[marshmallow]

Catholic threads outnumber Protestant threads here 10 to one. If our tone seems defensive to you, perhaps it needs to be.

Oh, OK. So it's nothing more than a numerical problem. Cut the number of Catholic threads and everything will be hunky dory?

Riiiight.

What do you want? Affirmative action for Protestant threads? Post some. If there are any that are newsworthy. Let's hear what the Calvinists are saying about Iraq, Islam, abortion, the culture wars etc.

And rejoicing over the Church's struggles with internal dissent and scandal is "defensive"?

It's not defensive. It's offensive.

[xzins]

Your church’s struggles with its heretics is news as is my church’s or any church’s struggles with the same.

It is not rejoicing to point out these problems. It is a matter of record, and it requires acknowledging. As a believer in Christian unity, it is necessary for us to sympathize, but it also necessary for us to point out that the depth of depravity evident in some denominations should make them less confident, a bit more humble, when they proclaim themselves the only church on the block.

[Dr. Eckleburg]

It's not defensive. It's offensive.

Praise God!

"Watch ye, stand fast in the faith, quit you like men, be strong." -- 1 Corinthians 16:13