Reply #30: There is nothing to stop [View All]

[Dorian Gray]

anyone from claiming they are representatives of any faith. With Protestantism, because of the MANY MANY churches that make up Protestantism, it's more difficult to control. With the structure of the Catholic Church, if someone spews heresies, the Pope or representatives of the Vatican will always respond to that. With Falwell, because he actually doesn't represent the majority of Protestantism, I just assume that people don't respond because they expect people to know that his words do not represent the theology of the Methodists/Lutherans/Quakers/Anglicans/etc.

(I wrote more of my thoughts out in another post, so you can see what I think of the situation a little more clearly!) Please don't think that I am defending anybody who believes or follows Falwell. He's a charlatan.

And, I suspect that he's not around so much now because he was seriously ill and hospitalized. As a Catholic, I am happy and relieved that I won't have to see his mug on television in response to the Pope's passing.