It might help if I pointed out that in our view anybody baptized with water in the name of the Trinity is a Catholic -- maybe a Catholic in very bad standing, but a Catholic, that is, a member of the one, holy, universal, and apostolic Church.
Nope...Doesn't help...I've been baptized in water AND in the Holy Spirit in the Name of the Trinity...No way in the world I am a Catholic regarless of what you think...
Here's just one of the reasons:
Yet the northern pirates were tamed, defeated and baptized by force.
Your church has quite history of baptizing people by 'force'...Please tell me you don't really believe a person can recieve a spiritual rebirth against their will...
That's one of the most absurd things I've ever heard...Baptizing people by force...
So what does that mean??? How do you 'force' someone to become baptized and join your church??? Do you tickle them til they submit??? Or, do you burn their house down if they say no??? Or, do you cut the fingers off their little children, one by one until they submit???