THAT distinction
makes a gnat's burp's worth of difference in the ultimate scheme of things for any given individual?
Posted on 07/23/2008 2:47:21 PM PDT by Pyro7480
When Gov. Alfred E. Smith ran for president in 1928, his candidacy was derailed in large part by anti-Catholic prejudice. It has been nearly 48 years since John F. Kennedy became the first (and so far only) Roman Catholic president, but experts say that anti-Catholic sentiment — much of it originating in, or as a response to, immigrants in New York — remains an enduring force in American culture.
That was the consensus of a panel assembled at the Museum of the City of New York on Tuesday night to consider the question, “Is Anti-Catholicism Dead?”
...The Rev. Richard John Neuhaus — a leading conservative intellectual, a former Lutheran pastor and the editor of the leading Catholic journal First Things — offered a surprising view on the question.
“To be a Catholic is not to be refused positions of influence in our society,” he said. “Indeed, one of the most acceptable things is to be a bad Catholic, and in the view of many people, the only good Catholic is a bad Catholic.”
...He added that anti-Catholicism was as likely to come from the left — sometimes from commentators who believe that a “threatening theological insurgency is engineered and directed by Catholics,” with evangelical Protestants merely as the movement’s “foot soldiers.”
(Excerpt) Read more at cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com ...
Since you are only up to #41, let me just say now that whatever you post to my other 50 posts on this thread, I disagree. That way I don’t have to go back and see what you are replying to. LOL.
THAT distinction
makes a gnat's burp's worth of difference in the ultimate scheme of things for any given individual?
Perhaps tarrying for enlightenment from Holy Spirit would have been more in order than the 2nd beer.
Balderdash.
RC’s may be a lot of things hereon . . . but except for theologically,
they are NOT DUMB, NOR GENETICALLY STUPID.
The meanings of the words I use—including the special terms I originate
are easy and well known.
Furthermore, there WILL BE a test.
And I’m not administering it.
Soooooooooo
thoughtful and kind when a rabid RC rep notes when someone in the pack has cushioned a truth-arrow’s trajectory.
Thanks.
First of all I was only joking. Second, if one were to be lost in the many protestant heresies advocated on this forum, that advice would be very good advice and I should suggest taking it NOW lest one continue on the path away from Christ.
Not at all.
It’s born from
WATCHING SELF-PROCLAIMED RC’S
IN LIFE
AND PARTICULARLY HEREON.
No, but I’ll be collecting the forms when they are handed in.
If that is really your opinion (!), what should the impartial reader of this thread think of your reference in #479 to "genetic maladies?"
Some quirks are genetically based.
Some are not.
Those that are genetic probably virtually never have much to do with degrading one’s spiritual life.
Some might . . . depending.
#486 was for you.
Soooooooooo
thoughtful and kind when a rabid RC rep notes when someone in the pack has cushioned a truth-arrow’s trajectory.
Thanks.
That’s not MY information.
You said: Some quirks are genetically based.
Sounds like Michael Savage.
I haven’t noticed any Prottys hereon on a path away from Christ.
How delightfully slippery.
Protestant heresies distract from the Truth and cause the victim to lose touch with reality.
No
I do concede that the RC edifice has the greatest skill levels and archival data to judge that from.
:-)
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