Reply #75: Let me begin with one word: Paragraphs.

[trotsky]

They are your friend.

They help collect common thoughts and put them together in a more readable unit.

You should try using them.

Seriously.

But anyway, I find it frustrating that you continue to dodge the central issue here: you are declaring what is a Christian (only a Catholic, obviously) based on a particular interpretation of a book. Do you admit there is the possibility that you (or Catholic scholars of the present or past) could be wrong?

And quite frankly, your thinking exemplifies the No True Scotsman fallacy. Like a Scotsman (one who is from Scotland), there is a basic, generic definition of Christian: one who believes in the divinity of and redemption through Jesus. Apart from that, all bets are off. Do true Scotsmen put sugar on their porridge? Well, that depends on one's personal spin on what attributes a Scotsman should have. Do true Christians support abortion rights? This ALSO depends on one's personal spin on a definition. And because it has the additional baggage of being based on an interpretation of a retranslation of a translation of a compilation of an editing of a transcription of a retelling of an oral story passed through several hundred people, you really have no firm ground on which to stand, even if you have personally declared one particular interpretation the lone true and correct one, and are backed up by the writings of the employees of an institution that viciously murdered or tortured those who disagreed. Oh, and about billion other people alive today who ALSO claim the label "Christian" disagree with you (and each other, of course).

So your quote that:

We have the template, all we have to do is follow it.

Is ridiculous on its face - you are basically saying that Catholicism is the one true religion, and everyone else in the world simply fails to follow it.

Finally, I have one very specific question that I would like you to answer: Do you, personally, support abortion rights?