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I am generally familiar with the charismatic Protestant theology and know the perspective you are coming from. It is the intense personal experience of God, desire to cut out any transmission belt you did not build yourself, dislike of authority, and a heavy dose of anti-Catholic propaganda.
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Methinks this must be referring to another planet in another Galactic cluster about 100 Galactic clusters away from ours.

1. I've never thought of an INTENSE PERSONAL EXPERIENCE/RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD as the slightest whiff of a negative. I suppose it is somewhat predictable that RC folks might construe it as a negative if THEIR HIERARCHY; TRADITIONS; PONTIFICAL EDICTS; RITUALS ETC. were not involved. Thankfully, GOD has a very DIFFERENT perspective.

2. Individuals don't build "transmission belts" per se with Holy Spirit--APART FROM THOSE HOLY SPIRIT IS INVOLVED IN LEADING THEM TO BUILD. Given it being Holy Spirit--I figure He trumps any bureaucratic edifice about a dodeca-quaddrillion-trillion times infinity.

3. Inviting the supreme soul searching authority of all creation WHO DIVIDES THE BONE FROM THE MARROW WITH GOD'S OWN INTENSE SEARCHLIGHT OF HOLY SPIRIT BORN TRUTH--inviting such a Search light within in more intense ways and levels and aware that such an indwelling intense expression of Holy Spirit is prone to give ongoing commentary on one's every thought and deed--is

rather the OPPOSITE from hostility to authority.

Irrationally odd that anyone would think otherwise.

4. Heavy dose of anti-Romanist propaganda??? Really? Must be on that distant planet in that distant galactic cluster. The groups I've been a part of have not demonstrated that. Especially the better such groups.

I can certainly believe that a lot of RC folks would have a grossly distorted sample to speak from as well as grossly distorted tidy little boxes from which to assess such a distorted sample. Hard to arrive at truth given all that.