Very few on this site who disparage the Catholic faith treat others like they would like to be treated. The opposite holds true as well at times. If someone wants to accuse me of loving Mary too much, that’s fine by me. If they want to say I don’t love Jesus because I love Mary, that’s not true.
When a site is trying to fight the bad guy [let’s put ISIS in here], it doesn’t help when the people ISIS wants dead are off fighting one another, and I’m sure if they read these pages, they find it quite humorous that we are already killing one another. They probably figure if they don’t act quickly, they’ll have no one left to murder [at least battling RF FReepers that is, however other sites have been involved in the same types of exchanges].
You wanna fight the bad guy? Then you need to find similarities in the faiths [that would be worship of Jesus] and then hit the button for prayer and get on with it. I find it almost amusing [but in a bad way] how folks just keep going on as usual in the FR RF [bickering, bashing, trashing] after these tragedies subside a bit.
It’s like if it doesn’t hit you at your own door, you feel it won’t hit you at all, or something. Now is the time for good Christians to come together, and faithful Catholics are not the bad guys, nor are NC Christians who love Jesus.
May I ask you a simple question: have you asked your fellow Roman Catholics to tone down their rhetoric?
I know I have asked multiple Protestants to do that, and I have expressed the point several times that we should contend without being contentious.
Not to put words in his mouth, but I believe that is part of what Mr. Robinson was suggesting in posts #390 and #394.
Grace and Peace,
K51