Nope, I didn’t say you were slighting Catholics. Not even close. Maybe all the replies to you are getting jumbled up together in your mind?
I do think the Catholic church has a huge hierarchy, what with being almost 2,000 years old. But mediation is a too strong a word. It’s more of a voluntary intercession. But that’s just my opinion.
Anyway, I was making an observation (aren’t we all on this web site?) about how sad it is that as Christians, we can’t, in the words of Rodney King, “Just all get along.”
First you say this: “Nope, I didn’t say you were slighting Catholics. Not even close.”
Then you say this: “Anyway, I was making an observation (aren’t we all on this web site?) about how sad it is that as Christians, we can’t, in the words of Rodney King, ‘Just all get along.’”
Was I saying anything to demonstrate not getting along with Catholics? I figured your reply had some relevance to what I said, but I may have been mistaken, and it sounds like I was.
As for the Catholic church being more a “voluntary intercession” than a “mediation,” note that the church requires, rather than merely encourages, its members to go through the institution — whether through receiving communion, confessing to a priest, being baptized and confirmed in a Catholic church, and so on. So it’s only voluntary in the sense that any religion is voluntary; one can choose to ignore the rules or leave it. But rules they are.