I went to BSF for years and was a discussion leader with them. I recall no slamming of catholics. In fact, it was against the rules to mention denominations altogether.
If you had a problem with BSF it was either a rogue group (which given the scrutiny we were given by leadership, I doubt), or you had a problem with the Scripture being studied itself.
>>I went to BSF for years and was a discussion leader with them. I recall no slamming of catholics. In fact, it was against the rules to mention denominations altogether.
If you had a problem with BSF it was either a rogue group (which given the scrutiny we were given by leadership, I doubt), or you had a problem with the Scripture being studied itself.<<
That’s the standard answer. Any Catholic who attends BSF will tell you that they may not say “Catholic” but they sure can find the Bible passages to remind the attendees that “SOME people believe that this tell us of (insert and Catholic teaching) but those people are wrong....”
There are apparently LOTS of rogue BSF groups, from the other people I’ve spoken too. And yeah, I was told I “apparently” didn’t like the scripture. But really, it wasn’t the scripture but rather the person interpreting it.
Amen. We don’t mention denominations either.