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It is the wild mischaracterization of the faith of others that brands you as either ignorant or deliberately aiming to offend.

I'm sorry if it offends but it isn't a mischaracterization. We are told repeatedly by Catholics that Catholics trust the Church for their interpretation. If that isn't placing your faith in something, I don't know what is.

Yes, and the tiniest amount of humility or concession to the others' sincere differences would help immensely.

Would it help if I typed smaller?

We have heard your ignorant and ill-formed opinion about our faith. We don't agree. Please just stop acting like bulls in china shops.

Er...weren't we talking about humility a minute ago. OOOOOHHHHH!!!! I get it. It's me that is suppose to be humble. For other people it doesn't apply.

My "ignorant" and "ill-formed opinions" comes from the very simple language of the scriptures. I don't know much except what I can read with my own eyes. When it states things like:

Exo 20:3-5 You shall have no other gods before Me. You shall not make to yourselves any graven image, or any likeness of anything that is in the heavens above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. You shall not bow yourself down to them, nor serve them. For I Jehovah your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the sons to the third and fourth generation of those that hate me,

I take it to mean that God 1) doesn't want us to be making statues of anyone and 2) doesn't want us to bow down to statues. I know some may say that's OK. Heck, I know the Church might even have a bunch of church "fathers" who agree that it's hokey-dokey. But I value what is in the scriptures just a tad more than what a bunch of old men or a catechism tells me.

It is the wild mischaracterization of the faith of others that brands you as either ignorant or deliberately aiming to offend.

It's the same argument over and over. You can't seem to recognize that we believe God uses people, things, and yes, the Church as His instruments.

Until you learn to fathom this concept (not agree with it, just understand it) you will forever repeat the same slander to ears that pity you for your shallow caricature of the Faith.

Short story: we can believe God uses the Church as His instrument while still believing in God as the ultimate source of our faith. If I were to say you were a "Bibliolator" and that you had faith in the Bible instead of God, you'd rightly accuse me of not seeing where your ultimate faith lies.

Do us the same favor, huh?

Er...weren't we talking about humility a minute ago. OOOOOHHHHH!!!! I get it. It's me that is suppose to be humble. For other people it doesn't apply.

What exactly is un-humble about me asking you to please give it a rest? We don't agree.