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Actually, boatbums, I don’t care what you believe or who you worship. I would never presume to tell you that you weren’t going to Heaven because your beliefs are different than mine. You, on the other hand, like many protestants here, apparently take great delight in judging Catholics and denigrating their religion, yet at the same time calling yourself a Christian. I think you should worry about that plank in your own eye, frankly.

Actually, I take NO delight in judging Catholics - because I don't do that. What some Catholics, apparently, think is that when someone disagrees with certain doctrines Catholicism teaches - and which is backed up by Scriptural evidence - they are "judging" or "denigrating" them. There are many Catholics here who have NO problem at all judging non-Catholic Christians and not only denigrating what we believe but condemning us to hell unless we convert to Roman Catholicism. I've not seen anyone here say the same thing to Roman Catholics about converting to, say, Southern Baptist or Lutheran. That is, and will continue to be the issue that divides us unless or until these certain polemicists recognize that salvation comes to those who put their faith in Jesus Christ rather than a religion.