In my opinion it’s charity to assume those who’s seeming mission in life is to attack all things and ideas “Catholic”, while with good intentions, are indeed misinformed and thus unknowing.
But that’s just my opinion. It’s been my experience it’s best to keep the charity above in mind but left unsaid. It’s just not worth it anymore to engage “the usual suspects”. It’s just not.
For anybody.
Plus he reported me to the moderator.
Well put. THANK you.
I'm Catholic but my very best friend is a Presbyterian (from Baptist) and HER son became a Catholic. She's good with it because for her it doesn't matter which Christian "denomination" one belongs to as long as one belongs to Christ.
The only difference of opinion we ever had was the slightly different versions of the Bible. The Protestant Bible didn't include some BOOKS that the Catholic Bible did, that is,
Sirach,
Tobit,
Wisdom,
Judith,
1 and 2 Maccabees, and
Baruch, as well as
longer versions of Daniel and Esther.
Once we figured THAT out we KNEW the reason. It's often a problem having such differences but knowing WHY clears it all up.
The earliest Church Fathers were the ones to decide what books were in the Bible, so the decisions that were made were made a LONG time ago.
The were made before the dawn of excommunicated Catholic priest Father Martin Luther and the eventual collection of Protestant denominations.
I once looked them all up and put the list here. There were tens of thousands of them which came and went and will come and go in the future.
Some people DO feel inspired by God, DO believe that God speaks/spoke to them and DO believe that they were TOLD to begin a new denomination.
.
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Of course, the great adversary may have been whispering heresies in their collective ears. Who knows. Not my job to judge.
“It’s just not worth it anymore to engage “the usual suspects”. It’s just not.”
Pope’s blog is posted as non-Caucus usually. Maybe this one should have been (in the interest of forestalling disagreement)?