Calling the Catholic Church a cult is a fighting word. I’d like to see FR ban it because it does nothing to promote dialog or an exchange of ideas.
I’d also like to know what other Catholics on FR think.
Oh, but calling others *heretics* is OK?
You know, nobody is forcing you to participate on these threads. If you don't like the tone, there are other options, like staying off them.
As long as it's an accepted norm for any comment on any topic by someone who is Catholic to become a pretext for the repetition of lies and slander it's going to stay just the way it is. That's why I've said that more things should be caucus posts but when even mentioning what you personally thought of something before becoming Catholic or comparing a Catholic and non-Catholic interpretation of something constitutes a breech of the caucus rules, that's unworkable as well. Any "truce" will be the same as an Islamic truce, something the slander lovers will make do with until they feel like they're ready to start the same old games. It's interesting that when someone knowledgeable confronts them they have nothing to counter with other than vain repetition of out of context or unrelated Scriptures reinterpreted to suit personal opinion. They depend on making knowledgeable folks sick of seeing the same lies repeated and giving up.
Due to the their personal illusions, some people can't stand to see a Catholic make any kind of comment without using that comment as a pretext to attack all Catholics who have ever lived, anywhere, including the Apostles. Others just hate the Catholic Church and probably don't even believe in Christ, they just love to slander His Church. They're all examples of the sort of folks who do not want to let anyone voice an opinion or point of view they don't agree with and it just so happens that a group of such folks hang out on the FR Religion forum. The RF is what it is, take it or leave it. At least that's the way I see it.
I first came here because someone told me there were folks who had crossed the Tiber in both directions and I could get some questions answered. Even asking questions, though, put me on the anti-Catholic chitlist within days but it sure did make my decision a lot easier. Christ cannot be a part of the sort of thing that anti-Catholics routinely practice here and seeing them in action was an answer to prayers. It showed me that to follow Christ one has to be a part of His Church, The One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church Christ Himself founded.
Regards
(and thanks for a lot of very informative posts and links, God Bless You)