You wrote:
“Took your recommendation and looked up “papsit”(sic) and couldn’t find anything.”
You obviously didn’t check a good dictionary. You probably wouldn’t know one if you came across it anyway. If you check Merriam-Webster you’ll see it is described as “usually disparaging”.
“I assume its maybe a bench seat in the Pope-mobile? However, I did find “papist” and in your case, the definition fits. May I remind you that you were the first with pejorative remarks about protestantism.”
I made no “pejorative” remarks at all. I used correct terms and was accurate in my use of them.
“Now that I’ve gotten you straightened out on that one, perhaps we can discuss the fact that there is only one mediator between God and man.”
You just figured that out? We have always known that and the Holy Spirit inspired an early Catholic - St. Paul - to write that in 1 Timothy 2:5.
“Or maybe we can discuss the fact that we have direct access to the throne of God, that Jesus shed his blood to give us that access and how its possibly an insult to God to ask some long dead believer to intervene.”
1) We always knew we had direct access to God.
2) We always knew what Jesus’ death did for us.
3) We know it is no insult to ask saints to pray for us.
“But then again, we’d probably never come to any agreement.”
I have no reason to believe your opinions are orthodox, so, no, we probably would not agree. When you actually learn scripture and Church history come back and talk to me. Until then start with a good dictionary and avoid attempts at humor that make you look more like a sciolist than anything else.
I did and finally we found something we can agree on, that being the definition of "papist". The term you used however "papSit" is somewhat of a google mystery. You started this off with a disparaging remark about Protestants. So far I've learned that you consider us all to be unfettered, rebellious, heretics who twist the scriptures. I have yet to find any scripture supporting your practice of praying to saints. So who's twisting scriptures?
I have had a number of interesting and enjoyable conversations with Catholics on this forum. Never once had it come into my mind to considered any of those folks to be 'papist'. You, however operate directly from a position of arrogance and superiority and have earned the term.
“...its possibly an insult to God to ask some long dead believer to intervene.”
‘3) We know it is no insult to ask saints to pray for us.’
The correct challenge here is to ask how many people DO NOT ask family, neighbors, friends, church, etc, to “pray for them”.
I guess that is an insult and abomination, too.
Asking saints/Mary to beg for you is not IMO much different from this.