Some of the questions posted that put Catholics and Evangelicals at odds -- the ones with the main point being "Catholics aren't really Christians", either overtly or up-front -- elicit amens asserting that Evangelicals don't have "all that dogma", implying that's reason of itself to label Catholics non-Christian, un-Christian, or at the very limits of charity "maybe some of them are ...".
"Dogma" is simply defined as a body of beliefs. Presumably Evangelicals have dogmas, otherwise it would be difficult to articulate their common faith and from what I see that's not a problem. Is "all that dogma" just a shorthand way of saying there are particular points of Catholic dogma you take issue with (which I understand, as a convert to Catholicism), or do you truly believe there's no dogma in your own faith? Without a body of beliefs, a creed if you will (formal or not), wouldn't everybody just be winging it?
No disrespect or offense intended, just looking to clarify terminology.
2007-05-19
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