Verga, verga, VERGA!!!
Don't you know when you 'quote' something you should give a reference as to where to find it?
Anything less is considered to be poor form.
Posted on 01/31/2015 8:43:45 PM PST by Morgana
Verga, verga, VERGA!!!
Don't you know when you 'quote' something you should give a reference as to where to find it?
Anything less is considered to be poor form.
"Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever."
- Napoleon Bonaparte
I suspect this or a quite similar messages are going to him Privately from his fellow Catholics.
Does this mean what it seems to mean?
Yer halfway there, son.
“Catholicism is the only religion that does promote thought and reason”
The whole reason why there was a “Protestant” schism is because the Catholic church of the time thought EVERYONE was too stupid to notice what was going on - from whoring popes to financial corruption and more. I’d say those who stuck around did so more from lack of thought than those who left.
You can call Protestantism whatever you want, but to say that it came about from a “lack of thought” is a little flimsy an argument - even for a deep-thinking Catholic like yourself.
“Not a single protestant contributed to that.”
LOL....The Catholic church of that time was a far cry from the one corrupted by men over centuries that precipitated the Protestant Reformation - and Catholicism did reform - but would not have had the Protestants not acted and forced them to do so, lest they lose the who shebang with their moral and tyrannical corruption of the 16th century and before.
Protestants have every claim on what happened before the Reformation as Catholics do. What nonsense to think otherwise!
By the way, Speaking for all Protestants (tounge-in-cheek there....) You’re Welcome for the save.
“False Dichotomy.”
I don’t think it is. Read what he said. (can I properly deduce that you agree with him?)
Throw some of those “Catholics are the only ones who think” brain cells into the problem.
You’ll get it eventually.
The truth is they began a conversation with a Non Catholic friend or acquaintance who ends up taking them to a service or two. They get swept up by the music and the friendliness of the environment and the next thing you know they are jumping ship.
The other option is that they have an issue with divorce, abortion, birth control, or some other similar issue. These are the ones that will tell you that the Catholic Church needs to move into the modern times. They end up in the church or Que sera sera anything goes. They have been poorly catechized and really have no idea of what the Church teachers or why.
On the other hand... Every single protestant convert or revert to Catholicism did so based on solid research and reason. Look at Scott and Kimberly Hahn, Marcus Grodi, Jeff Cavins, Cardinal Newman. < P>Do yourself a favor and read some of their testimonies. They reasoned their way into the Catholic Church by studying both SCRIPTURE and history.
“Virtually every protestant I know left for an emotional reason NOT one based on reason. “
“Virtually” eh? So therefore it must be that that every Protestant - based on your opinion (and we know only Catholic Opinion matters here). Ok.
“They get swept up by the music and the friendliness of the environment and the next thing you know they are jumping ship.”
So you are saying every Protestant, based on your Catholic Opinion, simply falls for smiles and music over God and Reason.
” Every single protestant convert or revert to Catholicism did so based on solid research and reason.”
Therefore every single protestant is unreasonable and unthinking - incapable of proper opinion on matters of religion.
Do you not see your circular reasoning here?
feel free to have the last word, it is not worth wasting either my breath or my time.
LOL.
I don’t think I did put words in your mouth. You and the author of the article in the post write as if you share an opinion of Protestantism and Catholicism that is not borne out by facts.
You and the author of the article also write as if you share opinions of Protestants and Catholics that are hateful and self-congratulatory respectively - and are also not borne out in fact.
It’s not your fault that you’re wrong about just about everything you have posted to me on this thread - you simply have not learned to think - rather you let Rome think for you.
Fortunately most Catholics I know are not like that. Most Catholics would not fall for the nonsense in this article. Lucky for Catholicism, most Catholics do not behave as you do.
Discuss the issues all you want, but do not make it personal.
No reply. Rather than repentance for regularly posting unattributed material as part of (indulgence gaining?) multiplicity of devotional post to oneself, it appears we have a agenda to even the score for being called on it.
As if an occasional failure to provide attribution, or links to one's own material, would do that.
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