Sarah wrote: > > You expect me to respect your Catholicism and your criticism, but you > won't respect my atheism or my criticism.
Have I said I do not respect your atheism? Have I ever said you must believe as I do? No, I haven't. I don't feel that way. On the contrary, I've said each person has her or his own path to find, and each path deserves respect, even when it cannot be understood. Even when it seems nuts. It might just be my lack of knowledge that makes it look that way. Humility humility humility. You seem to be confusing respect with agreement. I don't agree with your view on the war. However, I show my respect for your opinion by not complaining about, for example, the biased opinion pieces you keep posting and labeling as "articles", which implies in journalistic terms it's objective writing; commentaries are not articles as you well know. However, post away! So I think you've been shown a much greater amount of respect (not agreement, RESPECT) than you appreciate. You obviously have little understanding of the Catholic Church. I said infallibility has been used ONCE in the history of the Church and that is exactly what I meant. So why you keep arguing as though you know all about it is a mystery to me. And you continue to not listen when people who do have first-hand knowledge have something to say about it all. It is not your lack of agreement with me that bothers me, it is your disdain for something you only know the surface of that does bother me. A lot. To the point where I'm angry about it. If your disdain for something you know little about is your way of expressing the value of your atheism, well, surely there's a more positive way for you to do that. Trashing something you don't even know about in order to prove your position just makes you look fearful of the value of your position. And why do you need to explain your atheism anyway? Who other than you cares about it? My mention of the Catholic Church is to counter the inaccurate information being posted. Otherwise, really, I have no need to give speeches about what it means, for me, to be a Catholic. So sputter and spit if you wish, that's all I have to say about it. Debra Shea