Saturday, June 07, 2008

"What Protestants & Catholics Can Learn From Each Other"

I just ran across a DVD entitled "Common Ground: What Protestants & Catholics Can Learn From Each Other."

Lest anyone think I'm deficient in my ecumenical sympathies, I'd be the first to admit that Catholics and Protestants have a lot to learn from each other. We just need to be good listeners, that's all.

In particular, Catholics can learn that we're right while we can learn that they're wrong.

10 comments:

  1. OM-. If you are so clearly right, why does it have to depend on reading the text to ascertain this? Why can you and Dave Armstrong have a Mt Carmel showdown to demonstrate this objectively and empirically?

    When I read how bad theology plays out in the bible (long periods of apostasy punctuated by miracles) I have to agree that the likeliest explanation is that the "miracles" are priestcraft and scare stories. It just doesn't make sense to depend on something as inefficient as a text (or a magesterium for that matter) to spread "orthodoxy".

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  2. Don't you have a life, Thnuh? I mean beyond responding to any post on any topic with personal opinion devoid of actual argumentation? Isn't there a book you could be reading, time in the sun you could be spending, or even video games you could be conquering?

    I'm just wondering.

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  3. Steve, I see that some people think that you were joking here. I know that you were deadly serious about Catholics being wrong. It is such a broad category though. Where to begin?

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  4. Point taken PP. As a matter of fact, I was trying to be generous - sacrificing my valuable time to give *you* all a life, so that you would no longer *waste* it by talking to tomatoes and walking with potatoes up and down the produce aisle.
    But I see my efforts are futile. So be it.

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  5. John Bugay said:

    "Steve, I see that some people think that you were joking here. I know that you were deadly serious about Catholics being wrong. It is such a broad category though. Where to begin?"

    Satire is the art of making a serious point through humor—from slapstick through deadpan.

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  6. "Steve, I see that some people think that you were joking here. I know that you were deadly serious about Catholics being wrong. It is such a broad category though. Where to begin?"

    I saw that he was being serious too, though in a smart way.

    I would also completely agree with him in his assessment.

    Calling RC's "our brothers and sisters in Christ" gives them comfort in where they are at. If they are not our brethren, however, then calling them brothers and sisters is the worst thing that you could tell them, and their blood will be on our hands (Ezekiel 3:18).

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  7. Post-Vatican II catholicism has been content to consider Protestants their "separated brethren". However, we were also separated brethren Pre-Vatican II...they liked separating Protestants' heads from their shoulders.

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  8. I was most amused by Steve's closing line:

    "In particular, Catholics can learn that we're right while we can learn that they're wrong."

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