I love it when totally fallen away Catholics, now totally protestant, tell everyone what they ‘know’ to be the absolute truth about what a Catholic is, what he thinks, what it takes to be a member of the ‘Catholic club’, and who gets to define what.
nice try.
maybe it’s partly due to Jesus did not come to start a religion and all the joining and falling away and bickering is pointless if it’s not leading persons to truly seek deeper relationship with God thru Jesus?
What’s the point of all the denominations and spin off Christian based groups anyway?
I’m finding it hard to find the church to call home since “falling away” from my birth religion and I realized and chose to accept Jesus did not come to start religious groups, He said those so caught up in “religion” were many times misguided or too extreme and missing His point that it’s all about God and each person’s acceptance or rejection of God into all, every single tiny area of their life.
Every christian church I attend has parts of the bible they avoid and parts they cling to be it in their teachings and/or in their way of doing business with the congregation. I think that’s why Jesus said No one comes to the Father except thru HIM. I think He meant that in every moment of a person’s life, not just initial salvation. He also said we are to seek FIRST the kingdom of God. I
t’s not about which religion or denomination or man made rules or groups etc. is correct, it’s about each person desiring to want to deny ourself (feelings thoughts wants etc in any given matter or moment in our life) and following Jesus in that instant - surrendering what we wanted to do in that moment and letting God’s power take us over- because God wants to do so much more in us, thru us, for us then we could ever think of or do for ourself, and for others.
It seems that teaching the Catechism isn't being done very well any more.
I love it when totally fallen away Catholics, now totally protestant, tell everyone what they ‘know’ to be the absolute truth about what a Catholic is, what he thinks, what it takes to be a member of the ‘Catholic club’, and who gets to define what.
Based upon actual Catholic teachings and its manifest meanings, we can do that, like as we can do with Islam. It is RCs who disallow RC teaching and members based upon their interpretation of Catholic teachings and its manifest meanings that have a problem with this.
When I ask a Catholic to their face why he or she votes for democrats in light of the democratic platform on abortion and they respond with:
QUOTE “Because the democrats are for the poor” UNQUOTE;
and
QUOTE “I know what the Catholic church teaches about abortion but nobody has the right to tell a woman what she can do with her own body” UNQUOTE
they themselves are telling me what they think. It’s not me mind reading or presuming to know or guessing. It’s me relating what they told me themselves to my face.
You = fail.