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To: Zionist Conspirator
The wimpiest Fundamentalist in the world looks like a lion next to most Catholics, however orthodox they are.

The reason for this is very simple. The Catholic Church excludes the facticity of the Biblical narrative from its list of orthodox beliefs. It is this that has made the current moral rot in that Church inevitable. But just try telling that to most Catholics. Just as liberal "greens" want to go back to a preindustrial age except with "gay marriage," most Catholics want to return to the Middle Ages but with higher criticism and evolution.

You must not get around much. Traditionalist Catholics do not believe in higher criticism or evolution. The wimpiest traditionalist in the world looks like a lion next to any Protestant, fundamentalists included. The Bible was compiled by traditionalist Catholics precisely to their own specifications, so they have no problem with any part of it. Trads want to live in the modern age, except with Inquisitions and Crusades.

There is no difficulty with liberal bishops and theologians that a restored Holy Inquisition would not resolve.

81 posted on 09/08/2010 3:49:37 AM PDT by mas cerveza por favor
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To: mas cerveza por favor
You must not get around much. Traditionalist Catholics do not believe in higher criticism or evolution. The wimpiest traditionalist in the world looks like a lion next to any Protestant, fundamentalists included. The Bible was compiled by traditionalist Catholics precisely to their own specifications, so they have no problem with any part of it. Trads want to live in the modern age, except with Inquisitions and Crusades.

I'm happy to hear it. Unfortunately, Trads are not mainstream Catholics. Equally unfortunately, many Trads have no problem with evolution or higher criticism. I can state this because there are Trads right here on Free Republic who refuse to get involved in these issues at all (or even to answer simple questions about their beliefs concerning these things), choosing instead to restrict themselves to safe, traditionally Catholic issues.

There is no difficulty with liberal bishops and theologians that a restored Holy Inquisition would not resolve.

Time's a wastin'!

90 posted on 09/08/2010 6:15:58 AM PDT by Zionist Conspirator (Zokhrenu lechayyim Melekh chafetz bachayyim; vekhotvenu beSefer HaChayyim lema`ankha 'Eloqim Chayyim)
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