[Natural Law]

"If the term "RC" were banished..."

I now understand why you don't banish the term, I just don't understand why self-proclaimed Christians would consider using it once they are made aware of its history. Perhaps it is just far easier to call oneself a Christian than to actually be one.

[Quix]

Yeah, kinda like . . .

a raft of “Christians”

who clearly give Mary far too much billing and fawning adoration while Jesus shuffles alongside—lacking the mother’s lap etc. . . .

A LOT of us Prottys can’t understand folks calling themselves “CHRISTIANS” and engaging in such idolatrous, blasphemous Marian stuff. INCREDIBLE.

Then there’s the rabid clique Roman Catholics et al hereon

who go ballistic when Prottys rail against such ideas, dogmas, rituals, practices, idolatries and blasphemies as though the Prottys were flaying their only son alive with a rusted dull butter knife.

And usually, those are the same folks who insist on taking out of both sides of their fingers while pretending there’s NO contradictions involved!

And STILl they think Prottys should consider them honest, honrable “CHRISTIANS!”

Shockingly amazing.

[boatbums]

Just my humble 2 cents worth here, but if I use the letters in my posts, it is NEVER intended as a slur. It has seemed to me that it is more of just a convenience than having to spell out Roman Catholic Church - which some people STILL object to, anyway.

We’ve had a discussion, or ten, before about even the use of the title “catholic”. Since the word in the lower case means “universal” it applies to all true Christians who are part of the spiritual body of Christ, to my understanding. So in that sense, I am a catholic but I am no longer a Catholic, nor a member of the Catholic Church under the Bishop of Rome, nor Eastern Orthodox Catholic, or Oriental Catholic, etc.

It seems far easier to just use abbreviations in postings, and I have developed a thicker skin about being called a Protestant, or Protty, or protty, or...

I say don’t look for offence when none is meant and, even then, stick to the issues and not the labels. They don’t mean much to our Lord anyway!

[metmom]

I now understand why you don't banish the term, I just don't understand why self-proclaimed Christians would consider using it once they are made aware of its history. Perhaps it is just far easier to call oneself a Christian than to actually be one.

Because its history isn't its present.

You need to get over being perpetually offended and then demanding that everyone accommodate your sensibilities.