Posted on 11/05/2009 9:54:04 PM PST by Judith Anne
Time for me to leave FR.
After 9 years, I would hope no one else would take my name, but if they do, it isn't me. GrannyK is also not me, although I used that name on Lucianne for years before joining FR. Someone else is using it here, now.
Please delete my login password.
Hang in there hun — there are a lot of Catholics who post here a lot.
Please wait for me to ping them to you
self imposed purgatory?
Hey, did you know that the plural of Opus is Opera?
I have seen no overt anti-catholic bias. As a matter of fact I am working on becoming catholic. Please stay, but understand that this is a political site, not a religious site.
Stay and fight the bigots. If people like you and me and others who get offended for having beliefs that aren't "acceptable" to supposed "conservatives," all the good folks will have left, and only the bigots will remain.
I have issues with some of the beliefs that float around here, but there's no other place on the net with so much good information and interesting posters.
Don't let the few jerks win. I've been coming here since 2001, folks like us and those who have been here even longer need to stay and not be chased out.
Stay and fight for your side.
If you have a ping list, this is the time my FReind.
Hey, there are some of us Catholics still here. I usually just ignore the ignorant anti-Catholics, esp those who say we don’t believe in Christ as the way et al. They’re idiots, but they’re also a tiny minority. Far many more good posters and good info here. Would be a shame to lose you!
Aw, come on. I can actually read their stuff and pray for them now. There are new ones occasionally but most of them eventually go away because they know they can’t beat us, we are too well informed.
Catholic-Been here since 98-haven’t seen it. If anything it seems like this place has become more Catholic since then with all the “Daily word of the day” type stuff. I bash CINOS and weak spineless officials all the time and have been accused of being anti-RC at times when Im really just after the cinos.
It is her not me — I will stand by, friend.
tiki, I get the feeling that you are someone I would really like in almost any situation.
:)
Chick is not allowed at all on the Religion Forum whether as a source or as a pejorative.
Don't let the mal-contents win, stay and fight. And if your leaving because you got your feelings hurt by someone who disagrees with you, perhaps you shouldn't be so thin skinned on the matter.
Well anyway have a nice opus and a hot cup of grow up.
PS, if you think they are against you try being a free and accepted druid, geeeze.
As a convert to Catholicism from protestantism, I speak from personal experience when I say that some of the most vile, desperate, and bigoted attacks on the Church are ironically made by those closest to converting. The positive example that you and those like you make here in defense of the Faith will reap more for the Glory of God than you can know in this world, but thankfully you will given a full account in the next. I hope that you will rethink your departure.
I was checking out your in forum posts. So people disagreed with you. You don’t run away when they do that. They WILL do that on FreeRepublic. It keeps the ‘free’ in the Republic.
Quit being a quitter.
There are always a few jerks around that you just have to force yourself to ignore. Don’t let them get to you.
Judith,
As a Catholic and Freeper, I encourage you to stay. Like others have suggested, there’s no overt anti-Catholic sentiments on FR. In fact, I always thought FR was quite pro-Catholic.
Yours in Christ.
It’s not bad here if you just stay out of the religion forum. I more or less gave up on that a few years back.
Fleeing from anonymous bigots only makes them feel empowered. Stay with us.
Judith Anne, I hope you change your mind.
You’ll be missed on the dog threads.
If you do move on, I wish all the best for you.
Let us know where you land if you can.
We all know the two little sweethearts who have finally broken the camel’s back for you. You just have to understand what miserable people they are. They spend all their time insulting and belittling Catholics.
I haven’t responded to them for years. They are the type who would pull the wings off of butterflies and take candy from babies. They are thoroughly unpleasant and I don’t think I’d like them if they were Catholic but thankfully the Bible doesn’t say that we have to LIKE people, phew.
You are an honest to God (or whatever the appropriate term is) druid? Ya d@mn pagan! /joke, sorry, couldn’t resist.
Seriously, not a lot of you around, are there? I’ve met a honest to Odin Odinist, but never a druid.
I’m RC, but would be interested to know what a druid really believes. My knowledge there is slight outside of pop culture (guaranteed distortion) and a little reading way back when.
PS Not going to convert, been full circle from RC to Protestant to deist to atheist and back to RC. Just curious is all.
Well, thank you!
Huh... I’m not a Catholic but I have been to a few Catholic services lately and I thought they were terrific... more modernized, and different, than I expected. They had some really excellent singers, too. I checked out your postings history and believe that you are a good and strong freeper. Don’t let the whack jobs win. Stick around and keep smiling.
FRegards,
LH
I’m a proud catholic conservative and post on here from time to time.
Judith Anne, I hope you’ll stay. Sometimes it’s best to take a break from the “discussions” of Catholicism and stick to the politics threads. The religion threads can get discouraging. There is so much misinformation about us out there, and a lot of un-Christian behavior. Actually, I think it’s Projection. But, like St. Paul, we must keep fighting the good fight and running the race. Just being you, a Catholic, on the other non-religious threads is keeping the leaven in the bread.
Whatever you decide, may God be with you always and may you feel His love in a tangible way every single day. I ask this for you in the name of Jesus Christ.
There was a religion survey done not too long ago and the majority of FReepers who responded were Catholics.
I’m Lutheran/Evangelical/Charismatic (I’m saved by Christ, that’s what I know....) and I love and embrace true Catholicism, and I ADORE Pope Ratzinger. My Boy Scout has his meetings at the local parish and I pray for him every time I pass his photo.
You’re right, the mud slinging here makes me sick. To quote (Catholic) Hugh Hewitt, “It’s not like there’s a shortage of targets out there, we should NOT be turning on each other!”
The devil is using our doctrinal differences, however minor, to distract us from the actual threats to the work of the Holy Spirit, and that’s him and his minions. It seems that that’s his third choice. His first would be to kill us. Failing that, he’d tempt us into hideous sin. Failing that, he distracts and divides us.
The time is coming shortly where we won’t have time for our doctrinal distractions, as anyone who names the name of Jesus Christ as Lord will face persecution and death. Then very quickly we’ll be neither Protestant nor Catholic, but wheat or chaff.
Take a break for a while, then come back and lurk or just post on the lighter threads.
Hugs,
OTAC
Oh, and my SECOND favorite site is Spiritdaily.com!
Try being Mormon on here.
“...some of the most vile, desperate, and bigoted attacks on the Church are ironically made by those closest to converting.”
Thank you for that post, Ronaldus Magnus. That’s very hopeful. I would love to hear your conversion story. May God bless you always.
Whoops, I accidentally replied to post #2 instead of #1. Thanks for letting me know.
I hope you stay Judith Anne.
Judith, again? don’t you opus every 6 months or so. this is like the 3rd time I know of
No I was being facetious, (a big word for me) the whole dancing around a tree naked, would be the death from humiliation thing for me. Self deprecating humor is my stik but there are limits to that.
For the past few years I’ve avoided like the plague posting on the religious threads, interesting and educational as they may be. You’d be better off restricting yourself to the political threads.
There is a terrible bias both to Catholics and Mormons that is beyond the pale and not in keeping with anything one would call Christian, as in a follower of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. Some reflect poorly on both Christianity and conservatism, and reinforce the worst of both stereotypes.
And, to make matters worse, the Religious Mods are worthless. If you call someone for bigotry the mod will go after you, instead of the very obvious bigot. Or if one ninny decides a political thread is religious (however tenuous the connection) they will run to the mod to block anyone not of the tenuously identified religious group. Oh, without changing the title to warn anyone.
If you stick to the political threads, FR is a great experience. The religious threads not so much.
Don’t leave because of Catholic bashing. When that stuff happens, that’s when FR needs you most. To paraphrase the Bible, what glory is there in promoting your faith to those who already believe? Promote your faith among the skeptics and scoffers - that’s where the real glory is.
I’m very sad to see Judith Anne go, she is an excellent poster with good humor and spirit.
The ant-Catholic hatred is out of control.
I’m not sure why the Religion Forum is the Wild Wild West of Free Republic. Perhaps we can institute some minimum standards of respect for other people’s religions (at least the major ones, lol, Scientology, etc. doesn’t really count).
There is a devoted cadre of vile posters who use the rules of the religion forum where you can’t “make it personal” but you can call other’s religion a cult and every other nasty name they can think of as long as they’re talking about the Catholic Church.
Frankly, it’s an embarrassment and I wonder how many people we lose who decide to never post here because of it.
i thought it was opis... third declension, like lex/legis...
Believe my Judith Anne, I understand your feelings.
The funny thing is in a recent poll Catholics outnumbered every other group by a great deal here on FR.
But we NEED you, please don’t give up.
Maybe take a hiatus from posting on theology.
i am an ex-Catholic... but very Catholic friendly... i've been a Protestant for many years... however, the more i have learned through being a Protestant, and the more i study history, the more i am feeling a call back to Catholicism... i'm not there yet, but i won't be surprised if it happens...
Judith Anne,
You may not remember me, but I pinged you long ago. I told you that every time I saw your screenname, I smiled, because my mother’s name was Judith Anne.
And tonight I learn that you were known as GrannyK? Well, my children called my mother Granny. I’m smiling at that, as well.
Please don’t leave FR. I have always enjoyed your warmth and spirit. Don’t let others drive you away. You will be missed, I promise!
Yikes! I hope "dude" is cool...
It would be a shame if your calm and rational voice left Free Republic.
i’m sorry... i was wrong... it would be opus/operis... and then the plural in the nominative, accusative and vocative is opera! i am studying Latin at this time... slowly but surely... thanks!
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