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 only wish you could see me smile ;o)
***I’m not about to concede that the RC edifice has a monopoly on “catholic.” ***
It’s not about you. It’s about God.
***I don’t think the whole edifice any longer qualifies as a bonafide Christian Church. ***
You are entitled to your opinion. But it’s just an opinion.
***That’s the REALITY from my perspective***
It’s your perspective.
***This is NOT some mutually flattering context of a cozy Parish hall or friendly BINGO game.
DEAL WITH IT. ***
Some of us are.
***This is a somewhat moderated free-for all of RELIGIOUS ideas, convictions, perspectives, realities etc. ***
There is only one Triune God. Jesus came down from Heaven, was made man, was born of the Virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, died, and was buried. On the third day, He rose again. He ascended into Heaven and is seated at the right hand of the Father. He will come again to judge the living and the dead.
And He established a teaching group known as the Apostles in order to bring His Good News of Salvation to all the world. You can either follow it, or else you proclaim to follow one of its documents, but not it, or follow something else entirely.
That’s it. An individual that believes different than the Church of Jesus Christ teaches does not follow Him. You are welcome to all the opinions that you may formulate, yet Christian is a description of those who follow Christ and His commands. That’s it.
You are at your best today, Quix. (Smile)
For their rock is not as our Rock, even our enemies themselves being judges. For their vine is the of Sodom and of the fields of Gomorah, their grapes are grapes of gall , their clusters are bitter: their wine (!!!!) is the poison of dragons and the cruel venom of asps.(Deut.32:32-33)