If, in the process your ping file was cluttered, please accept my apology for both the technical ambush, and my blind - but well intentioned - attempts to make it right.
My response :
The Sunday and Holy Day threads presented by me are not my opinion, they are the root of my religion.
Each entry is anchored in the Holy Word of God. Each entry has the same authority as that which was bestowed upon the Blessed Apostles at Pentecost by the Holy Ghost - taught to bring believers into what came to be the Catholic Church in the first century A.D.
Similarly, Sacred Dogma comes to the faithful from the Holy Ghost through God’s Vicar on Earth, the Pope. To be a Catholic one must accept and follow the Word of God and the spiritual instruction and direction of those who properly sit on the Chair of Peter. To believe otherwise is not to be a Catholic. To attempt to deny, subvert, or redirect Sacred Dogma is an unforgivable sin, and subject to eternal damnation. There is no alternative ; no revision permitted to the Word of God or His Sacred Dogma. Likewise, one is, or is not, a Catholic, a Mormon, a Lutheran, a Presbyterian, a Southern Baptist, a Pentecostal or any one of the whole umbrella of Protestantism.
Changing the breeding of a species intrepidly alters who they are and how they behave. In this instance one may review Catholicism and affirm their belief or confirm their abstention. It’s a taking a horse to water, but you can’t make them drink situation. Nothing covert here. Contrarily, it’s as transparent as we’d like our government to be.
For the past seven years - May 2005 to May 2012 ( a grand total of 364 Sunday threads - without counting weekday holy days i.e., Ash Wednesdays and Good Fridays during this time period ) I have published Roman Catholic Dogma here without a single catfight.
Who and for what honest reason would want to put a ripple in still water now ???
With rare exception, FReepers, given their common level of tolerance and perception, recognize Catholic Dogma when they read it, leaving self serving cheap shots to very small fraction of small minded ’progressive’ Catholics. I have always abstained from debating the Word of God and His Sacred Dogma for to do so is sin. One is a believer, or is not a believer.
‘Free will’ is what it is. But, we must always be careful not to take ‘free will’ lightly. The payback is not forgiving.