The Orthodox have largely exited FR based in part upon the perceived churlishness of the Latins. And I completely understand their point of view. I am ashamed of how some of us have treated some of them.
Read your post. The Catholic Church is all of the Catholic Church, not just a segment of it. What a dumb thing to post.
Sorry, I'm just not gettin’ all worked up about it.
If you read through my posts, I make significant effort to speak clearly and without “churlishness.” Here, we're discussing ontology, and my correspondent says of the Catholic Church's understanding:
"It wouldn't be the first corruption of Greek by the west, for sure.”
Now, if he wants to make a dig, well, lots of that goes on at FR. But often, when the conversation starts to degnerage in that way, I try to remind myself that it would be better to start to disengage than to descend slowly into the gutter with my interlocutor. I wish I always did this, I don't. But this time, I did.
“The Catholic Church is all of the Catholic Church, not just a segment of it.”
Yes, and the Orthodox Churches are not quite the Catholic Church. Here is a thread posted a couple of years ago and recently resurrected:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/1863482/posts
It's a CDF discussion about the status and essential elements of other churches and ecclesial bodies. I think a fair reading of it supports what I've said about the differences between the Catholic and the Orthodox Churches.
As for churishness generally, I've been here for a little while, and have interacted with and watched the interactions with Orthodox posters. We Catholics have nothing on them in this category.
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Interestingly, you still haven't pointed out where I wasn't even close to the truth in the first sentences of mine that you cited from post 2023.
Do you still think that there's something that I said that wasn't close to the truth?
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