----- Original Message ----- From: "JDG" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Killer Bs Discussion" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, August 08, 2004 6:32 PM Subject: Re: Objective Evil
> > O.k., given your proposed definition of "Catholic", how do you define > "Protestant"? Are Protestants just simply a sect within the Catholic > Church? Sure, that's easy. Protestants are those folks who willingly and deliberately maintain a separation from the Catholic church. I, for example, make a point of the fact that I use a Catholic bible. I strongly disagree with double predestination. I tend towards the Catholic view of prayers for the dead. I chide my Presbyterian friends for minimizing the importance of the Communion of Saints. As best I can discern, the Spirit is working from the ground up to bring the church into closer union. I do not feel the desire or the need to renounce my Catholic tradition of faith in order to be a member of a church that is not Catholic. Indeed, talking to one of the priests at St. Anthony, I found the rule is that I can be members of a Catholic parish and a Protestant church; I just cannot be an active officer of both at the same time. So, while I served as an elder, I couldn't also be a lector at the Catholic church. I could still be a member, though. Dan M. _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
