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To: Patrick Madrid; katnip; FormerLib; Chancellor Palpatine; The_Reader_David; RussianConservative; ...
I am open to more discussion. I refuse to allow you to drag my church into an alliance with your church's excessive mariology, so I posted agreement with the doctrine with what I felt were important cautions.

The eagerness with which your pope and many in your church rush to classify us as "the same" as you, a demeaning approach which denies us our own doctrine and church separate from yours, refuses us respect for who we are, and tries to box us into some sub-papist classification in the vatican's earthly institution, has made me overly cautious about these things.

This is not your fault, though I have seen a few posts from you along these lines. It has been a trend here for quite some time. We are considered merely fodder to boost your membership numbers and cause your vicar to be exalted for foisting his idea of unity upon us and succeeding.
When we have resisted this approach and protested that we are not the same church, things have turned ugly.

It is the FR Protestants who have given us the respect of being a different church and allowed us to exist with our own doctrine and beliefs. They may argue with us about doctrine but they don't demean us by denying we have our own, and they don't try to force theirs down my throat, at least.
So there is a short history lesson for you about my experiences on this forum and an explanation about why I am extremely hesitant to agree with anything posted from your church on this forum. Which I believe was your initial question.....

245 posted on 07/09/2003 2:48:38 PM PDT by MarMema
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To: MarMema
The eagerness with which your pope and many in your church rush to classify us as "the same" as you, a demeaning approach which denies us our own doctrine and church separate from yours, refuses us respect for who we are, and tries to box us into some sub-papist classification in the vatican's earthly institution, has made me overly cautious about these things.

Amen.

248 posted on 07/09/2003 3:00:55 PM PDT by Chancellor Palpatine
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To: MarMema
Well said!


262 posted on 07/09/2003 7:39:55 PM PDT by FormerLib
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