Post #114: First of all, I was born and raised Catholic -- went to catholic schools all my life, was an altar boy, etc. I watched as all my family and friends and classmates melted away from the RCC. Then I read the Bible and found out who God really was. Then I began to research the RCC and saw why it has no hold over people, and is now today, a hotbed of pedophilia and homosexuality. It's because they don't teach the Bible, and instead substitute their pharisee-like man-made rules that cause people to drift away. God's word enlivens, and excites people.
Help me out here berned... Which is it? Post #103 where you claim not to know the mindset of Catholics, or Post #114 where you describe your intimate involvement with the Church?
I'm afraid I can't respond to you further until you properly explain yourself. I'm not the brightest guy on the block... but I know a con-job when I see one.
When I was catholic, amongst my family freinds and classmates, the Bible was never mentioned much. It wasn't taught in RCC school. Just the catechism. In fact the nuns strongly implied to us that only the preists could understand the Bible, and when I was a teenager, I just assumed The Bible was written in Latin!!
When I talk about "catholic mindset", I mean vis-a-vis The Bible. And what I find is that catholics have no reverence for the exacting specificty of God's Holy Word. Look at campions response to very specific questions. I asked him when the killer quake hit Jerusalem as God spoke of in revelation, and he goes off on some bizarre convoluted tangent about "general Titus".
It's funny how people believe that Steven King has the power to demand his each and every word, comma, and period be exactly the way he wants them in his books, but they feel that God's Word is just clay for us humans to make pretty allegories out of. Hmmmm...