Well. It gets personal when the Catholic Church is referred to as a “cult” and Catholics get accused of idolatry. Not to mention Quix’s use of snarky cartoons.
It is not unusual when one group of believers spawns from another for both to condemn the other in the harshest terms possible, e.g. cult, anathema, apostate, Satanic, heretic. Such terms and beliefs often become part of the official documents of the sect and should be expected on "open" Religion Forum threads which are in a town square format.
If that style of debate bothers you then ignore the "open" RF threads and instead post to the RF threads labeled "prayer" "ecumenical" "caucus" or "devotional."
It is forbidden for Jones (let us say) to congratulate Smith on the success of his (Smith's) efforts.
Or so it seems to me.
Welllllllllllll
The RC’s started it in the beginning on FR.
And have continued it to this day.
It’s QUITE OK for the RC’s to call Proddy groups cults.
But they ABSOLUTELY CAN’T STAND the favor being returned.
What an unsurprise.
It’s all quite in keeping, of course with the following Stations of the
STATIONS OF THE WHITE HANKY so hallowed in the halls of the Vatican cult:
BTW, personal has to do with an INDIVIDUAL.
Groups e.g. INSTITUTIONS and groups of non-listed members are NOT personal per the rules of the RF. Please keep up.
STATIONS OF THE WHITE HANKY:
1. Icon to bearing false witness
2. Black/white icon of duplicity, double standard dance
3. The icon of the ivory handled dagger—honoring the doctrine of—WHEN ALL ELSE FAILS, KILL THE MESSENGER.
4. Icon of the golden gymnast back-flipper—to honor the doctrine of CHRONICALLY CHANGING THE SUBJECT.
5. Icon of the marble statue of peanuts pigpin throwing dust in the air—in honor of the doctrine of OBFUSCATIONS TO THE SUPREME DEGREE.
6. Icon of the RUBBERIZED BIBLE.
7. Icon of the rubberized HISTORY TEXTS.
8. Icon of the rubberized DAFFYNITIONARIES.
9. Icon of the rubberized ‘LOGIC’ TEXT.
10. Icon of the 6.66” ivory nose stuck high in the air—in honor of the doctrine of HUBRIS TO THE SUPREME DEGREE.
11. Icon of the golden groping hand—groping for any explanation but the truth
12. Icon of the teak wood flip-flops from Hawaii in honor of the doctrine the holy flip-flops in word meanings and arguments
13. Icon of the gold bishop’s ring with the hidden poison pill well in honor of the doctrine to the kill-the-messenger-in-worshipful-behalf-of-Ishtar-Mary strategy
14. Icon of the gilded ivory halo in honor of the fantasized divine right, to be correct, pristinely sanctified & perfectly flawless in all respects in all cases all the time, regardless.
15. Icon of the marble bust of John Skerry in honor of the doctrine of CHRONIC AND OBSESSIVE INCONSISTENCY.
16. Icon to the RC Ashteroth-Mary Goddess cult’s rabid clique trolling ritual
17. Icon of the gilded ivory nose with olive branch surround in honor of the doctrine of the undivine right of TERMINAL SNOOTINESS TO THE MAX.
18. Icon of the slippery golden dance shoes for dancing the rationalizing-weasel-word-jitter-bug.
19. Icon of the gilded ivory AK47 in behalf of RC rabid clique drive by shootings at Proddys on blogs far and wide.
20. Icon of the golden thumb suck in honor of RC’s religious duty to be terminally offended 24/7/365.
21. ICON of the silver figurine of the lofted tail of a skunk in honor of NAUSEATING NASTINESS in the faithful SERVICE OF the caricatured Magnificent Magical Mummy Ashteroth-Mary Goddess.
22. ICON of the golden sharp stick—in honor of the Religious Duty Of Obligation to poke a sharp stick into the nearest Proddy’s eyes or gut and then to run wailing and whining at top frequency and top volume to the nearest authority when the Proddy dares to have a response.
23. ICON of the gold Pied Piper flute—in honor of the PIED PIPER MAGICSTERICAL leading the sheeple lemmings over the cliff of sanity, Christianity and inanity.
24. ICON of the tiny gold Rube Goldberg Perpetual Motion Machine model in honor of The Vatican RELIGIOUS OBLIGATION of being Perpetually Offended.
25. ICON of the tiny gold thread embroidered FUNNY HAT in honor of The Order Of The Proud & Sacred Funny Hats
26. ICON of the golden spell-check button in honor of PRISSY PONTIFICATIONS about poor Proddy spelling and majoring in minors and minoring in majors as major dogma of the Vatican Cult.
27. ICON of the tiny golden whining siren in behalf of the sacred call to whine 24/7/365 or whenever within 200 feet of a Proddy.
28. ICON of the golden GET-OUT-OF-GUILT-FREE card patterned after the Monopoly Get Out of Jail Free card—to be used any time an RC wants to sentence a Proddy to a post pull or banning for what the RC loves to do routinely.