Good grief, Campion, what a perfectly poisonous little thread this is.
Just wow.
Just wow.
And what's really weird is that I actually entered it on the Catholics' side. I guess no good deed goes unpunished.
I believe Judaism is true and chr*stianity (including Catholicism) is false. But until chr*stians come to recognize this it is nothing short of cruel to demand that they stop doing what they sincerely believe G-d wants them to do. It's like demanding Jews stop reciting Shema` or laying tefillin.
And the condemnation of a Catholic prayer for the conversion of the Jews is just plain silly. Only someone who believes that G-d endorses Catholicism would be afraid it might actually result in Jewish conversion to that religion. Meanwhile, Orthodox Jews pray in the `Aleynu prayer three times every day for the nations of the world to forsake their idols and false "gxds" and embrace Melekh Malkhei HaMelakhim (the King of the Kings of the Kings), HaQadosh Barukh Hu' (the Holy One, Blessed is He), and so far as I know no chr*stians are squawking about it. Though there was a while in the Middle Ages when part of the prayer was censored by chr*stian authorities. But at least those chr*stian authorities did it in the name of their "one true religion" rather than in the name of "tolerance and pluralism."
It’s been like this for a long time. There was a time when I thought the people on here were so spiritual and really had the love of the gospel in their ways but not so much anymore. On all aspects of freerepublic there seems to be a lot of malice and way too much pride. If we as Christians come across as more hateful than loving somehow I think we have missed the point. I suppose being a Catholic on here is very much like the anti-christ. I share my faith by the way I live and love,always asking the Lord to guide me because I believe we are all miserable imperfect creatures.