[Gamecock]

150 years is too far back to discuss?

Which cabal is it that repeatedly touts that is is the one true chuch based on a faulty interpretation from 2,000 years ago?

Seems like 150 years ago is a drop in the bucket.

[metmom]

That puts Luther out of the running then, doesn’t it?

He goes back more than 150 years....

[Mrs. Don-o]

No, 150 years isn't too far back to discuss, if you're talking ecclesiastical heritage, doctrine, , genealogy, intellectual history, mores and manners. These things can be edifying, building up the Body of Christ.

"Lesbians and murders in convents" is tabloid trash which tends not to teach but to titillate. What or whom does it serve to read this shameful filth? It would be easy to find filth on Protestants --- and NOT because Protestants are particularly filthy (much the contrary, I think) but because it can be found a websites of those who scorn the Lord Jesus. Lots of linkable, clickable crap at atheist websites, but, interestingly, not at Catholic ones.

If I were to dredge about those scandal-mongering sites to expose Calvinist clergy wife-beaters, Evangelical pastor child-stranglers, house-church deacons doing incest with their daughters (there was a notorious one in my hometown) and Baptist preacher whoremongers (and I could name one right here in the city from which I wrote) --- but I would not do so. If I did, I would be afterwards ashamed of rash-judgment and detraction, and would have to examine my conscience to discern and detest my sin against fraternal charity.