....."What could you possibly know about the teachings of the Catholic Church and where did you learn it? Did you get it from a hand out in church parking lot, or from a sermon by the Rev. Billy-Bob Rolex, from a TV preacher, or from an anti-Catholic website?"
Why is it catholics always state what could any other than themselves know about the catholic faith. Sheesh...it's all over the net and in the volumes of books and literature available to anyone for investigation. Not to mention the Vatican website itself.
Always the same comment....always....the same condescending mindset.
The first trigger is usually some ignorant Protestant making bizzare fabrications about the actual dogma of the Church and asserting them as fact. The second is when the same dufus defends those statements by quoting not from the Catechism or a nihil obstat source, but from vague recollections of their second grade Baltimore Catechism, or the Rev. Billy-Bob Rolex, a TV preacher, or an anti-Catholic website.
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Because . . . ummmmm . . . I know . . . ummmmmm . . . uhhhh . . .
BECAUSE! . . . JUST BECAUSE!
. . .
Because . . . ummmmm . . . IF RC's didn't have that handy weasel-out,
THEY'D HAVE TO FACE THE TRUTHS OF THE GOSPEL
and unrubbery history
and unrubbery authentic Bibles
and unrubbery authentic dictionaries
A
LOT
MORE OFTEN! How would they get any sleep?
1. THEY ARE BRAINWASHED RELENTLESSLY THAT ONLY THEIR EXCLUSIVELY 'NURTURING,' EXCLUSIVELY RIGHT, EXCLUSIVELY KOSHER, EXCLUSIVELY SAFE, EXCLUSIVELY TOP-DOG, EXCLUSIVELY WISE, EXCLUSIVELY PRISTINE, EXCLUSIVELY SANCTIFIED, EXCLUSIVELY WHITE HANKYED MOTHER CHURCH HAS THE TRULY TRUEST TRULY TRUE TRUTH.[sorry, no gag alert]
2. AND THAT if the Vatican magicsterical's exclusivist monopoly is tarnished or threatened between their ears in the slightest, hell's maw will gape wide for them.
3. AND THAT when their irrational pontifications manifestly function like the sieve their construction dictates, it's about all they have left--to wail about "Proddys JUST DON'T UNDERSTAND; CAN'T UNDERSTAND; WILL NEVER UNDERSTAND" because Proddys are supposedly destined to be ostracised out-group pagans by God, on the MOTHER-OF-GOD'S orders. Because it's white hankys for those within THE IN-GROUP and black pokers for those without. JUST BECAUSE!
4 AND BECAUSE they seemingly CAN'T WRAP THEIR NOGGINS AROUND THE IDEA that ANY OUT-GROUP individuals could ever REALLY UNDERSTAND "THE SYSTEM." Including the former bosses and officials of THE SYSTEM who had the horse sense to leave
and HAVE a TRULY VIBRANT RELATIONSHIP with GOD
instead of a RELIGION WITH SHADOWS AND PLASTIC STATUES.