“Wow, well aren’t you just the smartest boy in the class?!”
You should try to keep your insecurities out of theological discussions.
“No believer would speak like that to a fellow believer.”
Nonsense. The first two Spiritual Works of Mercy are admonishing the sinner and instructing the ignorant.
“There is the Catholic arrogance”
There is that insecurity again. One thing, at least, you’ve made clear. You don’t hate the Church because of theological differences. You hate her because you feel small and ignorant when you allow yourself to contemplate her glory as the supernatural bride of Christ.
“You just gave away what you truly are, dsc....a Catholic snob.”
The term “Catholic snob” is an oxymoron. What I am is an intellectual snob, and that snobbery is in direct opposition to Catholicism, which calls us to humility.
Though I am, lamentably, still something of an intellectual snob, I do not look down upon the stupid. I look down upon the willfully ignorant, whose ignorance allows them to think themselves wise.
“It takes absolutely no sophistication or great intellect at all to understand the simple message of the Gospel...even a little child can understand.”
A child can understand on a child’s level, but an adult can understand on an adult’s plane: a deeper, more sophisticated understanding. Some few, those in whom is combined intelligence, wisdom, scholarship, and holiness, can understand on levels utterly inaccessible to their inferiors. Saints Alphonsus Liguori, Thomas Aquinas, and Augustine leap to mind.
The rest of us can only read their works and follow them in understanding as far as is given to us.
Many Protestants—not all—make a fetish of insisting that a child’s understanding is the only understanding. They have to, really, because there would otherwise be no excuse for failing to seek, or at least to desire, a more mature understanding.
“Seems that is the kind of thing the Pharisees might have said”
Uh, yeah, you need to look more deeply into Our Lord’s criticisms of Pharisees.
“I stand by what I said before...no true believer stays in a Catholic church once born again.”
And you wag your finger at others and call them arrogant. Astounding.
Ahh, so good to know that the usual suspects are still here.
ROTFLMAO. And to think I used to be a Protestant. Happily I was never anti-Catholic, or anti-Fundamentalist, or anti-Pentecostal, or anti-Jewish or anti most other beliefs.
Islam on the other hand is a whole different kettle of fish.
Totally stand by my first post to this person.
Now I will leave him to you guys.
Gotta love it! Not!