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To: jessduntno; Judith Anne; Dr. Eckleburg; Alex Murphy; Quix
Rant or Opus? Good one.

Judith Anne, like many other FRoman Catholics, will nail their opus to the door of FR only to return a short time later.

2,476 posted on 04/28/2010 12:54:33 AM PDT by Gamecock (If you want Your Best Life Now, follow Osteen. If you want your best life forever, don't. JM)
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To: Gamecock; Judith Anne
Whoa. I think that's a personal remark about JA. And I think there is some rhetorical slippage going on here.

JA said all the stuff she said about St. Paul, and almost immediately Catholics disagreed or professed their admiration, etc. for the man Aquinas usually calls just "The Apostle."

If the point of these posts is just to bash Catholics without regard for the truth, have at it, and much good may it do you.

But if you want folks to think that truth is something that matters to you all, I'd be a little less wholesale in attributing problems with Paul to "all" or even "many" Catholics.

En passant I note how Luther's remark about St. James doesn't provoke the consternation the JA's remark does, though JA is just a private woman expressing her emotional response while Luther was a theologian and heresiarch.

And to ignore JA's repeated expression that what she said is merely her personal reaction to Paul and is more about her than about him, that seems to me to be childish.

Evidently childish name-calling and the sorts of arguments I used to have in fifth grade are considered adult fare here. In a time when the body of Christ is under threat from within and without, we circle like donkeys, facing the enemy but kicking each other. That will bring, I think, neither peace nor converts. By the grace of God, neither peace nor converts are in our hands, but in his, so I won't panic. But I will be interested to hear how this sort of thing is consistent with the evangelical duty we all share.

I don't need to hear now. I trust I will learn at the Lord's judgment seat how magnifying one person's comment into an obviously false and misleading indictment of a whole group of Christians is any kind of obedience to the Great Commission.

2,483 posted on 04/28/2010 4:33:59 AM PDT by Mad Dawg (Oh Mary, conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to thee.)
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