Posted on 01/27/2008 7:56:14 PM PST by Manfred the Wonder Dawg
You know, Lord C, I’ve read exactly the same sort of description of Catholicism—yes, that and even worse.
Again-—the bows and arrows are coming from both sides.
Perhaps we shouldn’t expect tooooo much at all
from the RC edifice . . . so numbed, clouded, bewildered, confused and bewitched by all the idolatry and blasphemies and all.
Perhaps a reference could be offered where I did that?
Also, I would never use hyperbole in any of my posts, ever.
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Welll, I do think that the increased HUMOR is commendable.
I do understand the consternation.
And, I can sympathesize, if not empathesize.
It’s really dreadful when one’s monopoly on a given strategy or SOP is compromised that others become just as adept at such things. Quite a dreadful development, no doubt.
I quibble, Quix, with your methods of debate, your reading of Scripture, your understanding of Sacred Tradition and your use of ALL CAPS in some of your posts.
I don’t, however, have any doubt that your want to love, serve and know the Lord with all your heart, mind and soul. That fact forces me to remember that in the end, you, I and even the Calvinist are brothers and sisters in Christ and While it is important to speak the Truth, as we each know it, it must be done, as Paul said, “in love”. So a little HUMOR keeps me and my fallen self in line. ;)
And thankfully so.
Progress is progress.
Though I suspect the comment was . . . perhaps unadmirably . . . referring to past campaigns and wars.
Thanks for your charity and even handeness in such an assessment.
I’ve been persistently amazed that my . . . fiestiness, pointedness, fierceness has always gotten the reactions when all such is perhaps as often as not interspersed, wrapped up with, entangled with at least some ATTEMPTS at humor. LOL.
OF COURSE such camps will fiercely disagree—else we’d all be in the same camp! Sheesh. No surprise there.
OF COURSE we’ll all have some fierce things to say else we’d be wimpy cohorts of our persuasions and not bothering much with anyone else at all anyway.
OF COURSE we’ll be human and flawedly so in our communications . . . none of us are Jesus . . . or even Mary or Calvin, for that matter.
OF COURSE the more intense amongst us will be ranting, raving, pontificating at the top of our fingers else we’d be sucking our thumbs reading our commentaries or some such.
It’s better than being luke warm.
But I don’t know of any RC’s hereon—even those I might be tempted to consider heavily under demonic delusion—I can’t think of any I’d exclude from the class of all those I’d seek to help with whatever charity available to me, if I could and God’s priorities for me and my resources allowed such.
I have a LOT of warm compassionate caring feelings for even those most fiercely and bitterly hostile to me hereon. That is a serious priority to me.
At some level, the other is just noise. I think it is, on occasion, IMPORTNT BIBLICAL noise one is duty bound to share in some contexts . . . but still . . . overmuch, probably, just noise.
That is part and parcel of the sado-evangelist ethos.
Do you think I should have put a ;) at the end of it?
OIC, so you're saying the use of "blue" language and "rubber" as a prefix is because others have used it on you...
Fascinating, indeed.
It's the most charitable and accurate label I'm comfortable using. You're quite welcome to avoid my posts.
I'm not about to concede that the RC edifice has a monopoly on "catholic."
I don't think the whole edifice any longer qualifies as a bonafide Christian Church.
And, it's chock full of 1600 years of fossilized, encrusted, !!!!TRADITIONS!!!! of men, doctrines of demons and the like . . . utter destructive hogwash . . .
as one would expect of any 1600 year old HUMAN institution.
That's the REALITY from my perspective, reading of UNRUBBERIZED history books and my UNRUBBERIZED Bible.
I encourage y'all to
DEAL WITH IT.
THIS FORUM is NOT some idealized fantasized archetypal MARION EARTH MOTHER cozy little lap and nurturing bossom.
This is a somewhat moderated free-for all of RELIGIOUS ideas, convictions, perspectives, realities etc.
WHICH MEANS that the RC edifice does NOT hereon have a lock, death grip on the boundaries, definitions, terms, interpretations, constructions on reality thrown about hereon. Hopefully, the days are gone when the RC whining hereon seemingly compelled biased or easily manipulated RM's to kowtow to RC sensibilities, whining and thumb sucking like they would to no others.
This is NOT some mutually flattering context of a cozy Parish hall or friendly BINGO game.
DEAL WITH IT.
NOW, GIVEN that the gauntlet seems to be cast toward talking about sadistic stuff . . .
Which INQUISITIONAL torture would you like to discuss first? And by what criteria do you wish to compare such INQUISITIONAL tortures to my mere words? And how do you propose to stifle the guffaws over the silliness of comparing the Inquisitional tortures to my mere words?
Actually, the RC edifice is rife with historical TRULY SADISTIC treatments of those not kowtowing to it's POLITICAL POWER MONGERING EDICTS. So, I guess I would have to concede that the RC edifice is far more the expert on sadistic actions, edicts, pograms and the like.
Yet I'm the one labeled sadistic? Fascinating.
No wonder the Bible is so challenging for the RC edifice to interpret and simply follow, obey.
I never guaranteed the translation.
It’s clear that the translation services hereon are simply not adequate to effect any reasonably accurate translation into some dialects.
I guess said dialects shall just have to remain . . .
unaware . . . unknowing . . . uninformed.
. . . with my symapthies for such a state, however.
Dude, check out #235 and see what I got out of a one sentence deployment ;o)
Just think of what I’d have gotten if I mentioned the thread where the guy claims to have found a UFO landing strip in Antartica with Google Earth!
Awwwwwwwww bess him lil ol heart!
LOL.
I only wish you could see me smile ;o)
Just wondering if this is the new freedom of the Religion Forum or if the RM will soon be lowering the hammer.
P.S. I kinda like it when people refer to me as Lord C. Pass it along to all the Catholics. ;^)
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