[Blzbba]

I'm fiscally conservative an anti-Big-Gov't, which certainly puts me at odds with the current administration, which is spending money and creating more Big Gov't at a faster rate than Clintax ever did.

I've yet to vote DEM in any election, not that this is any of your business Elk, nor is it at-all related to the current thread.

I submit only to the authority of God, not the authority that Man purports to have based on Man's interpretations of potentially-spiritual events. Given the number of different Christian faiths -- all of them revolving around the death and Resurrection of Christ - it appears there are millions of people who aren't 'ready to submit' to the Vatican, thank God.

[SoothingDave]

I submit only to the authority of God, not the authority that Man purports to have based on Man's interpretations of potentially-spiritual events.

You're a Protestant then. Catholics recognize the Pope's authority over the Church.

SD

[BlackElk]

Make an honest man of yourself. Practice what you preach and apostasize. As you point out, there are plenty of other Christian Churches that share your resentm,ent and rebellion against the papacy. Find one. If you want to call yourself Catholic, you will have to comply or live a lie. Your fondness for feminism is not a Catholic fondness, but you knew that.

[Aquinasfan]

I submit only to the authority of God, not the authority that Man purports to have based on Man's interpretations of potentially-spiritual events.

But there is one on earth to whom even you will kneel. You see him every day when you look in the mirror.

Scripture tells us that Jesus built a church and Jesus tells us that we should take our disputes to the church, "the pillar and foundation of truth." Trust Jesus' Church and the Scriptures which it wrote, canonized and preserved, or trust your infallible interpretation of Scripture. I'll stick with the "pillar and foundation of truth."