It just angers me when I come to a forum that I have been coming to for a decade and see some Catholic bigot out of the blue saying that my religion is defective and no one challenges him.
It takes all of the Grace God has given me not to respond in kind.
It angers and amuses me, when I come to a forum that I have been coming to for over a decade and see people arguing about God, period.
There’s no such thing as “your truth” and “my truth”. The minimalist DIY American model is incompatible with the ancient and apostolic faith. If you don’t know this, you don’t know history, or else feel somehow entitled to choose the history you like.
One or the other is wrong, defective, inadequate. Somebody had to say it. Everybody else has to have the courage to submit to the truth. Call it a come-to-Jesus moment.
I totally agree, having grown up in a half-Protestant, half-Catholic family in a neighborhood that was half-Jewish. Learning where I stand personally, but tied by love and respect to these other traditions, has been a huge part of being an American for me. I very much want all those three streams to unite in the face of our common enemy (Ignorance, Satan, Islam -- whatever you want to call it.)