I don’t post on Catholic threads, respect all Christian religions.
BUT this entire discourse is about attacking Protestants and painting them with broad brushstrokes.
This unfair rant against protestants will not gain you any converts, I assure you.
I also take issue with the unsupported and rather doubtful statement that “disproportionate number of the conservative intelligentsia, in America and around the world, are Catholic Christians”
Frankly, if I were Catholic, I would be embarrased by this discourse, which, as I said demonstrates the intolerance of Catholics of other Christian religions, but I guess supportive of dictators and Sharia — the Pope met with Saddam Hussein’s foreign minister and told us not to “invade” Iraq.
Catholics should focus on cleaning their own house, before they make such vicious attacks against Protestants.
This is the hopeful Roman Church wet dream of the author. He wishes it was that bad across all protestant and other Christian religious denominations. For certain, there are some serious problems in liberal denominations. Just as there are serious problems with Roman Catholics that embrace Liberation Theology, want female clergy, want being gay to be ‘god-blessed’ and priests unable to keep their celibacy vows with anything that walks.
For them to point fingers at the Protestants’ problems and somehow conclude this will either take them to atheism or back to the Roman church is intellectual fantasy. By this logic Protestants could point to all the current church problems and say this too will lead the Roman Catholics to further apostasy, atheism, or into different Christian denominations.
Sir, I want to respond to the points. I think the points are well taken here. However, they left out the important point of birth control. How is the adoption of ‘birth control’ a conservative principle? I just don’t see it.
As for Evangelicals as a whole, I don’t really think it’s fair to tar them with the brush of the Episcopalians and the Lutherans. For now, they have held the line, we shall see whether this continues, or whether they will drink from the same well.
Perhaps this article will seem prescient in 40 years, and perhaps not.
I am with you.
Catholicism’s fundamental allegiance is to Rome and the Pope.Protestantism’s fundamental belief in individual conscience, rights and responsdibilities, and the Constitution in America, do not support your conclusions.