What kills me here is most catholics on the forum are yankees or west coast.
Yet yall rail about protestants being against you...like we are a threat
He$$...where yall are youre the majority....why so defensive
I went to a Catholic funeral service at St Ignacious last month in Mobile
The father was magnanimous to all of us ....even told we prods in the crowd we could kneel if we wanted and gave instruction on the ...repeated praise phrases....not sure the name for that
You guys act like the Huguenots are at the gate.....ive never been taught anything but accomodation to other Christian faiths
Don't worry. I lived in MS for a few years so even though I hail from the West Coast I have southern sympathies.
Yet yall rail about protestants being against you...like we are a threat
Here's the thing. Was Luther right in that there were abuses in the Church that had to be fixed? Yes. I admit that freely. But what ended up happening? In order to get those things fixed to Luther's satisfaction he had to throw everything out. That wasn't right. As a result the discard of theological truth gave rise to philosophical ideals that puts us in this mess we have today. The elevation of self as the arbiter of what is scriptural or non-scriptural. In this construct the individual reins supreme. Sure protestants might say, "It's not me. It's Jesus, or the Bible." But is it really? At the end of the day does a protestant say, "Hey that sounds good. I'll go with that because it speaks to me."
So what do you have now? You've got billions of people out there determining Truth based on how it resonates with them. Is it any surprise that we now have a country whose operating principle is relativistic: your truth vs. my truth. Do we honestly think we're going to have a nation (or civilization)that will survive such a dynamic.
I know what people will say. Well we agree on a lot, so let's band together and make a stand and we can defeat this. But it's not enough to make common cause with protestants on things like abortion, homosexual marriage etc, if they're not willing to give up the notion that they are their own interpreters of Truth. That is the source of this. Honestly I think it'll take a civilizational collapse to rid ourselves of this notion. Only then might we get back to the idea of Truth not being relativistic. Consider: our operating principle in our lives today is to orient ourselves to what is preferred, not what is true.