Thanks. My "problem" is that the FRoundheads think they can come out and snipe at the Catholic Church and get away with it. My job is to reach out to them in a spirit of Christian fraternity and destroy that misapprehension.
You aren't going to change my mind.
I don't have to. God will do that -- in His own sweet time. My job is to defend the truth, not to sell it.
Your behavior certainly doesn't entice me to be interested in your point of view...
What "behavior"? I never insulted you. I never called you a name. I attacked ideas, not people. That's the "behavior" that FR requires from us. I'm sorry you feel that I'm badly behaved.
...and I doubt that many others find your points salient, or even clever.
Salient? I think so. Clever? Unlikely. I don't think I've had a clever moment in my life.
Your theological view is not the point of this thread.
Tell it to those who see the "point" of this thread as an opportunity to castigate the Roman Catholic Church as an institution. Denigrating me is fine; I refuse to sit back and let them denigrate my faith.