I wade through only small bites of the threads you refer to.
I want to take the opportunity to state one opinion, and I will try to keep it brief.
I am a conservative Christian. Non-Catholic. I and we have liturgical and canonical differences with Catholicism.
We worship the same God. (That part goes for Jews, too.)
My Catholic brothers and sisters follow Jesus.
Now:
Jews and Christians have lots more important things to spend time on when it comes to apologetics or just simply faith.
First, the postmodernist left assaults us on all fronts. One day, they go after the Baptists. Next day, the Catholics. Then the Jews.
All that is Judeo-Christian is under attack. Our adversary in the USA is not other Godly people who don't believe as we do. It is the politically correct movement that seeks to destroy us and all that this nation and this civilization was founded upon.
Secondly, there is the pagan world outside. A few billion heathen who worship idols and nature and incense and Lord-knows-what-else are out there, and they'd love to destroy the West and all things Judeo-Christian. In fact, their hatred and vows of violence are set forth clearly in their texts and their liturgy.
When we have firmly reasserted the fact that this nation was founded as a CHRISTIAN nation, and when the P.C. crowd and postmodernists are defeated in the arena of the minds of men, THEN we can examine OUR differences.
As Franklin Graham noted, we---Jews and Christians---worship the same God. The true God.
Sell this in Ireland.
One man's "doctrinal difference" is another man's "damnable heresy".
Main Entry: clarion
Function: adjective
Date: 1841
: brilliantly clear ; also : loud and clear
It seems Christians waste so much time and energy on Free Republic fighting each other (myself included!!!) when the real enemy goes undisturbed, or even terribly amused, at our internecine warfare.
Main Entry: in·ter·ne·cine
Function: adjective
Etymology: Latin internecinus, from internecare to destroy, kill, from inter- + necare to kill, from nec-, nex violent death -- more at NOXIOUS
Date: 1663
1 : marked by slaughter : DEADLY; especially : mutually destructive
2 : of, relating to, or involving conflict within a group
When will the infighting cease and the real fighting, against our real, common enemy, begin? This internecine warfare on free Republic is killing our united front againt the real enemy, Satan.
How about cutting the apologetics efforts against Catholics 50% and devote that 50% to the real battle, so that we Catholics wasting our time defending the Faith against anti-Catholicism can do likewise.
That would mean a 100% increase in fighting the devil on Free Republic and a 100% decrease in efforts that serve him more than Christ, because it further destroys the unity of the Body of Christ.