I actually found your OP to be very misleading and was not surprised when many thought it would be zotted.
1) As someone noted above, you give no proof of why the title makes that statement.
2)Not only that but the title is very misleading and instead of the title being a summary of the article, the article is a rebuttal of sorts to the title.
3)Although this is your first “day” at FR, you seem to know enough of the ropes to know how to put it in Mainline Protestant topics and protestant keyword. Eyebrows should be raised a tad bit here I think. It is very annoying and very misleading to look at the titles on the sidebar under Protestant headings and find one labeled this way, only to open up a thread and find it to be RC propaganda in an obvious effort to win converts.
4) And then it turns out that this is just a vanity post, not a real article, but just one of your blogs.
5) In this post, you more or less admit that you are trying to convert or at least stir up the pot by saying “And, I just like to get all the Brothers talking, and thinking...well, maybe hoping for real thinking is a stretch.” To me that translates as saying those who do not believe you, or who would refute you as not being able to really think.
Annoying and misleading. No wonder some have called for it to be zotted. It has many earmarks of a troll, although the RM does not deem it so, which is fine. T’were I you, though, I would rethink things a tad on your approach. Deception just doesn’t go over well in religious discussion. :)
Your appraisal of this thread and the possible reasons for its posting are excellent.
As Protestants, let's exit, leaving the thread to die by its own deception.
Again, as I already have replied, The headline was pulled directly from the article that appeared at Catholic Herald and was linked to directly in the body of the post. The contention of the headline is based on the survey their article discusses.
Not trying to be deceptive. My original post was linked to several categories, including Protestant, Catholic, and Ecumenism (as in Protestants and Catholics who love and serve the Lord Jesus Christ actually talking to each other, and not past each other, so as to better understand each other).
As to me wanting to "get the Brothers talking", this is a forum, is it not. I thought that was the purpose of a forum, discussion.
And as for my content, approach, or attitude being annoying, please accept my apology.
Blessings and Peace. KB