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Originally posted by GeekyPenguin
This is the most inappropriate thing I may have ever read on GreekChat and I can't believe it came from one of my own sisters. What on earth has led you to believe that Catholics are not Christian, which is precisely what your post is implying? [/B]
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I wasn't intending to be disrespectful.
Surely you could have PM'd me instead of calling me out on the board and bringing our sisterhood into this?
I have nothing against Catholic worshippers. I was baptized Catholic, most of my family is Catholic, my own father attends mass regularly and is actually employed at the parish. In this context, I meant to say "protestant". I guess, due to the fact that you are Catholic yourself (right?), you automatically thought I was saying that Catholics are not Christian. In fact, that is not what I said. I was merely trying to distinguish between Catholic and non-Catholic. Indeed, some people would assert that we are *all* "Catholic" as that word refers to the universal church.
Over here, when someone describes their religious practices they say "I am Catholic" or "I am a Christian" etc. No one says "I am a Protestant." Perhaps it is different in your part of the country? Further to that, "Church of God, Reformation Movement - Anderson, Indiana" seemed a little too cumbersome for my post.
I think you grossly misunderstood what I was saying. I apologize for offending you and others on this board through my incorrect word use. I assure you again that what you propose is not at all what I was trying to convey.
Now am I sad that I have unintentionally offended a sister and the whole spirit of my original post has been lost.
All I was trying to say with that last paragraph was that, even though he was not the leader of my particular denomination, I still admired him. Enough so that I stayed up all night and cried along with millions of others.
Please forgive my mistake.
.....Kelly