This is the most vituperative and uncharitable thread. I am disgusted. You all should be ashamed, lobbing anti-Catholic slander, blathering on about ‘you can’t be Christian unless you xx (fill in the blank).’
John 17.21: “I pray also for those who will believe in me through their message, that all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you. ... I have given them the glory that you gave me, that they may be one as we are one.... May they be brought to complete unity to let the world know that you sent me and have loved them even as you have loved me.”
What kind of witness can we Christians give to the world if we are nattering at each other WITHIN our very family about tittles and jots? I got on the Religion thread because I couldn’t bear to watch Iowa and read the inane news coming out of the secular world. But this thread is by far the most disgusting of all.
There’s plenty of anti-Protestant slander here as well. Just sayin’.
Some of us Christ-followers come across as “anti-Catholic” because so many Roman Catholics think that they’re the only ones who are fully saved, and that all others are missing out on the fullness of faith in Christ.
Such denominational arrogance is, naturally, upsetting.
How do you feel when Mormons or Muslims say that your faith is a lie? That’s how I feel when Roman Catholics tell me that faith in Christ is insufficient, that I must be a member of their club to be fully saved.
Roman Catholics who promote Christ — I love ‘em. Roman Catholics who damn me for exalting Christ above all — they cause me to bristle.
Just take a look at the comments in this discussion.
Consider their nastiness, their uncharitability, their aloof pomposity, their cynicism.
And you wonder why some of us come across as “anti-Catholic”? Yes, I am anti-nastiness, anti-arrogance. And pro-Christ. Christ the Savior above all, above even Roman Catholic hierarchy.
Tell me: Did Jesus speak well of the church that God had established millennia before through Abraham? Or did He rebuke those leaders, calling on people to trust directly in God?