chicowalker
Pro Bowl Player
- Joined
- Mar 9, 2010
- Messages
- 14,388
- Reaction score
- 503
Yes I am. I did 12 years of Catholic Education including Religion class every day through Elementary school and High School. learned Latin the whole gig. Have a few relatives who are Priests, my sister who is a Nun and so on. I know the difference between folks who actually take the Church seriously and those who are cafeteria catholics. ...
And?
...Calling someone who is a catholic because they actaually believe in their church strikes me as funny....
This doesn't make any sense. Did you leave out a word or phrase?
Even if you did, I'm not sure how it's going to be relevant to anything I've said.
...BTW I am not the one who started the namecalling others who attacked RI Pats Fans are.
WOnder why there name calling didn't bother you?...
I didn't see any name-calling, though I haven't read every post in this thread, as it became clear that a lot of it was about another poster rather than the topic.
I did see negative posts about him. It didn't bother me because I thought they were accurate in their depictions -- why pile on with ad hominems?
...Most likely they aren't as well versed. I know any number of people who are as well versed in Church teaching as RI Pats Fans. I went to school with a lot of them. ...
Great - so your experience was different than mine. That's all you needed to say in the first place...
...I also know lots of people who call themselves catholic who promote practices like abortion which are condemned by their church. ...
Yup.
...You chastise me for challenging the characterizing RI Pats Fan as an "exter catholic", yet you are silent about those how attack him?
Funny stuff guess you just enjoy stalking me. Or perhaps....
So which are exteme and which are mainstream?
Where did I chastise you? Sounds like you share some of that persecution complex.
and what is an "exter catholic"? I don't know what that means, I didn't see you characterize him as that and I didn't comment on you calling him that, let alone "chastise" you for it.
What I wrote actually partly agreed with you:
"OT: this may be accurate. But I don't think the truly mainstream Catholics in America are particularly well versed in the church's teachings.
The mainstream, from what I saw growing up, are much closer to what you've dubbed cafeteria Catholics."
So tell me, how is this chastising you, exactly? I was agreeing that RI understands the teachings of his church. But I was pointing out that, in my experience, that's not the case for mainstream (American) Catholics.
As for extreme versus mainstream, you'd probably need to examine beliefs of Catholics in America. Probably already been done, I'd imagine. I can't tell you what's extreme v mainstream, I can only tell you what I've seen in my life as an ex-Catholic.