Not calling you (or “you people”) anything, MD.
I’m calling bad behavior bad behavior, as it shows up.
It really is ignorant to miss out to ignore the existence of someone who is redeemed by the Lord, when that person is in one’s midst. Multiply by the numbers, as the numbers of those unrecognized members of The Church are ignored.
It really is arrogant to say, once noticing such a Christian, to say, “Whatever God says about you, I say you are not in His Church.”
It really is ignorant to miss out to ignore the existence of someone who is redeemed by the Lord, when that person is in one’s midst. Multiply by the numbers, as the numbers of those unrecognized members of The Church are ignored.does not describe the teaching of the Catholic Church.It really is arrogant to say, once noticing such a Christian, to say, “Whatever God says about you, I say you are not in His Church.”
Further, just academically, suppose we DID teach that, and suppose were were right to question that God said what you seem to say He says. Then we wouldn't be arrogant, we'd be giving a needed warning. That is it presupposes a slam-dunk that (a) we teach what we don't teach and (b) that we are wrong (as we are, evidently, whatever we in fact teach) to teach that thing.
I have the good fortune (once offered, afflictions become graces) to be pronouncedly red-green colorblind. This meant that until I was first tested when I was 13 or so, people called me unobservant and lazy, and laughed at my color choices and things of that kind. (You haven't lived until a green van approaches you in your rear view mirror and an orange van pulls up beside you and passes, and you're going, where'd the GREEN one go?) I'd suggest that not everyone who was concerned about my apparent unobservantitudinicity was ignorant AND arrogant. I would say that they were mistaken, and that had I NOT been colorblind, they would have good grounds for their concern.