Posted on 04/11/2013 6:40:37 AM PDT by Vermont Crank
Cicero, if being critical of the Roman church by freepers makes you uncomfortable, might I suggest you try defending protestantism at http://forums.catholic.com/
Established Religion Forum posters sow enough ill will as it is. Newbies provoking flamewars right out of the gate do not yet merit the extraordinary mod attention a thread like this requires.
And don’t forget Blessed Junipero Serra!
Good post.
Hear Hear!!
Calling the OP “flamebait” is comical, in light of what gets posted and replied to here. The OP does not merit a zot.
See? Torquemada was better than Moses. So there! /S
The newbies comments have been calm and respectful. It’s the “established” ones that are firing the flames. (And posting hot graphics.)
Last time I checked, Catholic catechisms (which this is - with the Imprimatur of a Catholic Archbishop) is not among disallowed sources in the RF.
It’s like the poster is actually a Catholic-bashing agent provocateur. Vitriol to the point of mental illness is far more likely to originate from fringe groups or those who fancy themselves prophets.
Click the link on the original post. The newbie simply copies and pastes from a 19th century Catholic catechism.
You, otoh, have violated the RF rule about personal attack.
Eventually. I don’t usually surf religion threads, and the rules are different here. Good luck.
Well, I could be wrong about who’s most likely to express vitriol to the point of mental illness...
I’m surprised it wasn’t originally posted as a caucus thread.
With a less-provocative title and a long innocuous introduction, it could have passed under a caucus thread. But it would be less likely to inflame.
First of all the God of the Bible, for reasons of his own directed the actions of the Israelites in the wilderness and as they entered the promised land. Your response that I quote above proves that you really don't know what you are talking about. Interesting fact, Moses didn't actually enter the land and thus didn't participate in the military actions that Jehovah commanded the Son's of Abraham to do as they entered the promised land.
Still, the RCC has blood on it's hands because the "church" has a task of 1. spreading the gospel and 2. making disciples. The inquisition and other religious activities such as the St. Bartholomew's Day massacre are not in keeping with this command.
Can someone please explain to me why (not all but) the vast majority of those interested in "christian unity" are Catholics who really just want protestants to quit their churches and simply join theirs? Why don't they concentrate on the low hanging fruit of the unchurched in the USA, more of them than there are churh going protestants.
I agree, and your retread call is right on. No way a Noob doughhead can play the FR game, “Whut me??”.
Theological disputes come in all forms ~ my own church argues that it recreated the First Century Church ~ which was located in Jerusalem. The original was pretty much wiped out in 70 AD with the destruction of the city, which resulted in all sorts of things ~ but aside from history, the original body is believed to be reflected in the New Testament to a better extent than the successor bodies. One well known religious organization reflects back on the events of that First Century church to argue on behalf of its own orthodoxy ~ pointing first to the comments of, to, by, about St. Peter ~ before he was a Saint mind you ~ about what he was up to.
Most Protestants in our time remain blissfully unaware of all of that ~ because there are bears in the woods, lions resting on our lawns, and thieves breaking in through the roof ~ and we must tend to that first.
We are all on the same side, going all huggy buggies in the upper room trying to get away from it all and counting our ammunition, and who thought to bring some artillery this time ~ these stupid swords just won't do the job! So, quit poking me as your jerk around trying to hide under the table.
Or else is just acting natural, and showing us what the underlying attitudes really are. (but then I repeat myself?)
We do seem to have a number of RCs who like to lambast the RCC but that's their business. Frankly I leave them alone in the pursuit of their own passion when it comes to laying the whip on their own church folks.
Now, every time somebody ever says 'drink the koolaid' they are making a reference to a horrible event that affected my own church way back when Jim Jones was still preaching in Indianapolis ~ so to that degree let me suggest that there are several tens of thousands times more often you'll see 'drink the koolaid' on FR as there are times you'll see a thread blasting the RCC.
Got a source for THAT??
Most of the top end people are Catholics, or at least fairly theologically compatible with Catholicism, or it's Eastern variants, or even the Coptics
Care to name some of those "top end people"?
That would be news to them.
"I was raised in a Christian home, but I don’t belong to any organized religion. My dog tags list me as Protestant."
- Jim Robinson, December 21, 2012
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