You wrote:
“Oh, now we’re talking about “truth”;”
Always were. Perhaps you were not.
“...naked truth or truth tinged with love, without such love, the proclaiming of truth is akin to “clashing cymbals”? Vlad, you are one loud “superior” one man band!”
I told the truth. If the truth bothers you, then move on.
“seventy six trombones hit the big parade..while hundred and ten cornets right behind, when Vladimir took his place as the one and only bass and he oompahed, oompahed, oompah pahed....oopahed up and down the square....”
Play on, mdmathis, you don’t actually have anything of substance to add anyway, right?
What you don’t get is the fact that when you say “I do get it...” you have in fact missed it! You cannot say like the Apostle Paul did towards the end of his life..”I have run the race, I have fought the good fight...” That is what you are claiming! In all of your postings, you come across as a smug, “I have all the answers and you don’t for i have ascended into the Catholic third heaven, whether in body or in the spirit, who knows, hearing words not lawful for men to hear” kind of fellow.
That’s what I mean when I say, you have missed it all completely! Then again, give some folks a posting pseudonym and and permission not to have to post under their real names and any sort of behaviour can become possible.
I have had respectful disagreements with other Catholics, and some do feel they have to operate under aliases, i get that...but I oppose bullying and belittling. If you are so “righteous and up on the “truth” as you put it, then you’ll sign your real name to your postings and not hide from the “consequences of “fighting for the truth” as you put it!
Paul didn’t go to Mars hill and sign off as “Blindedbythe Light #777” when he preached to the Greeks after all...he put his whole person and reputation into it!
I’m also mindful of the fact or “truth” that for centuries the Eastern Orthodox and the Western Roman Catholic churches were the two pillars from which Christianity was spread into the world and were indeed the only “light” of the world thru 14 centuries or so. Tares grow with wheat and by the 15th century the tares were choaking out the “truth” in the Catholic and Orthodox churches in such a way that the work of Christ on Earth was threatened hence the Reformation. God planted new off shoots so that the light of Christ could continue to be preached in the whole world. That is also “truth”...sorry you can’t handle that aspect of the truth...which is that the true church is the whole body of Spirit filled believers everywhere, across time and dimension.
I’d consider becoming Catholic, should there ever be such a revival that the Catholic Chruch gets close to what it was in the earliest of its history...even getting back to 325ad practises would be a tremendous improvement!