PED:
I do not include new people to the forum in this, who are asking honest questions and engaging in robust debate (as long as there is no blasphemy or other insult to the Father).
Yeah, like trans-dressing men wearing horns and pretending to be nuns. Surely no one on a trad Catholic forum would take that to be blasphemy. Just a bunch of close buddies having fun.
And, of course, the best way to deal with a pagan, Islam, or Protestant is to talk to them and learn what you are missing. The Catholic Church didn't get everything right, ya know?
Lighthouse, what is your point? Are you against novus ordo catholics talking to traditional catholics? We have the same history and heritage. I was baptized in 1957 and the last time i checked that was before the Vatican, i even recieved communion prior to the changes in the Vatican. Why would you separate yourself from me? I don't separate my brothers and sisters in the old order church (guess that is the opposite of new order church).
The best way to deal with a pagan, etc., you are absolutely right and that is to listen to them! The church of old did exactly that in the 1600s at the Salinas Missions in New Mexico as an example. The best tool for evangelization and to offer people the message of Our Lord Jesus is to put it in terms that are culturally and socially sensible. Talking to pagans, protestants and even novus ordo catholics is also about building trust which creates an openess and love to actuallly hear and understand.. and that is the point of conversion.
If I am misunderstanding your intent (i.e if you are just being sarcastic in a humourous way I apologize for my understanding)...but your comments are confusing. (and I thought I'm supposed to be the trickster :)
Bruce