On this topic, from me, base is as good as it's going to get, but thanks for the compliment. :) And because I don't know the ins and outs, I didn't want to associate or disassociate from something about which I know little.
You said that we shouldn't pretend to be part of the Church, do you think we do? As far as I know we do believe that we are something else outside the RC Church, and we are comfortable with that.
"As far as I know we do believe that we are something else outside the RC Church, and we are comfortable with that."
Actually, I meant that you probably wouldn't care if we believed you guys are heretics of whatever stripe. Kosta and I, by the way, are not members of the Roman Catholic Church either and we're fine with that too (as our Latin brothers are quite content that they are not Orthodox), so you see, we continue to find much in common! :) God Bless!
" You said that we shouldn't pretend to be part of the Church, do you think we do?"
I'm getting old...and it is late. I meant to respond to this comment also.
I do think, or at least after having read here on FR, thought, that Protestants of all manner believe and proclaim that they are part of The Church, as the Orthodox, the Copts, the Armenians, the Latins the Greek Catholics, the Melkites, the Maronites etc. are. I didn't mean to imply that you thought that you are Roman Catholics (or any other of the listed particular churchs within The Church). For us (those listed above) Protestant "churches" are not, as +BXVI wrote, strictly speaking churches but rather are ecclesial assemblies. In consequence of that attitude, I should think you would quite properly not give a fig if we in The Church as it has been defined for the last 2000 years, called you, or believed you to be Donatists (or whatever else).