I criticize the Catholic Church all the time. The Church is terribly lax in defending the faith (getting better though), it has lead so many Catholics in the West astray, it implemented the ideas of the Second Vatican Council dreadfully badly, it is not forceful enough in condemning the fruits of sexual revolution and generally modernity, it should have excommunicated all pro-abort ideologues thirty years ago, it should have closed down or thouroughly reformed the Catholic in name only colleges, it should have instituted a full scale Holy Inquisition at the first whiff of the pederast priest scandals, -- should I go on?
The Church Militant is an institution of fallible men, who benefit from criticism like anyone else.
But she is also the beautiful bride of Christ, the communion of Saints who pray for us and sustain us in our journey. Insult them, and you insult Christ Who chose His Church and brought her to be with him in Heaven. What is so difficult to understand? If you insult my wife or my chidlren, you insult me. Do you think the love of Christ for His family is somehow of thicker skin than the love with which a man loves his family?
26 And if one member suffer any thing, all the members suffer with it; or if one member glory, all the members rejoice with it. 27 Now you are the body of Christ, and members of member. 28 And God indeed hath set some in the church...(1 Cor. 12)
I don't know anyone who'd like to send you to the racks of the Inquisition
because
you dearly love and revere what you believe to be the most correct of the expressions/factions of Christ's Body.
But a lot of us are fiercely offended and just as quick to defend what we construe to be the most correct expressions/factions of Christ's Body with just as saintly a motivations as work for you.
All the more so when your characterizations of our spiritual groups, persons and practices are ranked as demonic, hell bound etc. Some of us feel the same about some of your cherished group's institutions, habits, customs, rituals and even individuals.
Screaming "OUT FOUL SPIRIT" is not likely to advance anything overly useful on these forums though it might clean the ranks out in reverse.
Some of us SCREAM intensely in response. There's some faint assumption that when the shoe is on the other foot, there might be a faint hint of insight eventually. And, if not increased insight, perhaps a slightly increased aversion or reluctance to be so obnoxious in the first place. Perhaps before Jesus comes again. Though given the era and rapidly increasing march of the end of history as we know it, perhaps not.
As has been demonstrated, we can post titles of threads that are baiting or tweaky of RC's etc.
However, in my biased observation, you folks are much more given to posting threads with REALLY TWEAKY TITLES BEGGING FOR A FIERCE RESPONSE. And then you wail when you get it. Wellllll excuse me!!!!
Some folks seem to persistently post REALLLLLLLYYYYY outrageously offensive, outrageously illogical; outrageously untrue vile stuff that super begs a fierce response. And some of us are not too good to deliver it. Yet again . . . the wail goes up as though the triggering posts were pure as the driven snow. Hogwash.
Reaping what you sow is alive and well in it's unwellness on the religion forum.
I have variously taken great umbridge at various points in history at things Dr. E has said, Mad Dawg has said and somewhat even at what Kolo has said. But I don't rail at them anything near like I was once prone to do. They have demonstrated a capacity to be real and Biblical and Biblically broad minded enough that we can consider one another Christian Bretheren and Sistern regardless of our stark differences.
That's theoretically possible with anyone on the forum. It's certainly preferred. I don't prefer to rail at anyone except satan and his destructive notions and habits.
But I just may well slap some outrageous nonsense down as forcefully and intensely as I can yet again. Sometimes it seems even too weak a response. But since the jaw bone of a donkey is not so functional nor allowed, it will have to do.
But I prefer collegial discourse. Some seem genetically predispositioned such that it appears impossible for them. We on my side would love to see that proven wrong.