I agree that the organizational tyrannical exclusivist lording it over stuff is dreadfully awful.
What else would we expect from the Vatican.
They and their !!!!TRADITIONS!!!! and their trumped up Marian blasphemies and idolatries are outrageous presumptions to begin with. What else is new.
Such INSTITUTIONS ALWAYS protect themselves first, last and always.
Nevertheless, God’s reach is unhindered by ermine, encyclicals, magicstericals, !!!!TRADITIONS!!!! Marian blasphemies, dogmatic hogwash, STATIONS OF THE WHITE HANKY, etc. etc. etc.
HE WILL LOWER THE BOOM ON WHOMEVER INDIVIDUALLY &/OR COLLECTIVELY WHEN HE GETS READY TO.
Earlier I wrote: you should understand that when you make mocking statements about the Catholic Church WE read it as mockery of Christ.
To which metmom replied: So, no one can criticize the church for anything, even when it’s clearly in the wrong without it being an insult to Christ Himself?
STATIONS OF THE WHITE HANKY
STATIONS OF THE WHITE HANKY
STATIONS OF THE WHITE HANKY
Does anyone understand now?
I sat in a theater filled with Southern Baptists watching The Passion of the Christ. Grown men, myself included, sobbing and not one of them jumped up and shouted "STATIONS OF THE WHITE HANKY!" And yet, The Passion of the Christ was a cinematic meditation on the Stations of the Cross.
Last year, my very Protestant mother called me to tell me about something my parents had seen in Texas. She talked about this wonderful outdoor display that had moved them a great deal. I finally realized that they had gone to http://www.crossministries.net/index.htm after I figured out that what she was talking about were the Stations of the Cross. As I explained what she had seen to her she didn't shout "STATIONS OF THE WHITE HANKY!"
When you shout "STATIONS OF THE WHITE HANKY!" Catholics hear you mocking "He himself bore our sins in his body upon the cross, so that, free from sin, we might live for righteousness. By his wounds we have been healed."
As soon as a Catholic even so much as sees the word "Stations of the" he is reminded of the whip and the cross and the nails and the garden, the suffering and the pain, the agony of those hours. And then you throw in "WHITE HANKY" and it's a screeching halt, I mean it's the kind of thing Richard Dawkins or PZ Meyers would say. Who mocks Calvary for goodness sake?!
Any point you were trying to make fails, any credibility you had is lost, any ears that were open shut.