If LCMS President Harrison can go in front of Congress as refer to you as “our Catholic friends”, then no member should do less.
I think it’s possible to be passionately anti-Catholic in terms of certain teachings and practices of that church, yet still be accepting of the people within that church both socially and when working together toward a common cause. I’m sure we all have friends with whom we passionately disagree on various matters.
The quiz was fun. It was interesting to try answering the questions from different perspectives to see what came out on top. That is, when I answered according to what I was taught while attending a Reformed Baptist church or from what I was told while studying with Jehovah’s Witnesses, those did indeed end up at the top of the list. I’m Anglican, but the quiz probably was using the more liberal Episcopal or Church of England positions on issues. When answering from a more conservative, “39 Articles” perspective, Episcopal/Anglican was about halfway down the list, with the top three being:
Presbyterian Church in America/Orthodox Presbyterian Church (100%)
Reformed Churches (100%)
Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod (99%)
When answering honestly, with all my present uncertainties concerning dogma, I get:
Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod (100%)
Church of Christ (90%)
Evangelical Lutheran Church (90%)
Presbyterian and Reformed were in the next tier down, at 86%.
This result also makes sense to me; I’ve always appreciated that Lutherans are not afraid to recognize that some Biblical doctrines seem contradictory to our human understanding. Hence, Lutherans maintain “both the *universalis gratia *and the
sola gratia, fully and without any restrictions, because both doctrines are clearly revealed in Scripture. It leaves the intellectual difficulty unsolved for the present; it awaits the solution in yonder life.” (Christian Dogmatics, F. Pieper, vol. I, page 33).