I am seriously asking you why this can not have been a caucus thread. I understand it might have taken some editing. But we were not even permitted to begin discussing the article before nonsense like the following appeared. They came to this thread to attack. We had not written anything that could be construed as anti Protestant. So this was not in response to any unjust allegation. But the usual suspects just could not resist. In fact Top Hat pinged them in order to bring their attention and their never ending attack to the thread
“To: marshmallow; Dr. Eckleburg; Gamecock; Alex Murphy; RnMomof7
‘The solution is simple: we must return to the supernatural realities of the historic faith and evangelize like the Apostles of old.’
Sounds like Protestantism. topcat54
So instead of having a peaceful and edifying discussion on a Catholic matter we have to defend and parry against the likes of the following:
Why don’t you stay off our threads and well gladly staff off yours.
Happily, if Rome, like the LDS, would simply give up the name of “Christian.”
As long as Rome purports to be a Christian faith, and yet so mangles the truth of Scripture and the knowledge of Christ that it follows “another Christ” and prays to a “co-redeemer,” we will be here to set the record straight, according to the word of God alone.
37 posted on Friday, January 28, 2011 4:10:52 PM by Dr. Eckleburg
Why do we have to put up with this? Is it fair? We had no intention of criticizing Protestant beliefs. The one mention in the article was certainly not the substance of the article and its removal would not change the point of the article at all.
So we have a case of people coming to a thread to be disruptive, abusive and to spread malice. Please show me one example of where this has been done in kind. When the subject was not Catholic teaching.
Is there anything that can be done to make this a Caucus or has their tactic of coming over and libeling our faith and our response taken that possibility away for certain?
Is this abuse what we can always expect?
If you or marshmallow would like a private Catholic-only thread, then find a similar article that doesn't mention other beliefs and label it "Catholic Caucus."
If you want anyone to be able to post, but you don't want antagonism, label it "ecumenical."
Thick skin is required for the town square format of "open" religious debate. Those who are offended by that style of debate should IGNORE "open" RF threads altogether and instead post on "ecumenical" "Caucus" "prayer" or "devotional" RF threads.