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To: ChurtleDawg

Chick tracts had lots of issues. Their main goal seemed to be to scare people. I remember reading one about two little boys jumping into a murky lake that turned out to be full of poisonous snakes. I was scared to death of murky lakes after that.


28 posted on 04/30/2008 8:44:33 AM PDT by dschapin
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To: dschapin

They scared me very badly-—to the point I was terrified of Catholic Mass for a while. It was only after investigating, reading the Bible, learning about Christian history and theology, as well as more about what the Catholic Church actually stands for that I got out of my neo-Protestant phase.

Learning about the beliefs and practices of the other denomination that has existed since Apostolic times, the Eastern Orthodox, and how much it resembles Catholicism in practice (except for having the Pope and the centralized hierarchy of the Vatican, of course) gave me more confidence that Catholic Mass, the Eucharist and various other sacramental practices are far closer to the original Christian Churches than those of the modern fundamentalist Protestants.

Another help was reading other Deutrocanonical early Church writings like the Didache, the basic creeds (The Apostles, the Nicene) and the writings of the Saints (like the Epistle of Clement to the Corinthians).

There is such a wealth of knowledge in these early writings, passed down orally from the Apostles and Disciples (like St.Irenaeus learning from St. Polycarp who learned from St.John The Evangelist who sat next to Jesus at the last supper), or just from learned teachers interpreting the scriptures (like Augustine or John Chrysostom)


41 posted on 04/30/2008 9:10:29 AM PDT by ChurtleDawg (voting only encourages them)
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To: dschapin

Those Chick tracts really ARE awful. I think they do more damage than good.


71 posted on 04/30/2008 11:48:59 AM PDT by Paved Paradise
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