Rick Warren And Catholics Together

The Heidelblog ^ | December 10, 2014 | R. Scott Clark

[NKP_Vet]

The vast majority of protestants never set foot in the front door of a church. Some just because they don’t feel like it’s necessary to get to heaven and that’s exactly what they’ll tell you. Hundreds of thousands sit in front of a TV set and watch televangelists instead of going to church. The reason? The shyster tells them they don’t need to go to church, to just watch him and send their money to him. Catholics have an obligation of attending Mass each Sunday. If they don’t attend it’s a sin and has to be confessed before they go up for communion in a state of grace. Of course some ignore this requirement, but God knows who they are. But that is the rules, something protestants know nothing about because they have no rules.
And the number of Catholics come from parish records.

[boatbums]

When the Protestants rejected Romanist innovations they were not rejecting the ancient Christian faith, they were seeking to recover it.

The beauty of true Christianity is that God has ALWAYS had an elect remnant that remained true to the faith. Many of these believers, like many of the faithful ancient Jews, were persecuted and executed by the religious hierarchies of their day that cared more about power, influence and wealth than truth. Those who backed the Reformation were not all former Roman Catholics, but they WERE among the elect that remained faithful to the true faith because they followed Christ and not men.

[boatbums]

Careful, you're skating WAY too close to antisemitism and racism with comments like that.

[boatbums]

It’s pretty easy when you have ONE CATHOLIC CHURCH and 50,000 ecclesial communities that are not Christian churches

There are almost as many errors in that one sentance than there are words! LOL.

[boatbums]

You can have him!

[boatbums]

Not me. You read my postings. You know what I think of the protestant Francis mascarading as Catholic.

You're stuck with him! He's yours - mascara and all.

[boatbums]

Oh, my, what would all these protestants do if Rick Warren converted to Catholicism?

The same thing you guys do when a Roman Catholic converts to Protestantism?

[boatbums]

You spit out far too many generalizations like that for anyone to take what you say seriously. Failed Protestants often make the worst Protestant bashers around. I guess they have to rationalize their reasons for Poping by putting others down instead of finding joy in their own decision.

[daniel1212]

However, non-Catholics do not follow men like Catholics do. So if one goes over the edge, it does not drag the whole denomination down with it.

Except in cults, which RCs act more like who anxiously look to men as liberals look to their leader.

[metmom]

The vast majority of protestants never set foot in the front door of a church.

VAST majority?

Got stats to back that up?

Some just because they don’t feel like it’s necessary to get to heaven and that’s exactly what they’ll tell you.

I don't think it's necessary to go to church but I go anyway.

This is likely to be news to you, but sometimes people go because they WANT to go, not because they have to go, because they're threatened with mortal sin and damnation if they don't go.

Hundreds of thousands sit in front of a TV set and watch televangelists instead of going to church.

Links to stats on that one as well? Proof that they don't watch televangelists instead of going to church rather than in addition to going to church?

Catholics have an obligation of attending Mass each Sunday. If they don’t attend it’s a sin and has to be confessed before they go up for communion in a state of grace.

That's bondage right there. Don't go to church and you are threatened with hell.

And the number of Catholics come from parish records.

Which probably still include people like myself who haven't attended that parish in years. Because we've been told that once a Catholic, always a Catholic so to get their numbers, the Catholic church counts people who don't even attend any more. That's deceptive of the church to include all those people in its head count to inflate their numbers.

[GreensKeeperWillie]

Anti-Semitism as is a race/DNA of people or anti-Jewish as in the theology of rejecting Christ, the Logos, practical reason, the natural, moral order of the universe. Don’t get baited with hijacked language.

[GreensKeeperWillie]

Careful, you're skating WAY too close to antisemitism anti-Catholicism and racism bigotry with comments like that.

[af_vet_1981]

Most Jews could care less about abortion, one way or the other. Same goes for unnatural marriage. They could care less. About 90% vote for democrats.

Without conceding your first two points, your third is patently false.

[af_vet_1981]

Except in cults, which RCs act more like who anxiously look to men as liberals look to their leader.

1. Is Bill Gothard a cult leader ?
2. Is Ellen G. White a cult leader ?
3. Is Aimee Semple McPherson a cult leader ?
4. Which denomination do you choose to assemble with ?

[NKP_Vet]

Your problem is and always has been you have a problem dealing with the truth of Christianity and the Catholic Church. In that regard you are exactly like the rest of the Catholic haters on FR. If Rick Warren ever converted to Catholicism it would be for the same reason anyone else converts. They want to be part of the faith started by Jesus himself, the only faith that contains the fullness of the Christian faith.

[aMorePerfectUnion]

Pinging Daniel1212 to provide actual statistics, instead of NKP’s opinion posted here.

[aMorePerfectUnion]

While we are waiting for actual statistics for Protestant church attendance, you wrote this...

“Of course some ignore this requirement, but God knows who they are. But that is the rules, something protestants know nothin”

I would point out that “some” in Belgium is more than 80% of Catholics who are totally uninvolved. I’ve posted that statistic at least twice for you.

How are they considered members in your count?? If included, what does membership mean?

[Popman]

The vast majority of protestants Catholics never set foot in the front door of a church. Some just because they don’t feel like it’s necessary to get to heaven and that’s exactly what they’ll tell you.

Wow...you might want to extract your foot from your mouth

In the USA 24 % of Catholics attend mass weekly

http://cara.georgetown.edu/caraservices/requestedchurchstats.html

[Gamecock]

Certainly explains why so many Papist houses of worship are being turning Muzzie.

[daniel1212]

Is Bill Gothard a cult leader ? Is Ellen G. White a cult leader ? Is Aimee Semple McPherson a cult leader ? Which denomination do you choose to assemble with ?

Don't know much about Gothard, and McPherson was too flaky to be much of a cult leader, but White was. What i was referring to was uncritically anxiously looking to men as if they had unique powers, and none of the Baptist or non-denom churches i have been or gone to/go to after leaving RC ones 30 years ago were like that. If so, i would have left.