[....] even Trad Cats fear being thought of as Racist. So while they can speak the truth about other things, certain truths are Verboten.
For several years now, I've summarized my attitude thus:
We are
believers of a particular
religion: traditional-by-the-grace-of-God
Roman Catholicism.
So by
definition:
•
Our religion has been established by docuмentation that extends back nearly 2
millennia [
#].
•
We don't need to give
[expletives deleted] about what outsiders think about
our beliefs.
• Nor are
we spiritually obligated to concede an
iota of
our beliefs to pander to the social or political advocacy of outsiders [×].
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Note
#: I was intrigued by a caller to a Christmas-or-Easter-motivated show of
Coast-to-Coast-A.M., who expressed the envy of either Hindus or Buddhists about the superior amount of
historical docuмentation that has survived to the present to reïnforce and more-or-less
prove Christian beliefs. Or at least to prove that Christian beliefs are indeed most likely exactly what Christians preach that they are. Notably including that when the
Christ spoke, he did
not preach the
killing of
apostates, nor anything like
jihad [××]. Not that I wish to put the spotlight on a particularly
diabolical political system that in modern times, masquerades as a religion.
Note ×:
We don't need to give
[expletives deleted] about criticism by outsiders that
Romans 1:26--32 is "bigoted", "mean-spirited", and "hateful" to people who identify with
Guac,
Lettuce,
Bacon, and
Tomato perversions. Which is not to say that I disparage the corresponding items in the list when simply identifying items of food.
Note ××: Believers might reasonably debate the reported
Beatitude "blessed are the
cheesemakers", but believers can be confident that neither "killing" and "
jihad" were advocated in the
Beatitudes of the
Christ.