[annalex]

I think you misunderstood both what I was saying and why I was saying it, and were a tad abrupt in taking me to task for it.

If so, I apologize to you. My point is simply that the emperor has no clothes, and I see no reason to be circumspect about it, -- in fact it is our duty as Catholic to defend God's Church from all attack. It is also the greatest work of love that I can offer to the Protestants, to point out their error.

[Mad Dawg]

in fact it is our duty as Catholic to defend God's Church from all attack.

Q. What's the best way to defeat an enemy?

A. Make him your friend.

If Catholics had treated me like some folks of either side have acted on this thread, I'd be a Buddhist now.

[Quix]

My point is simply that the emperor has no clothes, and I see no reason to be circumspect about it, -- in fact it is our duty as Catholic to defend God's Church from all attack. It is also the greatest work of love that I can offer to the Protestants, to point out their error.

And, a GREAT unknown number of those of us on the other side feel virtually precisely the same way but from our perspective with the shoes on very different feet. or some such.