I am glad to hear that my sentiment was the least christian that has ever been expressed, but I never call myself a christian... you got that part wrong. I am a spiritualist, not a christian. I believe in much of what is in the Bible, and many of the things Christians believe in as God, I can relate to in spirituality, but I part with Christians on several things, mainly, the attempts to give God human attributes like 'caring' or 'loving' when God is omnipotent and has no need for human emotion or attribute. People are all different in their beliefs, including Catholics.
I like to pick on Catholics because I realize how much it tweaks their melons to be told they aren't Christians. Look at SF... he blew up the thread posting to me after that one! I loved it! Nothing like stirring the pot! The Protestant Reformation, and the assorted other Reformations which occurred throughout the middle ages, gave rise to numerous branches of Christianity.. you mentioned Southern Baptists... they alone, have over 150 denominations. There are many denominations of Catholics, and they all have different beliefs, things that make them distinct in their denomination, which set them apart from each other. Speaking from a neutral spiritual position without favor toward any particular religious belief, it seems the Catholics worship tradition and ritual, and Protestants worship spirit. Now it gets really deep, the differences between Catholicism and Protestant Christianity, and with varying degrees and through hundreds of denominations, it is clearly difficult to compare or debate the two, or speak in any sort of general terms. Therefore, this becomes a pointless debate, which makes it even more fun to throw out there, that Catholics aren't really Christians.
