Delirium wrote:
IdahoRose wrote:
Delirium wrote:
Do people on the Internet count? If so, I once saw this ultra-Catholic fundie on a message board. He denied the Holocaust ever happened, believed that the Catholic Church had been taken over by gay Marxist Jews, and thought everything was a Jewish conspiracy. He was batshit insane.
I wonder what happened to him. I hope he's getting help, since he seemed pretty unbalanced.
Greeeat. Another idiot (the guy on the forum, not you) adding on to the bad reputation of my religion. Either he was a troll, he was high or, as you said, he was really sick in the head.

He probably wouldn't think that you were a True Catholic. He was very traditionalist (the branch of Catholicism associated with Mel Gibson).
They aren't Roman Catholic though, which is what the term "Catholic" usually means. They're schismatic, so it's inaccurate to say that they're "ultra-Catholic" (though I am sure they would not mind--that is what they fancy themselves). They think Roman Catholics are under the influence of Satan. Also, I think that Mel Gibson's parish has not been conclusively shown to be a part of the SSPX. It can be confusing because there is a legitimate group of traditionalists who are known as FSSP and have approval for their traditional masses. The SSPX also call themselves traditionalists, but they are in schism. I have heard rumors that Mel and his clan are actually sedevacantists, which is yet another group which has separated itself from the Roman Catholic Church, as they believe that the seat of Peter is empty and the pope is a fake. However, I have seen no legitimate news articles that have cleared up the matter.
Sorry. That's one of my aspie interests, so I couldn't pass up the opportunity to share.
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