To: vladimir998; Marysecretary
Not at all. If you look at easily over 90% of former Catholics who became Protestants its clear that they were never catechized well and rarely if ever practiced their faith. That is a terrible indictment about Church officials over the last 40 years, but not an indictment of the faith or the Church herself. As a former Protestant minister once remarked to me: the Catholic Church is getting Protestant minsiters to join her and they were well catechized in their former faith and risked everything to become Catholics. The Protestant sects, however, are getting former Catholics who usually had little knowledge of their former faith and risk absolutely nothing n joining Protestant sects. Their lives, in fact, become easier because of the lower Protestant standards (e.g. acceptance of birth control, divorce, etc) and their consciences are more easily assuaged because of false doctrines like lack of free will and once-saved-always-saved that removes a feeling of responsibility for sinful decisions.
UNIVERSITY OF VLADIMIR
PROPAGANDA 101 5 Credits.
646 posted on
07/10/2009 1:52:36 PM PDT by
OLD REGGIE
(I am a Biblical Unitarian?)
To: OLD REGGIE
What a pantload. My husband and my pastor were catechized well enough, even went to Catholic high school GOD moved them out of that body for His own purposes. We know better. They can fool themselves that way if they want to. Denial,maybe?
655 posted on
07/10/2009 2:26:29 PM PDT by
Marysecretary
(GOD IS STILL IN CONTROL!)
To: OLD REGGIE
It’s shocking enough to read some of their stuff.
To realize they actually believe such stinking piles is another shock.
661 posted on
07/10/2009 2:29:37 PM PDT by
Quix
(POL Ldrs quotes fm1900 2 presnt: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2130557/posts?page=81#81)
To: OLD REGGIE
You wrote:
“UNIVERSITY OF VLADIMIR PROPAGANDA 101 5 Credits.”
Well, that would be better than:
Old Reggie Community College
Self-Delusion 101, .5 nontransferable credits.
No textbook.
No prerequisites required, but years with of life experience attacking all things Catholic highly recommended.
Meeting place: under the local bridge.
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