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To: cantabile
tc is attempting to seek common ground with the Orthodox. This is not possible for Calvinists to do so as besides faith in Christ they have little in common. The Orthodox don't hate the Pope like the Calvinists do -- they dispute his administrative authority but have no doubts to his spiritual position of respect.

I have no issue with Protestants "discovering" the Orthodox and joining that branch of the Apostolic Church (overcoming the historical antagonisms against the Catholic CHurch may be difficult for most).
134 posted on 07/23/2010 8:02:07 AM PDT by Cronos (Show me just what Muhammad brought that was new and there you will find things only evil and inhuman)
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To: Cronos; don-o
tc is attempting to seek common ground with the Orthodox

Even I am not naive enough to believe that.

The original poster (OP) deliberately omitted the portions of the original source which made it clear that this "confession" was emphatically rejected by the Holy Orthodox. One can't even excuse it as ignorance (by which I mean nothing more that "lack of knowledge"). Independent of any theological issues, such action is a gross violation of ordinary standards of integrity, to say nothing of the moral precepts to which all Christians are expected to adhere. It's an entirely reprehensible act.

The OP himself admits that this thread was nothing more than an "exercise" intended to undermine the caucus system, which is the only corner of this cesspool of a forum in which rational discussion is even possible.

This is the OP's third attempt to game the caucus system. The upshot of the first was "Yes, Catholics can have their caucuses, but it must be labeled with my favorite slur, so that every time it's used, Catholic are automatically insulted." The net result of that conniption was the entirely unnecessary departure of good-willed, well-behaved Orthodox over a controversy that needn't have been stirred up. The religion forum is poorer for their absence.

The second attempt was to allow former Catholics with a grudge to infiltrate Catholic caucus threads, so that they could turn them into the same food-fights which prevail on the open threads.

The third attempt we have before us. Trying as objectively as possible to discern the pattern of behavior here, I must conclude that the modus operandi of the OP is "let's you and him fight, while I sit back and enjoy the chaos I've created." This is a direct attack on the cohesion of the forum itself, and leads me to wonder if there's any degree of destructive behavior which the mods will at long last find intolerable.

Since there's no reason whatsoever to believe that the OP's attempts to undermine the system which is in place - no matter how flawed it may be - are likely to cease, I have to wonder why he or she has yet to be shown the door.

228 posted on 07/23/2010 12:28:42 PM PDT by cantabile
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