"Pagan" is name-calling, as is "cult", and some of the other, worse names we get called as Catholics. I may not have written what was in the link you cited from Mercat, but, considering the immediacy of the contradictions, the choice of words and the sources, I would have to agree with the poster. Other than the first two posts, i.e. the article itself and the author's ping, it took two posts to get a negative response.
I’m confused. Am I supposed to be the newcomer here? I joined Free Republic in 1998. So 17 years ago. If I have posted anything that has said that non-Catholics go to hell, I apologize. I don’t think I have but without going back and rereading all my posts I can’t know for sure. I grew up in a home where my mother and grandmother were not Catholics and so I’m pretty sure I never believed that they were going to hell. My mother converted to the Catholic Church at the age of 78. She didn’t have to go through RCIA because she had taken three children through the Baltimore Catechism. She made a profession of faith, was confirmed and received Communion and at the end, Last Rites. In a very cherry fashion she told the priest that she had no sins to confess and that she wasn’t going to Purgatory since she had suffered so much pain in her last year on earth. I’m pretty sure she was right on both counts.
I hope you both have a blessed Good Friday and Easter season. Thank you both for your concern for my immortal soul but daniel1212 I did learn in 8 years in Al-Anon that God doesn’t have any grandchildren. This is my relationship with Him. I hope that understanding that gives you peace.
Everything has a name.
And likewise we see such from RCs, even to advocating our extermination, while promoting an elitist church that still does not even think our churches are worthy to be called "churches," but you were nowhere to be found when that occurs, and yet come on as if we had no provocation and that RCs as were innocent victims.
Other than the first two posts, i.e. the article itself and the author's ping, it took two posts to get a negative response.
Nothing new about that; this is a forum, and in the religion section, no the gardening one, so any post, esp. by a church that claims it alone is the one true one, must expect challenges.
Do you think Mormonism should be allowed to post their material without challenges?