I do not look for opportunities to "instruct" Reformed Christians nor do most Catholics do so. As to the Roman Catholic Church, you do not have to belong, but, if you do not, please have the manners to mind your own business.
If you really think that Judge Bork's decision to be baptized into the Roman Catholic Church after many years of agnosticism, soul-searching, and accomplishment for our political causes (yours and mine) is any of your business, don your most effective asbestos underwear and write him at American Enterprise Institute to tell him so. Don't opportunistically attempt to use his act of Faith as yet another chance to evangelize on the cheap.
Whatever you want to preach, preach it to your own choir. I cannot imagine being interested by anyone rude enough to relentlessly pester me and other CAtholics with YOPIOS at every opportunity. We can agree on abortion, on the evils of lavender lotharios and child molesters, etc. but your personal take on Scripture does not and never will interesdt me in the slightest nor will it interest any Catholic who has anything vaguely resembling adequate Catholic catechization. We are Jesus Christ's own Church not the trend of the week club that waited nearly 1500 years after His crucifixion and resurrection to arise.
If you respond, I won't be back until tonight and I have pinged a few others to carry on in my absence and I urge them to ping their lists as well.
Done, and I read no further.
Dan
That's a good point. I rarely see a Catholic going into a thread telling protestants they're wrong. There may be threads like that, but I've never seen them.
On the other hand, I can't think of any threads involving Catholics where a few people have to crash it and turn it into a flame war. There was NO REASON for the anti-Catholics to come in and piss on this thread, but they did it anyway. Likewise, on the threads dealing with Mel Gibson's "The Passion", there are always a few making snide comments like, "gee, why did he end the movie at the crucifixion, all REAL Christians know you MUST include the Resurrection."