If you're the most effective opponent, I think we can bring in the outfield.
My opposition to the schism is well-informed and I constantly source my opinions with authoritative teachings from the Living Magisterium
Of course you will hit the abuse button.
Despite the fact my opposition to the schism is not a personal attack I understand the psychic pain informed opposition to schism can generate in the minds of those who support the schism. Nevertheless, I find the threat risible and childish and, frankly, I anticipated the threat.
The fact you intend to "hit the abuse buton" signals to me I am the most effective opponent of the schism. Y'all never threaten anyone else :)
I don't know why you can't be satisfied with the angelqueen forum where y'all can have a soi disant traditionalist love-in without any opposition. Is it your intent to have Free Republic adopt the "norms" of angelqueen rather than let us adults have frank and open discussions?
Be satisfied with angelqueen. Saint Monty said, "Let's Make a Deal?" I propose a deal to you. I will stay in Free Republic and defend the Catholic Church and you can keep to angelqueen where attacks against the Pope, the Council and The Mass are appreciated. Do we have a deal?
My opposition to the schism IS normative Christianity and those who support the schism are just going to have to grow-up and learn to take responsibility for their own actions. And they are going to have to learn that attempts to silence principled and informed opposition to the schism is a public admission the schism lacks any cohering Christian rationale for its existence.
However, characterizing an individual Freeper as immature is making the issue personal. Do not do that. Stay with the issues.
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This is a news article and therefore is open for all challenges.
Consider that condescension reflects more on the speaker than the object. Therefore in some cases, silence is the more powerful argument.
It has been 35 years since lefevbre founded the sspx and it has progressively become more insane in its doctrine, extreme in its orientation, and shrill in its attacks against what for more than 2000 years have been redoubts of Christian Orthodoxy established by Divine Authority. I am talking about such redoubts as the Papacy, Ecumenical Councils, and the Mass. Divine Authority established these redoubts to protect the Faithful from all the assaults of the innumerable heresies, schisms, and private judgment ideas of individuals which were, and are, warring against the Body of Christ.
For the most part, this schism is like all the others that have come and gone and it will traverse the same downward spiraling path into blessed irrelevancy. Deracinated, it can only die.
But woe betide the Faithful Christian who decides to oppose the low and haughty schism.
It is ok, apparently, for the sectaries in the cult of lefevbre to spend nearly two score years making all manner of evil accusations against the Pope, the Council, and the Mass and we Faithful and obedient Christians are supposed to sit supinely by and allow the attacks to go un-responded to. But let a Faithful Christian launch a counter attack in defense of the Faith and the shrieks and objections makes one think he is in a jungle filled with female Howler Monkeys.
When attacking the Church Jesus established the sectaries attack like wolves. When counter-attacked by men who are not deracinated, or feminised, or secularised, they bleat like ewes.
Unaccustomed as they are to actually fighting, and far too accustomed to deserting in a time of spiritual warfare, they are ill-equipped to get as good as they get.
Being schismatic means never having to accept responsibility because, for the most part, in the schism, even the gander are geese.