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LOL. Yep. Protestants -- at least the ones who are serious intellectuals -- don't convert for emotional reasons. They have to argue themselves in, and they can go over those arguments in excruciating detail.

There usually seems to be a "tipping point" argument, one which they can't refute, can't ignore, and to which they can't conform within a Protestant milieu.

fair, balanced, insightful representation of the facts related to sola scriptura, Papal primacy, the Mass, the Marian dogmas, purgatory, etc., is utterly lacking

That sounds like a fine description of James White's own writings.

Alex, have you read Patty Bonds' conversion story? I mention it because she describes, in some detail, her childhood years as a Baptist pastor's daughter ... how her father, said, from the pulpit, that Rome was the Whore of Babylon and the Pope was the antiChrist ... how her parents forbade her to play with a childhood friend, at least in part because the girl was a Catholic ... that kind of thing?

She and her brother were taught to hate -- and that is the only word that can possibly be accurate -- taught to hate Catholicism and believing Catholics from the time they learned to talk.

[Tax-chick]

That is very sad.

[Tax-chick]

I had believed that Catholic Bishops were Satan's henchmen. They wore those "fish" hats that I had been told were fashioned after a pagan fish god.

Ne Zot! Never, in my 20 years growing up with Presbyterians from Northern Ireland, did I hear anything like that! I'm flummoxed.

[NYer]

Alex, have you read Patty Bonds' conversion story?

See post #36.

[trisham]

There usually seems to be a "tipping point" argument, one which they can't refute, can't ignore, and to which they can't conform within a Protestant milieu.

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Agreed, and well said. Welcome home, Dr. Beckwith!