eccentric_rambler wrote: ↑Mon Jan 01, 2024 1:44 pm
Respect seems quite important to you, Falco, you have used the word multiple times in this thread. I think an honest rereading of JM's post (the only place I think it is possible to (mis)interpret his words as an ad hominem attack) shows that he refused respect to the organization you were demanding respect for, not to you. Please do read from James and consider the passage in light of your comments in this thread.
Judas Maccabeus wrote: ↑Sun Dec 31, 2023 9:03 pm
You expect respect for the Church of Rome? I might consider it when the institution is repentant of all that it has done to us and others, and seeks to make right its sins against us. The first step would to give us back the documents that were stolen from us, that almost certainly reside in the Vatican library.
Until that happens, I feel free to consider the Church of Rome an unrepentant sinner. Not to mention what the institution did to several of my friends, it is all covered in the Maryland Attorney General's report. So what does the Church of Rome do? Declares bankruptcy so it does NOT have to pay the legal claims it certainly owes.
You want respect? The institution has none.
Off to get some work done now. I have not the luxury of spending the rest of the day here.
How are your reading comprehension skills? “You want respect? Is directed at
me, ad hominem, followed by sophistic deflection.
If you want to make respect for me a topic of your conversation you had better make sure you make it crystal clear you have it, because I will not appreciate any equivocations.
Plus, I never asked JM to respect the Church of Rome. I couldn’t care less whether he does one way or the other. That’s his business. But how he expresses that disrespect for the Church of Rome to me
IS my business. I don’t excuse anyone unloading their vindictive hatreds of any institution towards to me, regardless of what it is they hate. He was acting like an arrogant fool, and I let him know it.
That goes for every last one of you on this forum.
Also, even if you or anyone on this forum hates the Catholic Church, open hatred and disrespect is not what Menno Simons taught. He always insisted it was out of love that he separated from Rome.
1 John 2:11 applies even to Mennonites who think of themselves as good Christians . . .
Whoever hates his brother is in the darkness and walks around in the darkness; he does not know where he is going, because the darkness has blinded him.