That hasn’t been my experience at all. I’ve found **most **
of the posts responding to mine are terribly rude and condescending. Disagree all you want, but my opinion stands.And that would parallel my own experience on several n-C forums. So how does that make CAF somehow less?
Personal attacks are so very helpful in discussions like this, thank-you. When have I ever claimed to speak for the Church?
Are you always so touchy? That wasn’t an attack, but an observation and question meant to get you to think about the things you said.
If I wasn’t clear then I’m sorry.
Lastly, where did I even infer such? I didn’t and I wouldn’t because I know you can’t.
I expect personal opinion. I also expect personal opinion to be labeled as such. Too often people are criticized on this site for not taking the time to learn what the Catholic Church really teaches, by people who don’t take the time to learn what the Catholic Church really teaches.
So…your issue is that everyone here doesn’t know all there is to know and are still learning their faith?
Would you like to be held to that same standard and if you were, have you considered how you might measure up under your own critical eye?
My point here is that you seem to be setting a standard that none of us can measure up to in online exchanges and I think it’s unrealistic at best.
Well, I don’t know what forums you no longer post on, so I will have to take your word for it.
My only point is that I could make the same claim you have about them, and it means exactly nothing at all. I have yet to see ANY forum that is different, regardless of subject.
In fact it is a great deal harder to get good info from n-Cs since they have no central authority to appeal to. Where a Catholic can hit Vatican.va to get good info, the same cannot be said for n-cs just by nature of their diverse divisions.
No one seems to have control of that so it means an awful lot of sources to peruse…
Again…I think you want to hold up a standard that no one can attain to.
I can assure you that if I were the slightest bit unsure of a particular doctrine of the Catholic Church, I certainly would go to a reliable source, as opposed to an open forum. I would also make sure I got my facts straight before making a claim as to what the Church teaches.
So… you’ll never see me recommending anything less, but people have to learn, and dogging out the people here at CAF for not being every one a little pope or Bible scholar is kinda silly since I don’t know anyone on any religious forum that can make good on that claim.:ehh:
I just think that you guys are decrying something that you yourselves…
and none of us in fact…can measure up to and I don’t think it’s fair.
Besides, anyone here for any length of time will soon discover who the members are that actually know their faith and who does not. There’s plenty of good apologists on here, but they aren’t ALL the members here, and that shouldn’t be something griped about.
All of us Catholics are working to help each other to grow in the love of Christ and the knowledge of the faith.
I think you could cut 'em some slack since we’re all a work in progress.:yup:
and no pun intended.) Their opinions come form experience and their experiences provide not only some interesting thoughts and ideas, but a chance to perhaps clarify and perhaps simplify church teachings.