smokey 1 says:
[QUOTE] What is it about the Catholic Church that just pisses you off? I'm not going to debate doctrine with you because like I said earlier, I'm not going to change your mind and your not going to change mine. But what do you have against the Catholic Church? Why do you care so much about the Catholic Church that you take any chance you are given to attack it?[QUOTE]
Since you are unwilling to debate doctrine, it seems to me that you are thus unable to enter into any kind of substantive discussion regarding what the Catholic church believes and teaches. "Doctrine" is not a mysterious word by any means, since it basically just means "teaching." DOCTRINE is what the Catholic Church is about. DOCTRINE is what defines the Catholic Church. The Catholic Church's catechism is a 1.5-inch thick book packed from cover to cover with--guess what--DOCTRINE. There IS no Catholic Church without DOCTRINE.
I must therefore conclude that you are not willing to follow the imperative set forth by the Apostle (and alleged first Pope) Peter, when he wrote these instructions to Christians:
I. Peter 3:15:
15 But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts: and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear:
16 Having a good conscience; that, whereas they speak evil of you, as of evildoers, they may be ashamed that falsely accuse your good conversation in Christ.
You apparently regard me as an "evildoer" in light of my criticism of the Catholic Church. Are you ready, then, as Peter tells you to be, to "give an answer for reason of the hope that is in you"??
Or is there perhaps some Catholic DOCTRINE that would inhibit you from defending your faith through means other than insult?