This is yet another in an unending progression of threads about Catholicism that is hijacked by Protestants who want to ridicule Catholics saying two thousand years of Catholic teaching is wrong.
And yet I am unfamiliar with any Protestant threads being hijacked by Catholics ridiculing Protestantism's Sixteenth Century theological inventions.
If any of us were to go onto a Jewish thread and tell the Jews that they were damned for not accepting Christ, we would be banned from Free Republic. So, forgive me if I am simply uninterested in "thinking about what Protestants" mean when they talk about theories that the Catholic Church holds to be heretical.
Wagglebee, I tried from the beginning to get this thread designated a Catholic Caucus, but was not supported in that. Therefore, it is an open thread. In general, I think the laws of decorum have been followed. However, there have been many disagreements with theology or with ideas, but I don't think individuals have been attacked....not in the posts that I've seen, anyway. I admit that I do not read all posts.
My efforts to have this classified a Catholic Caucus thread were to: Pyro7480, sitetest, religion moderator
They can be seen at:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/1748533/posts?page=93#93
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/1748533/posts?page=290#290
So far a others carrying on on Protestant threads. I have seen it happen. I have also seen threads whose titles were demeaning of Protestants or designed to proselytize protestants.
No big deal.
**So, forgive me if I am simply uninterested in "thinking about what Protestants" mean when they talk about theories that the Catholic Church holds to be heretical.**
Excellent point!