My FRiend,
This is not a matter of either or. My church or your church can have opinions about who is in full communion, and I fully accept that those decisions may color your view.
My church, the Catholic Church, seeks always to see the humanity of persons as God sees them, as his children. Must children be corrected or admonished? Certainly.
I go to sacramental confession every month because, objectively, I know that I sin. That may be quaint or absurd to you, but I will continue to do so.
It is a recognition of my fallen humanity and the path I am on to try to become the person Christ wishes me to be. He wishes me to be a saint, not as we perceive sainthood, but as He does.
You may snipe at those who are not of your faith community, but you imperil yourself if you do not recognize the humanity and real aspirations of others to wish to truly come closer to God.
In all sincerity, I wish God to bless you with an abundance of His graces.
Sursum Corda
“You may snipe at those who are not of your faith community, but you imperil yourself if you do not recognize the humanity and real aspirations of others to wish to truly come closer to God.”
You’re connecting exposing a dangerous religious cult with, somehow, attacking someone’s humanity. If Joseph Smith was a con-man with 30 something wives, 12 of whom were still married to other men, and some as young as 14 years old, am I attacking the humanity of the person who doesn’t know this factoid about someone they entrust their immortal soul to? I’d rather think of it as a nice warning.
Your entire post is utterly false since it is based on false assumptions that do nothing except further the goals of an anti-Christian religious group.
I don’t see my role as a Christian to get on forums to defend the Mormon religion, a religion built on converting Christians away from Christ, converting them into polytheists, and into believing that they can become Gods themselves, and finding pretty good success with Catholics by the way.
So snipe at me if you must, but I disagree with what you do for Mormonism.
Your fellow Catholics on FR have done THEIR share of SNIPING at EVERYONE from Luther on down.
When your lesson is taken to heart by your fellow travelers; then perhaps the spectators on the sidelines may be intrigued by your message.