tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8748170852538098656.post5093734149307752319..comments2024-01-18T16:58:05.201-08:00Comments on What Athol Wrote...: Confused By CatholicismAthol Dicksonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13946058024343277304noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8748170852538098656.post-28651729640643699232007-07-17T18:05:00.000-07:002007-07-17T18:05:00.000-07:00Great food for thought here and on your blog in ge...Great food for thought here and on your blog in general Athol. In April I made the decision to go back to the Catholic Church and will be starting up RCIA in September. Benedict's words do trouble me, but then I read his beautiful work, Jesus of Nazareth (if you haven't already bought I copy, I highly recommend it) and think, "This man is the greatest theologian living today."<BR/><BR/>Ah, well. I don't pretend to have the answer to this or much else, save Christ and Him crucified.lisa samsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01123288055675653436noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8748170852538098656.post-15456852899861280892007-07-13T16:38:00.000-07:002007-07-13T16:38:00.000-07:00Mr. Brisbin, I too am perplexed by your father's s...Mr. Brisbin, I too am perplexed by your father's strange positions on Judaism and Catholicism. It seems he does not appreciate the ironic fact that both belief systems rely upon the assertion of spiritual inheritance, Jews claiming legitimacy from Abraham, and Catholics from Peter. His would be a much more consistent position if he either denied or endorsed them both equally for that reason.<BR/><BR/>Your comments inspired several other thoughts on my part, which would take too much space to enter into here, so I will instead post another blog on this subject.<BR/><BR/>Thanks for the inspiration!Athol Dicksonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13946058024343277304noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8748170852538098656.post-77733890014036495732007-07-13T07:31:00.000-07:002007-07-13T07:31:00.000-07:00For some reason, my father has glommed onto the id...For some reason, my father has glommed onto the idea that Catholics are not Christians. That the single greatest threat to Christianity (besides Dan Brown...oh, wait a minute, that was a fad, who's Dan Brown again?) is Catholicism. Oddly, they're also flaming Zionists and think we should treat Israel differently than we do any other country. Even though you point out here some discrepancies, it still seems to me that Catholics would be closer to real salvation (i.e. faith in Jesus as the Son and Saviour) than would Jews, no matter what your interpretation of them still being the "chosen" people is. It seems strange to me that they're willing to support people that are miles and eons away from real Christianity, but vilify as nigh on evil those that are, in fact, Christians themselves, though they differ from Protestants on many non-essential points.<BR/><BR/>He's not alone in feeling this animosity towards Catholics. They provided us a subscription to this newsletter called the "Berean Call" and I have mixed feelings on their attitudes. They call the Catholic church the "whore of Babylon" which doesn't sound like a very Christian attitude to me. To tell the truth, I'm getting a little worried because either I'm too open-minded in my views and wandering astray into a netherworld of theological limbo because I just don't understand things well enough, or their attitude toward Catholics is, in point of fact, as hateful as it sounds. I can't decide because my Dad is a very astute amateur theologian. But something just doesn't sound right to me in the heaviness of heart that his arguments create. The nihilism of a huge segment of Protestants is beginning to worry me.<BR/><BR/>The sky is falling! The sky is falling!<BR/><BR/>Am I worrying unnecessarily?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com