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To: Mad Dawg
And there is never any error, heresy, self-righteousness, delusion and enabling of frank psychosis in charismatic religion. NEVER!

Catholic Charismatics
90 posted on 04/19/2007 3:08:32 PM PDT by OLD REGGIE (I am most likely a Biblical Unitarian? Let me be perfectly clear. I know nothing.)
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To: OLD REGGIE; Quix
Dear Venerable Reggie,

My alleged or attempted point is this: There is a noted relationship between soi-disant charismatics and psychosis. Eusebius wittily referrred to this a LONG long time ago. There are some good and pious people who fall into this category. Cantalamessa and the Late Cardinal Suenens (at least I think he's late - he was old 30+ years ago) are two Catholics of whom I know, and I know of some Protestants also.

I think at least as good an argument can be made that charismania is necessarily linked to psychosis, personality disorder, and other bad stuff as the arqument that conventional Catholic cultic behavior can lead to polytheism and idolatry.

Since it seems to be a solemn purpose of my friend Quix to take that potshot at my religion whenever the opportunity presents itself, and since I have made many appeals to reason and gentleness in an effort to get him to cut it out, I have decided that every time I catch him slamming us RCs for encouraging idolatry and polytheism, I am going to slam him for encouraging psychosis, incest, and the like.

98 posted on 04/19/2007 4:41:44 PM PDT by Mad Dawg (Jesus loves me, this I know, for his Mother tells me so. (and the Church and the Bible too))
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