catholic teaching.
You proceded to yip and crow over his coming to my defense. It seemed that you overlooked the fact that nowhere in it did he support me or try to explain what I might have been doing.Possibly because he didn't even know.
You admitted you hadn't known quite what was said and asked for forgiveness. I said sure but cautioned that I thought we needed to focus on the threat posed by a group,small portion of the whole that it may be,that hated that for which they thought our Western Civilization stood. Since I consider all of the good,beautiful and true in our society a direct result of the fact that Western society is built on the foundation of Christendom. I suggested that all of us needed to be less mean-spirited and petty. I thought that Jesus prayed that we all might be one in the Father. It seems to me this can hardly come to pass if we are going to snipe and belittle one another.
Never daunted you responded that it is someone's duty(yours I assume)to eradicate heresy wherever it existed. Becky,you need to get a better understanding of policy and procedure and practice to use the government vernacular,or elephants and piss-ants to use the street vocabulary,or issues and asides to use more corporate terms,or big pictures and magnified fly specks to use political lingo because when you appear to believe that your comments were intended to combat heresy you lose your effectiveness since clearly you were involved in a discussion about a survey. There isn't any indication in any of the posts referenced that we were discussing anything close to a tenet or belief of our respective churches/Church. We were talking about the veracity and validity of a study done by an agency about the beliefs of Christians. So you were not combatting heresay,you were seeking to denigrate members of the Catholic Church.
Oh you mean you want her to compromise the truth like you do, and oh by the way, I won't be sending you an apology.
BigMack
You got alot of nerve, heres one from your fearless leader.
Pope John Paul II criticizes "Bible-only" thinking in his latest encyclical letter, "Faith and Reason" (Fides et Ratio). The Pope, a onetime philosophy professor, warns against "fideism," the idea that rational knowledge has little value for faith. He condemns "biblicism" as "one currently widespread" symptom of the problem. John Paul redefines biblicism as the tendency "to make the reading and exegesis of Scripture the sole criterion of truth." The rule of Christian faith, the Pope claims, is unity among three sources of truth: "Sacred Tradition, Sacred Scripture, and the Magisterium [teaching authority] of the Church" (What in the World, Vol. 25, No. 3, 1999).
Don't preach to us you hypocrite!
BigMack