The term “Roman Catholic”, has, as I said (maybe you didn’t read carefully, Dr.) come to be used widely by Catholics themselves. It is a harmless term. It does serve to distinguish “Roman Catholics” from others who consider themselves catholic, such as “Anglo-catholics”. many Catholic parishes call themselves “Roman Catholic”. It is not the best use of language, but it is accepted usage both within the Catholic Church and outside. However, the term that Mr. Gamecock (or is it Dr. Gamecock?) used in his post, and to which I objected, was Romanist, as you would know if you were paying attention. And everyone knows that Romanist, Romish, and such terms are pejoratives. They are like calling someone a “Jewboy”. Go ahead and keep doing it, if you want. Keep laughing too. It is not really hurtful to Catholics to hear such epithets as “Romanist”. Actually, we are somewhat amused by them. But it is embarrassing, since non-Christians may be listening in, and one does not like them to see Christians calling each other childish names. It is un-Christian. It doesn’t show forth Christian charity, and I suspect that it is not pleasing to Christ, who said that people would know his followers by their love for each other. I say that at the risk of sending you into even louder peals of laughter.
No, "Romanist" is not at all like "Jewboy."
"Romanist" is like "baby-splasher" or "Bible-Thumper." It is founded upon one's choices, unlike slurs which refer to a person's race or national heritage.
Unless you were born in Rome, in which case I guess you'd have a point. Were you born in Rome?
Let's not let any latent liberal tendencies we might have lurking in our deep consciousness infect our discourse, shall we?
Thanks for the prompt, but it looks like you're the one not "paying attention." Would you kindly point me to the post where Gamecock used the word "Romanist"?
And if you don't find it, like I didn't find it before your own introduction of the word in your post #15, then you should apologize to Gamecock ASAP.
No more or less so than the term "protestant". We've learned to live with it.
If "Roman Catholics" were not so arrogant to use the word "catholic" to identify their particular denomination, folks would not need to find an alternative designation.
Calling onself a Roman Catholic refers to the Roman or Latin Rite of Liturgy. There are Chaldean Catholics, Byzantine Catholics, Maronite Catholics, Melkite Catholics——we are all Catholics.
I personally haven’t seen (or used) the terms such as Romish, Romanist, Papist, Popish, etc. except as perjoratives.
Excuse me if I don’t LOL about it.
I meant to mention to you earlier that it’s good and polite form on an internet chatroom to ping any person whom you are specifically referring to in a post, such as your #32 which references Gamecock.