I believe that since the Catholics have been told to lay off the direct questioning of people concerning their religious affiliation, that they have resorted to finding the information by process of elimination. Throw out some absurd claim and then make them deny it.
What’s going on is that the Catholics are then setting themselves up as judge and jury, passing judgment on who’s a *real* Christian based on some arbitrary criteria they established, such as whether you agree with their man-made precepts and doctrines or not.
Anyone they go after is then being constantly put on the defensive to *prove* the validity of their Christianity to someone who will never be satisfied with any answer given but complete compliance and embracing of THEIR CHURCH and its doctrine.
So I’m going to participate in providing information to an unbeliever so they can pass judgment on the validity of my faith by their measure? I don’t think so.
LOL Some haven’t gotten that message. See post 20 to me. It’s their way to “fit into the little boxes” which seems to make them feel better. It’s a way to apply indiscretions of anyone one person of that “organization” to other individuals.
They can’t really understand that salvation isn’t contingent on “belonging” to some human organized “religion”. Cults indoctrinate into the adherents the claim that if they don’t follow “their rules” they will be damned. Belonging to the “group” is salvation in and of itself. It’s one of the more obvious signs of a true cult.