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“Ut unum sunt: why there will be no sects in heaven”

For they are like the angels ..." being of one mind.

This morning I have learned in another venue the following:

(1) Insulting, mocking, derogatory, and unreasonable discourse is proper for Muslims to use against Christians, because Muslims are right and Christian wrong.

(2)Insulting, mocking, derogatory, and unreasonable discourse is OUTRAGEOUSLY IMPROPER for Christians to use against Muslims, because Muslims are right and Christian wrong.

(3)Besides, the Christians started it.

(4) The ONLY acceptable outcome is for the Christians to humble themselves (and to know themselves to have been humbled) before the Muslims, and either convert or live (and converse) under very "strait" restrictions.

(5)While there may be moderate Muslims who can contemplate peaceful coexistence with Christians, when the 'division' becomes apparent between Muslim and Christian, the moderate Muslims will side with the radicals against the Christians.

You know what substitutions to make to depict what goes on here on the RF. More importantly, you know what attitudes to be on guard against lest we become like Muslims.

I think somewhere in here, toward the end, we see the dreadful and bloody reductio ad absurdum of the nominalist and voluntarist theology. Their resolution to the Euthyphro dilemma,namely "If God wills it, it is good on that account alone,' makes room for a dualistic and sundered world and heilsgeschichte, and permits the shattering of all moral norms in the pursuit of victory for God.

..... Which is almost an essay on one good reason to be a Catholic.