Breach of etiquette

Triablogue ^ | 2/19/2010 | Steve Hays

[the_conscience]

Ping

[Salvation]

**In practice, Catholicism has no core identity. It’s all circumference. Surface-level piety. **

HUH?

[Salvation]

I think you may need to do some re-education before you posts some of these posts. Take a look at this link. Certainly looks like a lot more than surface-level piety has kept the Catholic Church alive for over 2000 years.

Where to do you these falsehood ideas? Why do you pretend to know about the Catholic Church when you really don't know? Or are you really a fallen-away Catholic? What is your real reason for dissing the Catholic Church? Here's your education fact thread: Catholic Biblical Apologetics: Genealogy of Christian Faith Communities, Roman Catholicism

[Salvation]

Should have been

Where to do you get these falsehood ideas?

[MissDairyGoodnessVT]

this just pure out&out catholic bashing

[MissDairyGoodnessVT]

this IS just pure out&out catholic bashing

[Falconspeed]

a highly externalized piety

What the...? Talk about a confusing term in a lousy essay that lacks an analysis of a main thesis. Catholics are the largest religion on the planet thanks to the Keys of His Blood. Piety is one of the seven gifts of the Holy Spirit. And there are a million versions of prayers in the universal Church of Christ. For example, I pray the Roman Vespers every night which are totally different than the Alexandrian, Coptic Vespers both externally and pietistically.

And let's see. Mother Teresa lived in the slums of Calcutta, Padre Pio lived in chronic pain for fifty years and Father Damien lived in a leper colony on an empty field in Hawaii.

It's sad that some people do not support the Church's goal of the Social Kingship of Christ.

[Quix]

Thanks.

For another day.

[Gamecock]

***For one thing, their hypersensitivity is strikingly lopsided. After all, a number of Catholic epologists are hardly paragons of decorum in their characterization of the Protestant faith. And, of course, it’s not as if their denomination was conspicuous for its tender treatment of theological opponents in the past.***

Need proof?

Just look at any Catholic-Proddie thread here on FR.

[Gamecock]

Posts 6 & 7:

Repeat it enough and people will believe it....

[bogusname]

Thanks for posting that excellent and accurate article.

[Campion]

You can tell a lot about a man's moral and spiritual compass by what he obsesses over. For example, quite a few Protestants are oddly obsessed with trashing Catholics and Catholicism, and have almost nothing positive to say about their own faith in Jesus and what it has meant in their life. Evidently, their Gospel centers on how stupid and/or evil Catholics are, and how vastly superior they are.

The technical term for that is "pride".

[Campion]

Thanks for posting that excellent and accurate article.

That's a funny way to characterize slander worthy of a Pharisee.

[bogusname]

Those lost in Catholicism can’t tolerate the truth. Truth effects Catholics like garlic effects vampires.

[MissDairyGoodnessVT]

for every saint a past-for every sinner a future

[bogusname]

It’s nice to see real Christian articles instead of phony ritualistic bunk that only serves to make lost people feel Holy.

[BlessedBeGod]

Utterly clueless.

[IrishCatholic]

I see you have raised the usual suspects in your ping.

Another fine example of Christian love.

I’ve mentioned this before but it bears stating again. If Christ himself came down in the Second Coming and declared the Catholic Church his one true Church, you and the usual suspects would be the first to nail him to the cross again in your fury.

Post your hate. I will say the Rosary for every one of your twisted hearts that you may find the love of Christ where there is only bile for your fellow Christians.

[Arthur McGowan]

Catholics who become Protestants are frequently obsessed with bashing Catholicism—to the extent that the “professional ex-Catholic,” who makes a living writing and speaking about supposed scandals and crimes of the Catholic Church is a familiar figure. Whole publishing houses have been founded on this sort of literature.

While ex-Catholics commonly seem driven to bash the Catholic Church, those who BECOME Catholic seem not to feel a corresponding need to bash the denominations they have left behind. If there ARE such people, who are they? If there IS any such body of literature, where is it?

Discuss.