I dont believe a word of it.
I dont believe that all of a sudden the resistance is able to calmly and with humility explain its position.
Your priests dont even act the way you claim you have done after changing your ways.
Fr Pfeiffer for example claims that Pope Benedict 16th was a child murderer who sacrificed babies to the devil.
Surely now, in good conscience, you cannot have anything more to do with Fr Pfeiffer after these remarks IF what you say is true about your sudden conversion to charity.
It appears to me that SeanJohnson is speaking in his own name. Your reply makes no distinction between SeanJohnson and 'the resistance' in general.
Why do you speak of a 'sudden conversion to charity' ? Maybe you should read his post again, and try and apply it to yourself. Have you ever read anything of SeanJohnson that you found uncharitable ? Are you being fair and charitable yourself ?
Look, I am not against the Resitance in theory, but in practice it is becoming a hate filled secret cult who are tearing apart Catholics and who have made my local SSPX chapel an edgy cold subtle warzone. Everyone sees enemies everywhere else and I dont like it, this is not Catholic.
You never gave me the impression that you resist the new direction of the SSPX, not even in theory. And what good is your theory if in practice you can only moan and try to discredit others when they have the courage to act. Show us by example, how would you then resist the new direction of the SSPX ?
Whose fault is it that your local SSPX chapel has become a warzone ? Would you rather sit in a circle giving hands and sing 'kumbaya' ? Since when are Catholics supposed to be 'lovy dovy go with the flow' ? Could it be that the culprit of this division are those who are chasing the illusion of recognition and acceptance by Conciliar Rome ? Did you also blame the Archbishop for causing division in the Novus Ordo parishes ?
I notice that your resistance priests, who I am not convinced I should "support" financially or any other way, say that people should stay away from any mass that is not a resistance mass. I also notice that the prolific resistance poster neil obstat has more than once called the SSPX and Bishop Fellay "apostates".
Please do not equate one person for the whole. You may not have noticed, but there has been opposition to the 'style' of this one person you mention. Again, the resistance is not to be equated with one person. Why do you always make such silly generalizations ?
You remind me of a Jehova's Witness. When they have a bad experience, meet a bad Catholic or hear some silly story about one, all of a sudden each and every Catholic becomes evil. What poor reasoning !
I was previously banned from this forum for calling the SSPX a cult, but apparently calling them "Apostates" does not offend Matthews sensibilities as much as calling them a cult does. He knows, as you and everybody else also know but wont admit it publicaly, that IF the resistance is seen as a cult it will never get off the ground, and yet why the false charity?
I don't know your past history and experiences, but from what I hear from you now, I am not surprised. You seem to sling a lot of mud around, without any effort to be objective and charitable. Maybe you can learn something from the post you are replying to !
Why the phariseeism? Why have people think that all you need is to be an expert in doctrine to go to Heaven? It does not work like that. The second commandment of the new law is to love thy neighbor as thyself. Can the resistance supporters claim to do this, honestly? No. At the moment it is a paranoia filled cult which is tearing apart the SSPX. This is what the devil has done to the SSPX.
No, you don't need to be a theologian and canon lawyer to get to heaven, but you do need to know your Faith and have the courage to act upon it. If indeed you are against the new direction in the SSPX, have you spoken out yet, have you told your parish Priest, have you written to the Bishop, have you done anything, except moan about others who have tried to do something ?
I am really surprised that you can speak of 'paranoia filled cult' with regards to the resistance. Did you ever stop to think why the local SSPX priest tells the sheeple : don't listen to them, don't read anything else apart from what we give you, don't go to their talks, trust us, pay, pray and obey ! None of these things I have heard from any resistance priest. Can you pease explain your accusations, or are they just an easy way for you to vent your frustration ?
Whether the resistance are right or not is not clear yet, because no deal has been made with Rome, but I can see the resistance going down the sedevacantist path, and when that happens it will be another group like the CMRI and SSPV, who have no chance of influencing the Catholic church major, and who will believe that outside their own sect there is no salvation, which is wrong.
How can you agree with the resistance 'in theory' if you don't even understand the basics. Forget about 'the deal', it's unimportant, trivial, irrelevant. Because the SSPX has already changed, the damage is done, the fight is over, Rome has won and already had a big party to celebrate. Have you ever seen a cat play with her prey before finaly eating it ? Rome is the cat, the SSPX is the prey. Do you get the picture yet ?
Why don't you deal with the basics first ? Why do you keep fighting shadows ? Why distract those who are fighting for you ?