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Using such words to characterize another confession is hate mongering per se ...

Does that mean we cannot quote any of the Reformers who used similar language to describe the error of Rome, or the connection they made between spiritual apostasy and Rome?

Is this some sort of PC revisionism that we're witnessing on the forum?

I would never have guessed this could happen on FR.

I am certain the English language affords you sufficient latitude to establish the "error of Rome" as you call it without mongering hatred.

Excerpts taken from historical documents may or may not be delivered in a hateful manner. It'll be case by case.

Does that mean we cannot quote any of the Reformers who used similar language to describe the error of Rome, or the connection they made between spiritual apostasy and Rome?

I didn't read the two deleted posts so I'm not sure this is appropriate, but it's been my experience that we can quote the Reformers who used similar language to describe the error of Rome.

It's the difference between you and I calling a specific Roman Catholic FReeper a tare, and Scripture calling a man a fool and a liar who falls down to the stock of a tree.

Is this some sort of PC revisionism that we're witnessing on the forum?

I would never have guessed this could happen on FR.

This forum was here to allow conservatives to talk about our faith, not stir up the 30 years war. I still hold that sometimes this forum is counterproductive to our common cause to educate and enlighten America in political discourse.

As far as Protestantism as a heresy, Catholics refer to that some times. I think a lot of things are heresies and abominations. Birth control, genocide, willful murder, homosexual sex, pedophilia, euthanasia, abortion and drug abuse are all things that should be odious to Christians. Some of you use birth control, some of you engage in sex without marriage. I even fall short. I can point fingers too.

My Brother is a full fledged Baptist Minister and Pastor. We have arguments all the time. We both know that we are trying to serve Christ. I argue that I serve Christ by remaining in Catholicism, working out my salvation as Paul described. He thinks the freedom of the Baptist confession gives him the tools to follow Christ.

He reads John 6 one way and I read it differently. We both read 1 Cor. 12:11 the same way. We don't scream at each other over the Thanksgiving Turkey and spend time hurling plates at each other. I love my brother and he loves me. We mutually agree that the other is in error.

Of course, I am right. :-)