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Roy – I’m really struggling to see which war was caused by Pius IX’s Syllabus of Errors. Methinks you’re exaggerating.
There is indeed one form of worship that is higher than all others. That is the perfect sacrifice of Jesus Christ. If you can find a church that allows congregants to integrate themselves into that sacrifice – body, blood, soul, and divinity – then you should certainly join that church. Is that a bigoted piece of advice?
The point of this thread is that the only Church that has that complete sacrifice of Jesus in sacramental form is the Catholic (and Orthodox) Church. To make such an assertion is not to incite hatred or war.
Please stop with the relativistic banter – of course God loves all people equally. But there are certain “bridges” that can unite us to Him more effectively than others.
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Sorry, but I never suggested that the 'Syllabus of Errors' caused a war. However, obviously the religious wars of the 17th and 18th centuries resulted from religious bigotry, by both Catholics and Protestants. The main difference I see today is that traditional Catholics continue toi maintain that their faith is the sole fountain of absolute truth while most Protestant denominations make no such claim. At the same time, I find both Catholic and Protestant friends (and family members) very congenial toward the faith of one another.
If you agree with the 'Syllabus of Errors' we certainly are on different pages, and I suggest that John XXIII and Vatican II abandoned the attitude of Pius IX. It seems that some posters here would continue to prefer the Vatican I approach. There appears to be an enormous division within Catholicism at the present time, as polls and various events have exposed. One of such polls which I saw in *US Catholic*found that 52% of American Catholic reject transubstantiation, upon which the Church places such emphasis.
But, that's okay. Thank God we live in a country where religious freedom flourishes, where Protestant presidents appointed six Catholics and three Jews to the Supreme Court (no Protestants). That's the way it should be. Don't view people by their creeds but by their deeds.
As a person from a mixed Catholic-Protestant heritage, I am strongly committed to ecumenism in its true since - a spirit of unity but not necessarily union. Our Protestant founders (55 of the 56 signers of the Declaration of Independence) knew enough to permit and even promote religious pluralism.