It's cut and dry. When you recognize a Pope, you are bound to his decrees, teachings, encyclicals, universal ordinary magisterium., etc etc. One can't syphon what one deems to be Catholic.
So what do you say about those who do "siphon" -- I think you mean sift -- what one deems to be Catholic?
No, it's not cut and dried. Maybe in your mind, but you can't impose that "cut and dried"-ness on anyone else.
It is a
fact that there are many Traditional Catholics that vehemently disagree with you. Just look at the poll that is the topic of this thread! If the issue were truly "cut and dried", there would only be 2 real options in the poll. But how do you reconcile the fact that so many Trads reject your "cut and dried" sedevacantist answer to the problem?
1. Ignorance
2. Malice
But many who hold the other positions are well read and well informed about the issue. Myself, for example. I have run a forum for 12 years and have considered all the positions and arguments. But there are many others on CI easily as well informed as I. The majority of CI members aren't babes in the woods.
So none of these can claim ignorance about the issues surrounding sedevacantism. They are willfully choosing another path, when faced with the same data you're looking at. They're just focusing on another aspect of the crisis, and deciding that a different solution is better.
So you are left with: malice. And that is precisely the position of countless dogmatic sedevacantists, such as the Dimond Brothers, who decide to condemn all who don't see things their way.
If everyone who doesn't agree with you knows what he's doing, and the issue is completely black and white (such as being pro-abortion or pro-life) then they must be malicious. There is no other option.I don't believe the issue is black and white, and that's what allows me to not condemn my brethren in the Trad movement that disagree with me on this or that point.
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