(December 27, 2014 at 7:41 am)fr0d0 Wrote: Yay!!
At first I was confused, then I was petrified....
Yeah I get you Lambert. You have the usual batch of misconceptions with some wild sauce thrown in, but I'm warming to you.
"Catholicism" capital "C" is indeed a thing beyond it's original all encompassing meaning (small "c"). The clergy took away that dangerous direct contact with the deity, forced Latin only to keep the riff raff out of the top jobs, and many many other departures from the faith they choose to call " original ". Martin Luther, what a hero! *sigh*.
Still, as a Christian, I regards Catholics as sisters and brothers in Christ (more than "Christian" as my friends here correctly point out encompasses anyone following Jesus yet not necessarily acknowledging his deity).
You seem a fungi and I look forward to seeing more fun posts
Yes I suppose catholic means universal but it became the name of the Church that Peter built on the rock of truth that Peter saw when he first identified this truth in Jesus then. I.e. "thou art the Christ," or how does that go again? I am not sure, but it was Peter's insight that became known as the Christ in us and that transformed the small c to a capital C and has befuddled the reader ever since. So now, the rock is truth that is prior by nature in us, and is for us to find as Catholic so that we can be the Christ as called to be in our own right as Catholic.
So from here I would object to your idea of direct contact with the deity that commonly is known as 'born again' and then have a personal relationship with Jesus, I suppose, is what you might say, and call yourself a Christian.
I see this different and therefore do not agree that Catholics are Christian. Accordingly, Catholics are never urged to become one and if anything they are protected from becoming one inside the fold where indeed the shepherd-sheep relationship is a good example of what Catholics are mean to be. And yes, they used Latin to obscure the flock from the pitfalls of literalism that would draw them in and fornicate their own integrity as Catholic, and now we need that capital C for sure lest they violate themselves as per John 1:13 where only those who are called by God will qualify as worthy to receive, . . . and then will no longer be Catholic but are Jesuit-by-nature called instead.
To be blunt, what identifies Christians most is their personal relationship with Christ, or Jesus, I am not sure, but they sure have the urge to preach and share the special feeling they have as born again. It seems, or so they say, that they are called to share the good news and want others to feel that too.
