Good Works & what Weber actually wrote

[David Morris]

>From: Terrance Flaherty <lycidas2 at earthlink.net>
>
>As wrong-headed as my post may have been, MalignD did not address what I 
>wrote at all, but only provided an analysis, no a summation of "works" and 
>"the calling" that is one of the standard critiques of Weber's text. I 
>never mentioned Calvin or Luther, but used, as Weber does, the term 
>Protestantism generally, and I noted that I was generalizing and thus 
>conflating the terms to address what was what I suspected and still do, a 
>rhetorical question constructed to conceal a more open and hostile 
>anti-Catholicism that has been permitted here on this list, even sanctioned 
>and sanctified by quotations from GR torn out of context.

God knows what you mean by "hostile anti-Catholicism" on this list.  
EVERYTHING is subject to critical analysis, including Roman Catholicism.

>[...] I let myself get angry because the NY Times (and I note this Sunday 
>the same thing) has run the War in Israel and the Catholic priests on the 
>front page for a month. And the war is getting worse by the day, as is the 
>coverage by the times and the Catholics are being bashed about on Saturday 
>Night Live, in Hollywood, on the front pages, and even at mass by madmen 
>with guns. So what else is new in America.

The Roman Catholic Church in the US is now reaping deserved scrutiny and 
criticism for the many years its hierarchy knowingly allowed Pedophilic 
Priests to abuse children unchecked.  Its about F-in' time this happened, 
and it's in no way "bashing."

David Morris

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