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To: sometime lurker
SL, I'm trying to put myself in your shoes and imagine how I would react if somebody were latching onto Catholic sacraments and trying to make them "mean something else."

I can see how there would be strong feelings about this; and the only way to counter it would be --- it seems to me --- strengthening the traditional meaning and reinforcing it constantly within your own community.

It seems to me, though, that ALL of Christianity is a reformulation of, or a competing interpretation of, Judaism. It would be hard to find an element that isn't. I was certainly taught (and rightly, I think) to "interpret" the whole body of Hebrew Scriptures "in the light of Christ."

Moreover, much of Protestantism is, it seems to me, a latching onto Catholic things to make them "mean something else." Again, this is so pervasive that to catalogue it adequately would take hundreds of pages.

There's no stopping it, and no use taking offense. The only response is in constantly reinforcing your own defining lines, in higher contrast.

32 posted on 03/29/2010 9:58:43 AM PDT by Mrs. Don-o (To the hard of hearing you shout, and for the blind you draw large and startling figures. F O'Connor)
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To: Mrs. Don-o

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33 posted on 03/29/2010 10:10:37 AM PDT by yehudis
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