I consider myself a Christian. I don’t align with any specific Protestant denomination. I attend non-denominational services. As far as protesting Catholic doctrine, I don’t protest all RCC doctrine.
Your beliefs, however, are soundly Protestant in origin. Since Christianity encompasses an extremely broad spectrum of beliefs, it is disingenuous to claim that your small slice of Christianity is the one to be called “Christian” with no further elaboration.
Yes I’m aware so what’s the point? That doesn’t stop Roman Catholics
There are plenty of non-Latin-Rite Catholics on this site, some of whom start threads in this section. This is yet another reason that I question that you were ever Catholic at all, because few actual Catholics will routinely insert the big scary word “ROMAN” every single time the religion is referred to. You might as well be saying “CURSED PAPIST” the way you toss it around.
I would ask what are you doing in the Non-Roman Catholic section??
Comparative religion and comparative mythology are two of my long-standing interests, that’s why.
Creating debate plain and simple.
Actually no. Like you I am here
responding to debates, not creating them. I think I have only ever started one debate thread here.
If you were completely sound with the Apologists defense of the doctrine then why even be here then??
Because I enjoy debating as a way to strengthen my new religion and to understand what others think of it. Why are you here?
Apologists are defending their interpretations but that doesn’t mean they are right:shrug:
They are certainly right about matters of Catholic doctrine and practice. That is the point here. Your arguments are statements of what you
think Catholics believe when in fact, Catholics believe no such thing. You build up endless strawmen and then dramatically tear them down.
I respond to specific things that I don’t agree with. I don’t see how that places a universal fundamentalist notion to Roman Catholicism.
Because your statements are all, to a word, reflections of standard fundamentalist perceptions of Catholicism.
Maybe you should step outside of the RCC box sometime and do some sound research on church history. Take a look from someone else’s point of view. If you have done that then great. But don’t criticize someone else because they don’t agree with you.
I have been down this road with you before, yet you continue to trot out the same old assumptions. Let me explain again: someone who is arguing from the Catholic (not “ROMAN CATHOLIC”) point of view is not necessarily doing so because they don’t know anything else. I am a brand new convert. I fell away from Christianity completely and totally for over 20 years. I have practiced paganism, Buddhism and have been an agnostic, hedonist party animal. I have read and studied history and I have viewed the whole of Christianity as an outsider. I come to Catholicism
because of these experiences: not because of a lack of diversity in my education or lack of exposure to other points of view. So please, if you get nothing else straight, get this one point: Catholicism != ignorance.
Appeal to authority? Your assuming that the RCC is the authority. Saying you are the authority and actually being the authority are 2 different things.
You do not understand what “appeal to authority” means, I see. *An
appeal to authority or
argument by authority is a type of argumentlogic, consisting on basing the truth value of an assertion on the authority, knowledge or position of the person asserting it. It is also known as
argument from authority, * in *
argumentum ad verecundiam (Latin: argument to respect) or ipse dixit (Latin: **he himself said it). It is one method of obtaining propositional knowledge, but a fallacy in regard to logic, because the validity of a claim does not follow from the credibility of the source. *
Basically, you keep telling us that you are a former Catholic in the belief that this will give your statement extra credibility. But your tactic is failing because there is no evidence that you ever understood Catholic doctrine to begin with, whether you were actually Catholic or not.
GOD definitely takes bad decisions and works good into them. But I didn’t purposely leave the RCC. I didn’t wake up one day and say hey I’m going to stop being Roman Catholic. I always had questions and doubts on RCC doctrine. I’ve never met a Roman Catholic who didn’t. I simply fell away from my faith all together about 20 years ago. I always believed which fortunately was easy for me. But I wasn’t living my faith. I prayed to GOD for guidance and to lead my family somewhere that would bring us close to HIM. I was fully open to returning to the RCC. But that’s not what happened. For the sake of preserving space I won’t go into details but I can promise you, just as you said GOD works when we make mistakes, there’s no doubt he was at work here. Too many things happened to attribute it to anything else but GOD.