A conversation with a Feeneyite
Feeneyite:
"You need to deny Baptism of Desire and Baptism of Blood"
Catholic responds:
"But the Council of Trent teaches this, how can I deny something taught by a Council?"
Feeneyite:
"No, the Council doesn't mean what it says, when it says 'Baptism or the Desire,' You need to trust my interpretation of the Council." Desire doesn't mean desire. I know what it really means."
Catholic responds:
"But why is it that every theologian who has commented on Trent all read it one way, that Trent teaches Baptism of Desire, when it taught with the words, "Baptism or the Desire...," yet you read it your own way and have not a single approved Catholic source since the Council of Trent that reads it the way you do?"
Feeneyite:
"Yes, but I understand Trent better than all the theologians and Catechisms since Trent. My reading comprehension and understanding of theology is also greater than the Holy Office. My superior reading comprehension makes it clear that when Trent taught " Baptism of the Desire for it," it really didn't mean that at all. I also have a cool theory that "desire" really means a vow, not a desire, even though no other approved and trained translator has ever translated it this way.
You should trust both my superior reading comprehension and my translating abilities and ignore all theologians, seminary manuals, catechisms and the Holy Office and put your trust in me!"
Catholic responds:
"Are you aware that you are talking just like every heretic in Church history?"
Feeneyite:
"No, this time is different, because i know this truth, and as I said, I know that when Trent said "desire" it didn't really mean "desire." It is for me to explain what Trent really meant, don't trust St. Alphonsus, the Holy Office, and so many other theologians on this, I know better. "
Catholic responds:
"If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, it's a duck. I won't follow you. You look like, talk like and act like every heretic in Church history. I have spotted you. I believe what the Catholic Church has taught in the Council of Trent, in its approved catechisms, in seminary manuals approved for the training of priests all across the world, in the writings of the approved theologians, and what the Holy Office taught. I running away from you."