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To: NYer; All

Well, as dated as the post (via news here on FR) may be, it’s still another conversion. Until and unless this person “reconverts” to another faith, it’s a conversion, yes?

It’s interesting how so many on this thread want to disparage the convert, rather than listen to the conversion message. Oh well, it’s nothing new; they did it with Beckwith too.


35 posted on 10/15/2007 8:10:03 AM PDT by FourtySeven (47)
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To: FourtySeven; Rutles4Ever

That was the point of my post #32.

In my long experience, I have learned that when a person converts to Catholicism, they almost never disparage what they came from and very frequently honor the beginnings of their Christian life in another profession of faith—as I have done myself.

But when one leaves the Catholic church, they so frequently turn on it fiercely.

There has to be be an explanation for that kind of animosity, which, as a general rule, isn’t manifested in the Protestant who has become Catholic. Such a person may want to explain why they have made their choice to become Catholic, but rarely make it a point of battle and a mission to disparage their Protestant beginnings.


36 posted on 10/15/2007 8:56:32 AM PDT by Running On Empty (The three sorriest words: "It's too late")
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