Brakelite is SDA. As far as I can tell he has never admitted belonging to the SDA church, yet he preaches SDA doctrine from the shadows. I am honest about being Catholic.
Brakelite criticizes the Catholic Church, as an institution, but he does so through his institution! His ideas about Catholicism are not his own, nor are they original. He is as programmed in his thinking as he claims Catholics are programmed by the Vatican. Irony is dead!
I am just pointing out what I am seeing - nothing personal
Just as an example, here is a link
USA shouldn't ban any "religion"?? to a thread from 3 years ago where I openly discussed the issue of religious freedom with a Catholic on this site who has since left us. In this thread I didn't "preach from the shadows". I openly declared my allegiance to the SDA church. As I have done elsewhere. Your inference is that I am ashamed maybe of being an Adventist?
The arguments I presented in that specific thread are not Adventist doctrine. Nor are they delivered as an institutional perspective. I, along with dare I suggest,
every other Christian member of this board, Catholics included, am strongly in favour of religious liberty, until others exercising 'their liberty' impinge on the rights of others. What I presented in that thread was
Catholic sourced information on their
own Catholic policy on religious liberty. So while I am sure you personally are in favour of religious freedom, as we all are, it appears your church's official policy
and practice in that respect, are quite different. Now I do not know what kind of mental gymnastics one needs to do to reconcile one's membership and allegiance to a church whose policy is the opposite to personal conviction on such a matter as this but I have yet to witness anything from Catholics other than outright denial of their own church's written documentation, and a denial of church history which their
own church attests is correct.
The other option of course which I witness constantly is "he's just parroting the teachings of EGW"...or "it's understandable he teaches that - he's an adventist'... such reasoning and obfuscation and diversion is standard practice when unwilling to face anything that makes one uncomfortable.
You are absolutely correct in one thing at least...quote...
His ideas about Catholicism are not his own, nor are they original...so true. MY ideas about Catholicism are not my own. They're Catholic.