Wow, this thread has gone bananas.
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I would only make the observation of the hypocrisy of many sedes, (but such hypocrisy also exists in the R&R camp too) who, seeing the problems of their theory, have rightly explored many variants in order to solve such problems, with each variant having a different name (sede-privationist, ecclesiatia-vacant, etc).
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Meanwhile, they view R&R as being 1, large, generic view, and offer it none of the same variant possibilities or equal ability to evolve.
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The fact is, sede-privationism is just a form of R&R. But people don’t want to agree on similarities but allow themselves to disagree over trivialities due to emotion and pride. Sad. If more Catholics would seek the truth instead of defending a clan, we'd have more peace amongst us. But human nature is what it is, so I won’t hold my breath.