[Gamecock]

***Is this not the case of an employee who is fired for stealing?***

Nothing like poisoning the well now is there.....

[jo kus]

I wrote Is this not the case of an employee who is fired for stealing?

you responded Nothing like poisoning the well now is there.....

The point I made has nothing to do with "poisoning the well", you are taking it the wrong way... I was merely saying that people leave on their own while others are tossed out of the Church. There is evidence of this even in Scriptures. In BOTH cases, regardless of the circumstances, people tend to dress up their own version of why they left/kicked out, while placing all the blame on the "church". This is also true in a Protestant who leaves one community to join another, is it not?

What did Adam say when God question him about the fruit again???

I am merely describing the human condition - which includes Protestants as well as Catholics. I wasn't attempting to say anything offensive vs. Protestants.

Regards

[xzins]

Nothing like poisoning the well now is there.....

I don't 'spose telling about my father witnessing his brother being beat with a rubber hose by a priest (other atrocities witnessed as well) at the orphanage they lived in would make a difference, would it?

That would only be taken as evidence that it was emotional and not theological.

However, it is also possible that it was God's way to have my father begin to think theologically about theological shortcomings of the RCC. From Dad's perspective, this is the case.

I get the same story from my uncle, his brother, but he did not leave the RCC. His son did, though, and finally, my octogenarian uncle is questioning.