It can stir up all kinds of emotions, yes. I can certainly get frustrated there, and it might border on angry sometimes. My spirit is often grieved.
I guess I don't understand why some people seem to have varying levels of animosity against Traditional Churches. Much of it is targeted at Catholics, but Orthodox get their share as well.
I remember a church I went to when I was 12 or so, and I was handed a very easy-believism OSAS answer. Years later when I seriously came to faith, I really questioned if I would have been damned if I had left it at their teaching, and I was bitter for a short time. But I got over that.
I wonder if the ones that are the most anti-Catholic or anti-Traditional are carrying that kind of grudge?
I really don't like my brother and sister's new church. It's barely a church at all - the music is often secular, there is no Scripture read, the sermon is a feel-good thing, and there is only one brief prayer that identifies it as being a church at all. "Not like" is too mild a term for how I feel about it. But. My brother and sister never went to church in their adult lives before, and they love this church, and my brother is reading the Bible. So ... I can't hate it. There is SOME value there (though I pray they continue to grow and move into something with more substance).
I've been in what feels like most of the denominations out there, and I have differences to some degree (sometimes a very great degree) with all of them. But ... I was on a path, and they all taught me SOMEthing. Even if in a couple of cases it was what not to do/believe. I guess I am thankful for the varying levels of light each of them possess, and while they do not suit me at all anymore ... I wouldn't make a campaign of posting hate-threads against them.
So no ... I don't get GT.
I can understand differences in belief. And even poor logic. But prejudices against the Church grieve my heart.
