Posters who are not comfortable with town square style debate should ignore the open threads altogether and instead post to the RF threads labeled "prayer" "devotional" "caucus" or "ecumenical."
Also, when one belief spawns from another it is typical for both to condemn the other in the harshest terms possible, e.g. cult, anathema, heresy, blaspheme, apostacy. Such terms are often part of the official doctrines and should be expected in "open" debate in the Religion Forum.
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“Your post shows exactly how Rome twists the clear meaning of Scripture into glorifying the creature intead of the creator.”
This is Dr. Eckleburg’s first post to me on this thread.
In this post she does exactly what she just now accused me of doing: using the personal pronoun “your” to link what I wrote to “Roman twisting.”
She did not simply disagree with Roman Catholic beliefs (and the Shroud of Turin issue is not a Catholic issue and the thread had avoided making it that because enough people on the thread understood that the Shroud has attracted supporters across the Christian spectrum.)
How is her personal linking of me to “Roman twisting” not a personalization of the issue? She protests her innocence but she did exactly what she accuses me of doing.