“Your religion most certainly does...”
Oh look, another “church of one whose opinion matters (only to that one)” opines on what we Catholics believe!
They belong to The Invisible Church of The Most High Self. Doctrine and Scripture don't really matter to the Most High Self crowd in spite of their claiming to base their beliefs on Scripture only. In essence, they believe they've said the magic words, so now Jesus Christ is indebted to and obligated to them, and that they are in no way indebted to or obligated to Christ. As we've seen clearly in this thread, even denying the deity of Christ as it is spelled out in the New Testament doesn't matter to such folks. In their view, they are the Potter and Christ is their clay.
Such folks need to stroke their own ego by claiming insight even though their mentors are the Three Blind Mice of "Self Alone", "Scripture Alone", and "Faith Alone", completely excluding Grace by claiming Christ is their willing slave rather than their merciful King. That's exactly what leads to so many such folks claiming they're led by the Holy Spirit to ordain queers, marry queers one to another, deny that abortion is evil, and so on. And yet, the Most High Self crowd aren't concerned that others who believe as they do indulge in such antiChrist things, they're concerned that Christmas and Easter are pagan holidays and attending church on a regular basis is nothing but a useless tradition. Talking with such folks is really a waste of time. If a huge, fat, American Yorkshire hog, were to attempt to speak with you, it wouldn't make any difference because you don't speak Swine. The same is true in this instance, you don't speak irrational blather so you're never going convince those in The Invisible Church of The Most High Self to surrender to Christ, take up their cross, and follow Him.
(just in case any Most High Self folks read this, "Christ" and "Him" are one and the same in that last sentence, not Christ and a religious song)
Regards and thank you both for many good comments and rebuttals to the Most High Self crowd.
Handing down doctrines from the Throne of Sunday Sports Theology in front of the Sacred Flatscreen during commercials and in between beers seems to be a fine art practiced by the most fervent antiCatholics.