Who are the Catholics: The Orthodox or The Romanists, or both?

Me

[the_conscience]

I just witnessed a couple of Orthodox posters get kicked off a "Catholic Caucus" thread. I thought, despite their differences, they had a mutual understanding that each sect was considered "Catholic". Are not the Orthodox considered Catholic? Why do the Romanists get to monopolize the term "Catholic"?

I consider myself to be Catholic being a part of the universal church of Christ. Why should one sect be able to use a universal concept to identify themselves in a caucus thread while other Christian denominations need to use specific qualifiers to identify themselves in a caucus thread?

[wagglebee]

It’s rather clear that they are stepping on the Name of our Lord Jesus Christ. It also appears that that there are flames coming from the Christogram.

[AnAmericanMother]

Wow, I didn’t think of that. Yeah, let’s put the worst possible construction on every picture we find, since that’s the precedent that’s been set . . . .

[wagglebee]

I don’t think it’s meansprited at all, I think that is precisely what they are doing.

As best I can tell, there are some here who consider the epistles of St. Paul to be the greatest authority of Christianity, these are followed by Calvin’s “Institutes”, the Gospels containing the actual Word of our Lord are at best a distant third.

[Judith Anne]

If I were meanspirited and nasty, I might suggest that those men were trampling "IHS"

Since I am not meanspirited and nasty, I will simply ask for their explanation of those graven images superceding IHS, in an elevated position illustrating the worship of those images.

How else can those graven images be interpreted?

[wagglebee]

Why are flames emenating from the IHS?

[Judith Anne]

Flames in that position, vis a vis the IHS, indicate that the graven images are watching Christ burn, down below.

ANATHEMA!

[Judith Anne]

Just kidding. I sure hope all those people who love to seek out Marian art images can take a joke. ;-D

[MarkBsnr]

If trinkets and statues and pictures of Mary on the cross are wrong,

Let's see. This photo shows a metal dove alighting, numerous metal hearts, a metal strip along the post and another one along the crossbeam, and looped around with thin gold braid, and a icon of what could be Mary. Wrong? If that is wrong, is this wrong?

How about:

[Mad Dawg]

CLEARLY whoever these poeple are, those who worship here think these men far more important than our Lord.

[wagglebee]

That is a damnable heresy!

[Judith Anne]

Let me try my hand at art interpretation:

That second photo of the cross signifies Paul, upright, and a twisted Cross, thus illustrating how people should hold Paul’s words above Christ’s.

[Judith Anne]

Well, after all, they made accurate depictions of the men, but only put a few Greek letters, sort of like a fraternity epigram, ABOVE to signify Our Lord and Savior (if that’s what it signifies. It could be demonic).

[wagglebee]

Just kidding. I sure hope all those people who love to seek out Marian art images can take a joke.

I'm not sure it's a joke at all. The more certain people post the more convinced I become that they ARE NOT Christians.

[MarkBsnr]

Oh, look! Not only do they worship the Reformers, they place them above Jesus!

Grim looking bunch, aren't they? That tall one in our middle left looks like he'd have your liver and lights out and into the pan faster than you can say "cavorting Calvinist coven".

[Judith Anne]

And look! On the one side of the “sacred” P for Paul, they have a depiction of a space ship, and on the other (*blush*) a depiction of something we ALL recognize.

ANATHEMA!

And all those lovely flowers around the circle, showing their love for Paul....

[MarkBsnr]

It’s rather clear that they are stepping on the Name of our Lord Jesus Christ. It also appears that that there are flames coming from the Christogram.

I do think that you are correct. The four horsemen heroes of the Reformation are trampling on Jesus and condemning Him to the flames of hell. The Reformers speak of Catholic error; here they are not only placed above Jesus, they are stepping on Him and sacrificing Him to hell forevermore. What pointed and sacriligious graven imagery. I hope that the Reformed will all rise up in anger and call for the destruction of this blasphemous graven imagery.

[Judith Anne]

Hmmmmm.....it appears that our separated brethren have no explantion for their idolatry. ;-D

[wagglebee]

It appears that three of the four heretics are holding books. I would assume that the books are Bibles, which is a sign of their Bibleolatry.

[Mad Dawg]

No, not Bibles; The Pauline Epistles bound with the Institutes.

I don't have any evidence. It's just common sense that that's what the poor deluded fools who worship here would think.

[wagglebee]

No, not Bibles; The Pauline Epistles bound with the Institutes.

Possibly some portions of the Old Testament, but certainly NONE of the Gospels.