[boatbums]

Thank you, FK. I got it. I was really trying on my "peacemaker" hat and say, kinda, "We don't care who you want to pray to, just don't insist you can't be a real Christian if you aren't praying the way we do.". The main point was the insistence that the RCC is the only true church and everybody else is a heretic is the part that gets peoples' goats. k?

[annalex]

I have seen your name around long enough, and so I think you should, by now, realize that the Roman Catholic Church does not consider quite a few churches heretical, even though we lack communion with some of them. This thread, for example, considers whether the Orthodox are part of the Catholic Church. It should have bocome clear to you by reading this thread alone, that the Roman Catholic Church does not regard any Orthodox Church as heretical.

If you have questions of who is and who is not a heretic, I will gladly work on the answer, even more so that goats may get slaughtered otherwise.

[Quix]

I think, that actually . . .

certainly most of the time . . .

I can handle quite charitably that

THEY THINK they are GOD’S ONLY EVERYTHING GOOD.

Most congregations, if not most individuals think something similar at least occasionally in their lifetimes.

What begins to be . . . grossly underhanded, and even evil, to me,

Is the hyper shrillness wedded to the hyper !!!!CONTROL!!!! Phreaque !!!!DEMANDING!!!! authoritarian stinking piles of arrogance coupled with whining, wailing and running to mommy mods every so many posts—and particularly

THE HORRIFIC DUPLICITOUS, DOUBLE STANDARD hogwash saturating all that 2 year old mentality noise.

I want to scream . . .

GROW UP ALREADY YET and handle this contact sport like balanced, fair-minded, even-handed ADULTS! Sheesh.

Evidently, that’s asking far too much, of those in the rabid cliques.

Thankfully, a lot of Vatican Affiliates seem to handle the task quite well enough.

[Forest Keeper]

The main point was the insistence that the RCC is the only true church and everybody else is a heretic is the part that gets peoples' goats. k?

Yep, and I agree with you. One funny thing I've learned from my conversations with some Catholics is that to be called a heretic by them is actually the second best thing to be if one does not believe in Apostolic succession. :) That is, (and I invite Catholics to comment) I don't think they would call an LDS a heretic because they don't merit the level of heretic. :)

[Mad Dawg]

The main point was the insistence that the RCC is the only true church and everybody else is a heretic is the part that gets peoples' goats. k?

May I say that the misrepresentation of what we teach doesn't impress me as peacemaking?