Good luck to them, I say.
Posted on 02/26/2010 1:08:31 AM PST by Gamecock
So I have a question about terminology.
Some of our Catholic FRiends get upset when we Prods use the term Roman Catholic, insisting that the term is derogatory, insulting, etc.
What I would like to discuss is why do Catholics complain about the term Roman Catholic, when the term is in such wide use inside of the Catholic church?
Thoughts?
I’m sorry you consider the question hostile. It’s not meant to be.
Asking if a person has children is not generally thought of as antagonism.
If you’d prefer not to answer, then just say that. Instead you come back with slurs against me for having the temerity to ask the question.
You have to be kidding...
I may answer yes, no, maybe, "it's none of your business" and so on.
However, if the person asking such a question keeps on asking me long after it is obvious I choose to not answer - then that behavior is antagonistic.
Dr. Eckleburg, quit asking.
Lorica, quit complaining.
Thanks for your guidance. No more questions.
Nope.
It never ceases to amaze me either. It’s like talking to Martians.
lol. Are your eyes blue?
ha! I was wondering the same thing...
With Martians you could probably chalk it up to simple miscommunication, in good faith.
Dr. Eckleburg was asking everyone who disagreed with her if they had children. Me, theanonymouslurker, and Lorica. All of us made it clear that we would not answer it, yet she continued. Thank you for telling her to stop. It was clearly antagonistic, yet it took YOUR intervention. Why?
It is a common tactic of Dr. E. to make things personal. We should not have to hit the abuse button, or call you in, for Dr. Eckleburg to behave properly on the threads, yet consistently that is the case where she is concerned. Other posters do not do that.
Thank you for intervening, but why should you have to bother with this 7th grade antagonistic behavior?
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Asking if a person has children is not generally thought of as antagonism.
If you’d prefer not to answer, then just say that. Instead you come back with slurs against me for having the temerity to ask the question.
I'm all about keeping the record straight. The first time you asked me if I had children, I replied:
That’s not relative to the fact that your information was incorrect.
You continued to ask me, at least twice more. Had you respected my first answer, you wouldn't have anything to complain about.
Dr. Eckleburg, quit asking.
Thank you.
Lorica, quit complaining.
Please advise what I should do differently next time I ping you and don't receive a response?
My son was molested for four years by a Catholic boy near us and we never knew about it. Whether that boy was molested himself, I don’t know, but he caused my then 8-year-old son untold pain all his life.
oh, boo hoo.
It does not. Nothing in the Catechism says that.
Roman Catholicism also teaches that this righteousness, if it exceeds that which is necessary to save someone, can be given as credit to another person.
Neither is this taught in the Catechism.
Rome is a banking system, not a faith which correctly counts Christ's righteousness alone as being capable of saving sinners.
Negative. Do you have any evidence of your claims?
Of course not. That was just another baiting comment, meant to rile up the "papists" and mislead the lurkers.
First of all, most priests, the priests who would have access to teens and children, are hardly "sequestered." They live extremely public lives, probably much more so than most of us. In the same vein they are not "confined" to the company of other priests, exclusively, nor are they somehow socially isolated, as your words imply. On the other hand, those priests who do live a cloistered life obviously lack the access to teens and children.
The idea that "many" priests are "pedophiles" is an outrageous slur that cannot be born out by any evidence.
Thank god my experience growing up and being educated in the Catholic church, as well as the experience of the many others who shared that experience with me, bears so little resemblance to the outrageous image you have.
Good luck to them, I say.
What was the resolution?
Certainly you had the boy arrested?
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