Posted on 09/02/2015 11:40:18 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Seems to make the point that they are ...out of place? .... odd? ....ummm .... QUEER !
Ask the question of those who were at Mass last Sunday, last month, last Christmas and Easter, and never, and watch how the breakdown changes.
See the charts posted on the link or this thread above.
From what I understand, if someone is baptized as a Catholic as a baby, they are considered Catholics until they regardless of their beliefs. So this is basically a poll of those who were baptized as Catholics as babies rather than those who go to church, correct?
RE: From what I understand, if someone is baptized as a Catholic as a baby, they are considered Catholics until they regardless of their beliefs. So this is basically a poll of those who were baptized as Catholics as babies rather than those who go to church, correct?
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I would tend to believe you but for one caveat -— I am certain that those whoa re polled will be asked — are you Roman Catholic?
If the answer is ‘Yes’, then they will be asked the questions asked in this poll. I don’t think the researchers will bother with those who answered ‘No’.
So, let’s say that a person was baptized Catholic as an infant but is now a member of the Southern Baptists or is now a Buddhist or Atheist. My feeling is they will answer ‘No’ to the question and hence, be EXCLUDED from the survey.
this raises a question I’ve had for years....
there is a big difference between tolerance/compassion/respect for others including a willingness to let them take their own decisions in life
versus
saying all of their possible decisions are just about as good or morally acceptable as any others
Stated differently,
there’s a big difference between peacefully letting homosexuals live together without any harm coming to them (and certainly not inflicting any harm), one the one hand.
............ and
approving of/wanting Church and state to sanction “gay marriage” ...on the other.
I am concerned that so many people apparently cannot draw this simple kind of distinction?
1 Thess 4:1-8 gives a command against sexual immorality. It concludes by saying that those who reject this command have rejected God. God has drawn a line in the sand. Those who approve of gay marriage, or unmarried co-habitation have rejected God.
polls conducted in the san francisco area
elsewhere in the country, the *vast* majority are opposed to homos in just about everything they do
we’re just forced to tolerate it by the fedgov
I was baptized as a baby but am no longer a Catholic no matter what the Catholic Church says, and if asked by some pollster to self identify I would never claim to be catholic.
The Catholic Church is not Christian?
No, you wouldn’t, but a lot of people, especially those who haven’t chosen some other church, would say they’re Catholic (even if they haven’t darkened the door of a church since the First Communion).
RE: The Catholic Church is not Christian?
Who said that?
Whitewashing what this is all about only paints immoral debauchery in nice terms rather than what they are - abominations hated by God!
Both in the Old Testament and the New Testament, the pagan society practiced these and all other kinds of sexual immorality but it was never considered anything but an abomination in the eyes of God, lest we find them offensive today.
We don't need polls to tell us, sinful man has never changed and neither has God.
Those who practice them are headed not to heaven with God but to an eternity in hell with the father of all lies!
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