[William Terrell]

If you were to join some Protestant church, you simply. . .go to church. There are so many departures from Biblical teaching Catholic have to have a preconditioning and orientation session to try to explain them.

From what I've seen Catholics most enthusiastically choose to worship Mary.

[OpusatFR]

“If you were to join some Protestant church, you simply. . .go to church...”

Some do. Some attend mass and other devotions for decades before they finally enter into full communion.

It has nothing to do with brainwashing. That’s a bit much.

It has everything to do with God calling you to enter into eternity.

That’s what the Eucharist is.

I’m sorry my poor words can’t make it any plainer.

I am Catholic, not because I have been born into, brainwashed, or coerced or any other nonsensical thing one can mention.

I am Catholic because it is simply the faith.

[Ransomed]

“From what I’ve seen Catholics most enthusiastically choose to worship Mary.”

But W.T., Catholics aren’t aware of their Mary worship due to conditioning, right? Do you mean that at some time all Catholics enthusiasticlly choose to be conditioned to both worship Mary and also to be ignorant of this goddess worship themselves? And as far as enthusiasm fer Mary worship(or any sorta worship) goes, I’d think part of being enthusiastic would be to at least admit, if only to yourself, that something is being worshipped.

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