Thats like saying Americans aren’t defective but America is or I support the troops but not their mission.
Pure sophistry.
I would never be so self-righteous as to say any Christian church is “defective” like a three-legged dog or a blind cat.I may disagree with doctrines,but I don’t state that I,or WE believe that they are “defective.” Wrong,misguided,even unChristian perhaps,but “defective?”thats the word of a patronizing supremacist.
B-16s statement was subtle bigotry and unholy hubris pure and simple.He has yet to withdraw it though Catholics of all stripes have rationalized,to their own satisfaction at any rate,his “meant no harm.”
>>I would never be so self-righteous as to say any Christian church is “defective” <<
I guess that’s why you’re not the head of a church.
You can remain offended, or you can understand that the head of any church cannot say that another is “Just as good as ours” That’s just silly.
And if you’re going to heaven anyway, what do you care what some white haired guy in Rome says? I don’t care that the LDS baptize me after I die. I’m dead, I don’t mind.
And honestly, if anyone said I was defective, I would say, Yup sure am. I’m a sinner.
If you believe the doctrine is wrong, isn’t that a perceived defect?
If you thought someone was about to walk blindly into a pit of venomous snakes, would you be obliged to tell them?