[vladimir998]

You wrote:

“Can we please stop the generalizations on both sides already???”

The “generalizations” I make about anti-Catholics are accurate. I see no reason to not make them.

“Protestants do this, think this way, yada, yada, yada. Some Catholic posters on FR are just as guilty of Protestant bashing/bigotry/hating as they claim non-Catholics are to them.”

That’s completely false. No Catholic here attacks with the vitriol that anti-Catholics routinely use - often right out of the gate too.

Take a look at what Dutchboy ENTERED the thread with, for instance (well, at least in the posts not DELETED!):

“They are as unbiblical as Rome’s errant sacerdotalism and superstitious mechanisms for salvation...just in a different arena. Both these are stuck in the darkness.”

And then this:

“The grave trouble with Rome is that their theology of “traditions” has supplanted the very Scripture that they claimed to have delivered to the world. Of course, the rest of us know this is another self-aggrandizing pipe dream that the men in bathrobes and Prada shoes foist on the public. However, if they would read the Book, they would see that their cult was debunked centuries ago.”

Men in bathrobes? Cult?

Then this:

“That is why Rome is stuck in the darkness...God has closed her ears and darkened her eyes, lest she turn from her sin and repent.”

And this:

“For example, there is no support for a “pope”. Nonewhatsoever. The gang from Rome cooked this preposterous charade up to grasp power over the sheeple. No one has ever found a single passage of Scripture that supports even the remotest possibility of the monstrosity that the RCC has become. There were separate churches everywhere in the first century, all with their own teachers-elders. The independence of these congregations allowed for safeguards not available to the central government of the gigantus that Rome has forced upon the world.”

Quite frankly these are the ravings of a paranoid man.

And then this:

“Two thousand years of Scriptural teaching would have helped Rome recognize its own self-serving, self-aggrandizing, ego-maniacal superstition had it bothered to listen to the text it purported to provide. But, tradition supplants text. Repent Rome, if you can.”

Seriously, what Catholic posts like this in post after post? Answer: NONE.

Then his next post:

“No, there isn’t or instead of a protracted pile of mush, you would have cited book, chapter and verse proving that the Scriptures say, “You should have a pope based in Rome.””

Protracted pile of mush?

When you come across any Catholic here with the same habitual posting of vitriol and bile, you let me know. Only Anti-Catholics post this way here in these threads.

And just in case this is deleted, I’ll send this to you by mail too.

[boatbums]

Like I said in my Private Message back to you...don't take what people post that is against the Catholic religion as personal attacks against you. They are not.

And, I could give you LOTS of examples of vitriolic and hateful posts from Catholics, you just don't see them all. I choose to ignore them most times - admittedly, I get ticked off and can't help myself sometimes - and I proceed with my point without making it a personal attack.

This is a Religion Forum and no one religion should be off limits for disagreement. The RM does a pretty good job of halting the personal stuff, most times. :o)