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**ButKnillinoi** · 07-09-2010, 02:13 AM

What we have here is another complete failure to begin to understand the Orthodox Church. I find Fr. Taft's comments extremely condescending.

I have three sisters. If I try to group them in to some artificial superset of "female siblings" and call THAT my "sister", then I am doing what Fr. Taft is attempting to do with the Orthodox Churches. He is basically grouping random words into proper sentences and using proper grammar. Although they vaguely resemble cogent thoughts, they are ultimately meaningless. Let's just kiss and make up and ignore the elephant in the sanctuary.

To "accept" the Roman Church means accepting Papal perogatives of infallibility (however one chooses to define it and no two Catholics seem to define it in the same manner) and supremecy, unless the Vatican specifically chooses to renounce them. Until that happens there can be no "unity", plain and simple no matter how many happy little platitudes and obfuscations you throw out there.

Herman the "eschew obfuscation" Pooh

07-09-2010, 02:13 AM	#5
ButKnillinoi Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 495 Senior Member	What we have here is another complete failure to begin to understand the Orthodox Church. I find Fr. Taft's comments extremely condescending. I have three sisters. If I try to group them in to some artificial superset of "female siblings" and call THAT my "sister", then I am doing what Fr. Taft is attempting to do with the Orthodox Churches. He is basically grouping random words into proper sentences and using proper grammar. Although they vaguely resemble cogent thoughts, they are ultimately meaningless. Let's just kiss and make up and ignore the elephant in the sanctuary. To "accept" the Roman Church means accepting Papal perogatives of infallibility (however one chooses to define it and no two Catholics seem to define it in the same manner) and supremecy, unless the Vatican specifically chooses to renounce them. Until that happens there can be no "unity", plain and simple no matter how many happy little platitudes and obfuscations you throw out there. Herman the "eschew obfuscation" Pooh
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