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Then I suggest you post your thread about your self-titled term, S-E ("sado-evangelism") in Chat, because it certainly doesn't belong on the Religion Forum.

That's a good suggestion. Regardless of where he decides to post his idea though, I think it will be understood in the same manner as the term 'homophobic' is understood.

The pro-homosexual people take refuge in their made up term, because they think that their new term convicts those that disagree with them of some kind of disorder or crime. For me, when someone brings up the term 'homophobic' it provides an opportunity to discuss what homosexuality really is, it's dangers, and what God thinks of it.

I believe that same will be true with MD's made up term. It will provide more opportunities to discuss what the Bible really says. I'm reminded of what Joseph told his brothers...

Gen 50:19,20 And Joseph said unto them, Fear not: for [am] I in the place of God? But as for you, ye thought evil against me; [but] God meant it unto good, to bring to pass, as [it is] this day, to save much people alive.

All things for the glory of God and the proclamation of His Word.

I agree about the term homophobic.

Those who are able to read and occasionally take that skill out for a trot will see that "sado-evangelism" is not about disagreement but about the manner of disagreement. Those who decide to figure out what it is they are mocking before they begin the mocking will have seen that it is possible to be Catholic or Orthodox and suffer from Sado-evangelism and it is possible to be Calvinist or a Sola Scriptura person and to be the target of an S-E sufferer. It's a syndrome not a theology.

But it's so much harder to make fun of the concept if one takes the trouble to find out what is meant by it.

And yes, I do think the routine and almost ceaseless derision and disparagement of Catholic thought, often unhindered by any sign of understanding it, will be turned by God's grace into good, God willing, even for those who took the lead and were most persistent in the taunting and guffaws and hogwashes and so forth.

it will be understood in the same manner as the term 'homophobic' is understood. The pro-homosexual people take refuge in their made up term, because they think that their new term convicts those that disagree with them of some kind of disorder or crime. For me, when someone brings up the term 'homophobic' it provides an opportunity to discuss what homosexuality really is, it's dangers, and what God thinks of it.

Good points and analogy.

I wonder what the RCC would think if we started to use the term "Sado-Catholicism," considering the hair shirts and self-flaggelation and bleeding statues found within the Roman church?

Again, it seems like any disagreement with the belief structure of Rome is seen as a "rude" challenge. That kind of insecure self-defensiveness is inherent within a worldly, top-heavy structure that is authoritarian through men rather than libertarian through Christ.