To the last couple posts,
Im confused. Im new to this forum and just started on the “Traditionalist” board yesterday. I cant believe what Im reading. It is all insults, anger,schismatics, pride, hypocrisy,…
I’m sorry you’ve been scandalized - and sorry if I’ve in any way contributed to it. Sometimes the ol’ “submit reply” button gets clicked to fast, before thinking, in the heat of the moment when the passions are running high.
Try some of the threads that are not “debate” type threads. The debate type threads can get crazy.
But why do so many turn into debate threads? Well, I would say that there are a
few here who seem to
many to have no other purpose than to denograte traditionally minded folks and all that they hold dear (which includes many good and holy things given to us by Holy Mother Church)…and to bait them at every turn. In short, using discussion board lingo, there are some trolls about. So often, a thread will turn into a debate thread for no good reason. Traditional minded folks tend not to let grosserrors, gross misrepresentations of Church teachings, go unanswered…sometime to a fault I admit - we can become like the clanging symbol due to lack of charity. It’s a tough one for all of us.
So beware.
And beware false piety. Just take it all with a grain of salt until you have a chance to read through a couple of threads and see how it all goes down and where it starts going off the deep end. If you aren’t sure of a particular poster, click on their name and look up their post history - should give you a pretty good idea of where they are coming from.
I am a traditionalist in the sense that I follow the old years of the church. But I love my Pope…as the vicar of Christ we are supposed too. Who is more powerful than God? Who can defeat him? NO ONE! So how can it be said that some of the Popes were heretics? Do you disrespect God and belittle him so much to say that He can’t defend His own church? His own Bride? Stop and think for a minute.I know some of you are thinking " Well we strayed away from that and the wrong people with the wrong purpose became the leaders" ONLY IF GOD ALLOWS IT! Do you think God would allow his church to be defiled?
God won’t allow the shortcomings or poor actions of any pope or bishop to make His promises empty, that’s for sure. The gates of hell won’t prevail - this we know. But this doesn’t mean every personal action or personal statement of a pope is infallible and perfect.
We know Christ and His One True Church wins in the end. But we also know that the battle goes on until Christ returns in glory. And as it has always been, Satan attacks from the outside and from the inside. Souls are won and lost in the process. So we can’t just sit back and say “the Church prevails to the end, so no worries, everything is fine.” We’ve gotta be concerned for our brothers and sisters, for the human side of Holy Mother Church.
Right now there’s alot of confusion in the Church, alot of battles going on on the inside. That’s why it’s important to know the faith as it’s been handed down to us from the Apostles - the
truth that does not contradict itself. That’s where
most traditional minded folks are coming from.
And again, I apologize if I’'ve contributed to your concern here in any way.
Peace in Christ,
DustinsDad
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