Is this belligerent, hectoring, arrogant tone necessary?
Hey No-Sum

Why do you have a problem with yourself?
Does it make you sound more “Christian”?
Great Question (not!), you must have used all your faculties to come up with this question. Nonsensical jargon.
Obvious this question further displays your pompous ignorance and lack of etiquette. Would Christ converse in such supercilious manner? It is evident that you are far from Christian and closer to anti-Christian perhaps, as your flatus mouth (or cerebrum and typing fingers) proves it as such.
What is this meaningless attempt to distinguish “sign of contradiction” from “sign to be contradicted” and how does the quote from Acts contradict what I said?
Evasive. One such as yourself who makes great efforts to portray yourself as knowledgeable, should have little problem in tackling such a simple query. It should be trivial for your grandiloquent self. Did know not that vanity is a Sin? Instead you use a tactic of evasion in an attempt to downplay your own shortcomings.
Do you have a problem with John Paul II?
No, but as you have shown you do. Though you may try to emulate him, your pathetic attempts do him no Justice.
Are you one of those misguided Catholics who are “more Catholic than the Popes” simply because the Popes are more open-minded and peace-loving than you personally would prefer to be?
Again, as can be seen by your own words, how in fact misguided you are. You exhibit rhetoric in your coprolitic words and, mask insults in questions with your bombastic style, in order to appear grandiose while simultaneously making false and slanderous accusations. It is pitiful. You pass judgment when asking your absurdities. Now you judge? Think ye Christ?
If you lived in the Middle Ages, would you have condemned the Popes for condemning violent persecution of Jews?
And yet again, your own words display your iniquities.
Please do yourself a favor and do not humiliate yourself by being uncouth to others, this is not a Catholic trait and hence anti-Christian. It would better if you use your knowledge and defend Catholicism against the never ending onslaught from Islam, Mormonism, Jehovah witnesses, other denominations, Cults, etc., instead of being at variance with another Christian. Your overblown oratory, as others will agree, is insulting to Christ and the Trinity, the Catholic Church, others on this forum, and yourself.
Your pretentiousness will be your undoing.
I agree NoSum, your words are admission to NoSum.