Instead of acknowledging your generous statement or dealing with your assertions reasonably, I said "Hogwash," in capital letters. I "yelled" it.
Did you feel loved? Did you think you were taken seriously?
I was pretending. (I put in the "sound familiar?" as a clue that I didn't mean it.) I'm sorry, but I thought it best. The point needs to be made. You will find that St. Peter says that if called to make a defense of the faith in us we should do so with gentleness and reverence. I'd suggest that saying, "Is NOT!," would not be the best way to follow his advice. And I'd suggest further that something's being permitted by the rules does not make it morally acceptable.
The implausible claim is made that catholics are abused for the protection of the lurkers. My guess would be that most lurkers, if they are not Christians, come away from these threads thinking seriously about NEVER becoming a Christian. Most of our threads are good advertisements for Buddhism, or maybe Quakerism.
Nonsense.
Speaking the truth is not automatically equal to abuse per se. Sheesh.
If the kitchen is too hot, other thread categories are readily available.
Prottys manage to fail to whine and flail when relentless RC pontifications assault our sensibilities routinely, horribly and sometimes meanly.
Doesn’t mean we are happy masochists, either.
I DO understand how you feel. It’s very difficult to write something and have it sound loving, it really is. I have gotten into mucho trouble myself in letters when I meant it in good faith but it didn’t come out that way to the recipient of said letter. I do care about all of you. I hope it comes out but I know sometimes it doesn’t. I can’t speak for anyone else but I don’t think any of the prottys on these threads hates Catholics AT ALL.